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5.2 macOS / tower Mac Pro

1. To check card veriﬁcation on macOS at tower Mac Pro, click Apple icon at the

top menu bar, and select About This Mac.

2. As pane of About This Mac pops up, click System Report.

3. Click PCI in the left column. It will show four pci-bridges that indicate the

four PCIe slots in NA255A in the information ﬁeld.

Summary of Contents for NA255A

Page 1: ...edition Dec 2017 User Manual NA255A Performance Desktop PCIe 3 0 x16 128Gbps upstream port PCI Express expansion enclosure particularly design for GPU cards Available up to 4 double width PCIe Gen3 s...

Page 2: ...l Layout 5 2 2 Slot Board Layout 6 2 3 Switches Function and Location on NA255A Slot Board 7 2 4 LED Status on Host card and Target card 3 Install Graphics PCIe Cards in NA255A 8 8 3 1 Procedure for C...

Page 3: ...eter cables Power cord 1 Power on off LED button Blue power on Note when at powering on off NA255A manually mode to power on off NA255A hold the power LED button for two seconds until the LED button s...

Page 4: ...osen tighten the side door 8 Two external PCIe 3 0 8 connectors for host connection One port is marked with 8 for lane 1 8 the other port is marked with 16 for lane 9 16 Make straight cable connection...

Page 5: ...16 signal Target card already installed in it 2 Slot 2 PCIe 16 connector 8 signal 3 Slot 3 PCIe 16 connector 8 signal 4 Slot 4 PCIe 16 connector 8 signal 5 Slot 5 PCIe 16 connector 8 signal 6 4 6 2 p...

Page 6: ...itch to ON position default To set NA255A power on off manually turn SW2 1 switch to OFF position SW2 2 To set 3 5 x 3 5 cm cooling fan speed on backplane to high turn SW2 2 switch to ON position To s...

Page 7: ...between computer and NA255A is linked LED3 LED6 show solid green light PCIe x8 connection between computer and NA255A is linked LED2 LED6 no light PCIe connection between computer and NA255A is NOT li...

Page 8: ...computer s PCIe slot to be linked with NA255A is PCIe 3 0 16 or PCIe 3 0 x8 you don t need to make any change to the switch setting on NA255A slot board because NA255A is already set to work with comp...

Page 9: ...ll one graphics PCIe card into the PCIe 16 slot in NA255A and tighten the card with screw 5 Each graphics card in NA255A is provided with supplementary 6 2 pin and 6 pin PCIe power cables for su cient...

Page 10: ...the metal card holder until the top side of holder is rmly attached to graphics card s metal back plate C At this time use a screwdriver to tightly tighten the two screws to have graphics card holder...

Page 11: ...host card in computer 8 Connect one end of power cord to NA255A s power receptacle and the other end of power cord to grounded outlet or power strip Note Make straight cable connection between target...

Page 12: ...s 2 The front 120 120 25 mm cooling fan speed can be adjusted Pull out the fan module there are four sets of jumpers labeled with 6V 8V 10V 12V from top to bottom on the fan connector board The defaul...

Page 13: ...e standard powering on off procedure below must be followed go to Section 2 3 SW2 1 1 Power on NA255A by holding the power LED button for two seconds until the LED button shows blue light 2 In order t...

Page 14: ...icate the different PCIe slots on computer motherboard 1 Go to Windows Device Manager Click View at the top menu bar and select Devices by connection 2 Open ACPI x64 based PC Microsoft ACPI Compliant...

Page 15: ...y the manufacturer of the graphics PCIe card 5 As the driver is installed on operating system the graphics PCIe card in NA255A will work properly with computer and the graphics PCIe card within the Ne...

Page 16: ...cOS at tower Mac Pro click Apple icon at the top menu bar and select About This Mac 2 As pane of About This Mac pops up click System Report 3 Click PCI in the left column It will show four pci bridges...

Page 17: ...installed on macOS the graphics PCIe cards in NA255A will be ready to work with tower Mac Pro If you have any questions please contact your regional distributor or Netstor Technology Taiwan Netstor Te...