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Shrinking a PCI riser-card assembly

Use this information to shrink a PCI riser-card assembly.

If you are removing a full-length adapter in the upper riser-card PCI slot and will replace it with a shorter adapter or no adapter, you must shrink the full-length PCI riser-card assembly.

To shrink the full-length PCI riser-card assembly, complete the following steps:

  1. Rotate the thumb screw, which is far from the PCI slot end, counterclockwise and shorten the PCI riser-card assembly.
    Figure 1. PCI riser-card assembly shrink
    PCI riser-card assembly shrink
  2. Fasten the thumbscrew.
  3. Return to Replacing an adapter or Replacing a PCI riser-card assembly, as applicable.