IBM XSERIES 220 manual Installing options

Installing options

Major components of the xSeries 220 server . . . . . 54 System board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 System board options connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 System board internal cable connectors. . . . . . . . . 55 System board external port connectors . . . . . . . . . 57 System board jumpers and switches . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 System reliability considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Rotating the stabilizing feet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Removing the side cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Removing the bezel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Removing the support bracket assembly . . . . . . . 61 Working with adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Adapter considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Installing internal drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Internal drive bays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Preinstallation steps (all bays) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Installing a drive in bay 1, 2, 3, or 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Installing a non-hot-swap hard disk drive in bay 5, 6, or 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Installing a hot-swap hard disk drive in bay 5, 6, or 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Installing memory modules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Installing and removing a microprocessor . . . . . . 77 Installing a microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Removing a microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Installing the bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Installing the cover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Connecting external options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Installation procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 I/O connector locations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Input/Output ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Parallel port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Viewing or changing the port assignments . . . . . 86 Parallel port connector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Serial ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Viewing or changing the serial-port assignments 88 Serial-port connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Universal Serial Bus ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 USB cables and hubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 USB-port connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Keyboard port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Auxiliary-device (pointing device) port . . . . . . . . 90 Video port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 SCSI port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 SCSI cabling requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Setting SCSI IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 SCSI connector pin-number assignments . . . . . . . 92 Ethernet port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Configuring the Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Failover for redundant Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 High-performance Ethernet modes . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Ethernet port connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

This chapter provides instructions to help you add options to the server. Some option-removal instructions are provided, in case you need to remove one option to install another. For a list of supported options for the server, see the ServerProven list at:

http://www.ibm.com/pc/compat/

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