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UPER

ERVER 8015C-T User's Manual

4-4

4-4 Operating

Precautions

Care must be taken to assure that the chassis cover is in place when the 8015C-T

is operating to assure proper cooling. Out of warranty damage to the system can

occur if this practice is not strictly followed.

Figure 4-1. Installing the Onboard Battery

LITHIUM BATTERY

BATTERY HOLDER

LITHIUM BATTERY

Summary of Contents for 8015C-T

Page 1: ...SUPER SUPERSERVER 8015C T USER S MANUAL Revision 1 0...

Page 2: ...laws of Santa Clara County in the State of California USA The State of California County of Santa Clara shall be the exclusive venue for the resolution of any such disputes Super Micro s total liabil...

Page 3: ...es of the Super X7QCE serverboard and the SC818TQ 1000 chassis Chapter 2 Server Installation This chapter describes the steps necessary to install the SuperServer 8015C T into a rack and check out the...

Page 4: ...ter 6 for detailed information on the SC818TQ 1000 1U rackmount server chassis You should follow the procedures given in this chapter when install ing removing or recon guring Serial ATA or peripheral...

Page 5: ...v Preface Notes...

Page 6: ...I O Backplane 1 4 Cooling System 1 4 1 4 Contacting Supermicro 1 6 Chapter 2 Server Installation 2 1 Overview 2 1 2 2 Unpacking the System 2 1 2 3 Preparing for Setup 2 1 Choosing a Setup Location 2...

Page 7: ...s 4 1 4 2 General Safety Precautions 4 2 4 3 ESD Precautions 4 3 4 4 Operating Precautions 4 4 Chapter 5 Advanced Serverboard Setup 5 1 Handling the Serverboard 5 1 Precautions 5 1 Unpacking 5 2 5 2 S...

Page 8: ...5 SATA Drive Installation 6 6 Mounting a SATA drive in a drive carrier 6 6 Installing removing hot swap SATA drives 6 7 SATA Backplane 6 7 DVD ROM and Floppy Drive Installation 6 8 6 5 Power Supply 6...

Page 9: ...ious hardware components have been included with the SuperServer 8015C T as listed below Six 6 4 cm hot swap chassis fans FAN 0086L One 1 air shroud MCP 310 00017 01 Four 4 CPU passive heatsinks for 1...

Page 10: ...he same size and speed should be used See Chapter 5 Section 5 for details Serial ATA A SATA controller is integrated into the South Bridge ESB2 section of the chipset to provide a six port Serial ATA...

Page 11: ...rface speci cation that provides remote access monitoring and administration for Supermicro server platforms IPMI allows server administrators to view a server s hardware status remotely receive an al...

Page 12: ...in power button and a system reset button are also included In addition two USB ports and a COM port have been incorpo rated into the front of the chassis for convenient access I O Backplane The SC818...

Page 13: ...B LSI 1068E ATI ES1000 32MB DDR2 SDRAM DB15VGA Port 480Mb S 480Mb S 480Mb S 480Mb S 480Mb S 480Mb S IDE S IDE M 17 GB s for 533MHz 21 GB s for 667MHz NorthBound IN x14 SouthBound OUTx10 4 25GB S 17GB...

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Page 15: ...in any way If the server itself shows damage you should le a damage claim with the carrier who delivered it Decide on a suitable location for the rack unit that will hold the 8015C T It should be situ...

Page 16: ...the placement of each component in the rack before you install the rails Install the heaviest server components on the bottom of the rack rst and then work up Use a regulating uninterruptible power s...

Page 17: ...quipment should be mounted into a rack so that the amount of air ow required for safe operation is not compromised Mechanical Loading Equipment should be mounted into a rack so that a hazardous condit...

Page 18: ...e with the rack unit you are using Identifying the Sections of the Rack Rails You should have received two rack rail assemblies in the rack mounting kit Each assembly consists of two sections an inner...

Page 19: ...cket to the front side of the outer rail with two M4 screws and the long bracket to the rear side of the outer rail with three M4 screws Repeat these steps for the left outer rail Locking Tabs Both ch...

Page 20: ...rack Do this by lining up the rear of the chas sis rails with the front of the rack rails Slide the chassis rails into the rack rails keeping the pressure even on both sides you may have to depress t...

Page 21: ...e chassis to gain full access to the inside of the server To remove the system from the rack completely depress the locking tabs in the chassis rails push the right side tab down and the left side tab...

Page 22: ...2 8 SUPERSERVER 8015C T User s Manual Figure 2 4 Accessing the Inside of the System...

Page 23: ...ing upon your system s con guration your system may have one or more drives already installed If you need to install SATA drives please refer to Chapter 6 Checking the Air ow Air ow is provided by six...

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Page 25: ...others on the SATA drive carriers to keep you constantly informed of the overall status of the system as well as the activity and health of speci c components There are also two buttons on the chassi...

Page 26: ...n on continuously on and not ashing it indicates an overheat condition which may be caused by cables ob structing the air ow in the system or the ambient room temperature being too warm Check the rout...

Page 27: ...when that particular drive is being accessed Please refer to Chapter 6 for instructions on replacing failed SATA drives Red The red LED to indicate an SATA drive failure If one of the SATA drives fai...

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Page 29: ...ower you should rst power down the system with the operating system rst and then unplug the power cords of all the power supply units in the system When working around exposed electrical circuits anot...

Page 30: ...from your body which are excellent metal conductors that can create short circuits and harm you if they come into contact with printed circuit boards or areas where power is present Serverboard Batte...

Page 31: ...se Touch a grounded metal object before removing the board from the antistatic bag Do not let components or PCBs come into contact with your clothing which may retain a charge even if you are wearing...

Page 32: ...ure that the chassis cover is in place when the 8015C T is operating to assure proper cooling Out of warranty damage to the system can occur if this practice is not strictly followed Figure 4 1 Instal...

Page 33: ...handle them very carefully see previous chapter To prevent the serverboard from bending keep one hand under the center of the board to support it when handling The following measures are generally su...

Page 34: ...back lip of the top cover of the chassis then pull the cover off The X7QCE requires a chassis big enough to support a 16 x 14 3 serverboard such as Supermicro s SC818TQ 1000 Make sure that the I O po...

Page 35: ...locations SATA drive data cable SATA 0 2 Control Panel cable JF1 DVD ROM drive cable J3 Important Make sure the the cables do not come into contact with the fans Connecting Power Cables The X7QCE has...

Page 36: ...ons of the various I O ports Figure 5 1 Control Panel Header Pins Mouse Green Keyboard Purple COM1 Port Turquoise VGA Port Blue Figure 5 2 I O Ports NMI x Key Vcc 5V Stby Vcc 3V Vcc 3V Stby Vcc 3V Stb...

Page 37: ...nect the power cord last and remove it before adding remov ing or changing any components Make sure to install the processor into the CPU socket before you install the CPU heat sink Intel s boxed Xeon...

Page 38: ...orners are marked with a triangle Note When using only one CPU install it into CPU socket 1 Please note that sockets 2 3 and 4 will be automatically disabled if only one CPU is used Press the lever do...

Page 39: ...e heat sink However if you do need to uninstall the heat sink please follow these instructions to avoid damaging the CPU or the CPU socket Installation and Removal of the Heat Sink CEK Passive Heatsin...

Page 40: ...incorrectly see Figure 5 4 Gently press down on the DIMM module until it snaps into place in the slot Repeat for all modules 1 2 3 CAUTION Exercise extreme care when installing or removing DIMM module...

Page 41: ...8 card with the use of the CSE RR1U E16 riser card inserted into the PCI E x16 slot Installing an Add on Card Begin by removing the PCI slot shield for the slot you wish to populate Fully seat the car...

Page 42: ...Channel 0 DIMM A5 Branch 0 Channel 0 DIMM A6 Branch 0 Channel 0 DIMM B1 Branch 0 Channel 1 DIMM B2 Branch 0 Channel 1 DIMM B3 Branch 0 Channel 1 DIMM B4 Branch 0 Channel 1 DIMM B5 Branch 0 Channel 1 D...

Page 43: ...RAID JWD Watch Dog Pins 1 2 Reset Connector Description FAN 1 9 Chassis CPU Fan Headers GLAN1 2 Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 Ports J12 IPMB Header of the IPMI module J13 PWR SMBus I2 C Connector J15 J16 Seri...

Page 44: ...tion 13 3 3V 1 3 3V 14 12V 2 3 3V 15 COM 3 COM 16 PS_ON 4 5V 17 COM 5 COM 18 COM 6 5V 19 COM 7 COM 20 Res NC 8 PWR_OK 21 5V 9 5VSB 22 5V 10 12V 23 5V 11 12V 24 COM 12 3 3V Reset Button Pin De nitions...

Page 45: ...Pin De nition 7 Vcc 8 Ground NIC2 LED Pin De nitions JF1 Pin De nition 9 Vcc 10 Ground HDD LED Pin De nitions JF1 Pin De nition 13 Vcc 14 HD Active NIC2 JLAN2 LED The LED connections for JLAN2 are on...

Page 46: ...mouse port is above the keyboard port See the table on the right for pin de nitions NMI Button The non maskable interrupt button header is located on pins 19 and 20 of JF1 Refer to the table on the r...

Page 47: ...the VGA port on the I O back plane These ports accept RJ45 type cables Wake On Ring The Wake On Ring header is desig nated JWOR1 This function allows your computer to receive and be awakened by an in...

Page 48: ...Pin De nitions USB USB0 1 Pin De nition USB2 3 4 Pin De nition 1 5V 1 5V 2 PO 2 PO 3 PO 3 PO 4 Ground 4 Ground 5 N A 5 Key Power LED Speaker On JD1 header pins 1 3 are for a power LED and pins 4 7 ar...

Page 49: ...ight for pin de nitions Alarm Reset Header Pin De nitions JAR Pin Setting De nition Pin 1 Ground Pin 2 5V Overheat LED Fan Fail JOH1 The JOH1 header is used to connect an LED to provide warning of cha...

Page 50: ...locations Note On a two pin jumper Closed means the jumper is on both pins and Open means the jumper is either on only one pin or completely removed Connector Pins Jumper Setting 3 2 1 3 2 1 Keylock...

Page 51: ...for jumper settings VGA Enable Disable Jumper Settings JPG1 Jumper Setting De nition Pins 1 2 Enabled Pins 2 3 Disabled 3rd Power Fail Detect The system can notify you in the event of a power supply...

Page 52: ...Bypass Onboard PWR Fault When the Bypass Onboard Power Fault Jumper JP15 is set to Enabled a Power Failure LED Indicator will be turned on if the Bypass Onboard Power connector fails See the table on...

Page 53: ...4 Jumper Setting De nition Closed Enabled Default Open Disabled TPM Jumper J14 allows you to enable TPM Trusted Platform Module if a proces sors that supports TPM is used in the system The default set...

Page 54: ...Amber 1 GHz Onboard Power LED LE1 An Onboard Power LED is located at LE1 This LED Indicator is on when the system is on Be sure to unplug the power cable before removing or adding any components See...

Page 55: ...tor s to your hard drive s Consult the documentation that came with your disk drive for details on actual jumper locations and settings for the hard disk drive Floppy Connector The oppy connector is l...

Page 56: ...Key 21 DRQ3 22 Ground 23 I O Write 24 Ground 25 I O Read 26 Ground 27 IOCHRDY 28 BALE 29 DACK3 30 Ground 31 IRQ14 32 IOCS16 33 Addr1 34 Ground 35 Addr0 36 Addr2 37 Chip Select 0 38 Chip Select 1 39 Ac...

Page 57: ...vent damage to any printed circuit boards PCBs it is important to handle them very carefully The following measures are generally suf cient to protect your equipment from ESD damage Precautions Use a...

Page 58: ...he serverboard to the appropriate header on the Control Panel PCB printed circuit board Make sure the red wire plugs into pin 1 on both connectors Pull all excess cabling out of the air ow path The co...

Page 59: ...p chassis cover while the system is still running to determine which of the fans has failed Then power down the system before replacing a fan Removing the power cord s is also recommended as a safety...

Page 60: ...ve it to gain access to the drive bays To remove the bezel rst unlock the front of the chassis then press the release knob see Figure 6 3 Carefully re move the bezel with both hands A lter located wit...

Page 61: ...for instructions DVD ROM Floppy Disk Drives For installing removing a DVD ROM or oppy disk drive you will need to gain access to the inside of the 8015C T by removing the top cover of the chassis Proc...

Page 62: ...e holes which aid in proper air ow SATA Drive Installation Mounting a SATA drive in a drive carrier The SATA drives are mounted in drive carriers to simplify their installation and re moval from the c...

Page 63: ...is already precon gured so there are no jumpers or switches present on it Installing removing hot swap SATA drives The SATA drive carriers are all easily accessible at the front of the chassis These h...

Page 64: ...server With the chassis cover removed unplug the power and data cables from the drive you want to remove Then locate the locking tab at the rear of the drive It will be on the left side of the drive w...

Page 65: ...the 8015C T power must be completely removed from the server before removing and replacing the power supply unit for whatever reason Removing the Power Supply First unplug the power cord from the fai...

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Page 67: ...right frame displays the key legend Above the key legend is an area reserved for a text message When an op tion is selected in the left frame it is highlighted in white Often a text message will acco...

Page 68: ...select this option the AMI BIOS will automatically display the status of processors System Memory This option allows the AMI BIOS to display the status of memory modules installed in the system System...

Page 69: ...led This option allows the user to set the ratio between the CPU Core Clock and the FSB frequency The default setting is 6 Hardware Prefetcher Available when supported by the OS and the CPU If set to...

Page 70: ...whelm the processor or damage the system during an attack Note For more information regarding hardware software support for this function please refer to Intel s and Microsoft s web sites Intel SpeedS...

Page 71: ...PIO Programmable I O Mode programs timing cycles between the IDE drive and the programmable IDE controller As the PIO mode increases the cycle time decreases The options are Auto 0 1 2 3 and 4 Select...

Page 72: ...UDMA2 to allow the BIOS to use Ultra DMA mode 2 It has a data transfer rate of 33 3 MBs Select UDMA3 to allow the BIOS to use Ultra DMA mode 3 It has a data transfer rate of 66 6 MBs Select UDMA4 to a...

Page 73: ...e installed on a PCI bus The default setting is 64 Select 32 to set the PCI latency to 32 PCI clock cycles Select 64 to set the PCI latency to 64 PCI clock cycles Select 96 to set the PCI latency to 9...

Page 74: ...s The options are Disabled 16K 32K 64K Super IO Con guration Submenu Onboard Floppy Controller Select Enabled to enable the onboard oppy controller The options are Enabled and Disabled Serial Port1 Ad...

Page 75: ...t correctable memory errors found on FBD memory modules Select Enabled to use Patrol Scrubbing a background ECC memory correction activity initiated by the northbridge to nd and correct memory errors...

Page 76: ...to 0 all memory modules installed on Branch 1 must support Lockstep Operation The options are 0 and 1 Boot Graphics Adapter Priority This feature allows the user to decide which graphics controller t...

Page 77: ...llows the user to set the maximum PCI speed for the PCI slot speci ed Select Auto to allow the BIOS to automatically detect the capability of the device installed on the bus The options for Slot 1 are...

Page 78: ...egacy USB Support Select Enabled to enable USB Legacy support Disable legacy support if there are no USB devices installed in the system The options are Disabled Enabled and Auto USB 2 0 Controller Mo...

Page 79: ...and CD ROM APCI Con guration This item allows the user to enable or disable the ACPI support for the operating system Advanced ACPI Con guration Use this feature to con gure advanced ACPI options Sele...

Page 80: ...Mode If set to Suspend video will go into the Suspend Mode when the system is in the Suspend or Standby Mode The options are Disabled and Suspend Hard Disk Power Down Mode If set to Suspend the onboar...

Page 81: ...odem receives an incoming call The options are Enabled and Disabled Resume On PME Select Enabled to allow PME to generate a wake event The options are Enabled and Disabled Resume On RTC Alarm Select E...

Page 82: ...option is set to 4 pin the fan speed will be controlled by Pulse Width Modulation PWM Select 3 pin if your chassis came with 3 pin fan headers Select 4 pin if your chassis came with 4 pin fan headers...

Page 83: ...low the instruc tions given on the screen to select the MPS Revision Number The options are 1 1 and 1 4 PCI Express Con guration This section allows the user to con gure the PCI Express slots Active S...

Page 84: ...irection The options are COM1 and COM2 Base Address IRQ This feature allows the user to set the Base Address and IRQ settings for COM1 or COM2 The default setting for COM1 is 3F8h 4 The default settin...

Page 85: ...TF8 Combination Key support for the ANSI VT100 Terminals The options are Enabled and Disabled Sredir Memory Display Delay This feature allows the user to decide how many seconds the BIOS will wait bef...

Page 86: ...the computer system to display the POST messages Select Enabled to allow the computer system to display the OEM logo Add On ROM Display Mode This option allows the BIOS to display add on ROM read only...

Page 87: ...his feature allows the user to select which graphics controller to be used as the primary boot device The options are Auto and Onboard VGA Watch Dog Timer If enabled this option will automatically res...

Page 88: ...r the rst Removable Drive and the second Removable Drive The options are 1st Floppy Drive USB Pepper Virtual Disc 1 2nd Drive and Disabled CD DVD Drives This feature allows the user to specify the boo...

Page 89: ...Set to Always to allow the system to perform a password check when the BIOS Setup is invoked or when the system boots up Boot Sector Virus Protection This option is near the bottom of the Security Se...

Page 90: ...xit Select this option to quit the BIOS Setup without making any permanent changes to the system con guration and reboot the computer Select Discard Changes and Exit from the Exit menu and press Enter...

Page 91: ...S 7 25 Load Fail Safe Defaults To set this feature select Load Fail Safe Defaults from the Exit menu and press Enter The Fail Safe settings are designed for maximum system stability but not for maximu...

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Page 93: ...Keyboard controller failed test May require replacing keyboard controller Keyboard locked Unlock key switch Unlock the system to proceed Monitor type does not match CMOS Run SETUP Monitor type not co...

Page 94: ...o run Setup If the failure was caused by incorrect values and they are not corrected the next boot will likely fail On systems with control of wait states improper Setup settings can also terminate PO...

Page 95: ...ation Error for device Run ISA or EISA Con guration Utility to resolve resource con ict for the speci ed device CD ROM Drive CD ROM Drive identi ed Entering SETUP Starting Setup program Failing Bits n...

Page 96: ...disk and drive A are properly identi ed Parity Check 1 nnnn Parity error found in the system bus BIOS attempts to locate the address and display it on the screen If it cannot locate the address it di...

Page 97: ...in the LCT Run an I2O Con guration Utility e g the SAC utility System BIOS shadowed System BIOS copied to shadow RAM UMB upper limit segment address nnnn Displays the address nnnn of the upper limit...

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Page 99: ...write the error to port 80h attempt to initialize video and write the error in the top left corner of the screen The following is a list of codes that may be written to port 80h POST Code Description...

Page 100: ...cy 33h Initialize Phoenix Dispatch Manager 36h Warm start shut down 38h Shadow system BIOS ROM 3Ah Auto size cache 3Ch Advanced con guration of chipset registers 3Dh Load alternate registers with CMOS...

Page 101: ...I O ports and IRQs optional 81h Late POST device initialization 82h Detect and install external RS232 ports 83h Con gure non MCD IDE controllers 84h Detect and install external parallel ports 85h Ini...

Page 102: ...QuietBoot optional B6h Check password optional B7h Initialize ACPI BIOS and PPM Structures B9h Prepare Boot BAh Initialize SMBIOS BCh Clear parity checkers BDh Display MultiBoot menu BEh Clear screen...

Page 103: ...rrupt vectors F1h Initialize Run Time Clock F2h Initialize video F3h Initialize System Management Manager F4h Output one beep F5h Clear Huge Segment F6h Boot to Mini DOS F7h Boot to Full DOS Note If t...

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Page 105: ...at you desire before installing the Windows XP 2000 2003 operating system and other software drivers The necessary drivers are all included on the Supermicro CD that came packaged with your motherboar...

Page 106: ...ology creates two partitions on each hard disk drive and generate a virtual RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 10 and RAID 5 sets It also allows you the change the HDD partition size without any data Con guring BIOS...

Page 107: ...to Exit Select Save and Exit from the Exit menu Press the Enter key to save the changes and exit the BIOS Once you ve exited the BIOS Utility the system will re boot During the system boot up press t...

Page 108: ...s to select RAID 0 Stripe and hit Enter When the Disks item is highlighted press Enter to select the HDD to con gure as RAID The following pop up screen displays 2 3 4 Use the Up Arrow Down Arrow keys...

Page 109: ...a name for the RAID 1 set and press the Tab key or the Enter key to go to the next eld You can use the Esc key to select the previous menu When RAID Level item is highlighted press the Up Arrow Down A...

Page 110: ...row keys to select the stripe size from 4 KB to 128 KB for your RAID 10 and hit Enter The default setting is 64 KB Note For a server please use a lower stripe size and for a multimedia system use a hi...

Page 111: ...The following pop up screen see note on page C 3 displays 2 3 4 Use the Up Arrow Down Arrow keys to highlight a drive and press Space to select it A triangle appears to con rm the selection of the dri...

Page 112: ...Volume menu 8 9 Warning Be sure to back up your data before deleting a RAID set You will lose all data on the disk drives when deleting a RAID set From the main menu select Delete RAID Volume and pre...

Page 113: ...delete the internal RAID structure on the drive Resetting to Non RAID and Resetting a RAID HDD Use the Up Arrow Down Arrow keys to highlight the RAID set drive to reset and press Space to select Pres...

Page 114: ...Choose the Intel ESB2 SATA RAID controller from the list indicated in the XP 2000 2003 Setup Screen and press the Enter key Press the Enter key to continue the installation process If you need to spe...

Page 115: ...FBD ECC DDR2 667 533 SDRAM Note See the memory section in Chapter 5 for details SATA Controller Intel on chip controller for 3 Gb s Serial ATA RAID 0 1 10 and 5 support Drive Bays Three 3 hot swap dr...

Page 116: ...A BTU Rating 5278 BTUs hr for rated output power of 1000 W Operating Environment Operating Temperature 10 to 35 C 50 to 95 F Non Operating Temperature 40 to 70 C 40 to 158 F Operating Relative Humidit...

Page 117: ...anagement Practices Regulations for Perchlorate Materials This Perchlorate warning applies only to products containing CR Manganese Dioxide Lithium coin cells Perchlorate Material special handling may...

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