Installing An Expansion Card - Dell PowerEdge 6600 Installation And Troubleshooting Manual

If you install expansion cards, you may have some difficulty in directly determining the bus number of a controller on a particular expansion card. However, the
PCI bus scan order listed in Table 6-1
residing in expansion slot 3 will never have a lower bus number than one in slot 2 because slot 2 precedes slot 3 in the scan order.
Table 6-1. PCI Bus Scan Order
Order Device or Slot
1 Integrated SCSI controller on the I/O riser card
2 Video
3 Expansion slot 1
4 Expansion slot 2
5 Expansion slot 3
6 NIC 1
7 NIC 2
8 Expansion slot 6
9 Expansion slot 7
10 Expansion slot 4
11 Expansion slot 5
12 Expansion slot 10
13 Expansion slot 11
14 Expansion slot 8
15 Expansion slot 9
NOTE: For the full name of an abbreviation or acronym used in this table, see

Installing an Expansion Card

CAUTION: If your system's operating system does not support hot-plug PCI or PCI-X expansion cards or the expansion card itself does not
support hot-plug installation, turn off the system, including any attached peripherals, and disconnect the system from its electrical outlet. For
more information, see "Safety First—For You and Your
NOTICE: See "Protecting Against Electrostatic Discharge" in the safety instructions in your System Information document.
1. Remove the back cover (see
See the documentation that came with the expansion card for information on configuring the card, making internal connections, or otherwise customizing
the card for your system.
2. Open the plastic expansion-card latch:
a. Press and hold the plastic tab on the outside of the system chassis.
b. Press the release tab on the latch inside the system chassis (see Figure 6-5).
c. Open the expansion-card latch and remove the filler bracket.
3. If your operating system does not support hot-plug expansion cards, turn off the system, including any attached peripherals, and disconnect the
system from its electrical outlet.
If your operating system does support hot-plug expansion cards, press the expansion-slot notify button and wait until the status indicator turns green.
See "Expansion-Slot Indicator
4. Install the expansion card (see Figure 6-5).
a. Position the expansion card so that the card-edge connector aligns with the expansion-card connector on the I/O board.
b. Insert the card-edge connector firmly into the expansion-card connector until the card is fully seated.
Figure 6-5. Installing an Expansion Card
can help you determine the relative numbering of PCI buses within the expansion slots. For example, a PCI controller
System" in "Troubleshooting Your System."
"Removing the Back Cover" in "Troubleshooting Your System").
Codes" in "Indicators, Messages, and Codes" for information on expansion-slot status.
"Abbreviations and Acronyms."