Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 Installation and Service Manual
- Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Installing and removing enclosure components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 sled
- PERC battery
- Air shroud
- System memory
- Support bracket
- Linking board and PCIe cable
- Processor and heat sink module
- Removing a processor and heat sink module
- Installing a processor and heat sink module
- Removing the fabric processor from the processor heat sink module
- Installing the fabric processor into the processor heat sink module
- Removing the non-fabric processor from the processor and heat sink module
- Installing the non-fabric processor into a processor and heat sink module
- Removing the fabric and sideband cables
- Installing the fabric and sideband cables
- Expansion cards
- PCIe slot priority
- Removing the expansion card riser assembly
- Installing the expansion card riser assembly
- Removing an expansion card
- Installing an expansion card
- Removing the riser card
- Installing the riser card
- Removing the M.2 SATA x16 riser
- Installing the M.2 SATA x16 riser
- Removing the M.2 SATA card
- Installing the M.2 SATA card
- M.2 SSD module
- Mezzanine and OCP cards
- System battery
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- System diagnostics
- Jumpers and connectors
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Installing an expansion card
Prerequisites
CAUTION: Expansion cards can only be installed in the slots on the expansion card riser. Do not attempt to
install expansion cards directly into the riser connector on the system board.
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
2. Unpack the expansion card and prepare it for installation. For instructions, see the documentation accompanying the card.
Steps
1. If installed, remove the filler bracket by performing the following steps:
a. Remove the screw that secures the filler bracket.
b. Hold the filler bracket by its edges, and carefully remove it from the riser card.
NOTE: You must install an expansion card filler bracket over an empty expansion slot to maintain Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) certification of the system. The brackets also keep dust and dirt out of the
system and aid in proper cooling and airflow inside the system.
2. Holding the card by its edges, position the card so that the card edge connector aligns with the connector on the riser card.
3. Insert the card edge connector and push the card firmly into the riser card until the card is fully seated.
4. Replace the screw that secures the expansion card.
Figure 49. Removing the expansion card filler bracket
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