Installing A Small-Form-Factor Expansion Card - Intel SBXD132 - Server Compute Blade Installation And User Manual

Installing a Small-form-factor Expansion Card

The following illustration shows how to install a small-form-factor expansion card.
To install a small-form-factor expansion card, complete the following steps:
1. Read the safety information beginning on page
page
2. Shut down the operating system, turn off the blade server, and remove the blade server
from the SBCE unit (see
Chassis SBCE" on page 16
3. Carefully lay the blade server on a flat, static-protective surface.
4. Open the cover (see
5. If a Memory and I/O Expansion Blade is installed and you are installing the expansion
card on the system board, remove the expansion blade (see
Unit" on page
6. Touch the static-protective package that contains the expansion card to any unpainted
metal surface on the SBCE unit or any unpainted metal surface on any other grounded
rack component; then, remove the expansion card from the package.
7. Locate the expansion-card connector and orient the expansion card.
8. Slide the notch in the narrow end of the card into the raised hook on the expansion
card bracket; then, gently pivot the card into the expansion card connectors.
Note: For device-driver and configuration information needed to complete the
9. If you have other options to install or remove, do so now; otherwise, go to
"Completing the Installation" on page
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"Removing the Blade Server from the Intel
for instructions).
"Opening the Blade Server Cover" on page 17
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installation of the expansion card, see the documentation that comes with the
expansion card.
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expansion
card
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