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NEC Express5800/110Ei, User Manual

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HostRAID...................................................................................................................................5-41

Overview of HostRAID .........................................................................................................5-41
Notes ......................................................................................................................................5-42
HostRAID Setup Flow ...........................................................................................................5-43

Chapter 6  Installing and Using Utilities ....................................................................... 6-1

NEC EXPRESSBUILDER...........................................................................................................6-2

NEC EXPRESSBUILDER for DOS-Based with Local Console.............................................6-4
NEC EXPRESSBUILDER for Windows-Based (Master Control Menu)................................6-9

Configuration Diskette Creator...................................................................................................6-10
NEC ESMPRO ...........................................................................................................................6-13

Functions and Features...........................................................................................................6-13

Adaptec Storage Manager

 - Browser Edition..........................................................................6-14

Promise Array Management .......................................................................................................6-15
Power Console Plus ....................................................................................................................6-16

Major Functions .....................................................................................................................6-16
Components............................................................................................................................6-16
Server Setup ...........................................................................................................................6-18
Management PC Setup ...........................................................................................................6-19

Chapter 7  Maintenance.................................................................................................. 7-1

Making Backup Copies ................................................................................................................7-1
Cleaning........................................................................................................................................7-2

Cleaning the Server ..................................................................................................................7-3
Cleaning the Interior.................................................................................................................7-4
Cleaning the Keyboard/Mouse.................................................................................................7-5
Cleaning CD-ROM ..................................................................................................................7-6

System Diagnostics.......................................................................................................................7-7

Test Items .................................................................................................................................7-7
Starting and Ending the System Diagnostics............................................................................7-8

Relocating/Storing The Server....................................................................................................7-11

Chapter 8  Troubleshooting ........................................................................................... 8-1

System Viewers ............................................................................................................................8-2
Lamps ...........................................................................................................................................8-3

POWER/SLEEP Lamp.............................................................................................................8-4
DISK ACCESS Lamp ..............................................................................................................8-4
Access Lamps...........................................................................................................................8-4
LINK/ACT Lamp.....................................................................................................................8-4
1000/100/10 Lamp ...................................................................................................................8-5
Hard Disk Drive Lamp (DISK Lamp)......................................................................................8-5

Error Messages .............................................................................................................................8-7

Error Messages after Power-on ................................................................................................8-7
POST Error Messages ..............................................................................................................8-8
Beep Codes.............................................................................................................................8-10

Summary of Contents for Express5800/110Ei

Page 1: ...N8100 1005F NEC Express5800 110Ei User s Guide 1st Edition 11 2004 ONL 3125aN 110Ei 100 99 0411 ...

Page 2: ... Warranty Statement accompanying each product However actual performance of each such product is dependent upon factors such as system configuration customer data and operator control Since implementation by customers of each product may vary the suitability of specific product configurations and applications must be determined by the customer and is not warranted by NEC To allow for design and sp...

Page 3: ...g burns or property damage if the instruction is ignored Precautions and notices against hazards are presented with one of the following three symbols The individual symbols are defined as follows This symbol indicates the presence of a hazard if the instruction is ignored An image in the symbol illustrates the hazard type Attention This symbol indicates prohibited actions An image in the symbol i...

Page 4: ...ing that cannot be specifically identified Indicates that improper use may cause loss of eyesight due to laser beam Prohibited Actions Indicates a general prohibited action that cannot be specifically identified Do not disassemble repair or modify the server Otherwise an electric shock or fire may be caused Mandatory Action Unplug the power cord of the server Otherwise an electric shock or fire ma...

Page 5: ...te radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual may cause harmful interference to radio communications Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense CE Statement Warning This is a Class A product In domestic environment...

Page 6: ...erating system and Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server operating system and Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional operating system Windows 2003 stands for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Server operating system and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition Windows Me stands for Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition Operating System Windows 98 stands for Microsoft Windows ...

Page 7: ...hase of this server is your assurance of receiving state of the art high quality hardware to meet your needs both now and in the future Read this User s Guide thoroughly to fully understand handling of the NEC Express server and appreciate its functions to the maximum extent ...

Page 8: ...o configure the system and provides instructions for running the BIOS Setup Utility This chapter also provides information on mother board jumper settings Chapter 5 Installing the Operating System with Express Setup describes how to install the operating system Chapter 6 Installing and Using Utilities describes how to install the utilities for the server It also includes a description on using the...

Page 9: ...s manual For safety symbols see SAFETY INDICATIONS provided earlier IMPORTANT Items that are mandatory or require attention when using the server NOTE Helpful and convenient piece of information IN THE PACKAGE The carton contains various accessories as well as the server itself See the packing list to make sure that you have everything and that individual components are not damaged If you find any...

Page 10: ...sfer to Third Party 1 9 Disposal and Consumables 1 10 User Support 1 11 Chapter 2 General Description 2 1 Overview 2 2 System Chassis 2 3 Front View 2 3 Rear View 2 5 Internal View 2 7 Mother Board 2 8 Standard Features 2 9 Power Supply 2 10 Peripheral Bays 2 10 Remote Power On Feature Wake On LAN 2 10 AC LINK Feature 2 11 Security 2 11 NEC EXPRESSBUILDER 2 11 NEC ESMPRO 2 12 Off line Maintenance ...

Page 11: ...g the Hard Disk Drives 4 31 Activating the SATA RAID Feature 4 31 Running the Array Configuration Utility ACU 4 32 Using the Array Configuration Utility 4 33 Chapter 5 Installing the Operating System with Express Setup 5 1 About Express Setup 5 2 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 5 4 Installation Notice 5 4 The Flow of Setup 5 7 Installing and Setting Device Drivers 5 12 Setting for Solving Problems 5...

Page 12: ...or Functions 6 16 Components 6 16 Server Setup 6 18 Management PC Setup 6 19 Chapter 7 Maintenance 7 1 Making Backup Copies 7 1 Cleaning 7 2 Cleaning the Server 7 3 Cleaning the Interior 7 4 Cleaning the Keyboard Mouse 7 5 Cleaning CD ROM 7 6 System Diagnostics 7 7 Test Items 7 7 Starting and Ending the System Diagnostics 7 8 Relocating Storing The Server 7 11 Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 8 1 System ...

Page 13: ...y 8 28 Starting the Off line Maintenance Utility 8 28 Features of Off line Maintenance Utility 8 29 Resetting the Server 8 30 Forced Shutdown 8 30 Chapter 9 Upgrading Your Server 9 1 Safety Notes 9 2 Static Precautions 9 3 Preparing for Installation and Removal 9 4 Installation or Removal Procedure 9 5 Side Cover 9 5 Front Mask 9 9 3 5 inch Hard Disk Drive 9 11 PCI Board 9 19 DIMM 9 30 File Device...

Page 14: ... the Hard Disk which has been upgraded to Dynamic Disk D 2 Manual Installation when N8103 65F 80F Keeps Connection D 2 MO Device D 2 Media such as DAT D 2 Partition Size D 3 Installing Windows Server 2003 D 4 Creating Windows Server 2003 OEM DISK for NEC EXPRESSBUILDER D 4 Windows Server 2003 Clean Installation D 6 Upgrade Installation D 8 Reinstallation to Multiple Logical Drives D 10 Updating th...

Page 15: ...E 4 Creating Windows 2000 OEM DISK for NEC EXPRESSBUILDER E 4 Windows 2000 Clean Installation E 6 Reinstallation to Multiple Logical Drives E 7 Updating the System Installing Service Pack E 9 Driver Installation and Advanced Settings E 10 PROSet E 10 Network Driver E 11 Re install the Network Driver E 12 Graphics Accelerator Driver E 13 USB 2 0 Driver E 13 Installing SCSI Controller Driver E 14 Se...

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Page 17: ...Chapter 1 Notes on Using Your Server This chapter includes information necessary for proper and safe operation of your server ...

Page 18: ...possible danger or their vicinity in your server to inform the user that a hazardous situation may arise when operating the server Do not intentionally remove or damage any of the labels If you find any labels totally partially removed or illegible due to damage contact your sales representative ...

Page 19: ...as been used in the above conditions Do not use the server if any smoke odor or noise is present If smoke odor or noise is present immediately turn off the server and disconnect the power plug from the outlet then contact your sales agent Using the server in such conditions may cause a fire Keep needles or metal objects away from the server Do not insert needles or metal objects into ventilation h...

Page 20: ...connector could damage the cables and connectors to result in an electrical shock hazard or a fire Insert the power plug into the outlet as far as it goes Heat generation resulting from a halfway inserted power plug imperfect contact may cause a fire Heat will also be generated if condensation is formed on dusty blades of the halfway inserted plug increasing the possibility of fire Use the authori...

Page 21: ...may cause a fire a dusty place a humid place such as near a boiler a place exposed to direct sunlight an unstable place Do not connect any interface cable with the power cord of the server plugged to a power source Make sure to power off the server and unplug the power cord from a power outlet before installing removing any optional internal device or connecting disconnecting any interface cable t...

Page 22: ... sure to power off the server and disconnect the power plug from a power outlet before cleaning or installing removing internal optional devices Touching any internal device of the server with its power cord connected to a power source may cause an electric shock even of the server is off powered Disconnect the power plug from the outlet occasionally and clean the plug with a dry cloth Heat will b...

Page 23: ...an electric shock Keep animals away from the server Failure to follow this warning may cause a fire or an electric shock Do not leave the CD tray open If dust gets on the lens of CD ROM drive the drive may have problems reading your disks Also the CD tray may be broken by contacting any objects Take off the headset before connection To protect your ears take off the headset before connecting it to...

Page 24: ...stem operation When you have just turned off the server wait at least 10 seconds before turning it back on If the server is connected to the UPS set at least 10 seconds delay in the power on schedule For the disk which does not conform to the CD standard the playback of such a disk with the CD drive is not guaranteed Turn off the power and unplug the power cord from the outlet before relocating th...

Page 25: ...written on the hard disk Data not erased completely may be restored by special software and used for unexpected purposes It is strongly recommended that the software or service both available at stores for data erasure should be used in order to avoid the trouble explained above For details on data erasure ask your sales representative Provided software To transfer or sell any software application...

Page 26: ... limited period of time and require replacement such as fans internal batteries the internal CD ROM drive the floppy disk drive and the mouse For stable operation of the server NEC recommends you replace these components on a regular basis Consult with your sales agent for replacement or the product lives WARNING Do not remove the lithium battery Your server contains the lithium battery Do not rem...

Page 27: ...oblem fits the description If it does take the recommended measure for it 3 Check if the software required for operation of the server is properly installed If the server still appears to fail after you have taken the above actions consult with your sales agent immediately Take notes on lamp indications of the server and alarm indications on the display unit before consultation which may provide a...

Page 28: ... adjustment is important to prevent the screen from reflecting bright lights and to make the display contents easy to see You will not be able to keep good working posture and you will feel more tired than you should if you operate a display unit without adjusting horizontal and vertical angles Adjustment of Screen Brightness and Contrast The display unit has brightness and contrast adjustment fun...

Page 29: ...Chapter 2 General Description This chapter provides information that you should be familiar with before using the server It includes names and functions of the components and features of the server ...

Page 30: ...additional memory add in boards and peripheral devices tape devices CD ROM and hard disk drives The server features the following major components A high performance Intel Pentium 4 processor Up to 4GB of memory using 1GB DIMMs Minimum configuration is 256MB of memory Dual channel memory configuration Five integrated I O expansion PCI X PCI slots for add in boards one PCI Express slot two 64 bit 1...

Page 31: ...eral Description 2 3 SYSTEM CHASSIS Names and functions of the components are shown below Front View 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 4 2 Additional slot 1 Additional slot 2 With optional 5 inch file device bay installed ...

Page 32: ...hard disk If the built in hard disk is connected to the proper optional board this lamp can be lit only when the LED cable provided with the system is connected 6 POWER SLEEP lamp green Lights in green when the server is powered on Blinks when the system is placed in the sleep mode 7 POWER SLEEP switch The POWER SLEEP switch is used to turn the power of the server ON OFF If you press this switch o...

Page 33: ...General Description 2 5 Rear View 1 2 3 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ...

Page 34: ...the USB interface 7 Serial port connector The serial port connector is used to connect the server to a device with the serial interface The server cannot be directly connected to a leased line through the connector 8 Printer port connector The printer port connector is connected with a printer with the Centronics interface 9 Monitor connector The monitor connector is connected with the display uni...

Page 35: ...f two 5 25 inch devices and one 3 5 inch device 6 3 5 inch floppy disk drive dotted line 7 Device bay fixing screw To remove the hard disk drive bay loosen this screw To remove the file bay remove this screw 8 Front cooling fan dotted line 9 PCI guide rail 10 Hard disk drive bay Hard disk drive bay can be equipped with three hard disks 11 Hard disk drive optional 12 Mother board 13 PCI board reten...

Page 36: ...ration jumper switch CMOS Clear Slot 14 2 and 3 64bit 100 MHz PCI X 6 Front panel connector Slot 14 4 and 5 32bit 33 MHz PCI X 7 Lithium battery 15 Rear cooling fan connector 8 Serial ATA connectors 16 Heat sink fan connector 9 Buzzer 17 Connector for external device 10 Floppy disk drive connector 11 Ultra ATA100 connector for CD ROM drive 1 2 3 4 3 3 3 2 3 1 17 4 5 6 7 8 4 8 3 9 10 11 8 1 8 2 12 ...

Page 37: ... emulation mode format support Remote power on feature AC LINK feature Self diagnosis Memory monitoring feature single bit error correction double bit error detection Temperature detection Cooling fan monitoring feature Internal voltage monitoring feature BIOS password feature Embedded serial ATA RAID drive configuration feature Optional SCSI controllers Power On Self Test POST Test and Diagnosis ...

Page 38: ...ve bays for installing up to three ATA150 or SCSI hard disk drives NOTE The optional peripheral device bay can include two 5 25 inch file devices or one hot swap SCSI hard disk drive bay one slim height CD ROM drive and one 3 5 inch floppy disk drive Remote Power On Feature Wake On LAN The remote power on function turns on the server through a network It sends a special packet from the management ...

Page 39: ...sword Check the user account when entering the BIOS setup utility or booting the system NEC EXPRESSBUILDER The CD ROM that comes with your server contains a setup utility called NEC EXPRESSBUILDER When you have first installed the server or append features to the server use the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER to set up your server Refer to Chapter 6 for details IMPORTANT Do not use the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER for a...

Page 40: ...erver monitoring terminal and the NEC ESMPRO Agent for the NEC Express server NOTE For details of major functions of the NEC ESMPRO system configuration and setups with the NEC ESMPRO see Chapter 6 Available functions of the NEC ESMPRO depend on the OS you install Ask your sales agent for details Off line Maintenance Utility The Off line Maintenance Utility is used for proactive maintenance and fa...

Page 41: ... including the keyboard and the mouse POWER Switch Use the POWER SLEEP switch to turn on off the server Power On Press the POWER switch on the front of the computer chassis The POWER SLEEP lamp lights in green IMPORTANT If the power cord is connected to a power control device such as a UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply make sure that the power control device is powered Do not turn off the server un...

Page 42: ...r the NEC logo appears on the display unit while POST is in progress To display the POST check results press Esc NOTE You can set the POST check results to appear on the display unit without pressing Esc To do so select Enabled for Boot time Diagnostic Screen under the Advanced menu of the BIOS setup utility You don t always need to check the POST check results Check messages that POST displays wh...

Page 43: ...nd expansion memory appears at top left on the display unit screen The memory check may takes a few minutes to complete depending on the memory size of the server Also it may take approximately one minute for the screen display to appear after rebooting the server 2 Some messages appear upon completion of the memory check These messages appear to indicate that the system has detected the CPU keybo...

Page 44: ...cally restarts POST all over again when you exit the BIOS setup utility 4 If your server uses onboard serial ATA SATA RAID feature the following message is displayed on the screen to prompt you to run Array Configuration Utility ARC Press Ctrl A for Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility Press Ctrl A to run ARC For detail explanation refer to Chapter 4 5 If the server has an optional RAID controller o...

Page 45: ...complete before turning off the server 1 Shut down the OS 2 Press the POWER SLEEP switch on the front of the server The POWER SLEEP lamp goes out 3 Power off peripheral devices SLEEP Switch The POWER SLEEP switch allows you to save almost all power of the server power saving mode or sleep mode Press the POWER SLEEP switch on the front of the server to place the server in the power saving mode The ...

Page 46: ... drive the drive clicks and the eject button on the floppy disk is slightly pushed out NOTES You cannot use a 1 2MB formatted floppy disk to boot the system When an unformatted floppy disk is inserted the message notifying that date read is not available and the message prompting formatting are displayed Refer to the manual that comes with the OS to format the floppy disk If the floppy disk contai...

Page 47: ...tic objects e g magnet Do not pinch the floppy disk with a paper clip or drop it Keep the floppy disk in a floppy disk case that protects it from magnetism and dust A floppy disk has a write protect switch that prevents the stored data from accidental erasure You can read data from a write protected floppy disk but you cannot save data into the floppy disk or format it NEC recommends that you shou...

Page 48: ...ages 1 3 to 1 8 for details Do not leave the tray ejected from the CD ROM drive Take off the headphone before you plug in the headphone jack Setting and Removing the CD ROM Make sure that the server is powered the POWER SLEEP lamp is lit before inserting a CD ROM into the CD ROM drive Press the Open Close button on the front of the CD ROM drive to eject the tray With the CD ROM label facing up pla...

Page 49: ...ject When you fail to eject the CD ROM tray with the Open Close button and take out the CD ROM from the server follow the procedure below 1 Press the POWER switch to power off the server The POWER SLEEP lamp goes off 2 Insert a metal pin of approximately 1 2 mm in diameter and 100 mm in length a straightened large paper clip will make a substitute into the emergency hole on the right front of the ...

Page 50: ...ed side upward and gently put it on the tray Do not scratch the CD ROM or write anything directly on it with a pencil or ball point pen Keep the CD ROM away from cigarette smoke Do not leave the CD ROM in a high temperature place e g place exposed to direct sunlight or close to a heater When dust or fingerprints are attached on the CD ROM wipe the CD ROM from its center to edge with a dry soft clo...

Page 51: ...Chapter 3 Setting Up Your Server This chapter describes how to set up your server appropriate for your system on a step by step basis ...

Page 52: ... cord Connect the power cord to the server Turning on the server Power on the server to start software setups Setups depend on the optional internal devices installed and the peripheral devices connected Installing the operating system Install an operating system to the server See Chapter 5 Installing the utilities Install the utilities in the provided NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM See Chapter 6 Makin...

Page 53: ... a damage claim with the carrier immediately INSTALLING OPTIONAL DEVICES To install any optional device see Chapter 9 Upgrading Your Server for the installation procedure Proceed to the next section if you have no optional devices to install IMPORTANT There are third party products memory modules hard disks etc available for the server in the markets However NEC recommends that you should use NEC ...

Page 54: ...er only by yourself Do not install the server in any place other than specified The following figure illustrates a site suitable for installing the server It is recommended that the server should be used in a room where temperature is in the range between 15 to 25ºC Clean and tidy room Allow clearance of at least 150 mm in front of and behind the server 100 to 120 Vac 200 to 240 Vac parallel bi po...

Page 55: ...rigerator Places with strong vibration Places with corrosive gas in presence near chemicals or with possibilities of chemicals sprayed over On a non antistatic carpet Places with possibilities of falling objects Places where a power outlet that shares the ground line with another especially the one to which a device with large power consumption is connected must be used for the server Do not insta...

Page 56: ...ot use the server with any loose interface connection Do not step on the interface cable or place any heavy object on it IMPORTANT Power off the server and a peripheral device before connection Connecting a powered peripheral device to the powered server will cause malfunctions and failures To connect a third party peripheral device or interface cable to the server consult with your sales agent fo...

Page 57: ...ting Up Your Server 3 7 Device with the serial interface e g modem Keyboard Mouse Display unit Hub multiport repeater Printer with the parallel interface Device with the USB interface e g terminal adapter ...

Page 58: ...ollowing instructions to use the server safely Failure to follow these instructions may cause a fire personal injury or property damage See pages 1 3 to 1 8 for details Do not plug the power cord in to an improper power source Do not connect the power cord to an outlet that has an illegal number of connections Insert the power plug into the outlet as far as it goes Use the authorized power cord on...

Page 59: ... NEC ESMPRO UPSController that controls the UPS connect the power cord to an SWITCH OUT outlet For constant power supply connect the power cord to a UN SWITCH OUT outlet Connect the modem that is in service for 24 hours to this outlet Example When the power cord from the server to a UPS change the BIOS setup utility of the server to link with power supply from the UPS Change a parameter for AC LIN...

Page 60: ... next step To use the server with no optional devices installed besides the graphic board install a desired OS to the server 1 Make sure all external devices such as a video display keyboard and mouse optional have been connected and the power cords are connected 2 Power on the video display and any other external devices 3 Make sure that the floppy disk drive contains no floppy disk and the CD RO...

Page 61: ...T displays the amount of memory it was able to access and test Depending on the amount of installed memory it may take several minutes to complete the memory test NOTE The factory set is defined to hide the POST screen with the NEC logo screen You can always change the NEC logo screen to the POST screen by pressing Tab To change the start up screen use the BIOS setup utility CMOS Setup See Chapter...

Page 62: ...DER INSTALLING UTILITIES Install the utilities that come with the server See Chapter 6 for details MAKING BACKUP COPIES OF SYSTEM INFORMATION The system information includes the current BIOS settings and any specific information for the server Save the information after completing the system setup Without the backup data you will not be able to recover the information You can save the information ...

Page 63: ...to perform a RAID disk format or verify disk operation on the serial ATA disk drives The Array Configuration Utility is used only for the serial ATA hard disk drives that are connected with the serial ATA channel on your server board If your system has been factory configured the BIOS Setup utility or Array Configuration Utility do not need to be run unless you want to change the password or secur...

Page 64: ...ed below IMPORTANT The BIOS Setup utility is intended for system administrator use only The BIOS Setup utility allows you to set a password The server is provided with two levels of password Supervisor and User With the Supervisor password you can view and change all system parameters of the BIOS Setup utility With the User password system parameters available for viewing and changing are limited ...

Page 65: ...S Setup utility the password entry screen appears Enter the password Enter password Up to three password entries will be accepted If you fail to enter the password correctly for three consecutive times the server halts You can no longer proceed Power off the server NOTE The server is provided with two levels of password Administrator and User With the Administrator password you can view and change...

Page 66: ... can change Cursor Move between menus and Select the previous value or the next value for the field Enter Execute command or select submenu Esc Exit the current menu and return to the previous menu F1 Get Help about an item F9 Load default configuration values for this menu F10 Save configuration values and exit Indicates the current menu Indicates there are submenus Setup item menu Explanation of...

Page 67: ...On LAN PME Enabled Select Server AC LINK Stay Off ATA Drive Settings To check the ATA drives connected with the onboard ATA channels Select Main Primary IDE Master Primary IDE Slave IDE Secondary Master and IDE Secondary Slave To configure the RAID drive Select Advanced I O Device Configuration SATA Controller Mode Option Enhanced SATA RAID Enabled Enabled and use the RAID configuration utility se...

Page 68: ...r Console Redirection and set each item Memory To check the installed memory DIMM board status Select Advanced Memory Configuration and check the status indications The on screen DIMM group numbers and socket locations on the mother board are associated as shown in the following figure To clear the memory DIMM board error information Select Advanced Memory Configuration Memory Retest Yes and reboo...

Page 69: ...Select Security Set User Password and enter a password Set Administrator password first then User password External Devices To set up external devices Select Advanced I O Device Configuration and set up each device Internal Devices To set up internal PCI devices of the server Select Advanced Advanced Chipset Control PCI Device and set up each device To install the disk array controller board or SC...

Page 70: ...To save the current configuration data Select Exit Exit Saving Changes or Save Changes To discard changes to the current configuration data Select Exit Exit Discarding Changes or Discard Changes To load the user defined default Select Exit Load Setup Defaults ...

Page 71: ...elect a submenu from the above menus The following describes available functions and parameters as well as the factory set for each menu Main If BIOS Setup is started the Main menu appears first If you select a menu item preceded by symbol and press Enter the appropriate submenu appears The items which can be set on the Main menu screen and their functions are described below ...

Page 72: ...second floppy disk drive is included in this system Hard Disk Pre Delay Disabled 3 seconds 6 seconds 9 seconds 12 seconds 15 seconds 21 seconds 30 seconds Allows slower spin up drives to come ready Primary IDE Master Primary IDE Slave Secondary IDE Master Secondary IDE Slave Select submenu Set the information on the device connected to each channel on the submenu The settings of some items may be ...

Page 73: ...OS will clear historical processor status and retest the processor on the next boot CPU Speed nnn GHz Displays clock speed for the processor View only Processor 1 CPUID Numeral Disabled Displays CPU ID for processor if present Disabled indicates that the processor is defected View only Processor 1 L2 Cache nnn KB Displays L2 cache size for processor Hyper Threading Technology Enabled Disabled Disa...

Page 74: ...led Enabled If enabled the BIOS will display the NEC logo during POST Press Esc to switch to the POST execution screen Reset Configuration Data No Yes Select Yes if you want to clear the system configuration data during the next boot Automatically reset to No in the next boot NumLock Auto On Off Sets power on Numlock state Memory Processor Error Boot Halt If Halt is selected the boot is stopped wh...

Page 75: ...mory nnnnnnn KB Indicates the total capacity of the extended memory View only DIMM Group 1 4 Status Normal Not installed Disabled Displays the current status of the memory bank Disabled indicates that a DIMM in the bank has failed and the entire bank has been disabled Memory Retest No Yes Causes BIOS to retest all memory on the next boot Extended RAM Step 1MB Disabled 1MB indicates that the memory...

Page 76: ...on ROM PCI Slot 5 Option ROM Enabled Disabled Enable option ROM scan of the selected device When the graphics accelerator board is installed or the disk array controller or SCSI controller boards to be installed are connected to the hard disk in which OS is installed set this item to Enabled When the LAN controller board with installation of the option ROM BIOS is used but the board does not provi...

Page 77: ... 8MB Specify the memory size for internal graphics device Factory set Embedded NIC Gbit 1 submenu Option Parameter Description Your Setting Onboard LAN1 Control Disabled Enabled If Disabled the BIOS will hold the embedded chip in reset In this configuration the controller hardware is completely disabled and will be invisible to the PnP operating systems Option ROM Scan Disabled Enabled If Enabled ...

Page 78: ...d Enabled Selects whether serial port A is enabled or disabled Base I O Address 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 3E8 IRQ4 2E8 IRQ3 Selects the base I O address for serial port A Interrupt IRQ 3 IRQ 4 Selects the interrupt for a serial port A Serial Port B Disabled Enabled Selects whether serial port B is enabled or disabled display only Parallel Port Disabled Enabled Selects whether the parallel port is enabled ...

Page 79: ...e native mode for ATA Note A specific OS does not support the native mode SATA Controller Mode Option Compatible Enhanced Compatible mode SATA and PATA drives are automatically detected and recognized as legacy mode Enhanced mode SATA and PATA drives are automatically detected and recognized as native mode Note The pre installed Windows 2000 does not work in enhanced mode SATA AHCI Enabled Disable...

Page 80: ...e timer corresponding to multimedia is enabled or disabled Wake On LAN PME Disabled Enabled Specify whether the remote power on function through embedded NIC PCI devices in slots 1 to 5 is enabled or disabled Wake On Ring Disabled Enabled Specify whether the remote power on function through a serial port is enabled or disabled Wake On RTC Alarm Disabled Enabled Specify whether the remote power on ...

Page 81: ...bled Enabled Auto If disabled PCI Express Port 1 will not accept PCI Express device Port 1 Enabled Displays the Port 1 Enabled or Disabled View only Port 1 Number Displays the Port 1 Number View only Port 1 Width Displays the Port 1 Width View only Port 1 Slot Number Displays the Port 1 Slot Number View only Port 1 Power Limit Displays the Port 1 Power Limit View only Port 1 Slot Card Detected Dis...

Page 82: ...e below for the items Option Parameter Description Your Setting PCI IRQ line 1 PCI IRQ line 2 PCI IRQ line 3 PCI IRQ line 4 PCI IRQ line 5 Disabled Auto Select 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15 PCI devices use hardware interrupts called IRQs A PCI device cannot use IRQs already in use by ISA devices Use Auto only if no ISA legacy cards are installed Factory set ...

Page 83: ...r Set User Password to display the following screen Enter the passwords on the dialog box Passwords may have up to seven characters including alphanumerics and symbols IMPORTANT User password can be set only when Administrator password is already set Set the passwords only after OS is installed If you forget the passwords contact your service representative ...

Page 84: ...ssed the user is prompted for a password press Esc to abort Once set this can be disabled by setting it to a null string or by clearing password jumper on system board refer to Configuring Mother Board Jumpers in this chapter Set Supervisor Password Up to eight alphanumerics When the Enter key is pressed the user is prompted for a password press ESC key to abort Once set this can be disabled by se...

Page 85: ...Shows the state of the power of the server Factory set IMPORTANT To power on the server from the UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply select Server AC Link Power On If the server is connected to the UPS set at least 10 seconds delay in the power on schedule The table below shows the operation when the AC power to the server is turn off once and then on again depending on the setting of AC LINK Setting...

Page 86: ...n View only Board Part Number Displays the mother board part number View only Board Serial Number Displays the mother board serial number View only System Part Number Displays the system part number View only System Serial Number Displays the System serial number View only Chassis Part Number Displays the chassis part number View only Chassis Serial Number Displays the chassis serial number View o...

Page 87: ...pecify the address interrupt of the serial port to which a remote console is connected ACPI Redirection Port Disabled Serial Port A Specify the serial port to which an ACPI console is connected Baud Rate 9600 19 2k 38 4k 57 6k 115 2k Specify the baud rate used for the interface with successive remote consoles Terminal Type PC ANSI VT100 VT UTF8 Specify the type of remote console Flow Control None ...

Page 88: ...devices in the order set in this menu on booting Finding the boot software the server starts the software The priority of the boot devices can be changed by using the and keys Move the cursor to the desired device with the or key and change the priority with the or key IMPORTANT To boot NEC EXPRESSBUILDER set the priority of the devices as shown in the figure above ...

Page 89: ...s ware modified Load Setup Defaults Load default values for all BIOS Setup items IMPORTANT This option sets SATA RAID Enabled in the Advanced I O Device Configuration menu to Disable If the SATA hard disk drives are installed in your server and the onboard SATA RAID feature is used change the parameter of the SATA RAID Enabled from Disable to Enable before exiting BIOS Setup Discard Changes Read t...

Page 90: ...s the start up message of the CMOS Setup Utility of the mother board It then displays the utility start up message for optional PCI boards one by one The start up message appears for the optional PCI board in the PCI 1 slot first then PCI 2 PCI 3 PCI 4 and finally PCI 5 The message displayed may vary depending on the optional PCI board Refer to the manual that comes with the optional PCI board for...

Page 91: ...epair or alter the server Never attempt to disassemble repair or alter the server on any occasion other than described in this manual Failure to follow this instruction may cause an electric shock or fire as well as malfunctions of the server 1 Power off the server and disconnect the power cord and all the cables connected on the rear of the server 2 Remove the left side cover see Chapter 9 3 Remo...

Page 92: ...at the prompt to run the BIOS Setup utility and select Load Setup Default at the Exit menu IMPORTANT If the SATA hard disk drives are installed in your server and the onboard SATA RAID feature is used change the parameter of the SATA RAID Enabled in the Advanced I O Device Configuration menu from Disable to Enable before exiting BIOS Setup ...

Page 93: ...he RAID drive with the SCSI or IDE hard disk drives purchase the optional RAID controller board and hard disk drives Installing the Hard Disk Drives Install the two serial ATA hard disk drives to your server Refer to Chapter 9 for detail IMPORTANT Use hard disks of the same capacity and revolution Activating the SATA RAID Feature To run the Array Configuration Utility ACU run the BIOS setup utilit...

Page 94: ...ystem startup Press Ctrl A for Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility The ARC menu appears presenting these options Array Configuration Utility ACU Disk utilities To select an option from this menu browse with the arrow keys and then press Enter In some cases selecting an option displays another menu To return to the previous menu at any time press Esc ...

Page 95: ...tions describe these operations in greater detail Viewing Array Properties To view the properties of an existing array 1 At the BIOS prompt press Ctrl A 2 From the ACU menu Array Configuration Utility 3 From the main menu select Manage Arrays 4 From the List of Arrays dialog box select the array you want to view and press Enter The Array Properties dialog box appears showing detailed information o...

Page 96: ...menu select Manage Arrays 4 Select the array you wish to delete and press Delete 5 In the Array Properties dialog box select Delete and press Enter The following prompt is displayed Warning Deleting the array will render array unusable Do you want to delete the array Yes No RAID 1 only the following prompt is also displayed Deleting the partition will result in data loss Do you also want to delete...

Page 97: ...ot be used See Initializing Disk Drives described later To create an array 1 Turn on your server and press Ctrl A when prompted to access the ACU 2 From the ACU menu Array Configuration Utility 3 From the main menu select Create Array 4 Select the disks for the new array and press Insert To deselect any disk highlight the disk and press Delete 5 Press Enter when both disks for the new array are se...

Page 98: ...ng the ACU Instead use Adaptec Storage Manager Browser Edition See Chapter 6 for details To assign properties to the new array 1 In the Array Properties menu select an array type and press Enter Note that only the available array types RAID0 and RAID1 are displayed Each of these types requires two drives 2 Type in an optional label for the array and press Enter ...

Page 99: ...e via When appropriate RAID0 No Init Creating a RAID0 on new drives RAID0 Migrate Creating a RAID0 from on new drive and one drive with data you wish to preserve Your server does not support this option RAID1 Build Any time you wish to create RAID1 but especially if you have data on one drive that you wish to preserve Your server does not support this option RAID Clear Creating a RAID1 on new driv...

Page 100: ...he Quick Init option may return some data miscompares if you later run a consistency check This is normal and is not a cause for concern The ACU allows you to use drives of different sizes in a RAID1 During a build operation however only the smaller drive can be selected as the source or first drive Adaptec does not recommend that you build an array on Windows dynamic disks volumes as it will resu...

Page 101: ...you may not be able to use the array again Do not initialize a disk that is part of a boot array To determine which disks are associated with a particular array see Viewing Array Properties described earlier in this section To initialize drives 1 Turn on your server and press Ctrl A when prompted to access the ACU 2 From the ACU menu Array Configuration Utility 3 Select Initialize Drives 4 Use the...

Page 102: ...Utilities enable you to format or verify the media of your Serial ATA hard disks To access the disk utilities 1 Turn on your server and press Ctrl A when prompted to access the ACU 2 From the ACU menu select Disk Utilities 3 Select the desired disk and press Enter ...

Page 103: ...drive by writing zeros to the entire disk Serial ATA drives are low level formatted at the factory and do not need to be low level formatted again IMPORTANT Formatting destroys all data on the drive Be sure to back up your data before performing this operation Verify Disk Media Scans the media of a disk drive for defects ...

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Page 105: ...osoft Windows 2000 Server To use the server with the other operating systems described in this section contact your service representative IMPORTANT Before installing the operating system adjust the system date and time by using the BIOS setup utility SETUP See Chapter 4 for detail This chapter also includes information on configuring the HostRAID drive used with the onboard serial ATA interface R...

Page 106: ... Setup is intended for the initial setup of the server system Therefore it clears the contents of the hard disk For Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Express Setup automatically configures your server and installs the operating system After a few tasks are completed all that remains to be done is to remove the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM and insert the Windows CD ROM input a product ID ...

Page 107: ...iguration parameters are loaded by using the Configuration Diskette Creator see Chapter 6 Normal start Normal start is to create the Configuration Diskette after starting the Express Setup NOTES Use the blank disk in the accessory box to create Configuration Diskette You can create Configuration Diskette in advance using Configuration Diskette Creator included in NEC EXPRESSBUILDER If you create C...

Page 108: ...S contact sales dealer or the maintenance service representative Installing Optional Mass Storage Driver To install optional mass storage driver see Installing Optional Mass Storage Driver of Configuration Diskette Creator in Chapter 6 to create setup inf file BIOS Specification Before installing Windows Server 2003 confirm if the BIOS specification of the hardware is correct See Chapter 4 to spec...

Page 109: ...f you want to install Windows Server 2003 on the volume that is mirrored using Disk Management invalid the mirroring before operating the installation to set back to the basic disk and valid the mirroring again after the installation has completed Creating invalid delete mirror volume can be operated from Disk Management in Computer Management Connecting MO Device If you operate installing Windows...

Page 110: ... file size exceeds 4095MB specify 4095MB for the paging file size The dump file size for the system with more than 2GB memory mounted is 2048MB 12MB If you install any application program or the like add necessary space to the partition to install these programs For example if the mounted memory size is 512MB the minimally required partition size will be calculated by the above formula as follows ...

Page 111: ... Confirmed Select Setup Parameter File No Retrieve again Existing File Select OS New File Terminate Check Setup Parameter File If you need to reset the specification Correct Confirm the setting select whether or not to modify Confirm the specification and input the value Re select OK Incorrect No Yes Insert Windows CD ROM After restarting the computer the installation completed Express Setup Log o...

Page 112: ...lation may not be completed normally In such case detach MO device and then re install the system from the beginning Connect the hard disk drive that OS is not going to be installed after installing OS If you create multiple logical drives in your system refer to Re installing the operation system when multiple logical drives exist Appendix D 2 Insert NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM driv...

Page 113: ... installation click Skip Click Review Go to step 8 Click Skip Go to step 9 Using Blank disk 1 Click the box under Setup File Name A or press A The input box appears 2 Input the file name Operating System to Install appears The OS supported by the computer is displayed in the list 3 Select Windows Server 2003 you want to install from the list box 8 Confirm the contents specified during OS installat...

Page 114: ...ther than 4095MB for the Installing Partition it is necessary to convert to NTFS If Use Existing Array at New Existing RAID Configuration is selected but the partition other than the one to install Windows Server 2003 does not exist excluding maintenance partition Express Setup will reserve the maximum area of the hard disk to install Windows Server 2003 You can not go to the next screen if the sp...

Page 115: ... into the floppy disk drive and follow the message to operate the installation 10 Follow the message and take NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM and Configuration Diskette out of the CD ROM drive and the floppy disk drive and insert Windows Server 2003 CD ROM into the CD ROM drive Software License Agreement screen appears 11 Read the contents carefully and click I agree or press F8 if you do agree If you d...

Page 116: ...is necessary to utilize these features Follow the procedure below to install PROSet 1 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM drive 2 The Windows Explorer dialog starts The procedure in the case of the standard start menu Click Start menu and click Windows Explorer The procedure in the case of the classic start menu Click Start menu point to Programs Accessories and click Windows Expl...

Page 117: ...ty dialog box for network adapter appears 3 Click the Advanced and specify the Link Speed Duplex value the same as the value specified for HUB 4 Click OK on the property dialog box for network adapter When PROSet is installed 1 The Intel R PROSet for Wired Connections dialog box appears The procedure in the case of the standard start menu Click Start menu point to Control Panel and click Intel PRO...

Page 118: ...twork Board N8104 84 112 103 113 the network driver will be installed automatically Therefore the driver attached to the Network board should not be used If you want to utilize optional Network Board N8104 86 111 install the driver stored in NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM In case of utilizing N8104 86 111 CD ROM Drive Letter WINNT DOTNET BC5 PRO100 WS03XP32 If the procedure of installation is not clear...

Page 119: ... N8104 86 111 specify CD ROM driveletter WINNT DOTNET BC5 PRO100 WS03XP32 Then click Next 7 Click Finish Graphics Accelerator Driver Standard graphics accelerator drivers that are mounted will be installed automatically The following is the procedure when it is necessary to install manually If you want to utilize optional Graphics Accelerator Driver board follow the document attached to the board ...

Page 120: ...Wizard appears select Install from a list or specific location Advanced and click Next 5 Select Don t search I will choose the driver to install and click Next 6 Click Have Disk 7 Insert Windows Server 2003 OEM DISK for NEC EXPRESSBUILDER into the floppy disk drive enter a into copy manufacturer s file from and click OK 8 Specify the following driver and click Next INITIO INI A10XU2W PCI SCSI Cont...

Page 121: ...n such case memory dump may not be stored correctly Follow the procedure below to specify 1 Select Control Panel and click System The System Properties dialog box appears 2 Select Advanced tab 3 Click Settings on the Startup and Recovery group box IMPORTANT To specify Complete Memory Dump to write the debug information is recommended If the mounted memory size is larger than 2GB Complete Memory Du...

Page 122: ...click Set IMPORTANT Be sure to create memory dump with the size described above on the OS partition If Default Size of the paging file is specified to the value smaller than Recommended value the correct debug information memory dump may not be collected For more information on Recommended value see Partition Size to be Created described earlier To prepare for the situation when any trouble occurr...

Page 123: ...ndows dialog box appears 3 Specify the location to store the diagnostic information in the Log File Path box The diagnostic information will be stored with the file name DRWTSN32 LOG NOTE You can not specify network path Specify the path on local computer 4 Specify the location of crash dump file in the Crash Dump box NOTE Crash Dump File is a binary file that can be read with Windows Debugger 5 C...

Page 124: ...indows Components Wizard dialog box appears 4 Check the Management and Monitoring Tools check box of the component ON and click Next 5 If the setup asks to install the disk insert Windows Server 2003 CD ROM into the CD ROM drive and click OK 6 Click Complete in the Windows Component Wizard dialog box 7 Click Close in the Add Remove Application dialog box 8 Close the Control Panel dialog box To sta...

Page 125: ... from the menu and the setup will start After that follow the message to continue the setup process Making Backup Copies of System Information The system information includes the current BIOS settings and any specific information for the server Save the information after completing the system setup Without the backup data you will not be able to recover the information You can save the information...

Page 126: ...s new mass storage device not to be supported by NEC EXPRESSBUILDER you have to set as follows 1 Read the manual supplied with the mass storage device before setting the server 2 If the mass storage device is disk array controller configure the RAID system before running the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER 3 Boot the system from NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM 4 a When the dialog of Disk array configuration appears ...

Page 127: ...ge Driver To install optional mass storage driver see Installing Optional Mass Storage Driver of Configuration Diskette Creator in Chapter 6 to create setup inf file BIOS Specification Before installing Windows 2000 confirm if the BIOS specification of the hardware is correct On BIOS specification there are some items to specify for the new functions provided from Windows 2000 Plug and Play suppor...

Page 128: ...e operating the installation to set back to the basic disk and valid the mirroring again after the installation has completed Creating invalid delete mirror volume can be operated from Disk Management in Computer Management Connecting MO Device If you operate installing Windows 2000 with MO device connected the installation may not be completed normally In such case detach MO device and then re in...

Page 129: ...mp file size for the system with more than 2GB memory mounted is 2048MB 12MB If you install any application program or the like add necessary space to the partition to install these programs For example if the mounted memory size is 512MB the minimally required partition size will be calculated by the above formula as follows 1000MB 512MB 1 5 512MB 12MB 2292MB NOTES If you want to install using Ex...

Page 130: ...ter File No Retrieve again Existing File Select OS New File Terminate Check Setup Parameter File If you need to reset the specification Correct Confirm the setting select whether or not to modify Confirm the specification and input the value Re select OK Incorrect No Yes After restarting the computer the installation completed Express Setup Log on Automatically Process that continues automatically...

Page 131: ...ion may not be completed normally In such case detach MO device and then re install the system from the beginning Connect the hard disk that OS is not going to be installed after installing OS If you create multiple logical drives in your system refer to Re installing the operation system when multiple logical drives exist Appendix E 2 Insert NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM drive of the ...

Page 132: ... the installation click Skip Click Review Go to step 8 Click Skip Go to step 9 Using Blank disk 1 Click the box under Setup File Name A or press A The input box appears 2 Input the file name Operating System to Install appears The OS supported by the computer is displayed in the list 3 Select Windows 2000 you want to install from the list box 8 Confirm the contents specified during OS installation...

Page 133: ...u specify other than 4095MB for the Installing Partition it is necessary to convert to NTFS If Use Existing Array at New Existing RAID Configuration is selected but the partition other than the one to install Windows 2000 does not exist excluding maintenance partition Express Setup will reserve the maximum area of the hard disk to install Windows 2000 You can not go to the next screen if the speci...

Page 134: ...1 Read the contents carefully and click I agree or press F8 if you do agree If you do not agree click I disagree or press F3 IMPORTANT If you do not agree to this agreement the setup terminates and Windows 2000 will not be installed If NetWare Gateway and Client Service is specified to install the window to specify the details of NetWare Gateway and Client Service pops up on the first logon Specif...

Page 135: ...rovides the server an environment tolerant on any trouble and enhances throughput between the switches PROSet is necessary to utilize these features Follow the procedure below to install PROSet 1 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM drive 2 Click Start menu point to Program Accessory and click Explorer 3 Run PROSET EXE in the following directory CD ROM Drive Letter WINNT W2K BC5 PR...

Page 136: ... if necessary You can operate the process from Network and Dial up Connection to display the property dialog box for local area network NOTE We recommend you to add Network Monitor at AddingServices Network Monitor can monitor the frame or the packet that the computer installing Network Monitor sends or receives This tool is valuable when analyzing network trouble For information on how to install...

Page 137: ...phics Accelerator Driver board follow the document attached to the board to install the driver 1 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM drive 2 Click Start menu point to Programs Accessories and click Windows Explorer 3 Run SETUP EXE in the following directory CD ROM Drive Letter WINNT VIDEO INTEL SETUP EXE 4 Follow the message to continue the installation If the dialog message Digit...

Page 138: ...ver Wizard appears select Install from a list or specific location Advanced and click Next 5 Select Don t search I will choose the driver to install and click Next 6 Click Have Disk 7 Insert Windows 2000 OEM DISK for NEC EXPRESSBUILDER into the floppy disk drive enter a into copy manufacturer s file from and click OK 8 Specify the following driver and click Next INITIO INI A10XU2W PCI SCSI Control...

Page 139: ...omers need only to specify the memory dump If any trouble occur after specifying the process below the message to inform that the system is in short of virtual memory may appear but continue to start the system If you re start the system in such case memory dump may not be stored correctly Follow the procedure below to specify 1 Point to Settings in Start menu and click Control Panel The Control P...

Page 140: ... 6 Click Performance Options 7 Click Change on the Virtual Memory dialog box 8 Modify Initial Size in the Paging File Size for Selected Drive box to the value larger than Recommended Size and click Specify IMPORTANT Be sure to create memory dump with the size described above on the OS partition If Default Size of the paging file is specified to the value smaller than Recommended value the correct ...

Page 141: ...Windows 2000 dialog box appears 3 Specify the location to store the diagnostic information in the Log File Path box The diagnostic information will be stored with the file name DRWTSN32 LOG NOTE You can not specify network path Specify the path on local computer 4 Specify the location of crash dump file in the Crash Dump box NOTE Crash Dump File is a binary file that can be read with Windows Debug...

Page 142: ...e Windows Components Wizard dialog box appears 4 Check the Management and Monitoring Tools check box of the component ON and click Next 5 If the setup asks to install the disk insert Windows 2000 CD ROM into the CD ROM drive and click OK 6 Click Complete in the Windows Component Wizard dialog box 7 Click Close in the Add Remove Application dialog box 8 Close the Control Panel dialog box To start N...

Page 143: ...ive of the server Setup Software in Master Control Menu screen appears so left click the item Click Update the System from the menu and the setup will start After that follow the message to continue the setup process and apply Service Pack Making Backup Copies of System Information The system information includes the current BIOS settings and any specific information for the server Save the inform...

Page 144: ...s new mass storage device not to be supported by NEC EXPRESSBUILDER you have to set as follows 1 Read the manual supplied with the mass storage device before setting the server 2 If the mass storage device is disk array controller configure the RAID system before running the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER 3 Boot the system from NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM 4 a When the dialog of Disk array configuration appears ...

Page 145: ...tup procedure explained in this manual For ASMBE refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager Browser Edition User s Guide Overview of the specifications Hard disk drive One hard disk drive for each channel two hard disk drives max RAID level RAID0 or RAID1 Operating system Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Enterprise Edition Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Advanced Server Configuration Method ...

Page 146: ... and use it as the standard SATA In addition to driver installation ASMBE installation is mandatory for using HostRAID functions For the installation of ASMBE refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager Browser Edition User s Guide If you replace a hard disk drive being used with HostRAID please replace the hard disk drive after power off of the system Be sure to check the PORT number of the hard disk dr...

Page 147: ...date system See this chapter Install ASMBE See ASMBE User s Guide 2 Install Standby Hibernation Lock driver See appendix of ASMBE User s Guide 2 End 1 You can create RAID by using the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER In this case only you need to do is to set the HostRAID feature to Enabled by using BIOS setup utility 2 ASMBE User s Guide Adaptec Storage ManagerTM Browser Edition User s Guide You may view or pr...

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Page 149: ...Chapter 6 Installing and Using Utilities This section describes how to use the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM that comes with your server and to install the utilities stored on the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER ...

Page 150: ...ndows 2000 or other operating systems contact your service representative for the server certified operating systems NOTE Before using NEC EXPRESSBUILDER for initial setup complete the hardware configuration NEC EXPRESSBUILDER includes two distinct programs One can be booted under DOS for initial setup and one is for use under Windows operating system DOS based with local console Used to set up th...

Page 151: ...Windows based This program is called as Master Control Menu that can run under the Microsoft Windows system Windows 95 or later and Windows NT 4 0 or later You can install the several applications and read the documentation from the menu ...

Page 152: ...NT Do not remove the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM while NEC EXPRESSBUILDER is running 1 Turn on peripheral devices and the server in this order 2 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM supplied with your server into the CD ROM drive of your server 3 Ensure that the floppy disk drive is empty 4 Press the RESET switch or press Ctrl Alt and Delete to reboot from the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER You may also turn of...

Page 153: ... for initial setup of the server It provides more installation options than Express Setup and permits the user to quickly create utility support disks run the Off line Maintenance Utility and system diagnostic utility set up a maintenance partition and update the various BIOS programs NEC Express5800 NEC EXPRESSBUILDER Ver3 xxxx x Copyright C NEC Corporation 2004 Tools Menu Save Restore RAID Confi...

Page 154: ...o check if the server functions are normal and if the connection between the server and additional board is normal After the System Diagnostics is executed a system check program assigned to each model starts See Chapter 7 for details Create Support Disk NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM contains a number of device drivers and utilities that you can put on floppy disks and load onto your system Using this...

Page 155: ...xistence of the maintenance partition may be identified from the operating system In order to retain the Configuration Data do not delete the partition NOTES The maintenance partition once created will not be recreated again When the maintenance partition does not exist some menu items do not appear Create Maintenance Partition NEC EXPRESSBUILDER creates about 55MB of the maintenance partition on ...

Page 156: ...sentative After rebooting the system an update program is started automatically from the floppy disk and the various BIOS and firmware programs are updated IMPORTANT Do not turn off the server while the update program is running If the update processing is discontinued the system becomes unable to start Help Displays explanations about various functions of NEC EXPRESSBUILDER Return to the Top Menu...

Page 157: ...ided in the PDF format Use the Adobe Acrobat Reader to read these documents Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM drive Master Control Menu appears on the screen automatically If the Autorun function is invalid in your system run the MC 1ST EXE file in the CD ROM directly Some items are grayed out when the logon user does not have the authority of the administrator or the item is no...

Page 158: ...etup the servers from NEC EXPRESSBUILDER NOTE You can install Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 without Configuration Diskette Also you can modify newly create Configuration Diskette during the setup with NEC EXPRESSBUILDER Creating Configuration Diskette This section describes about specifying setup information that is necessary for OS installation and creating Configuration Diskette Follow th...

Page 159: ...ck Create New Information files from the File menu The Disk Environment dialog box will be displayed 6 Specify each item and click OK The dialog boxes to specify setup information will be displayed in order such as Basic Information dialog box ...

Page 160: ... name for the Setup File in File Name 9 Insert the floppy disk formatted by 1 44MB into the floppy disk drive and click OK Now Configuration Diskette has been created Configuration Diskette is used when you install Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 Put a label and keep it where it will not be lost NOTE For the information on the contents of each specifying item refer to the Help If you want to m...

Page 161: ...transfer tasks Some features of ESMPRO Manager include Hardware and software server configuration Hardware resources mounted in servers such as the CPU memory disks disk arrays and LAN boards Software resources such as operating system information and drivers running on each server Server failures On screen real time displays provide the system administrator with the failure type location cause an...

Page 162: ...t Spare disks that are to be used for automatically executing Rebuild if a redundant disk array enters the Degraded state Making a consistency check on redundant disk arrays Recording HostRAID events into the event log Omitting the installation of client software into each management PC if the previously mentioned browser is installed This is because ASMBE uses the browser Internet Explorer 5 5 or...

Page 163: ... 6 15 Promise Array Management Promise Array Management is a RAID management utility for monitoring serial ATA RAID controller Refer to online documentation pdf format contained in NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM for detailed explanation ...

Page 164: ...toring and fan monitoring Enabling the settings of Write Read and Cache policies for each logical drive Supporting the save and restore functions for configuration Enabling the display of the SCSI transfer rate Components Power Console Plus consists of the following five components SNMP Agent This function is not yet supported Do not install SNMP Agent MegaRAID Service Monitor Enables NEC ESMPRO t...

Page 165: ...vice Monitor MegaRAID Server MegaRAID Client Management PC Management PC that monitors and controls servers via the network TCP IP When managing array on Terminal Server working on Windows NT Server Version 4 0 Terminal Server Edition prepare PC and install Management PC component Management PC does not guarantee operation on Client which used Terminal Server Terminal Server Emulator WBT Start Pow...

Page 166: ...e on a server Hardware Machine NEC Express5800 series connected with the AMI disk array controller A Memory Size large enough for OS operation 8MB or more Free space of the hard disk 5MB or more Display unit Screen size 1024 768 or larger Required peripheral equipment Network Interface card CD ROM unit Pointing device such as a mouse Software Microsoft Windows NT version 4 0 Windows NT Version 4 0...

Page 167: ...5800 series PC AT compatible machine which contains Intel Pentium or a CPU at least equivalent to it Memory Size large enough for OS operation 8MB or more Free space of the hard disk 5 MB or more Display unit Screen size 1024 768 or larger Required peripheral equipment Network Interface card CD ROM unit Pointing device such as a mouse Software Microsoft Windows NT Version 4 0 Windows NT Version 4 ...

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Page 169: ...onfiguration or BIOS configuration select System Information Management and then Save of the Off line Maintenance Utility to make a backup copy of the system information Also make a backup copy of the disk array configuration data if your system is in the array configuration When your hard disks have been auto rebuilt due to a failure it is recommended to make a backup copy of the configuration da...

Page 170: ...emble repair or alter the server Do not look into the CD ROM drive Do not remove the lithium battery Disconnect the power plug before working with the server CAUTION Observe the following instructions to use the server safely Failure to follow these instructions may cause a fire personal injury or property damage See pages 1 3 to 1 8 for details Avoid installation in extreme temperature conditions...

Page 171: ...erver must be kept dry Do not moisten them with water 1 Make sure that the server is off powered the POWER SLEEP lamp goes off 2 Unplug the power cord of the server from a power outlet 3 Wipe off dust from the power cord plug with a dry cloth 4 Soak a soft cloth in neutral detergent that is diluted with cold or lukewarm water and squeeze it firmly 5 Rub off stains on the server with the cloth prep...

Page 172: ...all vacuum cleaner with plastic tipped nozzle and electrostatic protection computer grade canned air and a small brush for cleaning the interior Follow the procedure below to clean the interior of the server WARNING Unplug all power cords Unplug all power cords before performing any maintenance Voltage is present inside the server and display unit even after the power is turned off All voltage is ...

Page 173: ...move it 4 Take out the ball from the mouse Cover the bottom of the mouse with your hand and turn your hand holding the mouse the mouse is on your palm with the button upward The mouse ball is released onto your palm Mouse ball cover Mouse ball Roller Bottom View 5 Soak a soft cloth in neutral detergent that is diluted with cold or lukewarm water and squeeze it firmly 6 Rub off stains on the mouse ...

Page 174: ... the tray NOTE Do not touch the signal side of the CD ROM with your hand 4 Wipe the tray with a dry soft cloth IMPORTANT Do not wipe the lens of the CD ROM drive Doing so may damage the lens and may cause a malfunction of the drive 5 Push on the tray front to close the tray 6 Wipe the signal side of the CD ROM with a dry soft cloth IMPORTANT Wipe CD ROMs from the center to the outside Use only CD ...

Page 175: ...r to diagnose the server Test Items The following items are tested in system diagnostics Memory CPU cache memory Hard disk used as a system IMPORTANT When executing the System Diagnostics make sure to remove the LAN cable Executing the System Diagnostics with the LAN cable connected the network may be influenced NOTE On checking the hard disk no data is written into the disk ...

Page 176: ...turn off the server Then unplug the power cord 2 Disconnect all the LAN cables from the server 3 Plug the power cord and turn on the server 4 Use the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM to reboot the server See the Chapter 6 NEC EXPRESSBUILDER for details The following menu appears when started the server using the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER 5 Select Tools ...

Page 177: ...00 ForceEnd 00 Guide line Test window Test result Test windows title Diagnosis tool title Diagnosis tool title shows a name of this diagnosis and Version information Test windows title shows the progress of diagnosis When it completes it shows Test End Test Result shows the information including time of start end and progress and result of the diagnosis Guide line shows a description of keys to na...

Page 178: ... Log Info shows the log information and error messages of the diagnosis it can be saved to a floppy disk To save the log information to a floppy disk insert a formatted floppy disk to a floppy disk drive and select Save F Option change where to output log Reboot Restarts the server 8 Select Reboot in the Enduser Menu above The Express Server restarts and NEC EXPRESSBUILDER boot the system 9 Exit t...

Page 179: ...eds to be relocated stored due to a change in the floor layout to a great extent contact the sales agent Make sure to make a backup copy of your valuable data in the hard disk if any Make sure not to apply a shock to hard disks to relocated the server if the contains any 1 Take a floppy disk and a CD ROM out of the server if any 2 Power off the server the POWER SLEEP lamp goes off 3 Unplug the pow...

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Page 181: ...server does not operate as expected read this chapter before assuming a failure NOTE For provision against an unexpected failure it is recommended to install the Off line Maintenance Utility NEC ESMPRO to the server and client computers ...

Page 182: ... NEC ESMPRO during the system operation Especially take note on whether any alert is reported to NEC ESMPRO Manager on the language PC Check whether any alert is reported on the Operation Window Data Viewer or Alert Viewer of NEC ESMPRO Manager Example NEC ESMPRO Manager ...

Page 183: ...tions See Chapter 2 for each location Access lamp POWER SLEEP lamp Disk access lamp LINK ACT lamp 1000 100 10 lamp FRONT REAR Access lamp Optional 5 inch file device bay and hot swap SCSI hard disk drive cage installed Disk lamps Hot swap SCSI hard disk drive cage 5 inch file device bay ...

Page 184: ...DISK ACCESS lamp indicates the state of hard disks in the hard disk drive This lamp lights in green every time any of such hard disks is accessed IMPORTANT To indicate the access states of the built in hard disks when optional board e g disk mirroring controller or disk array controller is installed connect the LED cable provided with the server to the LED connector on the mother board and the opt...

Page 185: ...ay can contain three 1 inch height SCSI hard disk drives Each hard disk drive has a DISK lamp on its front panel The DISK lamp indicates the drive status as follows Lighting green The hard disk is installed and powered on Blinking green Indicates that the hard disk is accessed Lighting amber Indicates that the installed hard disk is defected in the disk array configuration NOTE While hard disks ar...

Page 186: ...n the rebuild is terminated normally The lamp goes on amber if the rebuild fails IMPORTANT To abort rebuilding power off the server In such a case restart the server hot swap the failed hard disk and restart rebuilding Observe the following notes to use the auto rebuild feature Do not power off the server If the server is powered off before rebuilding hard disks the auto rebuild feature will not s...

Page 187: ...eyboard instruction simultaneous key entry of Ctrl Alt Delete Immediately after the system is rebooted in response to an OS instruction During hardware initialization following restart of the POST When the POST detects a hardware failure due to the above reason restart the server once again If the same error message reappears you may assume there is no hardware error To ensure normal operation of ...

Page 188: ...50 System battery is dead Replace and run SETUP Contact your service representative to replace the battery After restarting the computer start the SETUP to provide the setting again 0251 System CMOS checksum bad Default configuration used The default values have just been set Start the SETUP to provide the setting again If the error cannot be corrected contact your service representative 0252 Pass...

Page 189: ...B60 DIMM group 1 has been disabled 0B61 DIMM group 2 has been disabled 0B62 DIMM group 3 has been disabled 0B63 DIMM group 4 has been disabled Contact your service representative 0B70 The error occurred during temperature sensor reading Contact your service representative 0B71 System Temperature out of the range Contact your service representative to replace the fan 0B74 The error occurred during ...

Page 190: ... properly installed 2 Remove the DIMM once and then re install it to check if it operates normally 3 Ask your service representative to replace the failed DIMM or mother board 1 3 1 3 Keyboard controller error 1 Check if the keyboard is properly connected 2 Replace the mother board 1 3 3 1 No memory or capacity check error 1 3 4 1 DRAM address error 1 3 4 3 DRAM test Low Byte error 1 4 1 1 DRAM te...

Page 191: ...ee Configuring Mother Board Jumpers in Chapter 4 for the positions of the jumper switches Fail to power on the server T Is the server is properly supplied with power Check if the power cord is connected to a power outlet or UPS that meets the power specifications for the server Check the power cord for broken shield or bent plugs Make sure the power breaker for the connected power outlet is on If ...

Page 192: ...memory boards or PCI devices Operation of the server with unauthorized devices is not guaranteed Fail to access to internal or external devices or such devices fail to operate T Are cables properly connected Make sure that the interface cables and power cord are properly connected Also make sure that the cables are connected in the correct order T Is the power on order correct When the server has ...

Page 193: ...are correct Fail to access read or write to the floppy disk T Does the floppy disk drive contain a floppy disk Insert a floppy disk into the floppy disk drive until it clicks T Is the floppy disk write protected Place the write protect switch on the floppy disk to the Write enabled position T Is the floppy disk formatted Use a formatted floppy disk or format the floppy disk in the floppy disk driv...

Page 194: ... device applicable to the server Operation of any SCSI device that is not authorized by NEC is not guaranteed T Is the cable connection changed See Chapter 10 for cable connection T Are SCSI devices properly configured When the server has external SCSI devices connected hard disk settings including SCSI ID and terminator are required Refer to the manual that comes with the SCSI device for details ...

Page 195: ...Problems with Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Cannot install the operating system correctly T Did you confirm the notes on installing the operating system See Chapter 6 During installation the following warning is registered in the System Log of the Event Viewer Error detected on the device Device CdRom0 during the paging operation There is no problem on this issue Fail to start the OS T Is a...

Page 196: ...he OS may cause unstable operation Use the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM to update the system See Chapter 6 The system does not restart automatically when a stop error occurs though the system is adjusted to automatically restarting When the system does not restart automatically restart it manually The system restarts automatically when a stop error occurs though the system is NOT adjusted to automati...

Page 197: ...onfiguration correct The internal LAN controller may be disabled with the CMOS Setup utility of the server Check the setting with the BIOS setup utility T Have the protocol and service already configured Install the distinctive network driver for the server Make sure that the protocol such as TCP IP and services are properly specified T Is the transfer speed correct Open the network property dialo...

Page 198: ...following message appears After this message appears check the error and take the appropriate corrective action according to the message listed in the table below Message Cause and Remedy This machine is not supported This NEC EXPRESSBUILDER version is not designed for this server Execute the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER on the compliant server Hard disk access error The hard disk is not connected or it is ...

Page 199: ...t Maintenance Service Company and ask them to check the CD ROM drive Express Setup terminated and asks to input setup information There are some errors on the specified setup information Follow the instruction to input the correct value It is not necessary to cancel the installation On Windows 2000 you might be asked to press Enter again after the last reboot of the setup Complete appears on the R...

Page 200: ...in during the installation it will install the system as Workgroup Open System in Control Panel to specify joining the Domain Specified large value as partition size but when Windows 2000 is actually started the system partition is created by 4095MB Is the Partition Size specified by the value larger than the real area If you want to create one partition in all area of the hard disk excluding the ...

Page 201: ...sign Each adapter is specified so that all the installed protocols can be used The value that can not be specified during Express Setup will all be specified by default value When more than two Network adapter are specified the detailed specification of TCP IP protocol are all set to use DHCP When more than two Network adapter are specified the detailed specification of the protocol may all be set...

Page 202: ...Collecting Event Log This section describes on how to collect the log of various events that occurred on the server IMPORTANT If STOP error system error or stall occurred follow the procedure below after restarting the system 1 Click Management Tool Event Viewer from the Control Panel 2 Select the type of the log to collect On Application Log the events related to the running application is archiv...

Page 203: ...em error or stall occurred follow the procedure below after restarting the system 1 Point to Settings in Start menu and click Control Panel The Control Panel dialog box appears 2 Double click Management Tool and double click Computer Management The Computer Management dialog box appears 3 Click System Tool System Information 4 Click Save as System Information File in the Operation menu 5 Input the...

Page 204: ...t it is saved as NTBackup or ARCServe on the label You can specify the location to save the diagnostic information as you like For more information refer to Specifying Memory Dump Debug Information refer to Chapter 5 for detail IMPORTANT Consult with your sales agent before dumping the memory Dumping the memory while the server is in the successful operation may affect the system operation Restart...

Page 205: ...f your server 3 Press the RESET switch or press Ctrl Alt and Delete to reboot the server You may also turn off and then on again to reboot the server 4 When no RAID controller including embedded HostRAID feature or SCSI controller is installed in the system Proceed to step 8 according to instructions on the screen When the RAID controller including embedded HostRAID feature SCSI controller is inst...

Page 206: ...you are requested press R to select system recovery procedure 11 If you are requested select either of the procedure below Manual Recovery Press M Do not select this option unless you are a high level user or a system administrator If you use this option you can recover the problems of system files partition boot sector and start up environment Quick Recovery Press F This option is very easy to us...

Page 207: ...tion These replaced files do not reflect the changes of the configuration after the setup at all 14 Follow the instruction displayed on the screen If you take a note of any file name in which trouble is detected during the procedure it is useful to diagnose how the system has been damaged 15 Terminates the procedure if the recovery is successful You can verify that the replaced files are correctly...

Page 208: ...the server Starting the Off line Maintenance Utility The Off line Maintenance Utility may be started in the following ways From the CD ROM Set the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM in the CD ROM drive and reboot the system After the menu is displayed on the screen select Tools Off line Maintenance Utility The Off line Maintenance Utility program starts from the CD ROM From the floppy disk Set the Off line...

Page 209: ...uration data defined with the SETUP utility to a text file System Information Viewer Provides the functions to view information on the processor and the BIOS and export it to a text file System Information Management Provides the function to make a back up copy of your data Without the backup data the system specific information and or configuration may not be restored Only the authorized personne...

Page 210: ...turn on the power back again wait approximately 10 seconds after turning off the power forced shutdown IMPORTANT If the remote power on function is used cycle the power once to load the OS and turn off the power again in the normal way If the processor is heated excessively the circuit for protecting expensive components is started If so the POWER SLEEP switch cannot be used to control the power b...

Page 211: ...s or bad influences resulting from the operation of the server subject to the installation or removal NEC recommends that you request a maintenance engineer of your service representative having the expert knowledge on the server to do the installation and removal procedures Use the options and cables approved by NEC You will be charged by any repair of a malfunction fault or defect occurring in a...

Page 212: ...ir or alter the server Do not remove the lithium battery Do not look into the CD ROM drive Disconnect the power plug before working with the server CAUTION Observe the following instructions to use the server safely Failure to follow these instructions may cause a fire personal injury or property damage See pages 1 3 to 1 8 for details Avoid installation in extreme temperature conditions Make sure...

Page 213: ...atic electricity Select a suitable work space Work with the server on the anti static or concrete floor When you work with the server on a carpet where static electricity is likely to be generated make sure take anti static measures beforehand Use a work table Place the server on an anti static mat to work with it Clothe Do not wear a wool or synthetic cloth to work with the server Wear anti stati...

Page 214: ...ocedure 1 Shut down the OS 2 Press the POWER SLEEP switch to turn off the power of the server The POWER SLEEP lamp goes off 3 Pull out the power cord from the AC inlet on the server 4 Remove all the cables connected to the server on the rear panel 5 Make the clearance of 1m to 2m in the front and rear sides and left and right sides of the server ...

Page 215: ...ry to remove the right side cover Removal Remove the left side cover in the following procedure WARNING Observe the following instructions to use the server safely Failure to follow these instructions may result in death or serious personal injury See pages 1 3 to 1 8 for details Disconnect the power plug before working with the server 1 See the section Preparing for Installation and Removal descr...

Page 216: ...9 6 Upgrading Your Server 3 Loosen the two screws 4 Slide the cover backward a little 5 Hold the side cover securely to remove it ...

Page 217: ...cedure of the removal Make sure that the hooks on the side cover are inserted into the frames and holes of the server securely IMPORTANT After one or more optional devices are installed or removed completely install the removed side cover securely Hooks Holes Frame Hooks on top Hooks on bottom Insert a lock plate here Lock plate Holes ...

Page 218: ...9 8 Upgrading Your Server Secure the side cover with two screws removed in the removal procedure Screws ...

Page 219: ...ront mask 1 See the section Preparing for Installation and Removal described earlier to prepare 2 Remove the left side cover as described earlier in this chapter 3 Pull the release tabs 3 at the left end of the front mask toward you so that the tabs are removed from the frame of the server IMPORTANT If the tabs are pulled out toward you excessively the hooks fixing the right end of the front mask ...

Page 220: ...Installation The front mask can be installed in the reverse order of the removal Insert the three tabs at the right end of the front mask into the holes on the front of the server press the left end of the front mask to the server and lock the mask with the release tabs c d ...

Page 221: ...se any hard disk drive that is not authorized by NEC Installing a third party hard drive may cause a failure in the server as well as the hard disk drive Repair of any failure or damage in the server caused by such a hard disk drive will be charged All hard disk drives installed in the hard disk bay must be the same interface When installing SCSI disk drives Hard disk bay Hard disk First SCSI ID 0...

Page 222: ... hard disk 2 ID0 Top Second hard disk ID1 Middle Third hard disk ID2 Bottom 1 An optional SCSI controller or RAID controller is required for installing SCSI hard disk 2 Set the SCSI termination to OFF for all hard disks Serial ATA hard disk Hard Disk Bay to Install First hard disk Top Second hard disk Middle Third hard disk Bottom An optional RAID controller is required to install three hard disks...

Page 223: ...cable and power cord from the hard disk drive if connected 5 Loosen two screws on the front panel securing the hard disk bay 6 Loosen the screws securing the hard disk bay Only loosen the screws They may not be removed IMPORTANT Loosening the screws causes the hard disk bay to be made free Loosen the screws with the hard disk bay held so that they may not be dropped Loosen this screw ...

Page 224: ... the mother board 8 Place the hard disk bay on a flat and rigid place carefully 9 Hold the hard disk with the connector side facing toward you and the board side facing downward and then insert the hard disk into the slot slowly and gently Place the hard disk so that it is put on the craws 4 of the hard disk bay Claws to place the hard disk 4 Connector side Face down the component side ...

Page 225: ...cause the hard disk to be damaged 11 Insert the holes of the hard disk bay into the hooks of the server with making the hard disk bay contact with the frame of the server In the figure the PCI guide rail at the bottom is omitted for easy understanding IMPORTANT Be careful not to make the hard disk bay hit on any components on the mother board Screws on both sides First disk Second disk Third disk ...

Page 226: ...he server NOTES Make sure that the screw securing hooks on the hard disk bay are hang on the screws on the server Also make sure that the craws on the hard disk bay are inserted to the holes on the front of the server Make sure that all signal cables are not jammed between the server chassis and hard disk bay Hooks on which hard disk bay is hung Plate on which hard disk bay is placed Claws Server ...

Page 227: ...cables remove them Save the removed caps carefully Put the mating caps on the unused power connectors and bundle the cables with a repeat tie Locate the termination resistor at the end of the SCSI cable of the SCSI hard disk so that it may not be an obstacle 15 Connect the cooling fan cable removed in step 5 to the mother board IMPORTANT This step is important for cooling hard disks 16 Assemble th...

Page 228: ...emains written on the hard disk Data not erased completely may be restored by special software and used for unexpected purposes It is strongly recommended that the software or service both available at stores for data erasure should be used in order to avoid the trouble explained above For details on data erasure ask your sales representative 1 See the section Preparing for Installation and Remova...

Page 229: ... addition do not put the PCI board on a desk directly See Static Precautions in this chapter for details of the static electricity The long sized board full length board can be installed only to the PCI slots 2 or 3 Care must be taken to avoid damage to the components on the mother board when installing the long sized board Mother board NOTE To install the PCI board make sure the shape of the boar...

Page 230: ...SI Disk array controller Prepare the hard disk drives and cables appropriate to RAID controller to be installed Configure the Logical Settings of hard disk drive Prepare the number of hard disk drives required for desired RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Independent Disks level Making hard disks in the disk array configuration or changing the RAID level initializes hard disks If the hard disk t...

Page 231: ...RAID controller with the DISK ACCESS lamp on the front panel of the server use the LED cable that comes with your server to connect the LED connectors on the mother board and RAID controller N8103 78F Face this side upward To mother board LED cable To RAID controller LED connector Pin Black Pin Red ...

Page 232: ...9 22 Upgrading Your Server N8103 80F Use an appropriate RAID configuration utility to configure the RAID Pin Black Pin Red ...

Page 233: ...ettings of hard disk drive These boards are the output of maximum 5 V When connecting a hard disk containing the OS to the SCSI controller board install the hard disk starting from the youngest PCI slot number To indicate the access status of each hard disk drive connected to the SCSI controller with the DISK ACCESS lamp on the front panel of the server use the LED cable that comes with your serve...

Page 234: ...e of the board those of the devices connected to the board and other parameters by using the SCSI BIOS utility of the SCSI controller Refer to the document coming with the board for the details of the settings and the procedures On board components Pin Red Pin Black Pin Red Not used Pin Red Pin Black ...

Page 235: ...ers on the installed board appropriately referring to the manual provided with the board if necessary 2 See the section Preparing for Installation and Removal described earlier to prepare 3 Remove the left side cover 4 Press the tabs for the PCI board retention springs one by one to release the lock Push each tab to the depth of the server lightly and then push it to the mother board A click occur...

Page 236: ...ading Your Server 5 Remove the PCI board retention springs from the server 6 Remove the additional slot cover at the same location height as the installation slot IMPORTANT Save the removed slot cover carefully ...

Page 237: ...a long sized board align the board with the groove of the guide rail on the front of the server and then connect the board to the slot IMPORTANT If the board cannot be installed well remove the board once and then install it again Note that adding an excess force to the board may cause it to be damaged 8 Install the PCI retention springs removed in step 5 Groove for guide rail PCI guide rail Frame...

Page 238: ...enance Setting after installation Depending on the type of the installed board some settings of the server must be modified by using the proper utility such as the BIOS Setup Utility or the setup utility installed in the board after the installation Provide the settings correctly according to the information described in the manual provided with the board The server scans the PCI bus numbers in th...

Page 239: ...he PCI board retention springs following the installation steps 4 and 5 4 Remove the board 5 Install the additional slot cover and then install the PCI board retention springs following the installation steps 8 and 9 6 Assemble the server 7 Turn on the power of the server Make sure that no error message appears in the POST If an error message appears write down the message and contact the maintena...

Page 240: ...ke bare hands contact with terminals and components on the DIMM In addition do not put the DIMM on a desk directly See Static Precautions for details of the static electricity Do not use any DIMM not approved by NEC If an unapproved third party s DIMM is installed in the server not only the DIMM but also the server itself may be defected You will be charged by any repair of a malfunction or defect...

Page 241: ...idth All either single sided or dual sided Matched in both channels Populate symmetrical memory slots 1 and 3 2 and 4 Contact your sales representative or dealer for detail The following table lists an example of the relationship between the installation condition and the dual channel memory mode DIMM group Installation example Dual channel memory mode 1 2 3 4 1 Active 512MB factory installed None...

Page 242: ... and gently 4 Confirm the socket in which a DIMM is installed 5 Open the levers at both ends of the socket IMPORTANT To avoid damaging the lever do not apply an excess force to the lever NOTE Use extreme care when installing a DIMM Applying too much pressure can damage the socket Keyed DIMMs insert only one way 6 Position the DIMM so that the notch in the bottom edge of the DIMM aligns with the ke...

Page 243: ...NEC ESMPRO to identify the DIMM socket group in which the defected DIMM is installed The server operates only when at least one DIMM is installed 1 See the section Preparing for Installation and Removal described earlier to prepare 2 Remove the left side cover as described earlier in this chapter 3 Expand the levers at the both ends of the socket for the DIMM to be removed leftward or rightward Th...

Page 244: ...ed the file bay NOTES If a SCSI device is installed the optional SCSI controller board and built in SCSI cable are required See CABLE CONNECTIONS for details To install the DVD RAM and AIT IDE drives change the cable to the IDE cable 2 steps provided with the device Save the removed cable carefully In addition set the operation mode as follows Refer to the manuals provided with the DVD RAM and AIT...

Page 245: ... built in SCSI cable set the termination resistance to ON 2 See the section Preparing for Installation and Removal described earlier to prepare 3 Remove the left side cover and front mask as described earlier in this chapter 4 Remove all the cables from the normally equipped CD ROM and floppy disk drives and the devices installed in the device bay 5 Remove the screws securing the hard disk bay 6 P...

Page 246: ...rver 8 Push the tabs on the both sides of the dummy cover to remove the cover IMPORTANT Save the removed dummy cover carefully 9 Remove the EMI cover IMPORTANT Save the removed EMI cover carefully Dummy cover for device bay ...

Page 247: ...e to secure it If not use the screws provided with the server Using screws longer than the required length may cause the device to be damaged Align the front face of the device to be installed with the front face of the normally equipped CD ROM drive When installing a device that has a protrusion on its front face such as a cover it may interference with the front bezel In such case install a devi...

Page 248: ...installed from one side of the server See CABLE CONNECTIONS described later for details IMPORTANT Use the built in IDE interface cable for connecting the IDE file device NOTE Connect the interface cable of the floppy disk drive so that the end with the red line indicating pin 1 faces the mother board Left side viewed from the front Bottom Top CD ROM drive Floppy disk drive Red line ...

Page 249: ...s NOTE Depending on the SCSI cable the number of connectors varies Connect the connector nearest to the end to the first disk the next connector to the second disk and so on 16 Install the device driver for the installed device Refer to the manual provided with the device for details Removal The file device can be removed in the reverse order of the installation If the device is removed but not in...

Page 250: ...ht devices one slim CD ROM drive and one 3 5 inch floppy disk drive NOTE 5 25 inch device bay can include two SCSI file devices or one SCSI device and one IDE device If you install the IDE file device install the device to the slot 2 see figure below Slim CD ROM drive 5 25 inch device bay Slot 1 Slot 2 Floppy disk drive ...

Page 251: ...m the server See File Device described earlier in this chapter 2 Remove the four screws securing the floppy disk drive to the standard file bay IMPORTANT Save the screws for installation procedure 3 Pull the floppy disk drive out of the standard file bay IMPORTANT Save the standard file bay for future use Floppy disk drive ...

Page 252: ...wo screws on the both sides of the 5 inch file bay see figure below 5 Pull the floppy disk drive carrier out of the 5 inch file bay 6 Place the floppy disk drive into the floppy disk drive carrier see figure below Floppy disk drive carrier ...

Page 253: ... the carrier upside down 8 Line up the screw holes in the carrier with the screw holes in the drive 9 Fix the floppy disk drive with four screws removed in Step 2 10 Connect the power relay cable to the CD ROM drive 11 Slide the floppy disk drive carrier into the 5 inch file bay ...

Page 254: ... Step 4 13 Install the 5 25 inch file device s into the 5 inch file bay Refer to File Device described earlier in this chapter for installation procedures NOTE Fix the installed file device as shown in the figure below 14 Insert the file bay into the server Push the file bay until a click occurs to lock it Slot 1 Slot 2 ...

Page 255: ...stalled set the parameters including the transmission rate using the BIOS utility of the SCSI controller Refer to the manual provided with the SCSI controller for details NOTE Depending on the SCSI cable the number of connectors varies Connect the connector nearest to the end to the first disk the next connector to the second disk and so on 18 Install the device driver for the installed device Ref...

Page 256: ...n Refer to File Device described earlier in this chapter for installation procedures For detail connector location on the back of the cage refer to the manual that comes with the cage After installing the cage install the hard disk drive according to the instruction described in the manual that comes with the cage IMPORTANT To keep the cooling effeciency always install the drive carrier to the vac...

Page 257: ...Chapter 10 Internal Cabling Diagrams Internal cable connections of the server are shown below NOTE Refer to Chapter 2 for detail connector locations on the mother board ...

Page 258: ...k is added is described below IMPORTANT Your server can contain a maximum of three hard disk drives All the hard disk drives installed in your server must be the same interface Installation of SCSI Disks If SCSI hard disks are added connect the cables as shown in the figure below the number of connectors varies depending on the type of the SCSI cable Install the hard disks in the order of SCSI ID0...

Page 259: ...3 Installation of SATA Disks If the serial ATA SATA hard disks are added connect the cables as shown in the figure below Fill the drive bay with the hard disk drives from the top to bottom bay Optional serial ATA cable is required ...

Page 260: ...array is an integer multiple of the capacity of a connected hard disk RAID1 mirroring The hard disk drives are paired and mirrored All data is 100 percent duplicated on a drive of equivalent size IMPORTANT Because data is read to or written from two hard disks concurrently the disk access performance is lower than that of the configuration using only a single disk The logical capacity of the array...

Page 261: ...ORTANT Use hard disks with the same capacity and performance Purchase the power cables separately To indicate the access status of the internal hard disks connect the LED cable provided with the server to the LED connector on the mother board and the disk array controller SATA The RAID configuration utility and RAID management utility are attached to the optional board Refer to the manual that com...

Page 262: ... disk drives The disk array controller does not connect with the optional external SCSI drive enclosure RAID0 striping RAID0 provides block striping across multiple drives yielding higher performance than is possible with individual drives This level does not provide any redundancy IMPORTANT If either of the two hard disks configuring the array is defected the data cannot be recovered The logical ...

Page 263: ...t two hard disks are required Use the SCSI cables sold separately for the connection In the figure below the number of connectors varies depending on the type of the SCSI cable If the optional hot swap SCSI hard disk drive cage is installed in the server connect the SCSI cable to the back of the optional hot swap SCSI hard disk drive cage Connect the LED cable provided with the server to the LED c...

Page 264: ...s are installed the SCSI controller built in the server can be connected to the SCSI device through the hard disks However the SCSI controller and the SCSI cable used for the connection is sold separately Set the SCSI ID of the SCSI device to 0 If the SCSI cable sold separately has the connector for terminating the SCSI connection make the termination setting of the 5 25 inch device invalid Standa...

Page 265: ...SI disks are installed and the SCSI device is desired to be controlled by a controller other than that for the hard disks the optional SCSI controller and internal SCSI cable are required The installed SCSI controller can be connected with both internal and external SCSI devices ...

Page 266: ...10 10 Internal Cabling Diagrams The SCSI controller is connected with the 5 25 inch device as shown in the figure below Standard configuration ...

Page 267: ...evice to 0 If the SCSI cable sold separately has the connector for terminating the SCSI connection make the termination setting of the 5 25 inch device invalid SCSI cables sold separately are required for external devices Set the SCSI ID of each device uniquely Connect the terminator to the device at the end ...

Page 268: ...f IDE Device If an IDE device such as a DVD RAM drive is installed use the IDE cable provided with the IDE device Remove the cable connected to the CD ROM drive and save it carefully Standard configuration Optional 5 inch file device bay installed ...

Page 269: ...ing Diagrams 10 13 POWER CABLES An example of the power cable connection is shown in the figure below The server only uses the power cables shown here Standard configuration Optional 5 inch file device bay installed ...

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Page 271: ... disk bay 1 slot A 1 44MB floppy disk drive is factory installed Additional PCI slot 5 slots 1 slot for PCI Express 2 slots for 64bit 100MHz 2 slots for 32bit 33MHz Disk array Standard SATA controller Option SCSI RAID controller Keyboard MINI DIN 6 pin connector 1 port Mouse MINI DIN 6 pin connector 1 port USB 4 pin 2 ports Serial D sub 9 pin 1 port Parallel IEEE1284 standard D sub 25 pin 1 port N...

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Page 273: ...mes with the server contains the NEC ESMPRO utility NEC recommends that you should install the NEC ESMPRO for effective use of the reliability enhancement features of the server Floppy Disk The following describes use of the floppy disk Floppy disk type The server uses 3 5 inch floppy disks You can use the following two types of 3 5 inch floppy disks 2HD floppy disk double sided high density track...

Page 274: ...e the floppy disk in a dusty place Do not place anything on the floppy disk Do not leave the floppy disk in a high temperature place e g place exposed to direct sunlight or close to a heater Do not leave the floppy disk with foods and drinks or in a place exposed to cigarette smoke Do not leave the floppy disk near any form of liquid or a chemical or in a place where a chemical may be accidentally...

Page 275: ...ng system IMPORTANT Formatting a used floppy disk clears all the data contained in it if any Formatting a floppy disk from the DOS command line is not available with the server Use a formatted floppy disk to work with it on the DOS command line The format method depends on your operating system Refer to the manual that comes with your operating system for details Data backup Data backup is to copy...

Page 276: ...edge with a dry soft cloth slowly and gently Use the CD cleaner to clean the CD ROM Do not use record spray cleaner benzene or thinner Keep the CD ROM in a CD ROM case when not in use Tape Media The following describes data handling with the DAT DLT or AIT optionally available for the server Saving your valuable data When you save your valuable data or programs into the cartridge tape you should s...

Page 277: ...ering alphanumeric characters or symbols IMPORTANT Do not pour any liquid such as water or put anything into the keyboard Doing so may cause a failure of the keyboard The keyboard provided with the server is designed for adjustment of an angle Adjust the keyboard angle at which the keyboard is easy to operate The adjustment assists in reducing strain on your shoulders arms and fingers NOTE The key...

Page 278: ...the mouse on a dusty or dirty desk disturbs smooth movement or normal operation of the mouse When your mouse movement seems dull clean your mouse See Chapter 7 Mouse operation includes Click Double click and Drag Click Press the button only once and release it Double click Press the button twice consecutively and release it Drag Press and hold the button and move the mouse Operation of the server ...

Page 279: ...stem timer 8 Real time clock 1 Keyboard 9 PCI 2 Cascaded connection 10 PCI 3 COM B 11 PCI 4 COM A 12 Mouse 5 PCI 13 Numeric processor 6 Floppy disk 14 Primary IDE 7 PCI 15 Secondary IDE PIRQ and PCI Device The factory set PCI device interrupts are assigned as follows Menu Option Interrupt Recommended PCI IRQ 1 LAN 1 IRQ 7 PCI IRQ 2 LAN 2 IRQ 7 PCI IRQ 3 Auto Select PCI IRQ 4 USB ports 1 and 2 IRQ ...

Page 280: ...Timer 1 60 Keyboard mouse 61 System speaker 64 Keyboard mouse 70 71 Real time clock Non maskable interrupt 81 8F C0 DF DMA1 DMA2 A0 A1 Interrupt controller 2 F0 FE Coprocessor 170 177 IDE secondary bus 1F0 1F7 IDE primary bus 3B0 3BB 3C0 3DF VGA 3F0 3F7 Floppy disk controller1 IDE controller 1 3F8 3FF Serial port 1 378 37F Printer port 4000 403F Network port E000 EFFF PCIe root port Hexadecimal no...

Page 281: ...he NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM attached to your system supports the following optional boards Raid Controller and SCSI Controller N8103 65F SCSI Controller N8103 75 SCSI Controller N8103 78F Disk Array Controller N8103 80F Disk Array Controller S ATA HostRAID Installing Service Pack You can install the Service Pack on the server When the Service Pack is not attached to your system prepare it by your...

Page 282: ...on Manual Installation when N8103 65F 80F Keeps Connection If you keep those controllers connecting during installation process pop up messages may appear This does not affect on system behavior Click YES and continue the installation Follow the message hereafter MO Device If you specify the file system as NTFS with MO Device connected during the installation the file system will not be converted ...

Page 283: ...file size The dump file size for the system with more than 2GB memory mounted is 2048MB 12MB If you install any application program or the like add necessary space to the partition to install these programs For example if installed memory size is 512MB the minimum required partition size is 2900MB 512MB 1 5 512MB 12MB 4192MB Dividing into the partition of the recommended size into multiple disks a...

Page 284: ...owing two procedures Create from the menu which appears when running NEC Express5800 Server with NEC EXPRESSBUILDER If you have only NEC Express5800 Server to create Windows Server 2003 OEM DISK for NEC EXPRESSBUILDER use this procedure If Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 can be operated on NEC Express5800 Server you can use the other procedure described later Follow the steps below 1 Prepare o...

Page 285: ...XPRESSBUILDER from Master Control Menu if you have the computer on which the above operating systems operate Follow the steps below 1 Prepare one 3 5 inch floppy disk 2 Run the operating system 3 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM drive of the server Master Control Menu will appear 4 Click on Setup with left mouse button and click Make OEM DISK and then for Windows Server 2003 NO...

Page 286: ...luding embedded HostRAID feature or SCSI controller is installed in the system press F6 in a few seconds when the window is in either of the following states Setup is inspecting your computer s hardware configuration is displayed A screen with a solid blue background is displayed IMPORTANT There is no visible indication on screen when F6 has been pressed 5 When the following message is displayed p...

Page 287: ...ards WinXP Server 2003 IA 32 When N8103 75F board is installed Win NET Promise FastTrak S150 SX4 tm Controller When N8103 78F board is installed Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Controller When HostRAID is installed Continue performing tasks according to the subsequent messages that appear After installation is completed be sure to execute the tasks described in Driver Installation and Advance...

Page 288: ...the Windows Server 2003 CD ROM in CD ROM drive 6 If the RAID controller including embedded HostRAID feature is installed in the system press F6 while a message Setup is inspecting your computer s hardware configuration is on the screen IMPORTANT There is no visible indication on screen when F6 has been pressed 7 When the following message is displayed press S Setup could not determine the type of ...

Page 289: ...F If your system has a controller N8103 56F following message often appears on the display during the upgrade installation to Windows Server 2003 Please type D i386 and click OK D CD Drive Insert disk The file adpu160m sys on Adaptec Windows 2000 Family Manager set V1 12 S2 is needed Type the path where the file is located and then click OK If PROSet is already installed uninstall the PROSet befor...

Page 290: ... which you want to install the operating system when the following message appears The following list shows the existing partitions and unpartitioned space on this computer Use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to select an item in the list Cannot modify the drive letter of your system or boot volume Confirm the proper drive letter is assigned and then continue the setup 3 Continue the clean installation...

Page 291: ... 2 Specify the Disk Management in the left side of the window 3 Right click the volume you want to modify the drive letter and specify the Change Drive Letter and Path 4 Click Yes 5 Choose the Assign a drive letter and specify the drive letter you want to assign 6 Click OK 7 If the following message appears click Yes Changing the drive letter of a volume may cause programs to no longer run Are you...

Page 292: ...l Menu is automatically appeared on the screen 3 Click on Setup with left mouse button and click on Update NEC Express5800 system section 4 Continue your work for system update as the following message 5 Click on Restart Computer to restart the system 6 Remove the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM from the CD ROM drive immediately after clicking on Restart Computer IMPORTANT If you change the configuratio...

Page 293: ...erant environment on any trouble and enhance throughput between the switches PROSet is necessary to utilize these features Follow the procedure below to install PROSet 1 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM drive 2 The Windows Explorer dialog starts The procedure in the case of the standard start menu Click Start menu and click Windows Explorer The procedure in the case of the clas...

Page 294: ...box for network adapter appears 3 Click the Advanced and specify the Link Speed Duplex value the same as the value specified for HUB 4 Click OK on the property dialog box for network adapter When PROSet is installed 1 The Intel R PROSet for Wired Connections dialog box appears The procedure in the case of the standard start menu Click Start menu point to Control Panel and click Intel PROSet The pr...

Page 295: ...nted will be installed automatically The following is the procedure when it is necessary to install manually If you want to utilize optional Graphics Accelerator Driver board follow the document attached to the board to install the driver 1 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM drive 2 Click Start menu point to Programs Accessories and click Windows Explorer 3 Run SETUP EXE in the f...

Page 296: ...nd click Next 5 Select Don t search I will choose the driver to install and click Next 6 Click Have Disk 7 Insert Windows Server 2003 OEM DISK for NEC EXPRESSBUILDER into the floppy disk drive enter a into copy manufacturer s file from and click OK 8 Specify the following driver and click Next INITIO INI A10XU2W PCI SCSI Controller When N8103 65F board is installed Adaptec SCSI Card 29320ALP Ultra...

Page 297: ...BUILDER CD ROM attached to your system supports the following optional boards Raid Controller and SCSI Controller N8103 65F SCSI Controller N8103 75 SCSI Controller N8103 78F Disk Array Controller N8103 80F Disk Array Controller S ATA HostRAID Installing Service Pack You can install the Service Pack on the server When the Service Pack is not attached to your system prepare it by yourself Updating ...

Page 298: ... OS had been installed as the partition to install the OS newly Select Use the current File System for the format of OS partition MO Device If you specify the file system as NTFS with MO Device connected during the installation the file system will not be converted normally Disconnect MO Device and restart the installation from the beginning Media such as DAT During the OS installation do not atta...

Page 299: ...ize The dump file size for the system with more than 2GB memory mounted is 2048MB 12MB If you install any application program or the like add necessary space to the partition to install these programs For example if installed memory size is 512MB the minimum required partition size is 1000MB 512MB 1 5 512MB 12 2292MB Dividing into the partition of the recommended size into multiple disks as writte...

Page 300: ...dures Create from the menu which appears when running NEC Express5800 Server with NEC EXPRESSBUILDER If you have only NEC Express5800 Server to create Windows 2000 OEM DISK for NEC EXPRESSBUILDER use this procedure If Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 can be operated on NEC Express5800 Server you can use the other procedure described later Follow the steps below 1 Prepare one 3 5 inch floppy dis...

Page 301: ...SSBUILDER from Master Control Menu if you have the computer on which the above operating systems operate Follow the steps below 1 Prepare one 3 5 inch floppy disk 2 Run the operating system 3 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM drive of the server Master Control Menu will appear 4 Click on Setup with left mouse button and click Make OEM DISK and then for Windows 2000 NOTE You can ...

Page 302: ...d HostRAID feature or SCSI controller is installed in the system press F6 in a few seconds when the window is in either of the following states Setup is inspecting your computer s hardware configuration is displayed A screen with a solid blue background is displayed IMPORTANT There is no visible indication on screen when F6 has been pressed 5 When the following message is displayed press S Setup c...

Page 303: ...ings and Updating the System of this manual Reinstallation to Multiple Logical Drives This subsection describes the procedure for reinstalling the operation system if the multiple logical drives exist Before Re installing the Operation System Be sure to make backup copies before re installing the operation system just in case Re installing the Operation System 1 Start the clean installation follow...

Page 304: ...oot volume cannot modify with the following procedure 1 Click Start menu right click My Computer and specify Manage to start Computer Management 2 Specify the Disk Management in the left side of the window 3 Right click the volume you want to modify the drive letter and specify the Change Drive Letter and Path 4 Click Yes 5 Choose the Assign a drive letter and specify the drive letter you want to ...

Page 305: ...r Control Menu is automatically appeared on the screen 3 Click on Setup with left mouse button and click on Update NEC Express5800 system section 4 Continue your work for system update as the following message 5 Click on Restart Computer to restart the system 6 Remove the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM from the CD ROM drive immediately after clicking on Restart Computer IMPORTANT If you change the conf...

Page 306: ... test and so on Specify teaming Configuring several network adapters as one team provides the server an environment tolerant on any trouble and enhance through put between the switches PROSet is necessary to utilize these features Follow the procedure below to install PROSet 1 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM drive 2 Click Start menu point to Program Accessory and click Explore...

Page 307: ...ry You can operate the process from Network and Dial up Connection to display the property dialog box for local area network NOTE We recommend you to add Network Monitor at AddingServices Network Monitor can monitor the frame or the packet that the computer installing Network Monitor sends or receives This tool is valuable when analyzing network trouble For information on how to install the tool s...

Page 308: ... for a suitable driver for my device recommended radio button is selected and click Next 4 Select the Specify a location check box and deselect other check boxes Click Next 5 Other Upgrade Device Driver Wizard dialog box opens When using Intel R PRO 1000 MT Network Connection specify CD ROM drive letter WINNT W2K BC5 PRO1000 WIN2K Then click OK 6 Click Next 7 Click Finished After re installing the...

Page 309: ...e 2 Click Start menu point to Programs Accessories and click Windows Explorer 3 Run SETUP EXE in the following directory CD ROM Drive Letter WINNT VIDEO INTEL SETUP EXE 4 Follow the message to continue the installation If the dialog message Digital Signature could not been found appears select Yes to continue 5 Remove the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM from the CD ROM drive follow the direction on the ...

Page 310: ...nd click Next 5 Select Don t search I will choose the driver to install and click Next 6 Click Have Disk 7 Insert Windows 2000 OEM DISK for NEC EXPRESSBUILDER into the floppy disk drive enter a into copy manufacturer s file from and click OK 8 Specify the following driver and click Next INITIO INI A10XU2W PCI SCSI Controller When N8103 65F board is installed Adaptec SCSI Card 29320ALP Ultra320 SCS...

Page 311: ...te Installed 4 Size Serial No Date Installed Monitor Type Model name Serial No Date Installed Hard Disk Bay 1 Type Serial No Capacity Date Installed Type number Bay 2 Type Serial No Capacity Date Installed Type number Bay 3 Type Serial No Capacity Date Installed Type number Hard Disk optional SCSI controller installed Bay 1 ID0 Type Serial No Capacity Date Installed Type number Bay 2 ID1 Type Seri...

Page 312: ...ot 2 Model name Serial No Date Installed PCI Slot 3 Model name Serial No Date Installed PCI Slot 4 Model name Serial No Date Installed PCI Slot 5 Model name Serial No Date Installed AGP Board Slot Model name Serial No Date Installed Printer Model name Serial No Manufacturer Date Installed Additional Cabinet for Disk Model name Serial No Date Installed External Peripheral Device 1 Model name Serial...

Page 313: ...ble F 3 Software Firmware version OS Name Version Application of RUR media Apply Name Version File system FAT HPFS NTFS Others Bundled software installed Licensed software installed Application running when a failure occurred Remarks ...

Page 314: ...F 4 Product Configuration Record Table This page is intentionally left blank ...

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