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Page 2: ...or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties or conditions of merchantability or itness for a particular purpose In no event shall ASRock Rack its directors oicers employees or agent...

Page 3: ...ant to know more about ASRock Rack you re welcome to visit ASRock Rack s website at www ASRockRack com or you may contact your dealer for further information ASRock Rack Incorporation 6F No 37 Sec 2 J...

Page 4: ...nstallation Precautions 13 2 3 Installing the CPU 14 2 4 Installing the CPU Fan and Heatsink 17 2 5 Installation of Memory Modules DIMM 18 2 6 Expansion Slots PCI and PCI Express Slots 21 2 7 Jumper S...

Page 5: ...ation 46 3 3 7 Hard Disk S M A R T Settings 48 3 3 8 3rd Storage Coniguration 49 3 3 9 Voltage Coniguration 50 3 3 10 H W Monitor 51 3 3 11 WHEA Coniguration 53 3 3 12 Easy RAID Installer 54 3 3 13 In...

Page 6: ...ion 77 4 2 1 Running The Support CD 77 4 2 2 Drivers Menu 77 4 2 3 Utilities Menu 77 4 2 4 Contact Information 77 Chapter 5 Troubleshooting 78 5 1 Troubleshooting Procedures 78 5 2 Technical Support P...

Page 7: ...erboard SSI EEB Form Factor 12 0 in x 13 0 in 30 5 cm x 33 0 cm Support CD User Manual 4 x SATA3 Cables 50cm 2 x SATA3 Cables 60cm 1 x I O Shield If any items are missing or appear damaged contact you...

Page 8: ...DIMM Sizes UDIMM 4GB 2GB RDIMM 4GB 2GB Expansion Slot Slot 6 is the closest to the CPU Slot 1 x8 x8 x8 with Slot 2 CPU2 Slot 2 x16 CPU2 Slot 3 x8 x8 x8 with Slot 4 Slot 4 x16 Slot 6 x16 Storage SATA...

Page 9: ...Serial Port 1 COM1 UID Button LED 1 Internal Connector Auxiliary Panel Header 1 includes chassis intrusion location button LED front LAN LED and system event LED TPM Header 1 IPMB Header 1 Fan Header...

Page 10: ...32 64 bit FreeBSD 9 1 32 64 bit Fedora core 19 64 bit Ubuntu 12 04 2 64 bit 12 10 64 bit Virtual VMWare ESXi 5 5 not supported for Marvell 9172 Environment Temperature Operation temperature 10 C 35 C...

Page 11: ...this utility you can press the F6 key during the POST or the F2 key to enter into the BIOS setup menu to access ASRock Rack Instant Flash Just launch this tool and save the new BIOS ile to your USB la...

Page 12: ...64 bit 240 pin module White DDR3_F1 64 bit 240 pin module Blue DDR3_F2 64 bit 240 pin module White LAN1 1 1 1 HDLED RESET PLED PWRBTN PANEL1 1 1 1 1 USB3_5 PCIE2 PCIE4 PCIE6 PCIE3 PCIE1 SATA_1 SATA_0...

Page 13: ...Connector CPU1_FAN1 14 LGA 2011 3 CPU Socket CPU1 15 2 x 240 pin DDR3 DIMM Slots DDR3_C2 DDR3_D2 White 16 2 x 240 pin DDR3 DIMM Slots DDR3_C1 DDR3_D1 Blue 17 Front Fan Connector FRNT_FAN3 18 SATA SGP...

Page 14: ...I_BTN1 47 Front LAN LED Connector LED_LAN3_4 48 Chassis ID1 Jumper CHASSIS_ID1 49 Chassis ID0 Jumper CHASSIS_ID0 50 Chassis ID2 Jumper CHASSIS_ID2 51 PMBUS Mode Jumper PMBUS_SEL_CLK1 52 PMBUS Mode Jum...

Page 15: ...CPU1 Super I O DDR3_H2 64 bit 240 pin module White DDR3_H1 64 bit 240 pin module Blue DDR3_G2 64 bit 240 pin module White DDR3_G1 64 bit 240 pin module Blue DDR3_E1 64 bit 240 pin module Blue DDR3_E2...

Page 16: ...FRNT_FAN2 failed 2 Amber FRNT_FAN1 failed 3 Green STB PWR ready 4 Amber CPU1_FAN1 failed 5 Amber FRNT_FAN3 failed 6 Amber FRNT_FAN4 failed 7 Green BMC heartbeat LED 8 Amber CPU2_FAN1 failed 9 Amber Re...

Page 17: ...AN3 5 LAN RJ 45 Port IPMI_LAN LAN Port LED Indications here are two LED next to the LAN port Please refer to the table below for the LAN port LED indications LAN LAN1 LAN2 LAN3 LAN4 Dedicated IPMI LAN...

Page 18: ...12 English 1 7 Block Diagram...

Page 19: ...ing any components 2 To avoid damaging the motherboard s components due to static electricity NEVER place your motherboard directly on the carpet or the like Also remember to use a grounded wrist stra...

Page 20: ...or if there are any bent pins in the socket Do not force to insert the CPU into the socket if above situation is found Otherwise the CPU will be seriously damaged 2 Unplug all power cables before inst...

Page 21: ...EP2C612D16T 4L 15 English A 3 B 4 5...

Page 22: ...16 English he cover must be placed if returning the motherboard for ater service 6 A B 7 8 B A...

Page 23: ...PU Fan and Heatsink C P U _ F A N 1 2 CPU fan for narrow ILM socket Support an active or passive heatsink Before you installed the heatsink you need to spray thermal interface material between the CPU...

Page 24: ...e 1 It is not allowed to install a DDR or DDR2 memory module into a DDR3 slot otherwise this motherboard and DIMM may be damaged 2 For dual channel coniguration you always need to install identical th...

Page 25: ...EP2C612D16T 4L 19 English he DIMM only its in one correct orientation It will cause permanent damage to the motherboard and the DIMM if you force the DIMM into the slot at incorrect orientation 1 2 3...

Page 26: ...e sure to install DIMMs into DDR3_A DDR3_B DDR3_C or DDR3_D slot s 1 CPU Coniguration CPU1 A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2 D1 D2 1 DIMM 2 DIMMS 4 DIMMS 8 DIMMS he mark indicates the slot is populated 2 CPU Conigura...

Page 27: ...ds PCIE4 and PCIE6 PCIE 3 0 x16 slot from CPU 1 are used for PCI Express x16 lane width cards PCIE2 PCIE 3 0 x16 slot from CPU 2 is used for PCI Express x16 lane width cards Slot Generation Mechanical...

Page 28: ...ardware settings for the card before you start the installation Step 2 Remove the system unit cover if your motherboard is already installed in a chassis Step 3 Remove the bracket facing the slot that...

Page 29: ...hose pin1 and pin2 are Short when a jumper cap is placed on these 2 pins ME Recovery Jumper 3 pin ME_RECOVERY1 see p 6 No 34 Normal Mode Default ME Recovery Mode CPU PECI Mode Jumper 3 pin PECI1 see p...

Page 30: ...l use Chassis ID0 Jumper 3 pin CHASSIS_ID0 see p 6 No 49 Chassis ID1 Jumper 3 pin CHASSIS_ID1 see p 6 No 48 Chassis ID2 Jumper 3 pin CHASSIS_ID2 see p 6 No 50 Reserved for system level use Reserved fo...

Page 31: ...nglish Chassis ID0 Jumper 3 pin CHASSIS_ID0 see p 6 No 49 Chassis ID1 Jumper 3 pin CHASSIS_ID1 see p 6 No 48 Chassis ID2 Jumper 3 pin CHASSIS_ID2 see p 6 No 50 Reserved for system level use Reserved f...

Page 32: ...al restart PLED System Power LED Connect to the power status indicator on the chassis front panel he LED is on when the system is operating he LED is of when the system is in S4 sleep state or powered...

Page 33: ...N2_LED hese two 2 pin headers allow you to use the Gigabit internet indicator cable to connect to the LAN status indicator When this indicator lickers it means that the internet is prop erly connected...

Page 34: ...6 No 32 M_SATA_1 see p 6 No 33 SA TA_0 SA TA_1 SA TA_4 SA TA _5 SA TA_2 SA TA_3 SSATA_0 SSATA_1 M_SATA_0 M_SATA_1 SSATA_2 SSATA_3 hese twelve SATA3 connectors support SATA data cables for internal sto...

Page 35: ...tors 4 pin CPU1_FAN1 see p 6 No 13 4 pin CPU2_FAN1 see p 6 No 59 GND FAN_VOLTAGE CPU_FAN_SPEED FAN_SPEED_CONTROL 1 2 3 4 CPU_F 12V GND AN_SPEED FAN_SPEED_CONTROL 4 3 2 1 his motherboard provides two 4...

Page 36: ...OL FAN_VOLTAGE GND 1 2 3 4 Please connect fan cables to the fan connectors and match the black wire to the ground pin All fans support Fan Control ATX Power Connector 24 pin ATXPWR1 see p 6 No 7 his m...

Page 37: ...p 6 No 19 7 pin SSATA_SGPIO1 see p 6 No 28 1 SLOAD SCLOCK GND GND SDATAOUT These headers support Serial Link interface for onboard SATA connections PSU SMBus PSU_SMB1 see p 6 No 6 3VSB 1 GND ALERT SMB...

Page 38: ...ND BMC_SMBDATA hese headers are used for the SM BUS devices Front LAN LED Connector LED_LAN3_4 see p 6 No 47 1 LAN3_LINK LED_PWR LED_PWR LAN4_LINK his 4 pin connector is used for the front LAN status...

Page 39: ...ed the front rear UID blue LED indicator will be turned on Press the UID button again to turn of the indicator 2 10 Driver Installation Guide To install the drivers to your system please insert the su...

Page 40: ...r handles all non TCP IP traic he Secondary adapter will receive fallback traic if the primary fails If the Preferred Primary adapter fails but is later restored to an active status control is automat...

Page 41: ...of and then back on 3 1 1 UEFI Menu Bar he top of the screen has a menu bar with the following selections Item Description Main To set up the system time date information Advanced To set up the advanc...

Page 42: ...selected items Tab Switch to next function Enter To bring up the selected screen PGUP Go to the previous page PGDN Go to the next page HOME Go to the top of the screen END Go to the bottom of the scre...

Page 43: ...nglish 3 2 Main Screen Once you enter the UEFI SETUP UTILITY the Main screen will appear and display the system overview he Main screen provides system overview information and allows you to set the s...

Page 44: ...may set the conigurations for the following items ACPI Conigura tion Conigure Super IO Settings Serial Port Console Redirection CSM Parameters USB Coniguration System Coniguration Hard Disk S M A R T...

Page 45: ...p by a PCIE device and enables wake on LAN Ring In Power On Use this item to enable or disable Ring In signals to turn on the system from the power sot of mode RTC Alarm Power On his allows the system...

Page 46: ...erial Port Use this item to enable or disable the serial port Change Settings Use this item to select an optimal setting for Super IO device SOL Coniguration Use this item to set parameters of SOL Sel...

Page 47: ...conigure Console Redirection Settings and specify how your computer and the host computer to which you are connected exchange information Terminal Type Use this item to select the preferred terminal e...

Page 48: ...ent to stop the data low Once the bufers are empty a start signal can be sent to restart the low Hardware low uses two wires to send start stop signals he options include None and Hardware RTS CTS VT...

Page 49: ...nt It is recommended to select VT UTF8 Option Description VT100 ASCII character set VT100 Extended VT100 that supports color and function keys VT UTF8 UTF8 encoding is used to map Unicode chars onto 1...

Page 50: ...n boot to Coniguration options UEFI and Legacy Legacy only and UEFI only Launch Storage OpROM Policy Select UEFI only to run those that support UEFI option ROM only Select Legacy only to run those tha...

Page 51: ...lue is Enabled Please refer to below descriptions for the details of these four options Option Description Enabled Enables support for legacy USB Disabled USB devices are not allowed to use under lega...

Page 52: ...ion he default value is Auto Onboard LAN1 his allows you to enable or disable the Onboard LAN 1 feature Onboard LAN2 his allows you to enable or disable the Onboard LAN 2 feature Onboard LAN3 his allo...

Page 53: ...te ater an unexpected AC power loss If Power Of is selected the AC power remains of when the power recovers If Power On is selected the AC power resumes and the system starts to boot up when the power...

Page 54: ...ish 3 3 7 Hard Disk S M A R T Settings Hard Disk S M A R T Use this item to enable or disable the S M A R T Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology feature Coniguration options Disabled and...

Page 55: ...s Use this to select Marvell SATA operation mode Coniguration options IDE Mode AHCI Mode and RAID Mode he default value is AHCI Mode Bootable Marvell 9172 SATA3 We recommend to use Intel SATA ports Po...

Page 56: ...50 English 3 3 9 Voltage Coniguration DRAM 1 Voltage Use this item to set the DRAM 1 Voltage Coniguration DRAM 2 Voltage Use this item to set the DRAM 2 Voltage Coniguration...

Page 57: ...to set the CPU1 fan s speed he default value is Smart Fan CPU2_FAN1 his allows you to set the CPU2 fan s speed he default value is Smart Fan REAR_FAN1 his allows you to set the rear fan 1 s speed he d...

Page 58: ...rt Fan Control his allows you to set the Smart fan s level speed Smart Fan Duty Control Smart Fan Duty x x means 1 to 11 stage his allows you to set duty cycle for each stage Smart Fan Temp Control Sm...

Page 59: ...ration WHEA Support Use this item to enable or disable Windows Hardware Error Architecture System Error Use this item to enable or disable System Error feature When it is set to Enabled you can conigu...

Page 60: ...asy RAID Installer can help you to copy the RAID driver from a support CD to your USB storage device Ater copying the RAID driver to your USB storage device please change SATA Mode to RAID then you ca...

Page 61: ...loppy disk or hard drive and launch this tool then you can update your UEFI only in a few clicks without preparing an additional loppy diskette or other compli cated lash utility Please be noted that...

Page 62: ...lRCSetup In this section you may set the conigurations for the following items Processor Conigu ration CPU Power Management Coniguration Memory Coniguration IIO Conigura tion PCH Coniguration and Serv...

Page 63: ...to be enabled 0 means all cores 14 cores are available Intel Hyper Threading Technology Intel Hyper hreading Technology allows multiple threads to run on each core so that the overall performance on...

Page 64: ...ons Hardware Prefetcher Automatically prefetch data and code for the processor Enable for better performance Adjacent Cache Prefetch Automatically prefetch the subsequent cache line while retrieving t...

Page 65: ...idden if the current CPU does not support Intel R SpeedStep technology Intel Turbo Boost Technology Use this item to enable or disable Intel Turbo Boost Technology Turbo Boost allows processor cores t...

Page 66: ...60 English CPU C6 State Support Enable C6 deep sleep state for lower power consumption CPU Thermal Throttling Enable CPU internal thermal control mechanisms to keep the CPU from overheating...

Page 67: ...or disable DDR ECC Support MRC Fast Boot When enabled portions of memory reference code will be skipped when possible to increase boot speed Memory Information Displays memory topology with DIMM popu...

Page 68: ...62 English RAS Mode Enable or disable RAS modes Enabling Sparing and Mirroring is not supported If enabled Sparing will be selected...

Page 69: ...Width Use this item to select PCIe port Bifurcation for selected slot s PCIE 1 Link Speed his allows you to select PCIE 1 Link Speed he default value is Auto PCIE 2 Link Speed his allows you to selec...

Page 70: ...elect PCIe port Bifurcation for selected slot s PCIE 6 Port A Link Speed Use this item to conigure the link speed between PCIe 6 and IOU Port A PCIE 6 Port C Link Speed Use this item to conigure the l...

Page 71: ...vices and settings sSATA Controller Use this item to enable or disable SATA Controller sSATA Mode Selection Identify the SATA port is connected to Solid State Drive or Hard Disk Drive Press Ctrl I to...

Page 72: ...ble SATA Controller SATA Mode Selection Identify the SATA port is connected to Solid State Drive or Hard Disk Drive Press Ctrl I to enter RAID ROM during UEFI POST process SATA Aggressive Link Power M...

Page 73: ...EP2C612D16T 4L 67 English 3 4 6 Server ME Coniguration Spread Spectrum Use this item to select spread specturm mode...

Page 74: ...es System Event Log Press Enter to change the SEL event log coniguration SEL Components Change this to enable ro disable all features of System Event Logging during boot Erase SEL Use this to choose o...

Page 75: ...ess in the BIOS for BMC LAN channel coniguration Dynamic IP address Subnet Mask and Gateway Address are automatically assigned by the network s DHCP server To configure BMC network parameters using th...

Page 76: ...e LAN1 Port NCSI Lan Channel 1 eth0 IPMI Port Lan Channel 2 eth1 BIOS Menu Server Mgmt tab IPMI Web Page Coniguration Network Settings For more instructions on how to set up remote control environment...

Page 77: ...rd Set or change the password for the administrator account Only the administrator has authority to change the settings in the UEFI Setup Utility Leave it blank and press enter to remove the password...

Page 78: ...AN Use this item to enable or disable the Boot From Onboard LAN feature Setup Prompt Timeout his shows the number of seconds to wait for setup activation key 65535 0XFFFF means indeinite waiting Bootu...

Page 79: ...default value is Enabled AddOn ROM Display Use this option to adjust AddOn ROM Display If you enable the option Full Screen Logo but you want to see the AddOn ROM information when the system boots pl...

Page 80: ...y reset If Yes is selected all logged events will be erased When Log is Full Use this item to choose options for reactions to a full Smbios Event Log The options include Do Nothing and Erase Immediate...

Page 81: ...EP2C612D16T 4L 75 English View Smbios Event Log Press Enter to view the Smbios Event Log records All values changed here do not take efect until computer is restarted...

Page 82: ...es and Exit When you select this option the following message Discard changes and exit setup will pop out Press ESC key or select Yes to exit the UEFI SETUP UTILITY without saving any changes Discard...

Page 83: ...s features 4 2 1 Running The Support CD To begin using the support CD insert the CD into your CD ROM drive The CD automatically displays the Main Menu if AUTORUN is enabled in your computer If the Ma...

Page 84: ...3 Check the settings of the 115V 230V switch on the power supply 4 Verify if the battery on the motherboard provides 3VDC Install a new battery if it does not If there is no video 1 Try replugging the...

Page 85: ...if the battery on the motherboard provides 3VDC Install a new battery if it does not 2 Conirm whether your power supply provides adaquate and stable power Other problems 1 Try searching keywords relat...

Page 86: ...f your invoice marked with the date of purchase is required By calling your vendor or going to our RMA website http event asrockrack com tsd asp you may obtain a Returned Merchandise Authorization RMA...

Page 87: ...it is required to install Net Framework Please follow the steps below to enable Net Framework feature on Microsot Windows Server 2008 R2 6 1 Installing Net Framework 3 5 1 For Server 2008 R2 1 Double...

Page 88: ...82 English 3 Check the box next to Net Framework 3 5 1 and then click Next 4 Click Next to continue...

Page 89: ...EP2C612D16T 4L 83 English 5 Click Install to start installing Net Framework 3 5 1 6 Ater the installation completes click Close...

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