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Chapter 6: BIOS

6-6

Exit Menu

Select the E

XIT

 tab from AMI BIOS S

ETUP

 U

TILITY

 screen to enter the E

XIT

 BIOS S

ETUP

 

screen. The options for the E

XIT

 menu are shown in 

Table 6-14

. You may also 

additionally press <E

SC

> to exit without saving or <F10> to save your settings and exit.

1st ~ Drive

These settings specify the boot sequence from the available CD/DVD drive 
devices installed in your system.

The devices to set are:

• 1

ST

 D

RIVE

• 2

ND

 D

RIVE

• 3

RD

 D

RIVE

• 4

TH

 D

RIVE

and so on.

Retry Boot Devices

This option allows the system to retry boot devices. Options are Enabled or 

Disabled

.

Table 6-14. Exit Menu

Menu Option

Description

Save Changes and 
Exit

When you have completed the system configuration changes, select this option 
to leave BIOS Setup and reboot the computer, so the new system configuration 
parameters can take effect. Select S

AVE

 C

HANGES

 

AND

 E

XIT

 from the E

XIT

 menu 

and press <E

NTER

>.

Discard Changes and 
Exit 

Select this option to quit BIOS Setup without making any permanent changes to 
the system configuration and reboot the computer. Select D

ISCARD

 C

HANGES

 

AND

 

E

XIT

 from the E

XIT

 menu and press <E

NTER

>.

Discard Changes

Select this option and press <E

NTER

> to discard all the changes and return to 

AMI BIOS Utility Program.

Load Optimal 
Defaults

To set this feature, select L

OAD

 O

PTIMAL

 D

EFAULTS

 from the E

XIT

 menu and press 

<E

NTER

>. Then Select OK to allow BIOS to automatically load the O

PTIMAL

 

D

EFAULTS

 as the BIOS Settings. The O

PTIMAL

 

SETTINGS

 are designed for 

maximum system performance, but may not work best for all computer 
applications.

Load Fail-Safe 
Defaults

To set this feature, select L

OAD

 F

AIL

-S

AFE

 D

EFAULTS

 from the E

XIT

 menu and 

press <E

NTER

>. The F

AIL

-S

AFE

 settings are designed for maximum system 

stability, but not maximum performance.

Table 6-13. Boot Menu

Menu Option

Description

Summary of Contents for SBA-7222G-T2

Page 1: ...SBA 7222G T2 Blade Module User s Manual Revison 1 0a...

Page 2: ...resolution of any such disputes Super Micro s total liability for all claims will not exceed the price paid for the hardware product FCC Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply wi...

Page 3: ...nd servicing the SBA 7222G T2 Blade Module Chapter 3 Setup and Installation Refer to this chapter for details on installing the SBA 7222G T2 Blade Module into the SuperBlade chassis Other sections cov...

Page 4: ...SBA 7222G T2 Blade Module User s Manual iv Notes...

Page 5: ...tallation 3 1 3 1 Overview 3 1 3 2 Installing Blade Modules 3 1 Powering Up a Blade Unit 3 1 Powering Down a Blade Unit 3 1 Removing a Blade Unit from the Enclosure 3 1 Removing Replacing the Blade Co...

Page 6: ...Blade Unit Components 4 7 Memory Support 4 8 Hard Disk Drives 4 8 Chapter 5 RAID Setup Procedure 5 1 5 1 BIOS Setup 5 1 Chapter 6 BIOS 6 1 6 1 Introduction 6 1 Running Setup 6 1 6 2 Main BIOS Setup Me...

Page 7: ...Appendix A BIOS POST Codes A 1 A 1 BIOS POST Messages A 1 A 2 BIOS POST Codes A 4 Recoverable POST Errors A 4 Terminal POST Errors A 4 Uncompressed Initialization Codes A 4 Bootblock Recovery Codes A...

Page 8: ...SBI 7226T T2 Blade Module User s Manual viii Notes...

Page 9: ...8 Slot DIMM Numbering for Two Node Blade Modules 3 7 Figure 3 6 Installing a DIMM into a Memory Slot 3 8 Figure 3 7 Installing a Hard Drive in a Carrier 3 10 Figure 4 1 SBA 7222G T2 Blade Unit Front...

Page 10: ...SBI 7226T T2 Blade Module User s Manual x Notes...

Page 11: ...ed Chipset Control Submenu 6 4 Table 6 4 IDE Configuration Submenu 6 6 Table 6 5 PCI PnP Configuration Submenu 6 7 Table 6 6 Super IO Configuration Submenu 6 8 Table 6 7 Remote Access Configuration Su...

Page 12: ...SBI 7226T T2 Blade Module User s Manual xii Notes...

Page 13: ...s are housed in Please refer to our web site for information on operating systems that have been certified for use with the SuperBlade www supermicro com products superblade 1 2 Product Checklist of T...

Page 14: ...1333 1066 800 SDRAM DIMMs Both interleaved and non interleaved memory are supported so you may populate any number of DIMM slots Please refer to the Supermicro web site for a list of supported memory...

Page 15: ...ails Density A maximum of ten blade modules may be installed into a single blade enclosure with two nodes Each blade enclosure is a 7U form factor so a standard 42U rack may accommodate up to six encl...

Page 16: ...SBA 7222G T2 Blade Module User s Manual 1 4 Figure 1 1 Full Rack of Blade Enclosures and Blade Servers...

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Page 18: ...SBA 7222G T2 Blade Module User s Manual 1 6 Notes...

Page 19: ...oards they come into contact with Do not use mats designed to decrease electrostatic discharge as protection from electrical shock Instead use rubber mats that have been specifically designed as elect...

Page 20: ...erated by two objects with different electrical charges coming into contact with each other An electrical discharge is created to neutralize this difference which can damage electronic components and...

Page 21: ...unit is in place when the blade is operating to assure proper cooling Out of warranty damage to the blade can occur if this practice is not strictly followed Any drive carrier without a hard drive ins...

Page 22: ...SBA 7222G T2 Blade Module User s Manual 2 4 Notes...

Page 23: ...e Powering Down a Blade Unit A blade unit may be powered down in either of five ways Press the power button on the blade unit Use IPMIView or the web browser based management utility to power down if...

Page 24: ...e cover toward the front of the blade to lock it into place Installing a Blade Unit into the Enclosure Make sure the cover of the blade unit has been replaced first before installing a blade unit in t...

Page 25: ...3 3 Chapter 3 Setup and Installation Figure 3 1 Inserting a Blade into the Enclosure Figure 3 2 Locking the Blade into Position...

Page 26: ...so that nothing comes into contact with the thermal grease on its underside 5 Raise the lever of the processor socket up until the processor is released from the socket then lift the silver cover pla...

Page 27: ...gure 3 3 Installing a G34 Processor in a Socket 3 4 Onboard Battery Installation A battery is included on the mainboard to supply certain volatile memory components with power when power has been remo...

Page 28: ...ype will result in three channel interleaved memory which is faster than single channel non interleaved memory See Table 3 1 and Figure 3 5 for details For an interleaved configuration memory modules...

Page 29: ...IMM Numbering for Two Node Blade Modules Edge of Board Toward CPU Toward CPU Edge of Board Toward CPU Toward CPU P1 DIMM2 P1 DIMM1 P1 DIMM3 P1 DIMM4 P3 DIMM3 P3 DIMM4 P3 DIMM2 P3 DIMM1 P4 DIMM2 P4 DIM...

Page 30: ...a DIMM into a Memory Slot 4 Gently press down on the DIMM until it snaps into place in the slot Repeat for all modules see Table 3 1 for installing DIMMs into the slots in the correct order 5 Replace...

Page 31: ...following procedure Installing a Hard Drive 1 Remove a blank drive carrier from the blade see removal procedure above 2 Insert a 2 5 drive into the carrier with the PCB side facing down and the connec...

Page 32: ...SBA 7222G T2 Blade Module User s Manual 3 10 Figure 3 7 Installing a Hard Drive in a Carrier...

Page 33: ...a mouse to the USB hub You will also need to connect a monitor to the video connector on the SUV cable Turn on the blade module 3 Insert the CD containing the OS into the CD ROM drive 4 Follow the pr...

Page 34: ...ollers So under Native IDE mode which is the default your Linux OS will see one drive as HDA and the other as SDA If the SATA controller mode operation is changed to AMD_AHCI in the BIOS then the HDDs...

Page 35: ...1944 pin G34 sockets for up to two AMD Opteron 6100 series processors per node Memory Supports up to 128 GB of ECC Registered DDR3 1333 1066 800 SDRAM DIMMs or 32 GB of ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 1066...

Page 36: ...ns blade module on and off 2 KVM Button N A Initiates KVM function 3 Power LED Green Indicates power status On Orange Indicates power status Off with power cables plugged in 4 KVM UID LED Blue Indicat...

Page 37: ...you wish to access To switch to another blade disconnect the cable then reconnect it to the new blade See the Web based Management Utility User s Manual on your SuperBlade system CD ROM for further de...

Page 38: ...etary design which is based on the AMD SR5650 SP5100 chipset See Figure 4 4 for a block diagram of this chipset Figure 4 3 for a view of the BHDGT Mainboard and Figure 4 5 for an exploded view diagram...

Page 39: ...ing for Two Node Blade Modules on page 3 7 for details 6 Space for 2 5 SATA Hard Drive 7 Gbx Connector for power and logic to backplane 8 SATA Connector 9 Onboard Battery 10 AMD SR5650 chipset 11 SP51...

Page 40: ...Remove the blade cover to access the mainboard see Removing Replacing the Blade Cover on page 3 2 for further details Short the CMOS pads with a metal object such as a small screwdriver 3 Replace the...

Page 41: ...4 7 Chapter 4 Blade Module Features 4 3 Blade Unit Components Figure 4 5 Exploded View of SBA 7222G T2 Blade Module 1 2 2 3 4 3 5 4 3 2 2...

Page 42: ...n The four drives can be used to set up a RAID array SATA RAID 0 or 1 only or JBOD These drives use a blue color for the Blade HDD active LED Table 4 5 Main Components of SBA 7222G T2 Blade Unit Item...

Page 43: ...he QUICK INIT option may return some data miscompares if you later run a consistency check This is normal and is not a cause for concern NOTE The ACU allows you to use drives of different sizes in an...

Page 44: ...up Setting up the BIOS for RAID 1 In the ADVANCED SETTINGS screen of the BIOS Setup select the IDE CONFIGURATION sub menu and press ENTER 2 In the IDE Configuration screen that appears Figure 5 1 sele...

Page 45: ...Esc key once to exit the IDE CONFIGURATION screen and go to the EXIT menu in the BIOS setup From the Exit menu select SAVE CHANGES AND EXIT to confirm your RAID configuration changes and exit the BIO...

Page 46: ...222G T2 Blade Module User s Manual 5 4 4 Your system will reboot When the reboot displays the screen message in Figure 5 3 press CTRL A to bring up the RAID Configuration Utility Figure 5 3 Screen Mes...

Page 47: ...he message Press the Delete key to enter Setup appears briefly at the bottom of the screen during the POST press the DELETE key to activate the main SETUP menu 6 2 Main BIOS Setup Menu The MAIN MENU s...

Page 48: ...in the system System Time System Date You can edit the SYSTEM TIME SYSTEM DATE field to change the system time and date Highlight SYSTEM TIME or SYSTEM DATE using the ARROW keys Enter new values throu...

Page 49: ...f PS 2 Mouse Support Use this option to select support for the PS 2 mouse Options include Auto Enabled or Disabled Wait for F1 If Error This option sets the system to wait for the F1 key to be pressed...

Page 50: ...u to enable or disable the generation of ACPI _PPC _PPS and _PCT objects PowerCap This option can decide the highest performance P state in the OS Options include P state 0 P state 1 P state 2 P state...

Page 51: ...options for DRAM Timing Configuration DRAM Timing Configuration This option allows you to set the DRAM Timing configuration as Auto or Manual Memory Timing Parameters This option selects which node s...

Page 52: ...od of addressing data on a disk drive The options are Disabled and Auto Block Multi Sector Transfer Block mode boosts IDE drive performance by increasing the amount of data transferred Only 512 bytes...

Page 53: ...Plug Play OS Select YES to allow the OS to configure Plug Play devices NOTE Selecting YES is not required for system boot if your system has an OS that supports Plug Play Select No to allow AMIBIOS to...

Page 54: ...D to prevent the serial port from accessing any system resources When this option is set to DISABLED the serial port physically becomes unavailable Select 2F8 IRQ3 to allow the serial port to use 2F8...

Page 55: ...rm CPU Information Static CPU health information is shown in this submenu The following information is shown CPU 1 Temperature CPU Temperature NB Temperature System Temperature CPU1 Vcore CPU2 Vcore C...

Page 56: ...e IP Address Source then the IP Address setting becomes active IP Address This setting allows you to set the IP Address for your LAN Configuration in decimal format of XXX XXX XXX XXX and with values...

Page 57: ...vent logs The options are YES and NO to verify SR56x0 RD890S PCIE Error Log This option allows you to enable or disable the SR56x0 RD890S PCIE error log Options include Yes or No Table 6 12 Security M...

Page 58: ...CE 3RD BOOT DEVICE 4TH BOOT DEVICE and so on Hard Disk Drives This sub menu specifies the boot device priority sequence from the available hard drives installed in your system 1st Drive These settings...

Page 59: ...rameters can take effect Select SAVE CHANGES AND EXIT from the EXIT menu and press ENTER Discard Changes and Exit Select this option to quit BIOS Setup without making any permanent changes to the syst...

Page 60: ...SBA 7222G T2 Blade Module User s Manual 6 14 Notes...

Page 61: ...4k block at which the error was detected System RAM Failed at offset nnnn System RAM failed at offset nnnn of in the 64k block at which the error was detected Extended RAM Failed at offset nnnn Extend...

Page 62: ...n older boards check the cache jumpers You may have to replace the cache See your dealer A disabled cache slows system performance considerably CPU ID CPU socket number for Multi Processor error EISA...

Page 63: ...rrupted Parity Check 2 nnnn Parity error found in the I O bus BIOS attempts to locate the address and display it on the screen If it cannot locate the address it displays Press F1 to resume F2 to Setu...

Page 64: ...80h Uncompressed Initialization Codes The uncompressed initialization checkpoint codes are listed in order of execution in table Table A 2 Table A 2 Uncompressed Initialization Error Codes Post Code D...

Page 65: ...diskette FAT to find the clusters occupied by the AMIBOOT ROM file F3h Next reading the AMIBOOT ROM file cluster by cluster F4h The AMIBOOT ROM file is not the correct size E0h The onboard floppy cont...

Page 66: ...equired initialization before the keyboard BAT command is issued 0Ch The keyboard controller input buffer is free Next issuing the BAT command to the keyboard controller 0Eh The keyboard controller BA...

Page 67: ...itialization system static output devices will be done next if present See the last page for additional information 2Eh Completed post video ROM test processing If the EGA VGA controller is not found...

Page 68: ...Ch The memory below 1 MB has been cleared via a soft reset Clearing the memory above 1 MB next 4Dh The memory above 1 MB has been cleared via a soft reset Saving the memory size next Going to checkpoi...

Page 69: ...83h The command byte was written and global data initialization has completed Checking for a locked key next 84h Locked key checking is over Checking for a memory size mismatch with CMOS RAM data nex...

Page 70: ...nitialization after the Coprocessor test next 9Eh Initialization after the Coprocessor test is complete Checking the extended keyboard keyboard ID and Num Lock key next Issuing the keyboard ID command...

Page 71: ...11 B1h Copying any code to specific areas 00h Code copying to specific areas is done Passing control to INT 19h boot loader next Table A 4 Uncompressed Initialization Error Codes Post Code Descriptio...

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