Upgrading Your System
7-4 AlphaServer 1000A Rackmount Owner’s Guide
Upgrade Options
This section lists the types of upgrade options that you may want to choose for your server.
Before you attempt to install third-party devices inside your system unit, first check with
the third-party vendor to ensure that your system hardware and operating system software
support the device.
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Storage devices
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Memory modules
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CPU card
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EISA, ISA, and PCI options
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Network interface cards
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Graphics cards
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SCSI controller cards
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Video cards
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Communications cards
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Operating systems
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RAID controller
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Firmware
Firmware
You may want to update your system firmware as later versions become available. The
Windows NT (SRM) firmware and the Digital UNIX and OpenVMS Alpha (SRM)
firmware reside in the four Flash ROM chips located on the system board. This section
describes how to update to a later version of firmware. You may also need to recopy
firmware onto the system if the Flash ROM ever becomes corrupted. To do this, you use a
different procedure. (See "Using the Fail-Safe Loader" in Chapter 8, "Troubleshooting
Your System").
You can load firmware into the Flash ROM from any of these sources:
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CD-ROM
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Network
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Diskette
