Installing The Bladecenter Pci Express I/O Expansion Unit - IBM QS21 - BladeCenter - 0792 Service Manual

Installing the BladeCenter PCI Express I/O Expansion Unit

Important:
v A BladeCenter QS21 with the BladeCenter PCI Express I/O Expansion Unit
v You must remove any expansion card using the high-speed connector before
Cover pins
Figure 19. Installing the expansion unit
Complete the following steps to install the BladeCenter PCI Express I/O Expansion
Unit:
1. Read the safety information beginning on page vii and "Installation guidelines"
2. Remove the blade server cover and set it aside. See "Opening and removing
3. Remove the connector cover or any optional card from the high-speed
4. Lower the expansion unit so that the slots at the rear slide down onto the cover
5. Carefully close the expansion unit as shown in Figure 19 until it clicks into
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installed takes up two contiguous slots in the BladeCenter chassis
installing the expansion unit.
Cover release
on page 29.
the blade server cover" on page 32 for further information.
connector. Figure 9 on page 34 shows the location of the high-speed connector.
pins at the rear of the blade server, as shown in Figure 19.
place.
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