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Eagle 800 Series II Service Manual 

Rev. A00 

DISK DRIVE REPLACEMENT AND GHOST RESTORE 

There are a few situations that will require the system administrator to work with disk drives and CD 
media from the AM-8000 Tools. All these procedures must be done on the system console. 
 

o

Formatting DVD-RAM media 

o

Accessing the AM8000 Tools 

o

Adding another hard disk. 

o

Restoring the AM-8000 to a new or empty hard disk. 

o

Restoring just one 

AMD

 files from a Ghosted backup. 

 

Before beginning any of these procedures, make sure you have a current Eagle 800  “Bootable 
Recovery CD or DVD”.  PLEASE backup the current System Volume and Data Volume. 
 

The following instructions list the screen titles, important options, and the actions you should take using 
the following syntax:  
 

 

<Screen or box Title or Application Program top line > 
 <Selected 

item> 

action for you to do

 

(keyboard input) (keyboard key) 

 or        

<Selected item> mouse

 Select> 

 

{menu item} 

  <Menu> 

 

action key press 

(

keyboard

 or 

 

<Menu> Select

{menu item} [scroll box] with mouse left click 

  [Radio 

Button] 

mouse 

Select

 or 

ENTER

 

(Action notes and choices) 

Select

> [program option] or 

Select

> <Title> menu1> menu2> menu3> [program option]  

To select the last “program option”, you need to make multiple left button selects with the mouse of 
each menu number to reach the correct program selection. 

System Administrative Tools 

Accessing the AM8000 Tools 

To use the AM8000 System tools there are two ways to gain access. Use the Tools menu or typing the 
specific XCMD from AMOS on the console terminal.   

 

Press  

ALT

 

TAB

 

until the AM8000 System Diagnostic screen appears. 

Press

  

ALT

 

will open the <Tools>  menu. 

 

Or while in AMOS on the VTM1 console terminal 
 

Type

  

XCP

 to launch the Control Panel application 

Type

  

XPLORE

 for the windows explorer  

Type

  

XDISKS

 to use the Windows Disk Management tool. 

 

Summary of Contents for Eagle 800 II Series

Page 1: ...DSS 10621 01 Rev A00 For Authorized Service Personnel Only Eagle 800 Series II Service Manual ...

Page 2: ...réceptions radio et tele ce qui obligerait le propriétaire ou l opératour à pendre les dispositions nécessaires pour en éliminer les causes Battery Warning CAUTION Danger of explosion if battery is incorrectly replaced Replace only with the same or equivalent type recommended by the manufacturer Discard used batteries according to the manufacturer s instructions ATTENTION Il y a danger d explosion...

Page 3: ... DISK DRIVE REPLACEMENT AND GHOST RESTORE 10 System Administrative Tools 10 Adding another hard disk 12 Restoring the AM 8000 System Volume 14 Restoring just one AMD file from a Ghosted backup 17 ON LINE DOCUMENTATION 17 APPENDIX A EAGLE 800 SERIES II OPTIMAL BIOS SETTINGS 19 MS 7032 Motherboard 19 Table of Figures Figure 1 Static Protection Wrist Strap 2 Figure 2 Eagle 800 Series II CPU Board Con...

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Page 5: ...ervicing your computer you will need to remove two thumb screws on the edge of the rear panel unlock the side panel the one with the latch swing the panel out and remove it This will expose the inside structure of your computer including the power supply main logic boards and peripherals Lay the case down so that the open side is up This will facilitate gaining access to the internal system areas ...

Page 6: ...I CPU Board The Eagle 800 Series II CPU board is the primary board of the system Most other boards contained in the system actually plug into the CPU board including the memory DIMMs the multifunction I O board and other special function boards This board also contains the following circuitry One Sempron high speed processor socket 754 Dual UDMA 66 100 133 Bus Master Interface for support of ATA I...

Page 7: ...al I O and other specialized functions Eagle 800 Series II CPU Board Configuration Figure 2 shows the Eagle 800 Series II CPU board configured as shipped by Alpha Micro The standard jumper positions are listed along side the figure All jumpers should be left in their factory configured positions CPU PIC location JBAT1 jumper Figure 2 Eagle 800 Series II CPU Board Configurations The front panel ind...

Page 8: ...mode Then restart AM8000 program Depress the ALT TAB key combination on the keyboard to display the AM8000 System Diagnostic window Mouse click on Configure The AM8000 configuration screen will be displayed Move the mouse cursor over the Magic Code input box click inside the box and type in the 12 digit number of the CPU PIC you wrote down previously from the label on the new CPU board Depress RET...

Page 9: ...e Security Device chip Four high performance serial ports Hardware timer Optional uninterruptible power source UPS monitor port Optional front panel display port AM 113 45 MultiFunction Coprocessor Board Configuration The AM 113 45 Multifunction Coprocessor board has been factory tested and shipped with its configuration jumpers set in their standard default positions as shown in Figure 4 All jump...

Page 10: ...ion for restoring your BIOS settings to the optimized settings Restoring Your BIOS Settings Besides the time and date the Eagle 800 s battery also maintains the system setup parameters and boot device parameters These are stored in Eagle 800 s on board BIOS chip Therefore when you remove and replace the battery your BIOS settings will be lost After you install the new battery and turn system power...

Page 11: ...2GB of main memory Before attempting to install any memory make sure that the memory you have is compatible with the Eagle 800 Use Alpha Micro PFB 00722 XX or equivalent memory to expand your system To install memory expansion DIMMs in the Eagle 800 CPU board use this procedure 1 Installing a DIMM in one of the two DIMM connectors on the CPU board leads to a 64 bit data transfer rate If you are re...

Page 12: ...s Your writeable CD is mounted on one of these bays Two 3 1 2 front accessible bays one used to mount a floppy diskette drive One 3 1 2 drive cage lower cage that can hold up to three 3 1 2 peripherals all internally accessible only The main system disk is usually mounted in the bottom position of this drive cage Installing Additional 3 1 2 Peripherals Locate the 3 1 2 drive cage and determine the...

Page 13: ... mount them to the sides of the 5 1 4 peripheral Make sure that the metal portion is angled away from the device and facing forward The drive rails are usually fastened inside the chassis at the bottom 2 Slide the device into the drive bay until you hear a click 3 Mount any other devices accordingly 4 Carefully use your thumbs to push the plastic drive bay covers off the bezel and attach the bezel...

Page 14: ...ication Program top line Selected item action for you to do keyboard input keyboard key or Selected item mouse Select menu item Menu action key press keyboard or Menu Select menu item scroll box with mouse left click Radio Button mouse Select or ENTER Action notes and choices Select program option or Select Title menu1 menu2 menu3 program option To select the last program option you need to make m...

Page 15: ...cess is finished an Explorer window of the D drive will be displayed Then you may right click and add an AM8000 folder Now the DVD RAM is ready to use from XP Embedded You can copy AMD files to the DVD RAM This process is rather slow and AMOS should be stopped while copying a large file to the DVD RAM Copying a 4 GB AMD file to the DVD RAM takes about 2 hours Accessing the AM8000 Disk Management s...

Page 16: ...s an IDE interface it can go on either the primary or secondary IDE bus Be sure to set the disk drive jumpers correctly for Slave or Master or preferably set to Cable Select Normally the second drive is installed as the slave device on the primary IDE cable If the drive is to be attached to the secondary IDE channel you will need to provide the IDE cable Configure the new drive by either a Manuall...

Page 17: ... and Select Mark Partition as Active 8 Now we need to format the second partition Right Click on the black bar and Select New Partition 9 The New Partition Wizard will display Select Next 10 Select Partition Type Select Extended partition Next 11 Specify Partition Size the Partition Size in MB type in 33158 select Next button 12 Select Finish button This will create a new Light green partition 13 ...

Page 18: ...tion settings must be re entered for the AM8000 Server installation The AMOS Bootable Ghost Recovery CD shipped from Alpha Micro has the default settings and the original disk files Any patches or Customer data applied to the Server after installation will be missing The system administrator should perform a Ghost backup to a file of the C SystemVolume any time there is a configuration change to t...

Page 19: ...u Press twice to select From Image then press ENTER 6 Image file Name to Restore from menu a Type TAB to select Look in A press ENTER b Now a pull down menu shows all drives We must select the CD R drive or press to select the DataVolume which contains an image save of the C System Volume to select Backups and press ENTER The filename of the C volume will have a name like S2Eagle800sn100VolC gho t...

Page 20: ...and remove it Place it back in the storage jewel case 16 When the system restarts press the ESC key on the keyboard during the 5 second count down Execute the windows Explorer application and inspect the C and E volumes If the drive was empty the operator must initialize the E DataVolume drive as described earlier in this document Getting to a Production Configuration If you had changed any of the...

Page 21: ...rer Open Ghost from the AM8000 Tools menu see above Select the Ghost Utilities to Ghost Utilities and press ENTER Then select Ghost Explorer TAB to Ghost Explorer and press ENTER In Ghost Explorer Open the appropriate drive letter and Ghost file Select the desired AMD file Finally Extract the file to the desired location Remember that if AMOS is active and the filename of the disk file is the same...

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Page 23: ...BIOS FEATURES Quick Boot Enabled Full Screen Logo Show Disabled Boot Sector Virus Protection Disabled required for Ghost operation Boot Sequence 1st Boot Device CD DVD 0 HL DT ST DVDRAM GSA 4163 2nd Boot Device IDE 0 Maxtor 6E040L0 3rd Boot Device Disabled Boot other Device Yes Hard Disk S M A R T Disabled Boot Up Num Lock Led On Seek Floppy Disabled Halt on Error Keyboard Disabled Security option...

Page 24: ...m Function Enabled AC97 Audio Auto On Chip LAN Controller Enabled BootROM Function Enabled On Chip Lan P M E Disabled Set Super I O Floppy Controller Auto Serial Port A Auto Parallel Port Auto Parallel Port Mode EPP HW Monitor Chassis Intrusion Disabled Cell Menu Cool n Quite Support Disabled Spread Spectrum Disabled Stop Unused PCI Slot Clock Enabled CPU Ratio CPU Locked Dynamic Overclocking Disa...

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