Pci Card; Notes - NEC Express5800/E120d-1 User Manual

Chapter 2 Preparations
1.8

PCI Card

This server provides a riser card. The riser card can connect two PCI card of one Low Profile PCI card and
one RAID controller.
1.8.1

Notes

Read the following notes when installing or removing a PCI card.
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Do not touch the terminals of the riser cards and the leads of electronic components with your bare
hand. Fingerprints and dust left on them cause the server to malfunction due to a connection failure or
damage to the leads.
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Available type of PCI card depends on riser card. Make sure the card type before connecting it to riser
card.
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The server does not provide LED connector to indicate disk access.
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The PCI devices of the same type (including onboard PCI device) may be recognized in different order
from that described above, depending on OS or RAID Configuration Utility. Check the slot location of
PCI device by PCI bus number, device number and function number shown in the table below.
Onboard LAN1
Onboard LAN2
PCI Slot (Slot1) (Low Profile)
PCI Slot (Slot2) (Low Profile)
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If a bootable device such as a PCI card or USB device is added, the boot order may change.
In BIOS Setup Utility, select Hard Drive BBS Priorities from Boot menu, and then specify a higher
priority for the boot device.
Boot  Hard Drive BBS Priorities  Check the display
If the boot device is an HDD under an optional RAID Controller, the display is (Bus xx Dev 00) PCI
RAID Adapter. Note that the value for xx changes depending on the PCI slot where a RAID board is
installed.
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For a RAID Controller, LAN card (network boot), or Fibre Channel controller, if no hard disk drive on
which an OS is installed is connected, set the option ROM for that slot to Disabled. Refer to Chapter 3
(2.BIOS Setup Utility (SETUP)) for BIOS Setup Utility.
Important
You must avoid static electricity to work with the procedure below. For
details, refer to Chapter 2 (1.2 Anti-static Measures).
PCI device Bus number
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Device number
8 0
8 0
16 0
32 0
1. Installing Internal Optional Devices
Function number
0
1
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