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[4]: Bottom Slot Installation

Instructions for installing an option card into one of the bottom slots (1, 3, or 5):

  1. Safely power down the unit and remove the top cover of the main chassis (housing). Save the screws.

    Caution: NEVER install an option card from the rear of the unit, ALWAYS from the top, after removing the chassis cover.

  2. Remove the blank option card plate, or the existing option card in the slot. Save the screws.

    If a card is populating the slot above the bottom slot your option card is to be installed into, remove it temporarily (also remove and save the standoffs for reuse).

  3. Insert the card into the bottom slot by carefully pressing its connector into the mainboard connector (see Figure below), and by lining up the screw holes on the card with the screw holes on the chassis.
  4. Connector installation

  5. Using the supplied M3 screws, screw the board, and the option card plate into the chassis, applying a torque of 0.9 Nm/8 in-lbs.

    If you are reinstalling an option card above this one, you should instead follow the instructions for [6]: Top Slot Installation, Bottom Slot Occupied (you will be using standoffs in this situation).

  6. Caution: Align and secure screw holes to chassis to avoid equipment damage.