
Step Five: Recheck Installation
Check your installation before powering up the 4 Slot CardBus PCI
Expansion System for the first time. Although the power supply has an
over voltage protection device built into it, it may not "trip" in time to fully
protect a device that has been improperly connected or whose power
cable has been damaged.
Step Six: Power Sequence
NOTE
If at all possible, plug the power cords from the PCI Expansion System
and your host computer into a shared power strip, preferably one tha
has surge and noise suppression circuitry built into it.
NOTE
The “Quiet” 275-watt and the 300-watt power supplies are auto
switching, which means the power supply will automatically adjust to
the voltage required for the region you are in.
Powering Up:
You must apply power to the PCI Expansion System first and then
power up your host computer. This will allow the higher numbered PCI
buses in your hierarchy to be at a stable state at the time that the host
system issues its master power-on bus reset. In systems that perform
automatic PCI bus configuration, this will allow the configuration code to
recognize the PCI bus hierarchy and the attached devices.
If you have several PCI Expansion Systems in your configuration, you
should power up the most "downstream" expansion system first, then
each expansion system moving “upstream” and finally the host system
last.
Powering Down:
It is recommended that you first shut down the host computer correctly
and then power down the chassis to avoid ‘computer lock-up’.
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