H530 - Variant: 57324689 PCI Express expansion slot ?

Hi there.
I can´t figure out if the expansion slot on board is a "real" pci express, or if perhaps it is something different..
Can you pleace help me ?
I need to fit a Firewire pci-express card or adapter of some sort to my computer...
And the cheapest i have found is a firewire pci express card...
The reason i ask, is that i can see H530 type computers with 3 pci-express slots, but my computer has only one ?!?
And also i see something about that slot is only for some kind of wan card ?!?
So i am a little confused...
Pleace help me
Kind Regards
Peter

hi pshdo,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
Can you take a photo of your mainboard slots.
the reason is, Your system board might be different from this photo i found for H530,
but if it is the same then, here it is
Your system has 1 PCIE x16 most likely for GPU or Graphics card.
Then you have this three small PCIE x1.
check if that firewire adapter supports PCIE x1 then you good to go,
Hope this helps
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