AOC-SIMLC/SIMLC+ User's Guide 2.3 Installing the AOC-SIMLC/SIMLC+ Add-On Card 2.3.1 Safety Guidelines To avoid personal injury and property damage, please carefully follow all the safety steps listed below when installing the AOC-SIMLC/SIMLC+ into your system. ESD Safety Guidelines Electro Static Discharge (ESD) can damage electronic com ponents. To prevent dam- age to your system, it is important to handle it very carefully. The following measures are generally suffi cient to protect your equipment from ESD. • Use a grounded wrist strap designed to prevent static discharge. • Touch a grounded metal object before removing a component from the antistatic bag.
• Handle the add-on card by its edges only; do not touch its components, peripheral chips, memory modules or gold contacts. • When handling chips or modules, avoid touching their pins. • Put the card and peripherals back into their antistatic bags when not in use. General Safety Guidelines • Always disconnect power cables before installing or removing any components from the computer. • Use only the correct type of bracket for the add-on card. • Disconnect the power cable before removing any cable from the add-on card. • Make sure that the SIMLC/SIMLC+ add-on card is securely seated in the SIMLC/SIMLC+ slot to prevent damage to the system due to power shortage.
For SIMLC/SIMLC+ slot locations, please refer to Section 2.4.2. SMC Motherboards with SIMLC/SIMLC+ support The following Supermicro's motherboards support the AOC-SIMLC/SIMLC+. 1. The X7DB8/X7DBE/X7DB8+/X7DBE+/X7DB8-X/X7DBE-X/X7DB3 Series 3. The X7DVL-E Series 2. The X7DA8/X7DAE/X7DVA-8/X7DVA-E/X7DVL-3/X7DVL-i Series ( Note ) ( Note : KVM-over-LAN is not available on the X7DA8/X7DAE/X7DVL-3/X7DVL-i models.) 2-4