Working with adapters
You can add adapters to extend the capabilities and power of your server.
You add adapters to the expansion connectors, called slots, on the I/O board of
your server. All slots are PCI expansion slots. Your server supports up to 12
adapters in the PCI slots. There are two additional dedicated slots for the I/O
function card and the the Advanced System Management PCI adapter.
You can install a new PCI adapter or replace an existing PCI adapter with the
same type of adapter without turning the server power off and restarting the
system. These slots are called
hot-pluggable
PCI slots. They are also referred to
as hot-plug PCI slots.
A PCI adapter comes with built-in identification and configuration specifications (set
in memory on the device) that provide installation information to the server during
startup. This information is read by the input/output (I/O) bus and interpreted by
the server BIOS. The BIOS routines automatically configure the adapter around
the resources already in use by other devices.
Your server comes with a video controller. This video controller is an integrated
component on the I/O function card. The integrated video controller has super
video graphics array (SVGA) technology.
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