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Summary of Contents for 5500 Master Series

Page 1: ...i 5500 Master Series MS 96C8 V1 X Server Board G52 96C81X1...

Page 2: ...trademarks of Intel Corporation PS 2 and OS 2 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation Windows 98 2000 NT XP Vista are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Ne...

Page 3: ...inserting any add on card or module 9 All cautions and warnings on the equipment should be noted 10 Never pour any liquid into the opening that could damage or cause electrical shock 11 If any of the...

Page 4: ...interference by one or more of the measures listed below Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment into an outlet on...

Page 5: ...v WEEE Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Statement...

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Page 8: ...2 Hardware Setup 2 1 Quick Components Guide 2 2 CPU Central Processing Unit 2 3 Memory 2 7 Power Supply 2 8 Back Panel I O 2 9 Connector 2 10 Jumper 2 17 Slot 2 18 Chapter 3 BIOS Setup 3 1 Entering Se...

Page 9: ...LSI SAS RAID B 1 1 Introduction to Integrated RAID B 2 2 Integrated Mirroring Overview B 3 3 Creating Integrated Mirroring Volumes B 9 4 Integrated Striping Overview B 16 5 Creating Integrated Stripin...

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Page 11: ...tem efficiency the 5500 Master Series accommodate the latest 45nm Intel Nehalem proces sor up to 95W in LGA1366 package and support up to 6 DDR3 800 1066 1333 DIMM slots to provide the maximum of 48GB...

Page 12: ...Gb LAN by Intel 82574 82567 Gb Ethernet controller IDE 1 IDE port by ITE IT8213F Supports Ultra DMA 66 100 133 mode Supports PIO Bus Master operation mode SATA 6 SATAII ports by Intel ICH10R Supports...

Page 13: ...board Connectors 2 USB 2 0 pinheaders 4 ports 1 serial port connector 1 SMBus connector 1 SPI Flash ROM pinheader for debugging 1 chassis intrusion connector 1 TPM connector Slot 1 PCI Express 2 0 x16...

Page 14: ...1 MINISAS2 JCD1 JID1 JTPM1 COM2 JSMBUS1 JSSI1 JUSB2 JUSB3 SYS_FAN1 SYS_FAN2 SYS_FAN4 CPU0_FAN SYS_FAN3 J2 PCI_E1 CPU1 CPU0 CPU1_DIMM3 CPU1_DIMM3 CPU0_DIMM1 CPU1_DIMM2 CPU1_DIMM2 CPU0_DIMM2 CPU1_DIMM1...

Page 15: ...dures While doing the installation be careful in holding the components and follow the installation procedures For some components if you install in the wrong orientation the components will not work...

Page 16: ...MM Slots p 2 7 JPWR1 p 2 8 JSMBUS1 p 2 14 JSSI1 p 2 16 JUSB2 3 p 2 13 COM2 p 2 12 SATA0 5 p 2 11 INTRUDER p 2 13 CLR_CMOS p 2 17 Back Panel I O p 2 9 PCI Express Slots p 2 18 CPU1_FAN p 2 12 MINISAS1...

Page 17: ...ly or unplug the power supply s power cord from the grounded outlet first to ensure the safety of CPU CPU Central Processing Unit When you are installing the CPU make sure that you install the cooler...

Page 18: ...heat dispersion Follow the steps below to install the CPU cooler correctly Wrong installation will cause the damage of your CPU mainboard 4 After confirming the CPU direction for correct mating put do...

Page 19: ...s down the load lever lightly onto the load plate and then secure the lever with the hook under retention tab 8 Align the holes on the mainboard with the heatsink Push down the cooler until its four c...

Page 20: ...t the clip ends are correctly inserted Mainboard Hook Important 1 Read the CPU status in BIOS 2 Whenever CPU is not installed always protect your CPU socket pin with the plastic cap covered shown in F...

Page 21: ...slot Then push it in until the golden finger on the DIMM is deeply inserted in the DIMM slot The retaining clip at each side of the DIMM slot will automatically close if the DIMM is properly seated 3...

Page 22: ...ended for system stability System Power Connector JPWR2 This connector allows you to connect a power supply To connect the power supply make sure the plug of the power supply is inserted in the proper...

Page 23: ...tor is for a PS 2 mouse keyboard USB Port The USB Universal Serial Bus port is for USB devices such as keyboard mouse or other USB compatible devices Serial Port The serial port is a 16550A high speed...

Page 24: ...to IDE device s documentation supplied by the vendors for jumper setting instructions JCD1 44 Pin IDE Connector JCD1 This 44 pin IDE connector connects to an optional converter that enables connectio...

Page 25: ...f the parallel method found in traditional SCSI devices but still uses SCSI commands for interacting with SAS devices Each SAS connector can connect to 1 disk drive Serial ATA Connector SATA0 SATA5 Th...

Page 26: ...t Please refer to the recommended CPU fans at processor s official website or consult the vendors for proper CPU cooling fan Serial Port Connector COM2 This connector is a 16550A high speed communicat...

Page 27: ...9 Key no pin 10 NC Pin Definition Important Note that the pins of VCC and GND must be connected correctly to avoid possible damage USB 2 0 Bracket Optional Chassis Intrusion Switch Connector INTRUDER...

Page 28: ...5 SPI_CS0 6 SPI_CLK 7 GND 8 GND 9 SPI_HOLD 10 NC Pin Definition I2C Bus Connector JSMBUS1 This connector known as I2 C is for users to connect System Management Bus SMBus interface PIN SIGNAL 1 SMBClo...

Page 29: ...more details PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION 1 LCLK LPC clock 2 3 3V DUAL 3 3V standby power 3 LRST LPC reset 4 3 3V 3 3Vpower 5 LAD0 LPC address data pin0 6 SIRQ Serial IRQ 7 LAD1 LPC...

Page 30: ...m Status LED 11 PowerSwitch 12 LAN2 Activity LED 13 PowerSwitch 14 LAN2 Activity LED 15 ResetSwitch 16 SMBus DAT 17 ResetSwitch 18 SMBus CLK 19 Buzzer 20 Chassis Intrusion 21 Buzzer 22 LAN1 Activity L...

Page 31: ...is on it will damage the mainboard BIOS Recovery Jumper RECOVERY Users can short connect pin 2 3 to recover the system BIOS with a Recovery Floppy When the system is done with the job the buzzer will...

Page 32: ...0 GB s transfer rate PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect Slot The PCI slot supports LAN card SCSI card USB card and other add on cards that comply with PCI specifications PCI Express x16 Slot 32 bit...

Page 33: ...IOS Setup program and allows you to configure the system for optimum use You may need to run the Setup program when An error message appears on the screen during the system booting up and requests you...

Page 34: ...PHOENIX 2nd 5th digit refers to the model number 6th digit refers to the chipset as I Intel N nVidia and V VIA 7th 8th digit refers to the customer as MS all standard customers V1 0 refers to the BIOS...

Page 35: ...Then you can use the control keys to enter values and move from field to field within a sub menu If you want to return to the main menu just press the Esc General Help F1 The BIOS setup program provid...

Page 36: ...eatures Boot Use this menu to specify the priority of boot devices Security Use this menu to set supervisor and user passwords Chipset This menu controls the advanced features of the onboard Northbrid...

Page 37: ...show the firmware and hardware specifications of your system Read only System Time This setting allows you to set the system time The time format is Hour Minute Second System Date This setting allows...

Page 38: ...3 6 MS 96C8 Server Board Advanced CPU Configuration...

Page 39: ...blems with older operating systems that do not support the Intel Pentium 4 processor with Hyper Threading Technology When enabled the processor will limit the maximum CPUID input value to 03h when que...

Page 40: ...to AHCI SATA Configuration SATA 2 Configuration This setting specifies SATA controller mode Please note that Pre Win2K OS do not work in Enhanced mode Compatible SATA and PATA drives are auto detected...

Page 41: ...Mode Enabling LBA causes Logical Block Ad dressing to be used in place of Cylinders Heads and Sectors Block Multi Sector Transfer Any selection except Disabled determines the number of sectors transfe...

Page 42: ...ables the hot plug function of the onboard SATA de vices and only appears when Configure SATA as is set to AHCI or RAID Super IO Configuration Serial Port 1 Address Serial Port 2 Address Select an add...

Page 43: ...delay of the AHCI CD DVD drivers loading for multi read write Changing the value to 0 will grant no delay at boot AHCI Port 0 1 2 3 4 5 SATA Port 0 This setting controls the SATA port 0 S M A R T This...

Page 44: ...MS 96C8 Server Board Event Log Configuration View Event Log Press Enter to view the contents of the DMI event log Clear Event Log When this setting is set to OK the DMI event log will be cleared insta...

Page 45: ...Intel VT d Configuration Intel VT d Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I O Intel VT d provides the capabil ity to ensure improved isolation of I O resources for greater reliability security...

Page 46: ...ese settings show the status of the BMC Baseboard Management Controller chip and its firmware version Read only View BMC System Event Log Use this function to view system event logs recorded by BMC Cl...

Page 47: ...IP Address in BMC Current Subnet Mask in BMC Cur rent Gateway in BMC Use these settings to view the IP address subnet mask and gateway in BMC Hardware Health Information These items display the curren...

Page 48: ...3 16 MS 96C8 Server Board Temperature Information Fan Speed Information Notify BMC FAN Type This setting specifies the BMC fan type...

Page 49: ...ccess The setting enables disables the remote access function When set to Enabled users may configure the following settings for remote access type and parameters Serial Port Number Base Address IRQ S...

Page 50: ...erminal Type To operate the system s console redirection you need a terminal supporting ANSI terminal protocol and a RS 232 null modem cable connected between the host system and terminal s This setti...

Page 51: ...only TPM Owner Status This setting shows the TPM ownership Read only APM Configuration Resume On RTC Alarm When Enabled your can set the date and time at which the RTC real time clock alarm awakens t...

Page 52: ...3 20 MS 96C8 Server Board Boot Boot Settings Configuration...

Page 53: ...ot up time AddOn ROM Display Mode This item is used to determine the display mode when an optional ROM is initialized during POST When set to Force BIOS the display mode used by AMI BIOS is used Selec...

Page 54: ...Then you may use the arrow keys to select the desired device then press or PageUp PageDown key to move it up down in the priority list Hard Disk Drives 1st Drive The items allow you to set the sequenc...

Page 55: ...his setting allows users to set the priority of the removable devices First press Enter to enter the sub menu Then you may use the arrow keys to select the desired device then press or PageUp PageDown...

Page 56: ...Change User Password User Password controls access to the system at boot These settings allow you to set or change the user password Chassis Intrusion The field enables or disables the feature of reco...

Page 57: ...3 25 BIOS Setup Chipset CPU Bridge Configuration...

Page 58: ...g specifies the memory mode North Bridge Configuration This sub menu shows the north bridge information MINI SAS This setting enables disables the onboard mini SAS controller SAS OPROM This setting en...

Page 59: ...S5 This field specifies whether the system will be awakened from power sav ing modes when activity or input signal of the onboard Gigabit LAN is detected Restore on AC Power Loss This setting specifi...

Page 60: ...HECI driver is a software interface that is used to communicate to the AMT subsystem Management Engine to access AMT capabilities Communication between the local host operating system OS and the ME is...

Page 61: ...up Utility Discard Changes Abandon all changes and continue with the Setup Utility Load Optimal Defaults Use this menu to load the default values set by the mainboard manufacturer specifi cally for op...

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Page 63: ...A 1 Intel ICH10R SATA RAID Intel ICH10R SATA RAID Appendix A This appendix will assist users in configuring and en abling RAID functionality on platforms...

Page 64: ...orage Technology and Intel Rapid Recover Technology RAID 0 breaks the data into blocks which are written to separate hard drives Spreading the hard drive I O load across independent channels greatly i...

Page 65: ...all motherboards with a supported Intel chipset The Intel Matrix Stroage Manager Option ROM is the Intel RAID implementation and provides BIOS and DOS disk services Please use Ctrl I keys to enter th...

Page 66: ...ollowing screen appears Then in the Name field specify a RAID Volume name and then press the TAB or Enter key to go to the next field 2 Use the arrow keys to select the RAID level best suited to your...

Page 67: ...upper arrow or down arrow keys to scroll through the available values and pressing the Enter key to select and advance to the next field The available values range from 4KB to 128 KB in power of 2 inc...

Page 68: ...ion is finished Important Since you want to create two volumes Intel Matrix RAID Technology this default size maximum needs to be reduced Type in a new size for the first volume As an example if you w...

Page 69: ...RAID Volume from the main menu window and press Enter key to select a RAID volume for deletion Then press Delete key to delete the selected RAID volume The following screen appears Press Y key to acc...

Page 70: ...structures from the drives The following screen appears Press Y key to accept the selection Important 1 You will lose all data on the RAID drives and any internal RAID structures when you perform this...

Page 71: ...Options Select option 4 Recovery Volume Options and press Enter to change recovery volume mode The following screen appears Recovery mode will change from Continuous Update to On Request after you en...

Page 72: ...the MSI CD into the CD ROM drive 2 Click the Browse CD on the Setup screen 3 Copy all the contents in SATA2_RAID f6flpy3288 32 bits or SATA2_RAID f6flpy6488 64 bits to a formatted floppy diskette 4 T...

Page 73: ...on SATA2 RAID Install 4 The drivers will be automatically installed Confirming Windows Server 2008 2003 Driver Installation 1 Under Windows Server 2008 2003 open the Control Panel from My Com puter f...

Page 74: ...is booting or a hard drive that contains important data For this reason you cannot remove or un install this driver from the system after installation however you will have the ability to un install...

Page 75: ...A 13 Intel ICH10R SATA RAID The InstallShield Wizard will begin automatically for installation showed as following Click on the Next button to proceed the installation in the welcoming window...

Page 76: ...A 14 MS 96C8 Server Board After reading the license agreement in the following window click Yes button to continue The window shows the components to be installed Click Next button to continue...

Page 77: ...l ICH10R SATA RAID Once the installation is complete the following window appears The following window appears to show the Readme File Information It shows the system requirements and installation inf...

Page 78: ...at the time the system is first configured in order to take advantage of RAID when upgrading to a second SATA hard drive 1 BIOS must be configured for RAID before installing Windows on the single SATA...

Page 79: ...rom Existing Disk To create a RAID volume from an existing disk choose Action Create RAID Volume from Existing Hard Drive The Create RAID Volume from Existing Hard Drive Wizard pops up to lead you for...

Page 80: ...will provide you with a realtime duplicate copy of your data Note Only half of the available volume space will be avail able for data storage RAID 5 Useful RAID 5 can be used on three or more disks w...

Page 81: ...t typical strip size settings are 4KB For specialized usage models requiring 4KB strips 8KB For specialized usage models requiring 8KB strips 16KB Best for sequential transfers 32KB Good for sequentia...

Page 82: ...disk the target disk that you wish to use and then click to move it to the Selected field Then click Next to continue Please note that the existing data on the selected hard drive s will be deleted p...

Page 83: ...e space will be worked as RAID 1 volume which is the new technology called Intel Matrix RAID Then click Next to continue 5 Start Creating RAID Volume from Existing Hard Drive Wizard Before you continu...

Page 84: ...you can still continue using your computer during the migration process once the migration proc ess starts it cannot be stopped If the migration process gets interrupted and your system is rebooted f...

Page 85: ...ll Programs Intel Matrix Storage Manager Intel Matrix Storage Console 2 Select Protect data using IntelR Rapid Recover Technology 3 Select Yes to confirm volume creation Important Creating a recovery...

Page 86: ...tel Matrix Storage Manager Intel Matrix Storage Console 2 Select Advanced Mode in the View menu 3 Select Create Recovery Volume in the Actions menu 4 Select Next to continue 5 Modify the recovery volu...

Page 87: ...A 25 Intel ICH10R SATA RAID 6 Select a hard drive to be used as the master hard drive for the recovery volume 7 Select a hard drive to be used as the recovery hard drive for the recovery volume...

Page 88: ...A 26 MS 96C8 Server Board 8 Select an update policy 9 Select Finish to begin recovery volume creation...

Page 89: ...corresponds to the current situation Missing Hard Drive Member 1 Make sure the system is powered off 2 Reconnect the hard drive 3 Reboot the system to Windows the rebuild will occur automatically Fail...

Page 90: ...system 6 When prompted to rebuild the RAID volume click Yes 7 The Intel R Storage Utility will be launched Right click the new hard drive and select Rebuild to this Disk The Rebuild Wizard will be lau...

Page 91: ...B 1 LSI SAS RAID LSI SAS RAID Appendix B This appendix explains how to configure and use the components of the LSI Logic Integrated RAID IR soft ware with LSI SAS 1064 1064E 1068 1068E controllers...

Page 92: ...t in its host adapters LSI Logic can offer the Integrated RAID solution at a lower cost than a hardware RAID implementation Fusion MPT firmware supports IM and IS volumes You can configure IM and IS v...

Page 93: ...with up to ten drives total per controller v Note Ten disk drives is the theoretical upper limit although the SAS controller itself may support fewer drives If a disk in an Integrated Mirroring volum...

Page 94: ...ve to the OS for each IM IME volume Supports both SAS and SATA disks although the two types of disks cannot be combined on the same LSI Logic SAS controller Fusion MPT architecture Easy to use BIOS ba...

Page 95: ...e boot disk is transparent to the BIOS drivers and operating system Host based status software monitors the state of the mirrored disks and reports any error conditions In Figure 2 1 the system is con...

Page 96: ...ated Mirroring Enhanced IME volume with three mirrored disks Each mir rored stripe is written to a disk and mirrored to an adjacent disk This type of configu ration is also called RAID 1E LSI Logic pr...

Page 97: ...ng The hot swapped disk is automatically resynchronized in the background without any host or user intervention The firmware detects hot swap removal and disk insertion Following a hot swap event the...

Page 98: ...firmware disables disk write caching by default This is done to increase data integrity so that the disk write log stored in NVSRAM is always valid If disk write caching were enabled not recommended t...

Page 99: ...C to start the CU After you do this the message changes to Please wait invoking SAS Configuration Utility After a brief pause the main menu of the SAS BIOS CU appears On some systems however the follo...

Page 100: ...New Array screen shows a list of disks that can be added to a volume 5 Move the cursor to the RAID Disk column and select a disk To add the disk to the volume change the No to Yes by pressing the key...

Page 101: ...volume type select Create IME Volume The Create New Array screen shows a list of disks that can be added to a volume 5 Move the cursor to the RAID Disk column and select a disk To add the disk to the...

Page 102: ...ll display the current volume 2 Press C to create a new volume 3 Continue with step 4 of the IM or IME creation procedure in the previous section to create a second volume The other way in which to ad...

Page 103: ...IME volume s The global hot spare disk must have 512 byte blocks it cannot have removable media and the disk type must be either SATA with extended command set support or SAS with SMART support If SA...

Page 104: ...the array is placed in the Degraded state until the data on the mirrored disks has been resynchronized Follow these steps to force the synchronization of a selected array 1 Select Synchronize Array on...

Page 105: ...s Enter The LED on the disk flashes until the next key is pressed You can locate all the disk drives in a volume by selecting the volume on the RAID Properties screen The LEDs flash on all disk drives...

Page 106: ...erating system The SAS BIOS CU is used to configure IS volumes which can consist of two to eight disks v Note Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Striping volumes can be configured on the same LSI log...

Page 107: ...For example as shown in Figure 4 1 segment 1 is written to disk 1 segment 2 is written to disk 2 segment 3 is written to disk 3 and so on When the system reaches the end of the disk list it continues...

Page 108: ...RT Support The IS firmware enables Mode 6 SMART on the IS member disks Mode 6 SMART requires each physical disk to be polled at regular intervals If a SMART ASC ASCQ code is detected on a physical IS...

Page 109: ...ange disks in the same size classification The supported stripe size is 64 Kbytes Refer to Section 4 2 IS Features for more information about Integrated Striping volumes 5 2 Creating IS Volumes The SA...

Page 110: ...to a volume 5 Move the cursor to the RAID Disk column To add a disk to the volume change the No to Yes by pressing the key key or space bar As disks are added the Array Size field changes to reflect t...

Page 111: ...igure two IS volumes or an IS volume and an IM or IME volume If one volume is already configured and if there are available disk drives there are two ways to add a second volume The first is as follow...

Page 112: ...a system This option is only available when the selected array is currently inactive Follow these steps to activate a selected array 1 Select Activate Array on the Manage Array screen 2 Press Y to pro...

Page 113: ...device options and to keep the boot device constant during device addi tions and removals There can be only one boot disk Follow these steps to select a boot disk 1 In the SAS BIOS CU select an adapte...

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