EB7-X8G2

User Manua l

PCIe to PCIe Expansion

Five types of advisories are used throughout this manual to provide helpful information, or to alert you to the potential for

hardware damage or personal injury.

Disclaimer: We have attempted to identify most situations that may pose a danger, warning, or caution condition in this

The Magma 7 Slot PCI Express® to PCI Express® Expansion System (Model EB7) is a general-purpose bus expansion chassis

The system’s ATX power supply is auto-switching. This means that it will automatically switch to match whatever source

power you are using. Since all products ship with a US/Canadian Standard 115V power cord, you will need to use a

locally available power cord for non-US Standard power sources.

When done connecting the power cord, turn the power supply switch to ON position.

You must apply power to the EB7-X8G2 expansion chassis UUUBEFOREUUU you power up your computer. Press the front power

button. When the unit is powered ON, the front Power LED indicator will illuminate.

Powering ON the expansion unit before the host, allows the higher numbered PCIe buses in the PCIe bus hierarchy to be

at a stable state when the host system issues its master power-on bus reset. Upon powering ON the expansion unit, the

following LEDs on the board are illuminated.

 3.3V, +1.5V , +3.3V Aux, +12v (Green in color)

 Master RST LED (Amber in color)

 Power LED : D1221 ( Green in color)

Before powering ON the computer, make sure the Host Interface card is seated correctly in the PCIe slot and the cable

is firmly connected. During the boot up process or while the computer is starting up, the SLOT LED indicators will come

ON and OFF. In this process we have not installed any PCIe cards, all PCIE slots are empty.

Shutting Down

Interface cards and the back of the unit.

1. LINKUP 0 LED is lot

2. Slot LEDs: 7 solid orange LEDs when no cards are installed). It should be OFF if slots are populated with cards

LINKUP 0 LED

Once your computer started all the way up, you will see LINKUP lights appear on the back of the chassis near the iPass

Linkup 0 represents the EIF card connected “uplink” with the host’s HIF. The Linkup LEDs represent only an initial

connection/handshake between the chassis and host PC. A successful linkup doesn’t represent transfer or exchange of

SLOT LEDS

You should see 7 LEDs that are illuminated as “orange” or “amber” behid the slots. This represents that there no cards

installed in the corresponding slot. As shown from the picture below, all 7 slots are not populated with PCIe cards and

Magma Driver is not required for Windows 7, which means no manual installation of Magma driver. Windows 7, Windows