IBM 8681 Hardware Maintenance Manual - Page 51

Adapters You can add adapters to extend the capabilities and power of the server. You add the adapters to the expansion connectors, called slots, on the I/O board of the server. All slots are PCI expansion slots. The server supports up to 12 adapters in the PCI slots. There are two additional dedicated slots for the I/O function card and 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. The 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. Netfinity 8500R - Type 8681 43