1. Installing Internal Optional Devices
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Chapter 2 Preparations
Note
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Make sure that the head of a PCI card bracket is seated into the fixed slot.
•
Depending on type of PCI cards, the terminal part of the PCI card may be too
large to fit in the connector.
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If you have trouble installing the card, remove the card once and try again. If you
apply excessive pressure on the card, a PCI card or riser card might break.
Tips
Connect a cable between connector on motherboard and PCI card before installing
the riser card to the server.
6.
Secure the PCI card.
7.
Insert the riser card B into the slot on
motherboard, and secure the card with the
three screws you removed at Step 2.
When connecting the card, position the
terminal part of the card to the slot on the
motherboard and insert it.
8.
Continue to install or remove internal optional devices, mount and connect the server, and turn it on.
9.
Make sure that no error messages are displayed on POST screen.
For details on POST error messages, refer to
Chapter 3 (1. POST Error Message)
in "
Maintenance
Guide
".
10. Start the BIOS Configuration utility on the mounted board to set up the board.
Availability or startup and operation procedure of the utility depends on board. For details, refer to the
manual that comes with the board. If a PCI card including RAID Controller and LAN card which connects
to any bootable device is added, the boot priority might be changed to the default setting. In that case,
configure the boot priority in the
Boot
menu of the BIOS Setup utility. For details about the
Boot
menu,
refer to
Chapter 2 (1.2.5 Boot)
in "
Maintenance Guide
".
(2) When using the optional controller (N8103-161)
For details, refer to the manual that comes with optional RAID Controller (N8103-161).
Important
•
You must avoid static electricity to work with the procedure below. For
details, refer to Chapter 2 (1.2 Anti-static Measures).
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Do not change the mode to hibernate when building a RAID System.
