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Summary of Contents for Express5800-i120Ra-e1

Page 1: ...N8100 1452F 1453F NEC Express5800 i120Ra e1 User s Guide 1st Edition 6 2008 ONL 510_007_02 i120Ra e1 000 99 0806 ...

Page 2: ...he 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 ...

Page 3: ... cause minor personal injury including 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 prohib...

Page 4: ...e Indicates a general notice or warning that cannot be specifically identified 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 may be caused Indicates a mandatory act...

Page 5: ...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 Warning This is a Class A product In domestic environment this product may cause radio interference in which case the user may...

Page 6: ...er 2003 stands for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition operating system and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition operating system or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition operating system and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition operating system Windows XP x64 Edition stands for Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating system 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: ...w to configure the system and provides instructions for running the BIOS SETUP Utility and the RAID configuration utility which is used to configure RAID drives in your system 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 descr...

Page 9: ...ntions The following conventions are used throughout this 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 th...

Page 10: ...1 12 Transfer to Third Party 1 13 Disposal and Consumables 1 14 User Support 1 15 Chapter 2 General Description 2 1 Overview 2 2 System Chassis 2 3 Front View 2 3 Rear View 2 5 Internal View 2 6 Mother Board Backplane Board 2 7 Standard Features 2 8 Remote Power On Feature Wake On LAN 2 9 AC LINK Feature 2 9 Security 2 9 NEC EXPRESSBUILDER 2 10 NEC ESMPRO 2 10 Maintenance Tools 2 11 System Diagnos...

Page 11: ...8 RAID System Configuration 4 28 RAID 4 28 Configuration by Onboard RAID Controller 4 33 Setup Utility 4 35 LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility and Universal RAID Utility 4 48 Configuring Mother Board Jumpers 4 51 Chapter 5 Installing the Operating System with Express Setup 5 1 About Express Setup 5 2 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 5 3 Notes on Windows Installation 5 3 Flow of Setup 5 9 Install...

Page 12: ...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 Disc 7 6 System Diagnostics 7 7 Test Items 7 7 Startup and Exit of System Diagnostics 7 8 Relocating Storing The Server 7 11 Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 8 1 System Viewers 8 2 LED 8 3 POWER LED 8 3 STATUS LED 8 3 DISK ACCESS LED 8 5 UID LED Unit Identification 8 5 ACT ...

Page 13: ...ions and Windows Server 2003 8 31 Maintenance Tools 8 32 Starting Maintenance Tools 8 32 Function of Maintenance Tools 8 34 Maintenance Tools with Remote Console 8 36 Resetting the Server 8 38 Forced Shutdown 8 38 Chapter 9 Upgrading Your Server 9 1 Safety Notes 9 2 Static Precautions 9 3 Preparing for Installation and Removal 9 4 Device Installation or Removal Procedure 9 7 Hard Disk Drive 9 7 DI...

Page 14: ... for EXPRESSBUILDER D 5 Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions Clean Installation D 7 Reinstallation to Multiple Logical Drives D 9 Procedure for License Authentication D 10 Updating the System Applying Service Pack D 11 Driver Installation and Advanced Settings D 16 PROSet D 16 Adapter Fault Tolerance AFT Adaptive Load Balancing ALB D 18 Network Driver D 20 Re install the Network Driver D 21 Optional N...

Page 15: ...tion to Multiple Logical Drives E 11 Re installing the Operation System if Multiple Logical Drives Exist E 13 Procedure for License Authentication E 14 Updating the System Applying Service Pack E 14 Driver Installation and Advanced Settings E 20 PROSet E 20 Network Driver E 21 Re install the Network Driver E 22 Adapter Fault Tolerance AFT Adaptive Load Balancing ALB E 22 Graphics Accelerator Drive...

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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: ... 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 service representative Attached to the bottom of chassis ...

Page 19: ...t needles or metal objects into ventilation holes in the server or openings in the floppy disk or optical disk drive Doing so may cause an electric shock Do not use the server in any unapproved place Install the server on a standard EIA 19 inch rack assembly Do not install the rack containing the server in a place inappropriate to the rack installation environment Failure to follow these instructi...

Page 20: ...reign matter e g pins or paper clips enter the server Failure to follow this warning may cause an electric shock a fire or a failure of the server When such things accidentally enter the server immediately turn off the power and disconnect the power plug from the outlet Do not disassemble the server Contact your service representative ...

Page 21: ... trays for the rack Failure to follow this instruction may cause some parts to fall to be broken and or to result in personal injury Insert hinges completely When installing the rack door make sure that hinge pins at top and bottom of the door are completely inserted into the rack Failure to follow this instruction may cause the door to fall to be broken and or to result in personal injury Do not ...

Page 22: ...ifications of your server may heat up the cord and cause a fire Do not connect the power cord to an outlet that has an illegal number of connections The electric current exceeding the rated flow overheats the outlet which may cause a fire Do not pull the cable when disconnecting it When disconnecting the cable from the device hold the cable connector and pull it straight out Pulling the cable out ...

Page 23: ... the power cord Do not place any object on the power cord Do not bundle power cords Do not alter modify or repair the power cord Do not secure the power cord with staples or equivalents Do not use any damaged power cord Replace a damaged power cord with a new one of the same specifications Ask your service representative for replacement Do not use the attached power cord for any other devices or u...

Page 24: ...odium chloride or conductive metals There is a risk of a fire due to corrosion and shorts of an internal printed board Pay attention not to drop the server Firmly hold the bottom of the server when installing it in the rack The rack mount bracket has no stopper or lock mechanism to prevent the server from falling down Failure to follow this instruction may cause personal injury Do not leave the de...

Page 25: ...ernal device cable or connector may cause an electric shock or a fire resulted from a short circuit Do not use any unauthorized interface cable Use only interface cables provided by NEC and locate a proper device and connector before connecting a cable Using an authorized cable or connecting a cable to an improper destination may cause a short circuit resulting in a fire Also observe the following...

Page 26: ...r 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 be generated if condensation is formed on a dusty plug which may cause a...

Page 27: ...If it starts thundering before you disconnect the power plug do not touch any part of the server including the cables Failure to follow this warning may cause a fire or an electric shock Keep animals away from the server Failure to follow this warning may cause a fire or an electric shock Do not pull out or remove the server from the rack unnecessarily Do not pull out or remove the server from the...

Page 28: ...pushing the catch with a standard screwdriver At this time be very careful for the screwdriver not to damage the LAN port or other ports Check and adjust the system clock before the operation if any of the following conditions is applicable After carriage of device After storage of device After the device is entered into the pause state under the environmental condition enduring device operation t...

Page 29: ...ns written on the hard disk drive 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 ap...

Page 30: ... be restored Your server contains some components that are only good for a limited period of time and require replacement such as fans internal batteries and the mouse For stable operation of the server NEC recommends you replace these components on a regular basis Consult with your service representative for replacement or the product lives WARNING Do not remove the lithium battery Your server co...

Page 31: ...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 service representative immediately Take notes on LED indications of the server and alarm indications on the display unit before consultation which may provide a ...

Page 32: ... 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 33: ...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 34: ... rack assembly As application requirements increase you can expand your server with an additional memory add in boards and peripheral devices tape devices optical disk drive and hard disk drives The server features the following major components A high performance Quad Core or Dual Core Intel Xeon processor Up to 24GB of memory using 4GB DIMMs Minimum configuration is 1GB of memory Dual channel me...

Page 35: ... blue This LED goes on when the UID switch is pressed The LED also goes on or blinks when software issues a command 5 STATUS LED green amber on the front panel This LED indicates the server status The LED is green during normal operation The LED blinks amber or turns off when the server enters the abnormal state 6 Serial port B COM B connector The connector is used to connect the server to a devic...

Page 36: ...ystem This switch can be used as a SLEEP switch if the OS supports sleep feature In SLEEP Mode this LED blinks 11 NMI DUMP switch Press this switch to dump system memory In normal operation this switch is not used 12 Hard disk drive bays Up to three hard disk drives can be installed in the bays The last digit number indicates the channel number In the standard configuration the dummy sponge blocks...

Page 37: ...nector 2 7 1000 100 10 LED This LED indicates the transfer rate of LAN port 8 PCI board extension slot Install the optional PCI board into these slots 8 1 Low profile PCI board 8 2 Full height PCI board 9 Keyboard connector The connector is used to connect a PS 2 keyboard 10 Serial port COM A connector The connector is used to connect a device with the serial interface 11 Monitor connector The con...

Page 38: ...ast digit number indicates the drive bay number Hard disk drive is optional 3 Backplane board 4 Cooling fan The last digit number indicates the fan number 5 Power supply unit 6 DIMM 7 Heat sink 8 Air duct 9 PCI riser card 10 Mother board 1 2 1 2 2 2 3 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 4 11 4 9 4 7 4 3 4 5 ...

Page 39: ...tom 11 Speaker 3 2 Hard disk drive configuration jumper 12 Front panel board connector 13 USB connector With N8103 116 117 118 use setting for SATA HDD LED 14 USB connector for internal option SATA HDD LED SAS HDD LED 15 Serial port B COM B connector 16 Lithium battery 17 SW RAID jumper switch 3 3 RAID configuration jumper Non RAID SW RAID DAC Board 3 Enable Disable 2 1 3 2 1 18 SGPIO1 connector 1...

Page 40: ...s x4 1 slot x8 connector Or with optional riser card installed PCI Express x8 1 slot PCI X 64 bit 133 MHz 1 slot Large memory of up to 24GB six 4GB DIMMs USB interface USB 2 0 Two LAN ports Many Available Features Management Utilities Power switch mask feature Software power off feature Remote power on feature AC LINK feature Remote console feature IPMI v2 0 compliant Baseboard Management Controll...

Page 41: ...turned off breaker disconnected power cord power blackout etc AC LINK Feature When the power cord of the server is connected to an uninterruptible power supply UPS unit the server supports the power linkage feature that enables control over the power supply from the UPS to the server The AC LINK feature can be enabled or disabled with Power Management Setup in the Server menu of the BIOS setup uti...

Page 42: ...es the several resources of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 See Chapter 6 To install the utilities NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD includes some management software for Windows NEC ESMPRO NEC DianaScope and so on You can install the applications for Windows from Windows Autorun Menu See Chapter 6 To read the online documents You can refer to the online documents from Windows Autorun Menu See Chapter 6 These ...

Page 43: ...er supply unit Monitoring of hard disk drives Generation of SEL system event log at occurrence of hardware failure Monitoring of the system management watchdog timer Monitoring of the periodic SMI timer Remote management by using Web browser and Telnet SSH client e g resetting the server power on off viewing System Event Log SEL Remote KVM and remote device features A separately priced remote mana...

Page 44: ...Switch Use the POWER switch to turn on off the server Power On Press the POWER switch on the front of the computer chassis The POWER LED 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 until characters appear on the screen POWER switch POWER LE...

Page 45: ...results Check messages that POST displays when you use the NEC Express server for the first time the server appears to fail the server beeps for many times between power on and OS start up an error message appears on the display unit POST Execution Flow The following describes the progress of POST in the chronological order IMPORTANT Do not make key entries or perform mouse operations while POST i...

Page 46: ...gnore the message POST will automatically proceed To launch the BIOS setup utility press F2 while the above message is displayed See Chapter 4 for setup and parameters The server automatically restarts POST all over again when you exit the BIOS setup utility 4 If the Onboard RAID Controller LSI Embedded MegaRAID is enabled the following message is displayed on the screen to prompt you to run the R...

Page 47: ...error it displays an error message on the display unit screen or emits beep code See Chapter 8 for POST error codes IMPORTANT Take a note on the messages displayed before consulting with your service representative Alarm messages are useful information for maintenance ...

Page 48: ... state that hardly consumes electric power if the ACPI compliant operating system is installed in your system Select Standby from OS shutdown menu or press the POWER switch if the standby state is enabled for POWER switch The POWER LED blinks In the power saving mode the server retains the memory data and the status of the previous operations To resume the original state press the POWER switch aga...

Page 49: ...witch is pressed It goes off when the switch is pressed again The UID LED blinks upon reception of command from software Maintenance from the rear of the rack has to be carried out in a dark narrow space The interface cable of a server or power supply unit in normal state may be disconnected by accident in this situation To prevent this problem you should start maintenance after confirming the tar...

Page 50: ... Disk Drive Your server is not equipped with the optical disk drive CD DVD drive You may use the external USB drive to read or write data from to the disc Refer to the manual that comes with the optical disk drive for more information ...

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

Page 52: ... 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 DVD See Chapter 6 Making backup...

Page 53: ...he ground line to a gas pipe 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 11 for details Do not carry or install the server only by a single person Do not install the server where the load may be concentrated on a specific point Do not install any component on the serv...

Page 54: ...ce generating intense magnetic field such as a TV radio broadcast communication antenna power transmission wire and electromagnetic crane is placed If unavoidable contact your service representative to request proper shield construction Place where the power cord of the server must be connected to an AC outlet that shares the outlet of another device with large power consumption Place near equipme...

Page 55: ... details Do not use any rack which does not conform to the relevant standard Always use the server in the specified place 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 11 for details Do not install remove the server in from the rack only by a single person Do not instal...

Page 56: ...erver in the rack Preparation for installation When shipped from factory the left and right slide rails are fixed with tapes at the front and side faces to prevent from falling off during transportation Peel off the tape before you install the server in the rack Removing rail assemblies 1 Remove the sliding rails from left and right sides of the server Tape ...

Page 57: ...toward the rear of the server 3 Only the inner rails remain screwed to the server when the rail assemblies have been removed IMPORTANT The removed rail assemblies are to be installed on the inner rails later Be very careful not to get your finger caught in the levers or rails Press this button to unlock the server Inner rail ...

Page 58: ...he right side front of the rack Install the rail assemblies to the right side rear and left side front and rear of the rack in the same procedure Make sure that the rail assembly is installed at the same level as the other slide rail assembly already installed NOTES There may be some backlashes in the front and rear however it is not a deficiency Make sure that the rail assembly is surely locked t...

Page 59: ... not lift the server only by a single person Do not pinch your finger with mechanical components 1 At least two persons are required to install the server Securely hold the server and install it in the rack Slowly and carefully push the inner rails on the sides of the server into the rail assemblies that are installed on the rack When the server is completely pushed into the rack the server is loc...

Page 60: ...ion is incomplete either of rails may not go further on its way In such a case pull out the server completely until it is locked Then push the server in while unlocking the right and left sides of it 2 Make sure that the sliding rails move smoothly by pulling the server out of the rack and pushing it in several times NOTES To install the server in the location adjacent to the other device pay atte...

Page 61: ... device from the rack if the rack is unstable Do not leave more than one device being pulled out from the rack Do not pull out the server from the rack while it is operating 1 Make sure that the server is off powered and disconnect the power cords and all the interface cables from the server 2 This step is required only when the optional cable arm is mounted Remove the cable arm from the server 3 ...

Page 62: ...ing the bottom of the server by at least two persons Do not apply any load on the server pulled out from the rack Doing so may cause personal injury if the server drops Be very careful not to get your finger caught in the levers or rails 5 To remove the rail assembly pull out the rail toward you while pushing the lever Lever ...

Page 63: ...cause malfunctions and failures To connect a third party peripheral device or interface cable to the server consult with your service representative for availability of such a device or cable Some third party devices may not be used for the server To connect a SCSI device an optional SCSI controller must be installed The total length of a cable including the connection cable in SCSI device must be...

Page 64: ...B device FRONT REAR Device with the serial interface Finally connect the provided power cord to the receptacle If connecting the server to UPS see the explanation below Network system on LAN connected via a hub Keyboard Mouse USB device Display unit USB device Display unit ...

Page 65: ...llowing 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 11 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 66: ...r cord from the server to a UPS change the BIOS setup of the server to link with power supply from the UPS Change a parameter for AC LINK under the Server menu of the BIOS SETUP utility See Chapter 4 for details Option slot Reset button for overload prevention Outlet socket Computer interface port COM Voltage sensitivity setting button Input connector NEMAL5 15P Connector for TVSS device Computer ...

Page 67: ...the power cord and wait about five seconds before pressing the POWER switch The POWER switch does not work in a few seconds after connecting the power cord due to firmware start up The Power On Self Test POST runs while NEC logo is displayed to diagnose the system hardware See POST described later for details Upon completion of POST the OS starts NOTES When the POST detects any error it displays a...

Page 68: ...th 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 by the following process 1 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DV...

Page 69: ...ystem configuration parameters This utility is pre installed in the flash memory of the server and ready to run The server is configured with the correct parameters using the SETUP utility and shipped in the best conditions Thus you don t need to use the SETUP utility in most cases However you might wish to use the SETUP utility in the cases described below IMPORTANT The SETUP utility is intended ...

Page 70: ...ou have previously set a password with the 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 Supervisor and User With the Supervis...

Page 71: ...Selects the Main Advanced Security Server Boot or Exit menu and Changes the value parameter of the selected item When a submenu option an option preceded by is selected these keys are disabled Enter Press Enter to select determine parameters Esc Exit SETUP and return to the previous screen F9 Sets the parameter of the currently displayed item back to the factory set parameter F10 Save and exit the...

Page 72: ...n off the server Select Server AC LINK Last State To keep the server off powered even when power is supplied from the UPS Select Server AC LINK Stay Off Boot To change the boot order of devices connected to the server Select Boot and specify the boot order To display POST check results Select Advanced Boot time Diagnostic Screen Enabled You can also press Esc while the NEC log is on the screen to ...

Page 73: ...he memory DIMM board error information Select Advanced Memory Configuration Memory Retest Yes and reboot CPU To check the installed CPU status Select Main Processor Settings and check the status indications The on screen CPU numbers and socket locations on the mother board are associated as shown in the above figure To clear the CPU error information Select Main Processor Settings Processor Retest...

Page 74: ...d enter a password Set Supervisor password first then User password External Devices To setup I O ports Select Advanced Peripheral Configuration and set up each I O port Internal Devices To configure the internal PCI device Select Advanced PCI Configuration and setup each devices To install the RAID controller Select Advanced PCI Configuration PCI Slot n Option ROM Enabled n PCI slot number To cle...

Page 75: ... exit from SETUP Select Exit Exit Discarding Changes To discard changes to the current configuration data Select Exit Discard Changes To load the default setup Select Exit Load Setup Defaults To save the current configuration data Select Exit Save Changes To save the current configuration data as Custom Defaults Select Exit Save Custom Defaults To load the Custom Defaults Select Exit Load Custom D...

Page 76: ...ons The SETUP utility has the following six major menus Main Advanced Security Server Boot Exit To set minute functions select a submenu from the above menus The following describes available functions and parameters as well as the factory set for each menu ...

Page 77: ...ch channel on the submenu The settings of some items may be changed However leave the items as they are at the shipment IDE Channel 0 Slave Select submenu Shows the information on the device connected to each channel on the submenu The settings of some items may be changed However leave the items as they are at the shipment SATA Port 1 3 Select submenu Shows the information on the device connected...

Page 78: ...ate under the environmental condition enduring device operation temperature 10 C 35 C humidity 20 80 Check the system clock at the rough rate of once per month When the system clock is installed in a system requiring high time precision it is recommended to use a time server NTP server If the system clock is remarkably delayed or advanced as the passage of time in spite of adjustment contact your ...

Page 79: ...ed Error Displays CPU ID for processor 2 Disabled indicates that the processor is defected Not Installed indicates that no processor is installed Error indicates that the processor is forcedly booted Processor 2 L2 Cache Displays L2 cache size for processor 2 Execute Disable Bit Enabled Disabled Enables or disables the feature Displayed only when the CPU supports Execute Disable Bit Intel SpeedSte...

Page 80: ...tem configuration data at the next boot Automatically reset to No in the next boot NumLock On Off Specify whether the numlock is enabled or disabled on booting Memory Processor Error Boot Halt If Halt is selected the boot is stopped when POST detected a processor or memory error Factory set IMPORTANT Be sure to take a note of boot priority before selecting Yes for Reset Configuration Data because ...

Page 81: ...ror view only DIMM Group 1 DIMM sockets 5 and 6 DIMM Group 2 DIMM sockets 3 and 4 DIMM Group 3 DIMM sockets 1 and 2 Memory Retest Yes No Causes BIOS to retest all memory on the next boot Automatically reset to No at the next boot Extended RAM Step 1MB 1KB Every location Disabled 1MB indicates that the memory test is done in the unit of 1MB 1KB indicates that the memory test is done in the unit of ...

Page 82: ...S contained in the internal hard disk drive when either of PCI slots 1 or 2 contains a PCI card the parameter for PCI Slot x Option ROM x slot containing the PCI card must be set to Disabled Onboard LAN 1 2 submenu Option Parameter Description Your Setting LAN Controller 1 2 Disabled Enabled Enables or disables onboard LAN controller Option ROM Scan Disabled Enabled Enables or disables an option R...

Page 83: ...enabled or disabled Parallel ATA Disabled Enabled Selects parallel ATA controller on mother board is enabled or disabled Serial ATA Disabled Enabled Selects whether the serial ATA controller on mother board is enabled or disabled SATA Controller Mode Option Compatible Enhanced Selects an operation mode of onboard SATA controller Displayed only when Serial ATA is enabled Compatible mode SATA drives...

Page 84: ... 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 function by using RTC alarm feature is enabled or disabled Factory set IMPORTANT If the AC power is turned off while the Wake On Ring feature is enabled this feature is disabled at the nex...

Page 85: ...s Press Enter to display the supervisor password entry screen This password enables all the SETUP menus to be accessed This setting can be done only on login with the password input of Supervisor at start of SETUP Password on boot Disabled Enabled Specify whether the passwords are entered or not on booting At first the supervisor password must be set If the supervisor password is set and this opti...

Page 86: ...Submenu Option Parameter Description Your Setting TPM Support Disabled Enabled Disables or enables TPM feature Current TPM State Displays the current TPM state Change TPM State No Change Enabled Activate Deactivate Disable Clear Changes TPM state Factory set ...

Page 87: ...ge to change TPM State a confirmation screen as shown below appears at the end of POST after restarting the system Select Execute on the confirmation screen to determine the change you have made When Enable Activate is selected When Deactivate Disable is selected When Clear is selected ...

Page 88: ...EC ESMPRO Agent Boot Monitoring Policy Retry 3 Times Always Reset Specify the processing at the occurrence of timeout during boot monitoring If Retry 3 times is selected the system is reset after the occurrence of timeout and OS boot is retried up to three times If Always Reset is selected the system is reset after the occurrence of timeout and OS boot is retried repeatedly If no service partition...

Page 89: ...vent filtering PEF feature Factory set IMPORTANT To power on the server from the UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply select Server AC LINK Power On 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 of AC LINK System status before AC power off Stay Off Last State Power On Operating Off On On Aborting DC po...

Page 90: ...umber of the chassis View only Chassis Serial Number Displays the serial number of the chassis View only Onboard LAN1 MAC Address Displays the MAC address of the onboard LAN port 1 View only Onboard LAN2 MAC Address Displays the MAC address of the onboard LAN port 2 View only Management LAN MAC Address Displays the MAC address of the management LAN port View only BMC Device ID Displays BMC device ...

Page 91: ...rate used for the interface with the remote console connected Flow Control None XON XOFF CTS RTS CTS RTS CD Specify the flow control method Terminal Type PC ANSI VT100 VT UTF8 Specify the type of remote console Continue Redirection after POST Disabled Enabled Specify whether to continue console redirection feature after completion of POST Remote Console Reset Disabled Enabled Specify whether to en...

Page 92: ... HTTP Port Number 80 Specify the TCP port number which the management LAN uses for HTTP communication HTTPS Disabled Enabled Set to Enabled to use HTTPS communication for Web interface HTTPS Port Number 443 Specify the TCP port number which the management LAN uses for HTTPS communication Command Line Interface Telnet Disabled Enabled Set to Enabled to use Telnet communication as a command line int...

Page 93: ...backup copy of setting information of NEC DianaScope NOTE Executing Save Custom Defaults Load Custom Defaults of BIOS SETUP does not save the settings you have made in BMC LAN Configuration menu Event Log Configuration Submenu Option Parameter Description Your Setting Clear All Event Logs Enter Press Enter and select Yes to clear the system event log Factory set System Event Log Submenu If you sel...

Page 94: ...ion on the device in the relevant indication To boot the server from a desired device the device must be registered as a boot device Up to eight boot devices can be registered 2 Pressing X after selecting a device allows the selected device to be registered as a boot device or deleted from the registration With eight boot devices being registered any other device cannot be registered as a boot dev...

Page 95: ... be terminated with storage of the modified information Then the server automatically reboots the system Load Setup Defaults Select this item to return all the values of SETUP to the default values Selecting Load Setup Defaults causes the confirmation screen to appear Select Yes to return the values to the default values Select No to return to the Exit menu screen Load Custom Defaults Select this ...

Page 96: ...D to be handled collectively In actual RAID can configure more than one HDDs as a single array disk group to operate the HDDs effectively This can bring higher performance than a single HDD of a large capacity The Onboard RAID Controller LSI Embedded MegaRAID has a feature to divide a single disk group into several logical drives virtual disks Operating system recognizes these logical drives as if...

Page 97: ... table below Number of required HDDs RAID level Min Max RAID 0 1 3 RAID 1 2 2 NOTE For details of the RAID levels see RAID Levels described later in this chapter Disk Group A disk group is configured with more than one HDDs The allowable number of disk groups is equal to the number of HDDs The figure below shows a sample configuration The three HDDs are connected to the Onboard RAID Controller LSI...

Page 98: ... RAID Controller DG0 108 GB VD1 3 16 GB VD1 2 16 GB VD1 1 16 GB VD0 1 20GB VD0 2 20GB VD0 3 20GB VD0 RAID5 40 GB VD1 RAID5 32 GB Parity The parity means redundant data A single set of redundant data is created from the data saved in more than one HDD The created redundant data is used for data recovery when a HDD is defected Hot Swap The hot swap enables a HDD to be removed or replaced under syste...

Page 99: ...e below lists the characteristics of the RAID levels Level Function Redundancy Characteristics RAID0 Striping No Data read write at the highest rate Largest capacity Capacity capacity of single HDD number of HDDs RAID1 Mirroring Yes Two HDDs required Capacity capacity of single HDD ...

Page 100: ...DD is defected the data saved in the HDD cannot be recovered RAID Controller HDD 1 HDD 2 Stripe 1 HDD 3 Stripe 4 Stripe 2 Stripe 5 Stripe 3 Stripe 6 RAID1 In the RAID1 level data saved in a HDD is written to another HDD without change The mode is called mirroring When data is written onto a single HDD the same data is written onto another HDD If either of the HDDs is defected the other HDD contain...

Page 101: ...jumper switch on mother board NOTE The RAID System is factory set to Enabled 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 11 for details Do not disassemble repair or alter the server Do not remove the lithium battery CAUTION Observe the following instructions to use the ser...

Page 102: ...other board 6 Change jumper setting as shown in the figure below J8 J7 J6 J5 J8 J7 J6 J5 1 2 3 1 2 3 Enable Disable 1 2 3 1 2 3 7 Reinstall the components removed in Step 2 8 Run the BIOS SETUP utility Select Advanced Peripheral Configuration SATA Controller Mode Option Enhanced Then select Advanced Peripheral Configuration SATA RAID Enabled At the factory SATA Controller Mode Option is set to Enh...

Page 103: ...en the following screen appears after you have powered on the server press Esc The POST screen appears 2 Check the description as shown below on the POST screen then press Ctrl M LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility starts If you fail to press Ctrl M and the system proceeds without displaying the following menu screen reboot the system and press Ctrl M on POST screen LSI Software RAID Configura...

Page 104: ...ftware RAID Configuration Utility To quit the utility press Esc in the TOP menu of LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility When a confirmation message appears select Yes When the above message appears press Ctrl Alt Delete The server is rebooted ...

Page 105: ...fault Virtual Drive Virtual drive operation Virtual Drives Select virtual drive when multiple virtual drives exist Initialize Initialize virtual drive Check Consistency Check virtual drive redundancy View Update Parameters Display virtual drive information RAID Display RAID level SIZE Display virtual drive capacity Stripe SIZE Display stripe size Stripes Display the number of hard disk drives in v...

Page 106: ...D Configuration Utility 1 Run LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility 2 Select Configure New Configuration from the TOP menu Management Menu Select View add Configuration to add configuration IMPORTANT Creating a configuration using New Configuration menu clears the existing configuration information To add configuration information to the existing configuration select View add Configuration You c...

Page 107: ...screen Upon completion of SCAN DEVICE the New Configuration ARRAY SELECTION MENU screen appears 4 Move the cursor onto the hard disk drive to be packed by using cursor key and then press Space to select the hard disk drive The display for the selected hard disk drive changes from READY to ONLINE 5 Press F10 to set Select Configurable Array s 6 Press Space SPAN 1 is set ...

Page 108: ...selectable RAID level varies depending on the number of hard disk drives that configure a pack 2 Size Sets virtual drive size Up to 8 virtual drives can be created per RAID Controller 3 DWC Sets parameter for Disk Write Cache Parameter Remarks Off Write through On 1 Write back 1 Recommended setting Write back On enables good performance however cache data may be lost at an unexpected power failure...

Page 109: ...en select Yes to save the configuration 11 When the confirmation message shows that the configuration has been saved press Esc to return to the TOP menu screen 12 On the TOP menu screen select Objects Virtual Drive View Update Parameters to check virtual drive information 13 Select Initialize in the TOP menu screen 14 When the Virtual Drives screen appears move the cursor to the virtual drive to b...

Page 110: ...ency on the virtual drive that has been initialized See Check Consistency for details 17 Press Esc to return to the TOP menu and exit from LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility IMPORTANT Be sure to execute Check Consistency after creating configuration ...

Page 111: ...the cursor onto the hard disk drive displaying FAIL and then press Space to select it Multiple hard disk drives can be selected simultaneous rebuilding The FAIL indication for the hard disk drive selected starts blinking 5 When hard disk drive has been selected press F10 to start rebuilding 6 When confirmation screen for execution appears Select Yes The rebuild process starts When the progress bar...

Page 112: ... as hot spare and then turn on the server 2 Run LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility 3 Select Objects Physical Drive from the TOP menu The Objects PHYSICAL DRIVE SELECTION MENU screen appears 4 Move the cursor onto the hard disk drive to be used as hot spare and press Enter 5 The Port X screen appears Select Make HotSpare 6 A confirmation screen appears Select Yes The hard disk drive indication...

Page 113: ...AID Configuration Utility IMPORTANT Select Objects Physical Drive Port X Force Offline to cancel the hot spare setting When two or more hard disk drives of the same capacity are assigned as hot spare rebuilding is performed in order starting from the one with the smaller CH number ID number ...

Page 114: ...r onto the virtual drive to be checked and press Space to select it 4 When virtual drive has been selected press F10 to start consistency check 5 A confirmation screen for execution appears Select Yes The consistency check starts When the progress bar in the Check Consistency Progress screen indicates 100 the consistency check is completed 6 Press Esc to return to the TOP menu and exit LSI Softwar...

Page 115: ...l if you select the configuration information on the RAID Controller In this case execute Clear Configuration to create configuration again LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility cannot delete each virtual drive Use Universal RAID Utility instead Force Online Puts a hard disk drive being in the FAIL status online Select Objects Physical Drive select hard disk drive Force Online from the TOP menu ...

Page 116: ...e RAID Configuration Utility manages Adapter by a number beginning with 0 You can see a number of Adapter where Sel Adapter in Objects menu Universal RAID Utility manages RAID Controller by a number beginning with 1 You can see a number of RAID Controller where Number in the property of RAID Controller on RAID Viewer or RAID Controller X in the property of RAID Controller on raidcmd Also you can s...

Page 117: ...g with 1 and ID The ID is same value of ID on LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility You can see a number and ID of Physical Device where Number and ID in the property of Physical Device on RAID Viewer or RAID Controller X Physical Device Y and ID in the property of Physical Device on raidcmd Setting of Priority LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility displays and sets Rebuild Priority and Consis...

Page 118: ...Rate LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility Low 5 NOTES LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility can set FGI Rate Foreground Initialize and BGI Rate Background Initialize Priority But Universal RAID Utility can t set it Universal RAID Utility can set Initialization Priority but it can t set it to the LSI Embedded MegaRAID Therefore Universal RAID Utility doesn t display Initialization Priority in ...

Page 119: ...clearing CMOS you must run the BIOS SETUP utility and execute the following menus to reconfigure your mother board Load Setup Defaults in the Exit menu Memory Retest of Memory Configuration in the Advanced menu Processor Retest of Processor Settings in the Main menu Refer to RAID System Configuration described earlier in this chapter for RAID configuration jumper setting Do not change any other sw...

Page 120: ...rself Make sure to complete board installation Do not install the server on a rack with leaving covers removed Do not pinch your finger with mechanical components Note high temperature Do not pull out a device from the rack if the rack is unstable Do not leave more than one device being pulled out from the rack Clearing CMOS Data 1 See the section Preparing for Installation and Removal in Chapter ...

Page 121: ...the top cover see Chapter 9 4 Verify the location of password clear jumper switch 5 Change jumper switch setting from Protect to Clear 6 Reassemble the server and press the POWER switch to turn on the server 7 Press F2 during POST to run the BIOS Setup utility and set the password again 8 Power off the server and change jumper switch setting from Clear to Protect 9 Reassemble the server ...

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Page 123: ...tandard Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition 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 S...

Page 124: ...up in order to save or backup parameters for installation If you want to set up the server as before execute the Express Setup with the parameter file you have saved before NOTES If you want to create a parameters file have a blank floppy disk MS DOS 1 44MB format ready When using a floppy disk a USB floppy disk drive is required If you want to use the drivers located on the OEM Disk for Mass Stor...

Page 125: ...allation Confirm these notes before starting the Express Setup About the Windows family This computer supports the following Windows editions Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition hereinafter referred to as Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition hereinafter r...

Page 126: ...Server 2003 R2 x64 Edition OS installation media with Service Pack 2 OS installation media No Service Pack Service Pack 2 OS installation media No Service Pack Windows Server 2003 R2 OS installation media with Service Pack 2 OS installation media No Service Pack Service Pack 2 OS installation media No Service Pack Windows Server 2003 OS installation media with Service Pack 1 OS installation media ...

Page 127: ...Setup N8103 116 RAID controller 128 MB RAID0 1 N8103 117 RAID controller 128 MB RAID0 1 5 6 N8103 118 RAID controller 256 MB RAID0 1 5 6 Onboard RAID controller LSI Embedded MegaRAID Other controllers N8103 75 SCSI Controller N8103 95 SCSI Controller N8103 107 SCSI Controller N8103 104 SAS Controller Option NOTES The driver of option card mentioned above is stored in the EXPRESSBUILDER DVD If you ...

Page 128: ...allation About Removable Media Do not set removable media such as DAT into the device mounted on this computer during the Windows installation Connecting Hard Disk Drive Do not connect the other hard disk drives except the drive that you want to create the Windows system drive If you create multiple logical drives in your system see Re installing the Operating system when multiple logical drive ex...

Page 129: ...ecommended for collecting debug information memory dump The paging file with initial size large enough to store the dump file in the boot drive is required Correct debug information might not be able to be collected due to virtual memory shortage when the paging file is insufficient so set an enough size of the paging file with the entire system The maximum paging file size which can be set on one...

Page 130: ...le size 2 See Chapter 5 and set that debugging information equivalent to the dump file size is to be written to a separate disk If the disk does not have enough free space to enable the dump file size to be written then after installing the system using the Size required for installation Paging file size install an additional new disk Installing the Service Pack When installing Windows Server 2003...

Page 131: ...t Save parameters Step 11 Next Start Express Setup Step 12 Next RAID Configuration Perform Create the OS partition format Copying Windows driver Copying Selected Application Remove the Floppy Disk and CD DVD ROM from the Drive Insert Windows CD ROM Agree Software License Agreement Insert Service Pack CD ROM When you apply the Service Pack Install OS Automatically Log on Automatically The installat...

Page 132: ...rver 2 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD into the optical disk drive of the server 3 Press the RESET switch or press Ctrl Alt and Delete to reboot from the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER You may also turn off and then on again to reboot the server The system will boot from the DVD ROM and NEC EXPRESSBUILDER starts Select Os installation default from the boot selection menu If you do not hit any key Os install...

Page 133: ... not load parameters 1 Select Do not load parameters 2 Click Next NOTE If a floppy disk drive is not connected select this item Load parameters 1 Insert the floppy disk containing the parameters file 2 Select Load parameters enter the file path of the parameters file into the text box 3 Click Next ...

Page 134: ...layed Confirm the parameters modify if necessary and then click Next IMPORTANT Be sure to perform Consistency Check for the RAID drives configured by Express Setup NOTES You can use only the physical devices that have same model number to configure logical drive If the process is not finished normally the driver may not be stored in the EXPRESSBUILDER See Optional Board Supported by NEC EXPRESSBUI...

Page 135: ...ition size larger than 2 097 152MB 2TB at RAID system If you select Create a new partition at Windows system drive settings the contents of the hard disk will be all deleted If Use existing partitions is selected EXPRESSBUILDER installs the Operating System to the 1st partition 1st partition is deleted The data in the other partition is kept if the system has two or more partitions See the figure ...

Page 136: ...rs steps are displayed Confirm the parameters modify if necessary and then click Next NOTE Even if you do not input value into Administrator password Confirm password is displayed 10 Enter the setting of the network protocol Enter Network Protocol steps are displayed Confirm the parameters modify if necessary and then click Next ...

Page 137: ...or workgroup name to be used Enter domain account steps are displayed Confirm the parameters modify if necessary and then click Next 12 Select the installing components Select Windows components steps are displayed Confirm the parameters modify if necessary and then click Next ...

Page 138: ...yed Confirm the parameters modify if necessary and then click Next 14 Save the parameters Save parameters steps are displayed If you want to save the parameters set the free formatted floppy disk Select Save parameters enter the file path of the parameters files into the text box and click Next If not select Do not save parameters ...

Page 139: ...rding to the message If you proceed the setup by using setup parameter file remove the floppy disk from the floppy disk drive Insert Windows Server 2003 CD ROM into the optical disk drive Agree Software License Agreement screen appears 18 Read the contents carefully and click Yes if you do agree If you do not agree click No IMPORTANT If you do not agree to this agreement the setup terminates and W...

Page 140: ...03 and selected applications will be installed automatically and rebooted several times After rebooting it logs on to the system automatically 20 If you install Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 insert Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition DISC 2 or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition DISC 2 into the optical disk drive after the OS installation Hereinafter proceed operat...

Page 141: ...ion test and so on Setup of teaming Configuring several network adapters as one team provides the server a tolerant environment on any trouble and enhances throughput between the switches PROSet is necessary to utilize these features NOTE All of the operation that related to Intel PROSet must be execute by administrator privileges Operation by Remote Desktop Connection is prohibited Without changi...

Page 142: ...se of the classic start menu Click Start menu point to Programs Accessories and click Windows Explorer 3 Run dxsetup exe in the following directory 007 win winnt dotnet dl3 proset win32 The Intel R PROSet InstallShield Wizard dialog starts 4 Click Next 5 Choose I accept the terms in the license agreement and click Next 6 Click Next 7 Choose I accept the terms in the license agreement and click Nex...

Page 143: ... ALB can be connected to only Switching Hub When exchange the mother board or option network card make sure to remove the adapter team before exchanges and recreate the adapter team after exchange complete If you want to utilize AFT ALB feature follow the procedure below to setup 1 The Intel R PROSet dialog box appears The procedure in the case of the standard start menu Click Start menu point to ...

Page 144: ...ck Settings tab on TEAM xxx yy Properties 2 Click Modify Team 3 Point to the adapter Intel R PRO 1000 and click Set Primary or Set Secondary 4 Click OK 5 The setup will go back to EAM xxx yy Properties and the priority setting will display in list 6 Click OK 7 The setup will go back to Intel R PROSet for Wired Connections dialog box so click OK 8 Restart the system ...

Page 145: ...s not installed 1 The Local Area Connection Properties dialog box appears The procedure in the case of the standard start menu 1 Click Start menu Click Control Panel Click Network Connections and Click Local Area Connection The procedure in the case of the classic start menu 1 Click Start menu Click Settings and Click Network Connections The Network Connections dialog box appears 2 Right click Loc...

Page 146: ... click the Network Adapter Name in the Network Adapter list 2 Click the Link and specify the Speed and Duplex value the same as the value specified for HUB 3 Click Apply and click OK Also add or delete any protocols and services if necessary You can operate the process on the property dialog box for local area network which can be appeared from Network and Dial up Connection NOTE We recommend you ...

Page 147: ...zing N8104 123A Please refer to the installation manual provided with the board Installation of the Optional Network Board Driver 1 Start Device Manager 2 Click Network adapters and Double click Network Adapter Name Network Adapter Name Properties appears NOTE Intel R PRO 1000 is the name of On Board adapter All other names show the Optional Network Board 3 Click Driver tab and click Update Driver...

Page 148: ...enu is displayed close menu screen 2 Click Start menu point to Programs Accessories and click Windows Explorer 3 Run setup exe in the following directory 007 win winnt dotnet video 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 DVD from the optical disk drive res...

Page 149: ...he 4GB RAM tuning feature and the Physical Address Extension switch Below is the example on how to add PAE switch to Boot ini file 1 Click Start point to Settings and then click Control Panel 2 In Control Panel double click System 3 Click the Advanced tab and then click Settings under Setup and Recovery 4 Under System Setup click Edit to open Boot ini 5 Add PAE to Operating Systems section in Boot...

Page 150: ...mory Dump The staff of maintenance service representative is in charge of collecting memory dump Customers 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 restart the system in such case memory dump may not be stored correctly Follow th...

Page 151: ... Verify the size of the empty space in the debugging information memory dump write destination drive Windows Server 2003 To specify Complete Memory Dump to write the debug information is recommended If the mounted memory size is larger than 2GB Complete Memory Dump cannot be specified so that specify Kernel Memory Dump instead Specify the drive where there is a free area more than the size of the ...

Page 152: ...ile size for all drives and click Set IMPORTANT The above mentioned paging file size is recommended for collecting debug information memory dump The paging file with initial size large enough to store the dump file in the boot drive is required Correct debug information might not be able to be collected due to virtual memory shortage when the paging file is insufficient so set an enough size of th...

Page 153: ...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 154: ...ove Windows Component The Windows Components Wizard dialog box appears 4 Click Management and Monitoring Tools and then click Details The Management and Monitoring Tools dialog appears 5 Click to select the Network Monitor Tools check box and then click OK 6 The Windows Components Wizard dialog box appears again so click Next 7 If the setup asks to install the disk insert the OS CD ROM into optica...

Page 155: ...rocessor to multi processor Modified system configuration Recovered the system using recovery process See Updating the System Applying Service Pack section in Appendix D for detail of update 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 W...

Page 156: ...vice is RAID Controller configure the RAID system before running the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER 3 Boot the system from NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD 4 Select Load the optional driver into the EXPRESSBUILDER from the Top menu click Next Setting the driver disk for the mass storage controller Press the Perform button NOTE By choosing this option you can load the driver provided by CD ROM or floppy disk to proceed ...

Page 157: ...Chapter 6 Installing and Using Utilities This section describes how to use the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD that comes with your server and to install the utilities stored on the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER ...

Page 158: ...RESSBUILDER referred to as EXPRESSBUILDER hereinafter helps you install the Operating system the Management software or use the maintenance utilities When you insert the EXPRESSBUILDER disk into the optical disk drive and reboot the system the following menu appears ...

Page 159: ... The configuration with Windows PE 2 0 supports Windows Server 2003 32bit and Windows Vista Business 32 bit x86 but the other operation is not supported You can use the Express Setup see Chapter 5 or the following functions from this menu Create the OEM Disk You can create the Windows OEM Disk to use at the Windows manual setup Load the driver This function is not usually used If you add the new d...

Page 160: ... used by the service representative See Chapter 8 BIOS FW Updating You can update the system BIOS by using the floppy disk prepare a 3 5 floppy disk ROM DOS Startup FD The ROM DOS Startup FD is used for starting the ROM DOS system Test and diagnostics This function allows you to diagnose this computer See Chapter 7 System Management You can configure the parameters of BMC Baseboard Management Cont...

Page 161: ... If you want to operate this computer via the BIOS redirection the console less function select this item NOTE If you operate this computer via the Remote KVM function select the Tool menu Normal mode The menu s functions are the same as the Tool menu Normal Mode ...

Page 162: ...oft Windows XP Vista or Windows Server 2003 or later Some documents are provided in PDF format Use the Adobe Reader to view or print these documents If the menu does not appear select My computer by using the Explorer and double click the icon of the optical disk drive that contains the EXPRESSBUILDER DVD Some menu items are grayed out when the logon user does not have the authority of the adminis...

Page 163: ...ilities automatically except for a few key input to confirm the specification Also you can install the system with the same specification as before when re installing the system We recommend you to create Parameter file to setup the servers from NEC EXPRESSBUILDER When using a floppy disk a USB floppy disk drive is required IMPORTANT You can not create Parameter file for Microsoft Windows Server 2...

Page 164: ...installation and creating Parameter file Follow the procedure below IMPORTANT Do not remove NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD from drive during a parameter file creation 1 Start the OS 2 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD into the optical disk drive The menu will appear 3 Right click on the screen or left click Setup Windows The menu will appear ...

Page 165: ...Installing and Using Utilities 6 9 4 Click Parameter File Creator Parameter File Creator will appear ...

Page 166: ...and Using Utilities 5 Load Parameters step is displayed Select Do not load parameters from the menu click Next 6 Select the installing Operating System Select Install the Windows 32bit editions from the menu click Next ...

Page 167: ... devices Parameter File Creator displays upper limit that the RAID controller can support The total of The number of physical devices used to create the logical drive and The number of the physical devices specified as the hot spare must not exceed The number of the total physical devices which connected to the target system NOTE You can use only the physical devices that have same model number to...

Page 168: ... larger than 2 097 152MB 2TB at RAID system If you select Create a new partition at Windows system drive settings the contents of the hard disk will be all deleted If Use existing partitions is selected EXPRESSBUILDER installs the Operating System to the 1st partition 1st partition is deleted The data in the other partition is kept if the system has two or more partitions See the figure below Firs...

Page 169: ...cense mode Enter basic parameters steps are displayed Confirm the parameters modify if necessary and then click Next IMPORTANT Computer name and User name are required parameters NOTE Even if you do not input value into Administrator password Confirm password zzzzzz is displayed ...

Page 170: ...re displayed Confirm the parameters modify if necessary and then click Next NOTE The order of entry in custom setting may differ from the numbering of LAN port 11 Enter the domain or workgroup name to be used Enter domain account steps are displayed Confirm the parameters modify if necessary and then click Next ...

Page 171: ... components Select Windows components steps are displayed Confirm the parameters modify if necessary and then click Next 13 Select the installing applications Select applications steps are displayed Confirm the parameters modify if necessary and then click Next ...

Page 172: ... parameters steps are displayed If you want to save the parameters set the free formatted floppy disk Select Save parameters enter the file path of the parameters files into the text box and click Next If not select Do not save parameters 15 Saved to a floppy disk ...

Page 173: ...has been created Click Yes to exit Parameter File Creator NOTES If you modify existing information file parameter file click Load Parameters at Load Parameters screen Refer to help to modify information file If you cancel operation on the way click at the upper right corner of the screen ...

Page 174: ...s Some features of NEC ESMPRO Manager include Hardware and software server configuration Hardware resources mounted in servers such as the CPU memory disks RAID System 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 and suggest...

Page 175: ... Setup a dialog to specify an application appears Select Universal RAID Utility on the dialog Manual Setup Windows You can start the setup program of Universal RAID Utility from Autorun Menu Click Setup Software Universal RAID Utility in Autorun Menu You need to install the following software Microsoft NET Framework 2 0 The Runtime component of the Microsoft Visual C 2005 SP1 You can install these...

Page 176: ...lity doesn t have the function of management to computer installed RAID Controller via network If you want to manage it via network please use the function of remote console ex Remote Desktop of Windows Easy Configuration You can not use the function of Easy Configuration to LSI Embedded MegaRAID ...

Page 177: ...he remote management of this server See the online documents for details on the functions and installation of NEC DianaScope NOTE You need the server license to activate DianaScope for this product The server license below is attached to this product DianaScope Additional Server License 1 ...

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Page 179: ...rdware configuration 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 RAID System configuration data if your system is in the RAID System configuration When your hard disk drives have been auto rebuilt due to a failure it is recommended to make a backup copy of...

Page 180: ...le repair or alter the server Do not look into the optical disk 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 11 for details Avoid installation in extreme temperature condit...

Page 181: ...he server must be kept dry Do not moisten them with water 1 Make sure that the server is off powered the POWER LED 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 prepare...

Page 182: ...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 183: ... 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 ball So...

Page 184: ... the tray NOTE Do not touch the signal side of the disc with your hand 4 Wipe the tray with a dry soft cloth IMPORTANT Do not wipe the lens of the optical disk 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 disc with a dry soft cloth IMPORTANT Wipe disc from the center to the outside Use only disc...

Page 185: ...ystem Test Items The following items are tested in system diagnostics Memory CPU cache memory Hard disk drive used as a system IMPORTANT When executing the system diagnostics make sure to disconnect the LAN cable Executing the system diagnostics with the LAN cable connected the network may be influenced NOTE On checking the hard disk drive no data is written into the disk ...

Page 186: ... to execute System Diagnostics with remote console The LAN connection is not for System Diagnostics Procedures to start the diagnostics program are as follows 1 Shutdown the OS and power off the server Then unplug the power cord 2 Disconnect all the LAN cables from the server 3 Plug the power cord and power on the server 4 Use the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD to start the system 5 Select Tool menu Norma...

Page 187: ...ostics tool title Shows the name and version of the diagnostic tool Test window title Shows the progress of the diagnostics Test End is displayed when the diagnostics completes Test result Shows the start end and elapsed time and completion status of the diagnostics Guide line Shows the details of the keys to operate window Test summary window Shows the results of each test that executed the diagn...

Page 188: ...he log information of the diagnostics It can be saved on a floppy disk To save it on a floppy disk insert a formatted floppy disk to the floppy disk drive and select Save F Option Optional features can be used from this menu Reboot Reboots the system 8 Select Reboot in the Enduser Menu above The server restarts and the system is started from the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER 9 Exit the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER and...

Page 189: ...needs to be relocated stored due to a change in the floor layout to a great extent contact your service representative Make sure to make a backup copy of your valuable data in the hard disk drive if any Make sure not to apply a shock to hard disk drives to relocated the server if the contains any 1 Take a media out of the server if any 2 Power off the server the POWER LED goes off 3 Unplug the pow...

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Page 191: ... Troubleshooting If your 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 NEC ESMPRO to your computer ...

Page 192: ...y 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 DataViewer or AlertViewer of NEC ESMPRO Manager Example NEC ESMPRO Manager ...

Page 193: ...the front panel stays lit in green when the server is in successful operation When the STATUS LED is unlit blinking in green or lit blinking in amber it indicates that the server has failed The following table lists indications of the STATUS LED descriptions and actions to take IMPORTANT If NEC ESMPRO is installed you can confirm the cause of a failure by referring to the error log To cycle power ...

Page 194: ...rror occurred Cycle power to the server If POST displays an error message take a note on the message and contact your service representative Off Memory dumping is requested Wait until memory dumping completes A thermal error was detected Check internal fans for dust or debris Also make sure that the fans are firmly connected If this error indication persists contact your service representative On ...

Page 195: ...ally equipped with the server If the power is supplied to the server and the hub and they are correctly connected with each other the LED is lit green LINK state If information is transmitted through a network port the LED blinks green ACT state If the LED is not lit in the LINK state check the network cable and the cable connection If the LED is not lit still after the checking the network LAN co...

Page 196: ... blinking amber or green Indicates that the hard disk drive is being rebuilt this status is not a failure If the defected hard disk drive is replaced with a new one in the disk array configuration the data is automatically rebuilt auto rebuild function The LED goes off when the rebuild is terminated normally The LED goes on amber if the rebuild fails IMPORTANT Powering off the server aborts rebuil...

Page 197: ...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 If the same error message reappears you may assume there is no hardware error To ensure normal operation of the server ...

Page 198: ...tive 0230 System RAM Failed at offset 0231 Shadow Ram Failed at offset 0232 Extended RAM Failed at address line Contact your service representative 0250 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...

Page 199: ...red 0B33 FAN4 Alarm occurred 0B34 FAN5 Alarm occurred 0B35 FAN6 Alarm occurred 0B36 FAN7 Alarm occurred 0B37 FAN8 Alarm occurred 0B38 FAN9 Alarm occurred 0B39 FAN10 Alarm occurred 0B3A FAN11 Alarm occurred 0B3B FAN12 Alarm occurred 0B3C FAN13 Alarm occurred 0B3D FAN14 Alarm occurred 0B3E FAN15 Alarm occurred Clean the internal cooling fans Contact your service representative to replace the fan 0B4...

Page 200: ...d 0B91 BMC update firmware corrupted Turn off the power once and then on again to start the server If the error cannot be corrected contact your service representative 0B92 Internal Use Area of BMC FRU corrupted This is not a fatal error Turn off the power once and then on again to restart the server If the error cannot be corrected contact your service representative 0B93 BMC SDR Repository empty...

Page 201: ...103 Memory Error detected in DIMM group 4 8104 Memory Error detected in DIMM group 5 8105 Memory Error detected in DIMM group 6 Contact your service representative to replace the DIMM in the relevant group 8150 NVRAM Cleared by Jumper Start SETUP and provide setting again 8151 Password Cleared by Jumper Start SETUP and set password again 8160 Mismatch Processor speed detected on Processor 1 8161 M...

Page 202: ...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 test High Byte error 1 Check if the DIMM is properly installed 2 Remove the DIMM once and then re install it to check if...

Page 203: ...send from BIOS Message send from BMC Example Messages displayed on upper line BIOS message On screen message Description Action XX BIOS Rev YYYY POST in progress XX POST code YYYY BIOS version Wait until POST completes Prepare To Boot POST completes normally Mem Reconfigured POST completes with memory degraded Contact your service representative Mem Err Disable A correctable memory error frequentl...

Page 204: ... DUMP Request Dump switch is pressed Wait for completion of memory dump collection OS shutdown Alm OS stop error occurred Take note of on screen message wait for completion of memory dump collection then contact your service representative Power On Cnt Alm Power supply failure occurred 240VA Power Down Contact your service representative Proc Missing Processor is not found Proc1 T Trip Proc2 T Tri...

Page 205: ... server Make sure to use the power cord provided with 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 the power cord is plugged to a UPS make sure the UPS is powered and it outputs power See the manual that comes with the UPS for details Power supply to the server may be linked with the connected UPS using the BIOS...

Page 206: ...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 any external devices connected power on the external devices first then the server T Did you install drivers for connected optional devices Some optional devices require specific device drivers Refer to the manual that comes with the device to ...

Page 207: ... along with the OS Some OS s allow you to change the keyboard and mouse settings Refer to manual that comes with your OS to check that the keyboard and mouse settings are correct Fail to access to the disc T Is the disc properly set in the optical disk drive tray The tray is provided with a holder to secure the disc Make sure that the disc is placed properly in the holder T Is the disc applicable ...

Page 208: ...xternal SCSI devices connected hard disk drive settings including SCSI ID and terminator are required Refer to the manual that comes with the SCSI device for details T Are the SCSI controllers including optional controllers properly configured Use the SCSI BIOS setup utility for proper configuration of SCSI devices connected to the SCSI connector on the mother board When the server has an optional...

Page 209: ...Configuration Onboard LAN LAN Controller 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 dialog box in control panel to specify the Link Speed Duplex value the same as the value specified for HUB The POWER ...

Page 210: ... PRO 1000 has been deactivated from the team Event Type Error Event Source IANSMiniport Event Category None Event ID 16 Description Team 0 The last adapter has lost link Team network connection has been lost Event Type Warning Event Source IANSMiniport Event Category None Event ID 22 Description Primary Adapter does not sense any Probes Intel R PRO 1000 Possible reason partitioned Team Above menti...

Page 211: ...1D7 to the user NT AUTHORITY LOCAL SERVICE SID S 1 5 19 This security permission can be modified using the component Services administrative tool It is not a problem in operating the system There are some cases that an event log is registered as follows when you install Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions Event Source Service Control Manager Event Type Error Event ID 7011 Description Timeout 30000 mi...

Page 212: ...vided by Windows Server 2003 R2 above shown event log will be registered For more details refer to Enabling Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Hardware Management on the following site NEC Express5800 Web Site http www nec co jp express download W2K3_R2 The system displays the message below and fails to log on Windows Product Activation This copy of Windows must be activated with Microsoft before yo...

Page 213: ...nnot turn the power OFF at the blue screen If you want to turn off the power at the blue screen execute forced shutdown forced shutdown continue to press POWER switch for 4 seconds The power will not be turned off if you press the switch for less than 3 seconds The PXE boot network boot fails or the server is not found on the network T Is the cable connected properly Connect the proper cable to th...

Page 214: ... On LAN feature does not work Immediately after the AC power is turned on the Remote Power ON OFF feature Wake ON LAN is disabled Start Windows 2003 once provide settings as shown below then shutdown the system After restart the Remote Power On Off feature is available unless the AC power is turned off Select Start Administrative Tools Computer Management Select Device Manager double click Intel R...

Page 215: ...his message appears check the error and take the appropriate corrective action according to the message listed in the table below Message Cause This EXPRESSBUILDER version was not designed for this computer Insert the correct version and click OK When you click OK the computer reboots This NEC EXPRESSBUILDER version is not designed for this server Execute the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER on the compliant se...

Page 216: ...d hard disk drive and then retry the setup Specified to join the Domain but the system is installed as Workgroup When the setup fails to join the Domain during the installation it will install the system as Workgroup Open System in Control Panel to specify joining the Domain Unable to specify the details of Network adapter In Express Setup you can not specify the details of Network adapter Specify...

Page 217: ...ppear T Is your system Windows XP or later or Windows 2003 or later The Windows Autorun menu is supported by Windows XP Windows 2003 or later If your system runs on Windows Autorun Menu on Windows 2000 system you need to setup IE6 0 before using Windows Autorun Menu T Is Shift pressed Setting the DVD CD ROM with Shift pressed down cancels the Autorun feature T Is the system in the proper state The...

Page 218: ...RAID Controller may be failed Contact your service representative Rebuild fails T Is the capacity of the hard disk drive to be rebuilt sufficient The hard disk drive to be rebuilt should have the same capacity of the failed had disk drive T Is RAID0 configured RAID0 has no data redundancy therefore Rebuild is disabled in the RAID0 configuration Replace the failed hard disk drive create the configu...

Page 219: ...ntact your service representative Physical device is not correctly displayed on Universal RAID Utility If you use LSI Embedded MegaRAID a part of information on a physical device is not correctly displayed on Universal RAID Utility It is no problem ...

Page 220: ...hile the server is in the successful operation may affect the system operation Restarting the system due to an error may display a message indicating insufficient virtual memory Ignore this message and proceed Restarting the system may result in dumping improper data Preparing for Memory Dumping Memory dumping with the DUMP switch may disable the server to restart In such a case it is required to ...

Page 221: ...n the specified directory Memory dumping may not be available when the CPU stalls IMPORTANT Do not use a toothpick or plastic stick that is easy to break Recovery for Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions and Windows Server 2003 If the system fails to start by some reasons recover the system with the recovery console However recovery using this method should be performed only by system administrator or...

Page 222: ... with your server into the optical disk drive of your server 3 Press Ctrl Alt and Delete to reboot the server from the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER You may also turn off and then on again to reboot the server System boots up displaying Boot Selection menu IMPORTANT An initial selection of the menu is Os installation Os installation starts by the automatic after the Boot Selection menu is displayed 4 When a ...

Page 223: ...anese starts by the automatic operation when the operation is not done for five seconds after the Language Selection menu is displayed 5 English is selected The tool menu is displayed When you use a local console When you use a remote console 6 Each tool is selected and it starts ...

Page 224: ...r details of the Off line Maintenance Utility For further information ask your service representative The Off line Maintenance Utility provides the following features IPMI Information Viewer Provides the functions to view the system event log SEL sensor data record SDR and filed replaceable unit FRU and to make a backup copy of them Using this feature you can find system errors and events to deter...

Page 225: ...t turn off the server while the update program is running If the update processing is discontinued the system becomes unable to start ROM DOS startup FD Creates a support disk for starting the ROM DOS system Test and diagnostics Execute various tests on the server system to check if the server functions are normal and if the connection between the server and additional board is normal After the Te...

Page 226: ...s the system administrator to set up the server from the management workstation management PC via the network or the server s COM B serial port IMPORTANT Do not use this feature on any other computer than the server or on any other server obtained without the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER Doing so may cause a failure of the server Be sure to select Tool menu Redirection mode in Boot Selection menu from the r...

Page 227: ...onfiguration file 3 5 inch floppy disk that includes communication method between the server and the management PC and various setup parameters Use NEC DianaScope or run System Management menu from NEC EXPRESSBUILDER to create a configuration file Save the configuration file into the root directory of the floppy disk as the following file name File name CSL_LESS cfg If you exit the BIOS SETUP by u...

Page 228: ...ess FORCED SHUTDOWN Use this function when an OS command does not shut down the server the POWER switch does not turn off the server or resetting does not work Press and hold the POWER switch on the server for at least four seconds The power is forcibly turned off To turn on the power back again wait approximately 30 seconds after turning off the power forced shutdown IMPORTANT If the remote power...

Page 229: ...ional devices or the server or malfunctions of the server resulted from installation by the user NEC recommends you ask your service representative for install or removing any optional devices Make sure to use only optional devices and cables authorized by NEC Repair of the server due to malfunctions failures or damage resulted from installing such devices or cables will be charged For the Windows...

Page 230: ... 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 11 for details Do not lift the server only by a single person Make sure to complete board installation Do not install the server on the rack leavi...

Page 231: ...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 232: ...rocedure below to prepare for installing or removing components IMPORTANT Do not touch the riser card when holding the chassis after removing the top cover When removing the power cord from the server you may experience a 3 4 second delay from the time your system powering down ...

Page 233: ...from the Rack Assembly in Chapter 3 Place the server on a rigid and flat desk IMPORTANT Be sure to remove the server from the rack Do not leave the server being pulled out from the rack 2 Remove the top cover Put your finger in the hollow place and slide the cover then lift the cover REAR FRONT ...

Page 234: ... sure that the hooks on the top cover are inserted into the frame holes of the server certainly and put the top cover on the server Then move the top cover toward the front of the server Insert the end of top cover into chassis REAR FRONT REAR FRONT CENTER ...

Page 235: ...hird party hard disk drive may cause a failure of the server as well as the hard disk drive All hard disk drives must accept the same interface Jumper switch setting on backplane board may need to be changed depending on hard disk drive type Set the switch appropriately according to the figure below For N8103 116 117 118 board you need not to change jumper setting Use setting for SATA HDD LED Disk...

Page 236: ... which you are going to install a hard disk drive The server has three slots Install hard disk drives starting from the leftmost slot 3 Remove the dummy tray Dummy trays are installed in all the hard disk drive bays IMPORTANT Keep the dummy block for future use Install a hard disk drive tray to the vacant slot of the cage to keep the cooling effect of the server 4 Unlock the handle of the hard dis...

Page 237: ...POWER switch when installing or removing the hard disk drive Otherwise the system shutdown will occur 6 Close the handle gently The handle is locked when a distinct click is heard IMPORTANT Be careful not to get your finger caught between the handle and tray Push the drive further to check if it is firmly secured NOTE Make sure that the handle is hooked to the frame when having inserted the hard d...

Page 238: ...written on the hard disk drive 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 Observe the following to disconnect the power cable Do n...

Page 239: ...ess the POWER switch when installing or removing the hard disk drive Otherwise the system shutdown will occur 3 Firmly hold the handle and hard disk drive and pull out the hard disk drive 4 If using the server with the hard disk drive removed install the dummy tray in the empty slot 5 Power on the server Run BIOS SETUP utility and set boot priority on the Boot menu Installing a hard disk drive cle...

Page 240: ... 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 caused by such a device within the warranty period The mother ...

Page 241: ...tion If the DIMM is inserted into the DIMM socket the lever is automatically closed 1 Install the components removed in Step 1 2 Turn on the power of the server Make sure that no error message appears in the POST If POST displays an error message take a note on the message and see the POST error messages listed in Chapter 8 3 Run the BIOS SETUP and select Advanced Memory Configuration to verify th...

Page 242: ...all the components removed in Steps 1 and 2 4 Turn on the power of the server Make sure that no error message appears in the POST If POST displays an error message take a note on the message and see the POST error messages listed in Chapter 8 5 Select Yes for Reset Configuration Data on the Advanced menu This is required to update the hardware configuration information See Chapter 4 for details 6 ...

Page 243: ...static electricity Handle a board after making your body contact with a metallic frame section of the server to discharge the static electricity on your body Do not make bare hands contact with terminals and components on the PCI board or riser card In addition do not put them on a desk directly See Static Precautions in this chapter for details of the static electricity Riser card PCI 2 side PCI ...

Page 244: ... N8103 117 RAID controller 128 MB RAID0 1 5 6 N8103 118 RAID controller 256 MB RAID0 1 5 6 N8104 111 100BASE TX adapter 32 bit 33MHz PCI N8104 112 1000BASE SX adapter 2ch 64 bit 133MHz PCI X Cannot coexist with N8104 122 126 N8104 119 1000BASE T adapter 64 bit 133MHz PCI X N8104 120 1000BASE T adapter 2 ch 64 bit 133MHz PCI X N8104 121 1000BASE T adapter PCI EXPRESS x4 Teaming with N8104 122 equiv...

Page 245: ...er card regardless of its shape IMPORTANT The server can contain a short type PCI board only not the long type one 1 See the section Preparing for Installation and Removal described earlier to prepare 2 Remove a fixing screw and hold both ends of the riser card assembly and lift straight up and remove the riser card from the server 3 Remove the screw from the riser card and remove the extension sl...

Page 246: ...h your bare hand Fingerprints and dust left on them cause the server to malfunction due to a connection failure or damage to the leads 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 NOTE Confirm that the end of the PCI board bracket is inserted in the frame slot of the riser card 5 Secur...

Page 247: ...sh the riser card with your fingers until you cannot see any part of the riser card terminal section The riser card is now fully seated in the slot 7 Reassemble the server 8 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 your service representative for the maintenance 9 Run the BIOS SETUP Utility to...

Page 248: ...er that is connected to the LAN port Disconnect the connector pushing the catch with a standard screwdriver At this time be very careful for the screwdriver not to damage the LAN port or other ports If you do not install the board after removal be sure to install the additional slot cover of the riser card on the slot from which you remove the board Secure the additional slot cover with screw IMPO...

Page 249: ...configuring the RAID System More than one hard disk drive is required to configure a Logical Drive Use hard disk drives of the same capacity and performance e g revolution for each pack to configure them in the RAID System NOTES Make sure of RAID levels and hard disk drives available for the RAID Controller to choose an appropriate controller A Logical Drive except for RAID0 increases disk reliabi...

Page 250: ...w J8 J7 J6 J5 J8 J7 J6 J5 1 2 3 1 2 3 Enable Disable 1 2 3 1 2 3 Run the BIOS SETUP utility Select Advanced Peripheral Configuration SATA Controller Mode Option Enhanced Then select Advanced Peripheral Configuration SATA RAID Enabled At the factory SATA Controller Mode Option is set to Enhanced and SATA RAID is set to Enabled See Chapter 4 for details Use LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility to...

Page 251: ...ler terminals or on board parts by a bare hand or place the RAID Controller directly on the desk For static notes see the section Anti static Measures described earlier NOTE Before installing an optional RAID Controller run the SETUP utility select Advanced PCI Configuration and confirm that Enabled is set for the parameter PCI Slot xx ROM xx PCI slot number Installation See PCI Board in this chap...

Page 252: ...S Selection Others The installer automatically performs all the procedures for RAID System configuration and then maintenance utility installation When making the setup in manual mode use the RAID System configuration utility in the chip on the board You can start the utility during execution of POST that automatically starts immediately after you turn on the server power switch For details see th...

Page 253: ...bay 3 slots PCI slot Standard configuration Low profile PCI EXPRESS x4 x 1 Full height PCI EXPRESS x8 x1 With optional riser card Low profile PCI EXPRESS x8 x1 Full height 32 bit 33MHz PCI x 1 Standard On board SATA SW RAID 0 1 Disk array Option Disk array controller SAS None option Internal interface SATA 3 channels Keyboard MINI DIN 6 pin PS 2 x1 Mouse MINI DIN 6 pin PS 2 x1 Serial D sub 9 pin x...

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Page 255: ...es 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 256: ...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 257: ...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 258: ...m its center to edge with a dry soft cloth slowly and gently Use the dedicated cleaner to clean the DVD CD ROM Do not use record spray cleaner benzene or thinner Keep the DVD CD ROM in the dedicated 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 ...

Page 259: ...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 260: ...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 261: ...evice Interrupt Request The factory set IRQs are assigned as follows IRQ Peripheral Device Controller 0 System timer 1 2 3 COM2 serial port 4 COM1 serial port 5 6 7 PCI 8 Real time clock 9 ACPI Compliant System 10 11 SMBUS 12 13 Numeric processor 14 15 16 LAN1 LAN2 17 AHCI 18 PCI VGA 19 PCI IDE 20 USB 21 USB 22 USB ...

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Page 263: ...ou want to install the other boards by using a driver floppy disk OEM FD for Mass storage device except ones listed below see Installing with the OEM FD for Mass storage device and Installing Optional Mass Storage Driver of Parameter File Creator in Chapter 6 Controllers supporting installation of OS with Express Setup N8103 116 RAID controller 128 MB RAID0 1 N8103 117 RAID controller 128 MB RAID0...

Page 264: ...re it by yourself Updating System If you modified the Windows system execute Update the System in Autorun Menu Re installing to the Hard Disk Drive which has been upgraded to Dynamic Disk If you want to leave the existing partition when installing the system on the hard disk drive upgraded to Dynamic Disk note the following issue Do not select the partition that OS had been installed as the partit...

Page 265: ...s insufficient so set an enough size of the paging file with the entire system Regardless of the size of the mounted memory or the Write debugging information type of memory dump the maximum size of the dump file is The size of the mounted memory 1MB 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 s...

Page 266: ...for Installation NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition CD ROM Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition CD ROM Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions Service Pack 2 CD ROM User s Guide Getting Started Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition OEM Disk for EXPRESSBUILDER ...

Page 267: ...SSBUILDER use this procedure If Windows Server 2003 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 disk 2 Turn on your NEC Express5800 Server 3 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD into the optical disk drive of the server 4 Press the RESET switch or press Ctrl Alt and Delete to reboot the server You may a...

Page 268: ...below 1 Prepare one 3 5 inch floppy disk 2 Start the Operating System 3 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD into the optical disk drive of the server The Menu will appear 4 Click Create drive disk and select OEM Disk for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition NOTE You can do the same operation with the menu appeared by the Right click 5 Insert the floppy disk into the floppy disk drive according to the mes...

Page 269: ... 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 could not determine the type of one or more mass storage devices installed in your system or you have chosen to manually specify an adapter Currently Set...

Page 270: ...tup IMPORTANT If you install Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions on the hard disk larger than 2 097 152MB 2TB you can specify only a value equal to or less than 2 097 152MB as partition size 11 When the installation of Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions has finished the system reboots automatically 12 The Windows Setup screen will be displayed after logged on to the system IMPORTANT In this case the Wi...

Page 271: ...m 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 following the procedure described in this manual 2 Specify the partition in 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...

Page 272: ...d 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 sure you want to change this drive letter 8 Close the Computer Management Procedure for License Authentication Product Key used in the procedure for license aut...

Page 273: ... again when Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions CD ROM where ServicePack 2 is included is used and it is installed If you install Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions CD ROM which contains Service Pack 2 you do not have to apply Hotfix for Windows x64 or Hotfix for Windows Server 2003 KB921411 Go on the section of Updating the System Perform Updating the System and application of the Hotfix KB921411 IMPO...

Page 274: ...XPRESSBUILDER DVD into the optical disk drive of the server 3 Click Start menu and Run and then execute the following command When Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions is used 007 win winnt w2k3amd qfe enu kb921411 exe 4 When the following message is displayed click Next After that follow the message to continue the process 5 When the following message is displayed make sure to click Finish to restart...

Page 275: ...ws CD ROM that contains Service Pack 2 to your system you do not have to apply Service pack 2 again 1 Log on to the system with the account that has administrative privilege e g administrator 2 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD into the optical disk drive of server The Menu will be displayed 3 Left click on Setup Windows and then click Update the system NOTE Right clicking on the Autorun Menu prod...

Page 276: ...System the following message may be shown but there is no impact to the operation Do not click cancel since it may be taken away after a few seconds 4 Click OK to restart the system 5 When the reboot is started remove the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD from the optical disk drive immediately ...

Page 277: ...w tab and then click OK Hide extensions for know file type Hide protected operating system files Recommended When the message You have chosen to display protected operating system files is displayed click Yes 4 Make sure of the files Open System drive WINDOWS system32 drivers directory and make sure usbhub sys and usbport sys are exists in the directory If you can not found them copy the files acc...

Page 278: ...tained in network driver Utilizing PROSet enables the following items Confirm detailed information of the adapter Diagnose loop back test packet transmission test and so on Setup of teaming Configuring several network adapters as one team provides the server a tolerant environment on any trouble and enhances throughput between the switches PROSet is necessary to utilize these features Follow the p...

Page 279: ...license agreement and click Next 6 Click Next 7 Choose I accept the terms in the license agreement and click Next 8 Click Install 9 When InstallShield Wizard Completed window is displayed click Finished 10 Remove the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD from the optical disk drive restart the system ...

Page 280: ...can be connected to only Switching Hub When exchange the mother board or option network card make sure to remove the adapter team before exchanges and recreate the adapter team after exchange complete If you want to utilize AFT ALB feature follow the procedure below to setup 1 The Intel R PROSet dialog box appears The procedure in the case of the standard start menu Click Start menu point to Contr...

Page 281: ...ettings tab on TEAM xxx yy Properties 2 Click Modify Team 3 Point to the adapter Intel R PRO 1000 and click Set Primary or Set Secondary 4 Click OK 5 The setup will go back to EAM xxx yy Properties and the priority setting will display in list 6 Click OK 7 The setup will go back to Intel R PROSet for Wired Connections dialog box so click OK 8 Restart the system ...

Page 282: ...t installed 1 The Local Area Connection Properties dialog box appears The procedure in the case of the standard start menu 1 Click Start menu click Control Panel click Network Connections and click Local Area Connection The procedure in the case of the classic start menu 1 Click Start menu click Settings and click Network Connections The Network Connections dialog box appears 2 Right click Local A...

Page 283: ...rk Adapter list 2 Click the Link and specify the Speed and Duplex value the same as the value specified for HUB 3 Click Apply and click OK Also add or delete any protocols and services if necessary You can operate the process on the property dialog box for local area network which can be appeared from Network and Dial up Connection NOTE We recommend you to add Network Monitor at Adding Services Ne...

Page 284: ...8104 123A Please refer to the installation manual provided with the board Installation of the Optional Network Board Driver 1 Start Device Manager 2 Click Network adapters and double click Network Adapter Name Network Adapter Name Properties appears NOTE Intel R PRO 1000 is the name of On Board adapter All other names show the Optional Network Board 3 Click Driver tab and click Update Driver Hardw...

Page 285: ...RESSBUILDER DVD into the optical disk drive If the autorun menu is displayed close menu screen 2 Click Start menu point to Programs Accessories and click Windows Explorer 3 Run setup exe in the following directory 007 win winnt w2k3amd video 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 Remo...

Page 286: ...ched to your system The SCSI controller driver will be installed automatically Installing SCSI Controller Driver N8103 95 The SCSI controller driver will be installed automatically Installing SAS Controller Driver N8103 104 If you utilize SAS controller driver N8103 104 update your system with NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD attached to your system The SAS controller driver will be installed automatically ...

Page 287: ...dows Server 2003 x64 Editions must be activated before you can use Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions Windows activation process is as follows 1 Click Run on Start menu Type as follows in the Open box and click OK oobe msoobe a 2 When the screen as follows is displayed click Next ...

Page 288: ...x64 Editions The following screen is displayed 3 Process Windows activation according to the following message SETTING FOR COLLECTING MEMORY DUMP DEBUG INFORMATION Set for collecting memory dump using the procedure described in Chapter 5 ...

Page 289: ...ant to install the other boards by using a driver floppy disk OEM FD for Mass storage device except ones listed below see Installing with the OEM FD for Mass storage device and Installing Optional Mass Storage Driver of Parameter File Creator in Chapter 6 Controllers supporting installation of OS with Express Setup N8103 116 RAID controller 128 MB RAID0 1 N8103 117 RAID controller 128 MB RAID0 1 5...

Page 290: ...vice Pack You can install the Service Pack on the server When the Service Pack is not attached to your system prepare it by yourself When installing Windows Server 2003 R2 it is not necessary to apply Service Pack 1 Updating System If you modified the Windows system execute Update the System in Autorun Menu Re installing to the Hard Disk Drive which has been upgraded to Dynamic Disk If you want to...

Page 291: ...erver 2003 R2 The in place upgrade from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2003 R2 is not recommended because it may overwrite any files or registries and cause unexpected impact to the system or the applications If you install Windows Server 2003 R2 backup user data referring Windows Server 2003 Clean Installation and reinstall Windows Server 2003 R2 NOTE in place upgrade is to perform overwri...

Page 292: ...t so set an enough size of the paging file with the entire system The maximum paging file size which can be set on one partition is 4095MB If the above paging file size exceeds 4095MB specify 4095MB for the paging file size The maximum 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 partiti...

Page 293: ...ndows Server 2003 Standard Edition CD ROM Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition CD ROM Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition CD ROM Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition CD ROM Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 CD ROM User s Guide Getting Started Windows Server 2003 OEM Disk for EXPRESSBUILDER ...

Page 294: ...ows Server 2003 or Windows 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 disk 2 Turn on your NEC Express5800 Server 3 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD into the optical disk drive of the server 4 Press the RESET switch or press Ctrl Alt and Delete to reboot the server You may also turn off and then on ...

Page 295: ...elow 1 Prepare one 3 5 inch floppy disk 2 Start the Operating System 3 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD into the optical disk drive of the server The Menu will appear 4 Click Create drive disk and select OEM Disk for Windows Server 2003 NOTE You can do the same operation with the menu appeared by the Right click 5 Insert the floppy disk into the floppy disk drive according to the message Windows ...

Page 296: ...s when the window is in either of the following states Setup is inspecting your computer s hardware configuration or Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver 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 could not determine t...

Page 297: ...ssages that appear 9 If you utilize N8103 75 107 press S A list of mass storage devices is displayed Select the Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI Cards Windows 32 bit and press Enter 10 If you utilize N8103 95 press S A list of mass storage devices is displayed Select the Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI Cards Win Server 2003 and press Enter 11 When the following message is shown press Enter to start Welcome to Setup IM...

Page 298: ...fter the application of System update Be sure to install Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 DISC 2 In this case note that the Windows Setup screen is not displayed 14 Insert Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 DISC 2 CD ROM into the optical disk drive Confirm the parameters and click OK 15 When the installation has completed remove Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 DISC 2 CD ROM from the optical disk dr...

Page 299: ... 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 300: ... 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 301: ...tion again following the procedure described in this manual 4 The drive letter of the re installed system may differ from the one of the previous system If you need to modify the drive letter modify it according to the Procedure for Modifying the Drive Letter Procedure for Modifying the Drive Letter Be careful that the drive letter of the system or boot volume cannot modify with the following proc...

Page 302: ...nfiguration Recovered the system using recovery process The system update brings the correction program provided by Microsoft to be applied to reinforce the system security The system update is recommended Service Pack 2 need not be applied again when Windows Server 2003 CD ROM which Service Pack 2 is included is used and it is installed Go on the section of Updating the System Perform Updating th...

Page 303: ...rive of the server 3 Click Start menu and Run and then execute the following command When the English version of Windows Server 2003 R2 is used 007 win winnt dotnet qfe enu kb921411 exe When the Simplified Chinese version of Windows Server 2003 R2 is used 007 win winnt dotnet qfe chs kb921411 exe When the French version of Windows Server 2003 R2 is used 007 win winnt dotnet qfe fra kb921411 exe 4 ...

Page 304: ...E 16 Installing Windows Server 2003 5 When the following message is displayed make sure to click Finish to restart the system With that application process of the Hotfix KB921411 is finished ...

Page 305: ... 2 to your system you do not have to apply Service pack 2 again 1 Log on to the system with the account that has administrative privilege e g administrator 2 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD into the optical disk drive of server The Windows Autorun Menu will be displayed 3 Left click on Setup Windows and then click Update the system NOTE Right clicking on the Windows Autorun Menu produces the sam...

Page 306: ... the following message may be shown but there is no impact to the operation Do not click cancel since it may be taken away after a few seconds 4 Click OK to restart the system 5 When the reboot is started Remove the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD from the optical disk drive immediately ...

Page 307: ...tab and then click OK Hide extensions for know file type Hide protected operating system files Recommended When the message You have chosen to display protected operating system files is displayed click Yes 4 Make sure of the files Open System drive WINDOWS system32 drivers directory and make sure usbhub sys and usbport sys are exists in the directory If you can not found them copy the files accor...

Page 308: ...PROSet is necessary to utilize these features Follow the procedure below to install PROSet 1 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD into the optical disk drive If the autorun menu is displayed close menu screen 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 St...

Page 309: ... pop up menu 2 Click Configure The property 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 dialog box appears The procedure in the case of the standard start menu Click Start menu point to Control Panel ...

Page 310: ...lerance AFT Adaptive Load Balancing ALB for reset the Adapter Fault Tolerance AFT Adaptive Load Balancing ALB Graphics Accelerator Driver If you utilize standard graphics accelerator drivers update your system with NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD attached to your system Standard graphics accelerator drivers will be installed automatically Please follow the following procedure when you want to re install th...

Page 311: ...r Driver N8103 104 If you utilize SAS controller driver N8103 104 update your system with NEC EXPRESSBUILDER DVD attached to your system The SAS controller driver will be installed automatically About Windows Activation Windows Server 2003 must be activated before you can use Windows Server 2003 Windows activation process is as follows NOTE When you use Windows Server 2003 R2 activation process is...

Page 312: ...E 24 Installing Windows Server 2003 2 When the screen as follows is displayed click Next The following screen is displayed 3 Process Windows activation according to the following message ...

Page 313: ... tuning feature and the Physical Address Extension switch Below is the example on how to add PAE switch to Boot ini file 1 Click Start point to Settings and then click Control Panel 2 In Control Panel double click System 3 Click the Advanced tab and then click Settings under Setup and Recovery 4 Under System Setup click Edit to open Boot ini 5 Add PAE to Operating Systems section in Boot ini file ...

Page 314: ...E 26 Installing Windows Server 2003 SETTING FOR COLLECTING MEMORY DUMP DEBUG INFORMATION Set for collecting memory dump using the procedure described in Chapter 5 ...

Page 315: ...utorun menu appears close the menu 3 Copy the below files of EXPRESSBUILDER to a hard disk by using Explorer root folder 007 copy version xml ar_menu copy this sub folder doc copy this sub folder win copy this sub folder 4 Delete the ar_menu autorun_menu xml on the hard disk and rename the ar_menu autorun_en xml on the hard disk to the autorun_menu xml 5 Copy the above files folders to a CD R Matc...

Page 316: ...F 2 Using a Client Computer Which Has a CD Drive This page is intentionally left blank ...

Page 317: ...alled Memory 1 Size Serial No Date Installed 2 Size Serial No Date Installed 3 Size Serial No Date Installed 4 Size Serial No Date Installed 5 Size Serial No Date Installed 6 Size Serial No Date Installed Monitor Type Model name Serial No Date Installed Hard Disk Drive Bay 1 Type Serial No Capacity Date Installed Type number Bay 2 Type Serial No Capacity Date Installed Type number Bay 3 Type Seria...

Page 318: ...erial 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 No Manufacturer Date Installed External Peripheral Device 2 Model name Serial No Manufacturer Date Installed External Peripheral Device 3 Model name Serial No Manufacturer Date Installed External Peripheral D...

Page 319: ...ble G 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 320: ...G 4 Product Configuration Record Table This page is intentionally left blank ...

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