System board expansion card components, Installing an expansion card, Install the tapi-compliant expansion card – Dell PRECISION 530 User Manual

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Removing and Installing Parts

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S y s t e m B o a r d E x p a n s i o n C a r d C o m p o n e n t s

NOTE:

Install only 66-MHz expansion cards in the 66-MHz slots. You can

install 33-MHz cards in the 66-MHz slots. However, the entire bus, including
the integrated SCSI controller, will operate at only 33 MHz.

Installing an Expansion Card

CAUTION:

Before you perform this procedure, see "

Safety First—

For You and Your Computer

."

NOTICE:

Before disconnecting a device from the computer, wait 10 to 20

seconds after disconnecting the computer from its electrical outlet. Before
removing a component from the system board, verify that the standby power
light on the system board has turned off. To locate this light, see "

System Board

Components

" or the interior service label.

1

Turn off the computer and devices, disconnect them from their

electrical outlets, and wait 10 to 20 seconds.

2

Lay the computer on its right side.

3

Open the computer cover

.

4

Press the lever on the expansion card retention arm and raise the

retention arm (see the following figure).

AGP connector

PCI connector 1

PCI connector 2

PCI connector 3

PCI connector 4

PCI connector 5

32-bit,
33 MHz

64-bit,
66 MHz

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