IBM 8480 - Eserver xSeries 205, Maintenance And Troubleshooting Manual

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Working with adapters
Your server comes with five 32-bit, 33 MHz PCI adapter connectors or slots and
one AGP slot. You can install an AGP video adapter in the AGP slot.
See “System and PCI extender boards” on page 34 for the location of PCI
expansion slots on the system board and PCI extender board.
Adapter considerations
Before you install adapters, review the following:
v Follow the instructions that come with the adapter in addition to the instructions
in this chapter. If you need to change the switch or jumper settings on your
adapter, follow the instructions that come with the adapter.
v
You can install full-length adapters in all five PCI slots.
v Your server supports 5.0 V and universal PCI adapters; it does not support 3.3 V
adapters.
v
Your server uses a rotational interrupt technique to configure PCI adapters.
Therefore, you can install a variety of PCI adapters that currently do not support
sharing of PCI interrupts.
v
PCI slots 1 through 5 are on PCI bus 2.
The system scans the AGP slot and PCI expansion slots 1 through 5 to assign
system resources. Then, the system starts devices in the following order, if you
have not changed the default startup sequence: the AGP slot, PCI expansion
slots 1 and 2, system board integrated drive electronics (IDE) or SCSI devices,
and then PCI expansion slots 3 through 5.
v
The optional Remote Supervisor Adapter must be installed in PCI slot 1.
v For a list of supported options for your server, go to
http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/ on the World Wide Web.
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IBM xSeries 205 Type 8480: Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guide