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Installing Expansion Boards
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PCI Expansion Board Configuration Guidelines
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All PCI slots support bus mastering.
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PCI expansion boards should be installed starting in PCI slot 1. Install a PCI
expansion board in the “shared PCI slot” (slot 6) last.
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The assignment for the boot device depends on which boot device occurs
first on the bus.
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The BIOS assigns addresses starting with the first available address.
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The lower the address, the higher the priority that is assigned to the device.
NOTE:
If you want a PCI device to be the bootable device, do not
set the address jumpers or switches for an ISA device to address
C8000h.
Configuring PCI Expansion Boards Using the BIOS
Setup Utility
When installing PCI expansion boards in your server, the BIOS Setup utility must be
run to configure these boards. The BIOS Setup utility then will automatically detect
any expansion board during a server boot. The ROM addresses for these PCI
expansion boards will be assigned based on the PCI scan order and address
availability.