10 Getting Started With Your System
Complete the 0perating System Setup

If you purchased a preinstalled operating system, see the operating system

documentation that ships with your system. To install an operating system for

the first time, see the Quick Installation Guide. Be sure the operating system

is installed before installing hardware or software not purchased with the

system.

Technical Specifications
Processor
Processor type Two dual- or quad-core AMD Opteron processors
Expansion Bus
Bus type PCIe
Expansion slots
Right riser (riser 1):
PCIe
One x8 full-height, full-length slot (top)
One x4 full-height, half-length slot (bottom)
One internal SD (Secure Digital) card slot
Left riser (riser 2):
PCIe
One x8 full-height, full-length slot (top)
One x8 full-height, half-length slot (bottom)
One internal USB key socket
Memory
Architecture 667-MHz registered parity DDR2 memory
modules
Memory module sockets 16 240-pin
Memory module capacities 512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB, or 8 GB (single-
ordual-rank only, quad-rank not supported)
Minimum RAM
(installed in two sets of pairs)
2 GB (1 GB each processor, 2 DIMMs
perprocessor)
Maximum RAM 128 GB (64 GB each processor)