Supermicro 2020A-8R, User Manual

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Preface
About This Manual
This manual is written for professional system integrators and PC technicians. It
provides information for the installation and use of the A+ Server 2020A-8R. Instal-
lation and maintainance should be performed by experienced technicians only.
The 2020A-8R is a high-end 2U rackmount server based on the SC823S-R500LP
server chassis and the H8DA8 serverboard, which supports single or dual AMD
Opteron ™ 200 series processors and up to 32 GB of ECC registered DDR266/200
or 16 GB of ECC registered DDR400/333 SDRAM memory.
Manual Organization
Chapter 1: Introduction
The fi rst chapter provides a checklist of the main components included with the
server system and describes the main features of the H8DA8 serverboard and the
SC823S-R500LP chassis, which make up the 2020A-8R.
Chapter 2: Server Installation
This chapter describes the steps necessary to install the 2020A-8R into a rack and
check out the server confi guration prior to powering up the system. If your server
was ordered without processor and memory components, this chapter will refer you
to the appropriate sections of the manual for their installation.
Chapter 3: System Interface
Refer here for details on the system interface, which includes the functions and
information provided by the control panel on the chassis as well as other LEDs
located throughout the system.
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