Supermicro AS-1040C-8, 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 AS1040C-T/1040C-T/1040C-
8. Installation and maintainance should be performed by experienced technicians
only.
The 1040C-T/1040C-8 is a high-end 1U rackmount server based on the
1000/-1000 server chassis and the H8QCE+/H8QC8+
serverboard, which supports four AMD Opteron ™ 800 series processors and up
to 32 GB of ECC registered DDR400/333 or 64 GB of ECC registered DDR266
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 H8QCE+/H8QC8+
serverboard and the 1000/-1000 chassis, which make up the
1040C-T/1040C-8.
Chapter 2: Server Installation
This chapter describes the steps necessary to install the 1040C-T/1040C-8 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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