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Page 2: ...urer and customer shall be governed by the 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 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 with the limits for a Cl...

Page 3: ...667 533 400 SDRAM Manual Organization Chapter 1 Introduction The ﬁrst chapter provides a checklist of the main components included with the server system and describes the main features of the PDSMU motherboard and the SC825TQ R700U chassis which comprise the SuperServer 5025M UR Chapter 2 Server Installation This chapter describes the steps necessary to install the SuperServer 5025M UR into a rac...

Page 4: ...ing or removing processors or main memory and when reconﬁguring the motherboard Chapter 6 Advanced Chassis Setup Refer to Chapter 6 for detailed information on the SC825TQ R700U server chassis You should follow the procedures given in this chapter when installing removing or reconﬁguring drives and when replacing system power supply modules and cooling fans Chapter 7 BIOS The BIOS chapter includes...

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

Page 6: ... for Setup 2 1 Choosing a Setup Location 2 2 Rack Precautions 2 2 Server Precautions 2 2 Rack Mounting Considerations 2 3 2 4 Installing the System into a Rack 2 4 2 5 Checking the Motherboard Setup 2 8 2 6 Checking the Drive Bay Setup 2 10 Chapter 3 System Interface 3 1 Overview 3 1 3 2 Control Panel Buttons 3 1 Reset 3 1 Power 3 1 3 3 Control Panel LEDs 3 2 Power Fail 3 2 Overheat Fan Fail 3 2 N...

Page 7: ...5 7 5 5 Installing Memory 5 7 5 6 Adding PCI Cards 5 9 5 7 Motherboard Details 5 10 PDSMU Layout 5 10 PDSMU Quick Reference 5 11 5 8 Connector Deﬁnitions 5 12 ATX Power Connector 5 12 Processor Power Connector 5 12 NMI Button 5 12 Power LED 5 12 HDD LED 5 13 NIC1 LED 5 13 NIC2 LED 5 13 Overheat Fan LED 5 13 Power Fail LED 5 14 Reset Button 5 14 Power Button 5 14 Universal Serial Bus USB0 1 5 14 Un...

Page 8: ...5 21 5 11 Floppy IDE and SATA Drive Connections 5 22 Floppy Connector 5 22 IDE Connector 5 23 SATA Ports 5 23 Chapter 6 Advanced Chassis Setup 6 1 Static Sensitive Devices 6 1 6 2 Control Panel 6 2 6 3 System Fans 6 3 System Fan Failure 6 3 Replacing System Fans 6 3 6 4 Drive Bay Installation Removal 6 4 SATA Drive Installation 6 5 DVD ROM and Floppy Drive Installation 6 7 6 5 Power Supply 6 8 Pow...

Page 9: ...nced Setup 7 6 7 5 Security 7 16 7 6 Boot 7 17 7 7 Exit 7 18 Appendices Appendix A BIOS POST Messages Appendix B BIOS POST Codes Appendix C Intel HostRAID Appendix D Adaptec HostRAID Setup Guidelines Appendix E System Speciﬁcations ...

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Page 11: ...ne 1 slim DVD ROM drive DVM PNSC 824 B Three 3 8 cm fans FAN 0094L One 1 air shroud MCP 310 00022 00 One 1 front panel cable CBL 0087 Riser Cards see Section 5 6 for details One 1 RSC R2UU UA3E8 for 1 UIO and three 3 PCI E x8 cards SATA Accessories One 1 SATA backplane BPN SAS 825TQ Two 2 SATA iPASS cables CBL 0188L Eight 8 SATA drive carriers MCP 220 00001 01 One 1 USB tray MCP 220 00007 01 One 1...

Page 12: ...is a specially designed motherboard that features Supermicro s UIO Universal I O technology UIO motherboards have a PCI Express x8 connector that can support any one of several types of UIO card types to add SAS ports additional LAN ports etc to the motherboard This allows the user to tailor the motherboard to their own needs Note the 5025M UR does not come with a UIO card installed Serial ATA An ...

Page 13: ... 2U server chassis The following is a general outline of the main features of the SC825TQ R700U chassis System Power The SC825TQ R700U features a redundant 700W power supply composed of two separate power modules This power redundancy feature allows you to replace a failed power supply without shutting down the system SATA Subsystem The SC825TQ R700LP supports up to six 3 Gb s Serial ATA drives Th...

Page 14: ...ackplane The SC825TQ R700U is an ATX form factor chassis designed to be used in a 2U rackmount conﬁguration The I O backplane provides seven low proﬁle PCI expansion slots one COM port a VGA port two USB 2 0 ports PS 2 mouse and keyboard ports and two gigabit Ethernet ports Cooling System The SC825TQ R700U chassis has an innovative cooling design that includes three 8 cm hot plug system cooling fa...

Page 15: ...CESSOR ICH 7R USB PORT_0 5 FWH LPC I O MS KB FDD SER 1 SER 2 PRN PRI_IDE VRM 11 0 ADDR CTRL CTRL ADDR DATA DATA UDMA 100 PCI_32_BUS DDR2_667 533 400 DMI ATI S ATA 300 4 x SATA CK410 CLK MCH PORTS 1XGb_LAN PCIE_x1 W83627HG FSB 1066 800 533MHz USB 2 0 1 1 SMBUS I F PCIE_x8 W83793G H W MONITOR LPC CH_B1 2 DDR2 CH_A1 2 1x PCIE_x8 1XGb_LAN PCIE_x1 PCIE_x8 1x PCIE_x8 1PCIE_x16 Slot ...

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Page 17: ...aged in any way If the server itself shows damage you should ﬁle a damage claim with the carrier who delivered it Decide on a suitable location for the rack unit that will hold the SuperServer 5025M UR It should be situated in a clean dust free area that is well ventilated Avoid areas where heat electrical noise and electromagnetic ﬁelds are generated You will also need it placed near a grounded p...

Page 18: ...hould be attached to the rack In multiple rack installations the racks should be coupled together Always make sure the rack is stable before extending a component from the rack You should extend only one component at a time extending two or more simul taneously may cause the rack to become unstable Server Precautions Review the electrical and general safety precautions in Chapter 4 Determine the p...

Page 19: ...omised Mechanical Loading Equipment should be mounted into a rack so that a hazardous condition does not arise due to uneven mechanical loading Circuit Overloading Consideration should be given to the connection of the equipment to the power supply circuitry and the effect that any possible overloading of circuits might have on overcurrent protection and power supply wiring Appropriate considerati...

Page 20: ...attached to the front of the chassis and which gets attached to the rear of the chassis The longer of the two is the front section The third rail section attaches to the rack Installing the Chassis Rails Position the front and rear chassis rail sections along the side of the 5025M UR making sure the screw holes line up Note that these two rails are left right speciﬁc Screw the front chassis rail t...

Page 21: ...Chapter 2 Server Installation 2 5 Figure 2 1 Installing Chassis Rails ...

Page 22: ...s 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 the locking tabs when inserting See Figure 2 2 When the server has been pushed completely into the rack you should hear the locking tabs click Finish by inserting and tightening the thumbscrews that hold the front of the server to the rack Install...

Page 23: ...Chapter 2 Server Installation 2 7 Figure 2 2 Installing the Server into a Rack ...

Page 24: ...the CPU processor You may have a processor already installed into the motherboard The processor needs its own heatsink See Chapter 5 for instructions on processor and heatsink installation 3 Check the system memory Your 5025M UR server system may have come with system memory already in stalled Make sure all DIMMs are fully seated in their slots For details on adding system memory refer to Chapter ...

Page 25: ...Chapter 2 Server Installation 2 9 Figure 2 3 Accessing the Inside of the System ...

Page 26: ...ystem 3 Check the SATA drives Depending upon your system s conﬁguration your system may have one or more drives already installed If you need to install SATA drives please refer to Chapter 6 4 Check the airﬂow Airﬂow is provided by three 8 cm center chassis cooling fans An air shroud is also included in the system to maximize airﬂow The system component layout was carefully designed to direct sufﬁ...

Page 27: ... of speciﬁc components There are also two buttons on the chassis control panel 3 2 Control Panel Buttons The two push buttons located on the front of the chassis are a reset button and a power on off button RESET Use the reset button to reboot the system POWER This is the main power button which is used to apply or turn off the main system power Turning off system power with this button removes th...

Page 28: ...erating normally See table below Overheat Fan Fail When this LED ﬂashes slowly it indicates a fan failure and when ﬂashing quickly indicates a power failure When on continuously it indi cates a CPU overheat condition which may be caused by cables obstructing the airﬂow in the system or the ambient room temperature being too warm Check the routing of the cables and make sure all fans are present an...

Page 29: ...nated when the system is operating 3 4 Drive Carrier LEDs SATA Drives Green Each drive carrier has a green LED When illuminated this green LED on the front of the drive carrier indicates drive activity A connection to the backplane enables this LED to blink on and off when that particular drive is be ing accessed Please refer to Chapter 6 for instructions on replacing failed SATA drives Red The re...

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Page 31: ...d memory modules and the DVD ROM and ﬂoppy drives When disconnecting power you should ﬁrst power down the system with the operating system and then unplug the power cords of all the power supply units in the system When working around exposed electrical circuits another person who is familiar with the power off controls should be nearby to switch off the power if necessary Use only one hand when w...

Page 32: ...h can come into contact with electrical circuits or be pulled into a cooling fan The power supply power cord must include a grounding plug and must be plugged into grounded electrical outlets Motherboard Battery CAUTION There is a danger of explosion if the onboard battery is installed upside down which will reverse its polarities see Figure 4 1 This battery must be replaced only with the same or ...

Page 33: ...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 a wrist strap Handle a board by its edges only do not touch its components peripheral chips memory modules or contacts When handling chips or modules avoid touching their pins Put the motherboard and peripherals back into thei...

Page 34: ... cooling Out of warranty damage to the 5025M UR system can occur if this practice is not strictly followed Figure 4 1 Installing the Onboard Battery LITHIUM BATTERY BATTERY HOLDER BATTERY HOLDER LITHIUM BATTERY OR For grounding purposes make sure your computer chassis provides excellent conductivity between the power supply the case the mounting fasteners and the motherboard ...

Page 35: ...at the size and weight of the motherboard can cause it to bend if handled improperly which may result in damage To prevent the moth erboard from bending keep one hand under the center of the board to support it when handling The following measures are generally sufﬁcient to protect your equipment from static discharge Precautions Use a grounded wrist strap designed to prevent static discharge Touc...

Page 36: ... or when receiving a motherboard with one pre installed make sure that the CPU plastic cap is in place and none of the CPU pins are bent otherwise contact the retailer immediately 5 2 Processor and Heatsink Installation When handling the processor avoid placing direct pressure on the label area of the fan Also do not place the motherboard on a conductive surface which can damage the BIOS battery a...

Page 37: ...y or vertically and do not rub the CPU against any surface or any of the contacts which may damage the CPU and or contacts 7 With the CPU in the socket inspect the four corners of the CPU to make sure that it is properly installed 8 Use your thumb to gently push the load lever down until it snaps into the retention clasp 9 If the CPU is properly installed into the socket the PnP cap will be auto m...

Page 38: ...on mechanism 3 Screw in two diagonal screws until just snug Do not fully tighten the screws or you may damage the CPU 4 Add the two remaining screws then ﬁnish the installation by fully tightening all four screws Removing the Heatsink 1 Unscrew and remove the heatsink screws from the motherboard in the sequence as show in the picture above 2 Hold the heatsink and gently wriggle the heatsink to loo...

Page 39: ...ecting them make sure the red wires connect to the pin 1 locations If you are conﬁguring the system keep the airﬂow in mind when routing the cables The following data cables with their motherboard connector locations noted should be connected See the motherboard layout diagram in this chapter for connector locations DVD ROM Drive cable IDE 1 Control Panel cable JF1 see next page SATA cables SATA0 ...

Page 40: ...e sides of each header All JF1 wires have been bundled into single keyed ribbon cable to simplify their connection The red wire in the ribbon cable plugs into pin 1 of JF1 Connect the other end of the cable to the Control Panel printed circuit board located just behind the system status LEDs in the chassis See the Connector Deﬁnitions section in this chapter for details and pin descrip tions of JF...

Page 41: ... into the memory slots starting with slot DIMM 1A and DIMM 1B Both interleaved and non interleaved memory are sup ported so you may populate any number of DIMM slots Populating two slots at a time DIMM1A DIMM1B DIMM2A DIMM2B etc with memory modules of the same size and of the same type will result in dual channel interleaved memory which is faster than the single channel non interleaved memory 2 I...

Page 42: ...perating systems may not show more than 4 GB of memory Due to memory allocation to system devices memory remaining available for op erational use will be reduced when 4 GB of RAM is used The reduction in memory availability is disproportional Refer to the table below for details DDR2 FBD DIMM Possible System Memory Allocation Availability System Device Size Physical Memory Remaining 4 GB Total Sys...

Page 43: ...s 2 PCI card installation Before installing a PCI add on card make sure you install it into the correct slot on the riser card Begin by releasing the locking tab that corresponds to the slot you wish to populate Insert the expansion card into the correct riser card pushing down with your thumbs evenly on both sides of the card PCI Slot Card Conﬁgurations Riser Card Expansion cards supported CSE R2...

Page 44: ...ly LAN2 LAN1 VGA COM1 USB0 1 Kb Mouse SEPC SBX2 SBX1 Speaker BIOS SIMSO ATI ES1000 ICH7R South Bridge Intel 3010 North Bridge COM2 Floppy USB4 5 USB2 3 SATA0 SATA1 SATA2 SATA3 JPW1 JPW2 LGA 775 CPU IDE 1 DIMM2B DIMM2A DIMM1B DIMM1A Battery JWOR JPL1 JPL2 JPG1 UID PWR LED JF1 J9 JPF WOL JWD PW4 PW3 JAR JLED FAN5 FAN4 FAN3 FAN2 FAN1 FAN6 JL1 JBT1 S UPER PDSMU LE1 ...

Page 45: ... Chassis Intrusion Header JLED Power LED Header JPW1 24 Pin ATX Power Connector JPW2 8 pin Power Connector Required JWOR Wake On Ring header LAN1 LAN2 Ethernet RJ45 Gigabit LAN Ports PW3 Power Supply Fail Connector PW4 Power System Management Bus I2 C SATA 0 3 Serial ATA Ports SEPC Proprietary Power Connector for UIO SIMSO SIMSO IPMI Slot UID Unit Identiﬁer Button USB0 1 Universal Serial Bus Ports...

Page 46: ...and 20 of JF1 Refer to the table on the right for pin deﬁnitions NMI Button Pin Deﬁnitions JF1 Pin Deﬁnition 19 Control 20 Ground Processor Power Pin Deﬁnitions JPW2 Pins Deﬁnition 1 through 4 Ground 5 through 8 12V Power LED Pin Deﬁnitions JF1 Pin Deﬁnition 15 Vcc 16 Control Processor Power Connector JPW2 must also be connected to the power supply to provide power for the processor s See the tabl...

Page 47: ...ht for pin deﬁnitions NIC1 LED Pin Deﬁnitions JF1 Pin Deﬁnition 11 Vcc 12 Ground NIC2 LED Pin Deﬁnitions JF1 Pin Deﬁnition 9 Vcc 10 Ground HDD LED The HDD IDE Hard Disk Drive LED connection is located on pins 13 and 14 of JF1 Attach the IDE hard drive LED cable to display disk activity Refer to the table on the right for pin deﬁnitions HDD LED Pin Deﬁnitions JF1 Pin Deﬁnition 13 Vcc 14 HD Active O...

Page 48: ...tton for at least 4 seconds Refer to the table on the right for pin deﬁnitions Universal Serial Bus USB0 1 Two Universal Serial Bus ports are located on the I O backplane USB0 is the bottom connector and USB1 is the top connector See the table on the right for pin deﬁnitions Reset Button Pin Deﬁnitions JF1 Pin Deﬁnition 3 Reset 4 Ground Power Button Pin Deﬁnitions JF1 Pin Deﬁnition 1 PW_ON 2 Groun...

Page 49: ... included on the header but not on the port NC indicates no connection Serial Port Pin Deﬁnitions COM1 COM2 Pin Deﬁnition Pin Deﬁnition 1 DCD 6 DSR 2 RXD 7 RTS 3 TXD 8 CTS 4 DTR 9 RI 5 Ground 10 NC Fan Header Pin Deﬁnitions FAN1 6 Pin Deﬁnition 1 Ground Black 2 12V Red 3 Tachometer 4 PWM Control Universal Serial Bus Headers Four additional USB headers USB2 3 and USB4 5 are included on the motherbo...

Page 50: ...with a Wake on LAN con nector and cable Wake On LAN Pin Deﬁnitions WOL Pin Deﬁnition 1 5V Standby 2 Ground 3 Wake up Chassis Intrusion A Chassis Intrusion header is located at JL1 Attach the appropriate cable to inform you of a chassis intrusion Chassis Intrusion Pin Deﬁnitions JL1 Pin Deﬁnition 1 Intrusion Input 2 Ground Speaker Connector The speaker connector located at J9 allows you to choose b...

Page 51: ...Data 3 PWR Fail 4 Ground 5 3 3V Power Supply Fail Connect a cable from your power sup ply to the Power Supply Fail header PW3 to provide a warning of power supply failure This warning signal is passed through the PWR_LED pin to indicate a power failure See the table on the right for pin deﬁnitions Note This feature is only available when using Supermicro redundant power supplies Power Supply Fail ...

Page 52: ... beside the VGA port on the I O backplane These ports accept RJ45 type cables Power LED The Power LED connector is desig nated JLED Connect an LED here for indication of power being supplied to the motherboard See the table on the right for pin deﬁnitions Power LED Pin Deﬁnitions JLED Pin Deﬁnition 1 5V 2 Key 3 Ground ...

Page 53: ...ear CMOS and will also clear any passwords Instead of pins this jumper consists of contact pads to prevent accidentally clearing the contents of CMOS To clear CMOS 1 First power down the system and unplug the power cord s 2 With the power disconnected short the CMOS pads with a metal object such as a small screwdriver 3 Remove the screwdriver or shorting device 4 Reconnect the power cord s and pow...

Page 54: ... hung up See the table on the right for jumper settings Watch Dog must also be en abled in BIOS Note When enabled the user needs to write their own application software to disable the Watch Dog Timer LAN Enable Disable Jumper Settings JPL1 JPL2 Jumper Setting Deﬁnition Pins 1 2 Enabled Pins 2 3 Disabled Watch Dog Jumper Settings JWD Jumper Setting Deﬁnition Pins 1 2 Reset Pins 2 3 NMI Open Disable...

Page 55: ...Amber 1 GHz LE1 The LE1 LED located under the UID button is the UID indicator LED LE1 illuminates when UID is initiated either by the UID button or via IPMI If initi ated a second time LE1 will turn off When the LED blinks blue it means the signal was initiated via IPMI If blue continuously it means a UID but ton initiated it UID LED Indicator LE1 LED Deﬁnition Off Normal On UID button depressed P...

Page 56: ...ive A and the connector that does not have twisted wires always connects to drive B Floppy Connector The ﬂoppy connector is designated Floppy See the table below for pin deﬁnitions Floppy Drive Connector Pin Deﬁnitions Floppy Pin Deﬁnition Pin Deﬁnition 1 Ground 2 FDHDIN 3 Ground 4 Reserved 5 Key 6 FDEDIN 7 Ground 8 Index 9 Ground 10 Motor Enable 11 Ground 12 Drive Select B 13 Ground 14 Drive Sele...

Page 57: ...10 Host Data 11 11 Host Data 3 12 Host Data 12 13 Host Data 2 14 Host Data 13 15 Host Data 1 16 Host Data 14 17 Host Data 0 18 Host Data 15 19 Ground 20 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 Activity 40 Ground SATA Ports See the table on th...

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Page 59: ...em very carefully The following measures are generally sufﬁcient to protect your equipment from ESD damage Precautions Use a grounded wrist strap designed to prevent static discharge Touch a grounded metal object before removing any board from its antistatic bag Handle a board by its edges only do not touch its components peripheral chips memory modules or gold contacts When handling chips or modu...

Page 60: ...n Con nect the cable from JF1 on the motherboard to 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 airﬂow path The LEDs inform you of system status See Chapter 3 for details on the LEDs and the control panel buttons Details on JF1 can be found in Chapter 5 Control Panel Main Power Slim DVD ROM Drive 3 5 Driv...

Page 61: ... run with a failed fan Remove the top chassis cover while the system is still running to determine which of the fans has failed Replacing System Fans 1 Removing a fan Remove the chassis cover Press the tabs on the sides of the fan to unlock and remove the fan and its housing The fan s power connections will automatically detach System power does not need to be shut down since the fans are hot plug...

Page 62: ...standard 1 high SATA drives in the SuperServer 5025M UR DVD ROM Floppy Disk Drive For installing removing the DVD ROM or ﬂoppy disk drive you will need to gain access to the inside of the server by removing the top cover of the chassis Proceed to the DVD ROM and Floppy Drive Installation section later in this chapter for instructions DVD ROM and Floppy Drives For installing removing the DVD ROM or...

Page 63: ...tall a drive into the carrier with the printed circuit board side facing down so that the mounting holes align with those in the carrier Secure the drive to the carrier with four screws as shown in Figure 6 3 Figure 6 3 Mounting a SATA Drive in a Carrier Important Regardless of how many SATA hard drives are installed all drive carriers must remain in the drive bays to maintain proper airﬂow Use ca...

Page 64: ...ve carriers are all easily accessible at the front of the chassis These hard drives are hot pluggable meaning they can be removed and installed without powering down the system To remove a carrier push the release button located beside the drive LEDs Then swing the colored handle fully out and use it to pull the unit straight out see Figure 6 4 Note Your operating system must have RAID support to ...

Page 65: ...The top cover of the chassis must be opened to gain full access to the DVD ROM and ﬂoppy drive bays The 5025M UR accomodates only slim type DVD ROM drives Side mounting brakets are typically needed to mount a slim DVD ROM drive in the 5025M UR server First grasp the two handles on either side and pull the unit straight out until it locks you will hear a click Next depress the two buttons on the to...

Page 66: ...lity meaning you can replace the failed unit without powering down the system Removing Replacing the Power Supply You do not need to shut down the system to replace a power supply unit The backup power supply module will keep the system up and running while you replace the failed hot swap unit Replace with the same model see part number in the Appendix which can be ordered directly from Supermicro...

Page 67: ...e CMOS Logic enabling it to retain system parameters Each time when the computer is powered on the computer is conﬁgured with the values stored in the CMOS Logic by the system BIOS which gains control at boot up How To Change the Conﬁguration Data The CMOS information that determines the system parameters may be changed by entering the BIOS Setup utility This Setup utility can be accessed by press...

Page 68: ...y pressing Delete immediately after turning the system on or 2 When the message shown below appears brieﬂy at the bottom of the screen during the POST Power On Self Test press the Delete key to activate the main Setup menu Press the Delete key to enter Setup 7 3 Main BIOS Setup All main Setup options are described in this section The main BIOS Setup screen is displayed below Use the Up Down arrow ...

Page 69: ...and enter the correct data Press the Enter key to save the data BIOS Date This ﬁeld displays the date when this version of BIOS was built Legacy Diskette A This setting allows the user to set the type of ﬂoppy disk drive installed as diskette A The options are Disabled 360Kb 5 25 in 1 2MB 5 25 in 720Kb 3 5 in 1 44 1 25MB 3 5 in and 2 88MB 3 5 in Parallel ATA This setting allows the user to enable ...

Page 70: ...et to Enabled the item ICH RAID Code Base will be available for you to select either Intel or Adaptec Host RAID ﬁrmware If this item is set to Disabled the item SATA AHCI Enable will be available The options are Enabled and Disabled ICH RAID Code Base Available when SATA RAID is Enabled Select Intel to enable Intel s SATARAID ﬁrmware SelectAdaptec to useAdaptec s HostRAID ﬁrmware The options are I...

Page 71: ...Mode Control This item determines whether the Phoenix BIOS will access the IDE Channel 0 Master Device via the LBA mode The options are Enabled and Disabled 32 Bit I O This option allows the user to enable or disable the function of 32 bit data transfer The options are Enabled and Disabled Transfer Mode This option allows the user to set the transfer mode The options are Standard Fast PIO1 Fast PI...

Page 72: ...ts after the computer is turned on The settings are Enabled and Disabled If Disabled the POST routine will run at normal speed QuietBoot Mode This setting allows you to Enable or Disable the graphic logo screen during boot up ACPI Mode Use the setting to determine if you want to employ ACPI Advanced Conﬁguration and Power Interface power management on your system The options are Yes and No Power B...

Page 73: ... as a System BIOS buffer to allow the BIOS to write cache data into this reserved memory area Select Write Protect to enable this function and this area will be reserved for BIOS ROM access only Select Uncached to disable this function and make this area available for other devices Cache Video BIOS Area This setting allows you to designate a reserve area in the system memory to be used as a Video ...

Page 74: ...red in the extended memory area to be cached written into a buffer a storage area in Static DROM SDROM or written into L1 L2 L3 cache inside the CPU to speed up CPU operations Select Uncached to disable this function Select Write Through to allow data to be cached into the buffer and written into the system memory at the same time Select Write Protect to prevent data from being written into the ex...

Page 75: ...e hard drives are to be accessed The options are DOS or Other for Unix Novelle NetWare and other operating systems Advanced Chipset Control Access the submenu to make changes to the following settings Warning Use caution when changing the Advanced settings Incorrect values entered may cause system malfunction Also a very high DRAM frequency or incorrect DRAM timing may cause system instability Whe...

Page 76: ...Enabled Machine Checking Available when supported by the CPU Set to Enabled to use this function which will allow the CPU to detect and report hardware machine errors via a set of model speciﬁc registers MSRs The options are Disabled and Enabled Enhanced Intel EIST Support Available when supported by the CPU Select Enabled to use the Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology and allows the system to aut...

Page 77: ...plications in independent partitions creating multiple virtual systems in one physical computer The options are Enabled and Disabled Note If there is any change to this setting you will need to power off and restart the system for the change to take effect Please refer to Intel s web site for detailed information No Execute Mode Memory Protection Available when supported by the CPU Set to Enabled ...

Page 78: ...d Disabled Auto BIOS controlled and OS Controlled Mode This setting allows you to set the type of device that will be connected to serial port B The options are Normal and IR for an infrared device Base I O Address This setting allows you to select the base I O address for serial port B The options are 3F8 2F8 3E8 and 2E8 Interrupt This setting allows you to select the IRQ interrupt request for se...

Page 79: ...city It is not a setting View DMI Event Log Highlight this item and press Enter to view the contents of the event log Event Logging This setting allows you to Enable or Disable event logging ECC Event Logging This setting allows you to Enable or Disable ECC event logging Mark DMI Events as Read Highlight this item and press Enter to mark the DMI events as read Clear All DMI Event Logs Select Yes a...

Page 80: ...re 300 1200 2400 9600 19 2K 38 4K 57 6K and 115 2K Console Type This item allows you to set console redirection type The options are VT100 VT100 8bit PC ANSI 7bit PC ANSI VT100 VT UTF8 and ASCII Flow Control This item allows you to select the ﬂow control option for console redirection The options are None XON XOFF and CTS RTS Console Connection This item allows you to decide how console redirectio...

Page 81: ...speeds of the onboard fans The CPU temperature and the fan speed are correlative When the CPU on die temperature increases the fan speed will also increase and vice versa When this option is to 3 pin fan the fan speed will be controlled by voltage Select Disable to disable the fan speed control function and allow the onboard fans to constantly run at full speed 12V If the option is set to 4 pin th...

Page 82: ... and Set means a supervisor password has been entered User Password Is This item indicates if a user password has been entered to the system Clear means such a password has not been used and Set means a user password has been entered Set Supervisor Password When the item Set Supervisor Password is highlighted press Enter When prompted type the Supervisor s password in the dialogue box to set or to...

Page 83: ...re bootable devices listed in the sequence of boot order as speciﬁed The boot functions for the devices included in the candidate list above are currently disabled Use a key or a key to move the device up or down Use the f key or the r key to specify the type of an USB device either ﬁxed or removable You can select one item from the boot list and hit the x key to remove it from the list of bootabl...

Page 84: ...y Exit Discarding Changes Highlight this item and press Enter to exit the BIOS Setup utility without saving any changes you may have made Load Setup Defaults Highlight this item and press Enter to load the default settings for all items in the BIOS Setup These are the safest settings to use Discard Changes Highlight this item and press Enter to discard cancel any changes you ve made You will remai...

Page 85: ...iled 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 correctly identiﬁed in Setup Shadow Ram Failed at offset nnnn Shadow RAM failed at offset nnnn of the 64k block at which the error was de tected System RAM Failed at offset nnnn System RAM failed at...

Page 86: ...evious POST did not complete successfully POST loads default values and offers to 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 POST and cause this error on the next boot Run Setup and verify that the waitstate conﬁguration is correct This error is c...

Page 87: ... ServerBIOS2 test error Cannot generate software NMI Non Maskable Interrupt Fail Safe Timer NMI Failed ServerBIOS2 test error Fail Safe Timer takes too long Device Address Conﬂict Address conﬂict for speciﬁed device Allocation Error for device Run ISA or EISA Conﬁguration Utility to resolve resource conﬂict for the speciﬁed device CD ROM Drive CD ROM Drive identiﬁed Entering SETUP Starting Setup p...

Page 88: ...lly tested One or more I2O Block Storage Devices were excluded from the Setup Boot Menu There was not enough room in the IPL table to display all installed I2O block storage devices Operating system not found Operating system cannot be located on either drive A or drive C Enter Setup and see if ﬁxed disk and drive A are properly identiﬁed Parity Check 1 nnnn Parity error found in the system bus BI...

Page 89: ...up Optional message displayed during POST Can be turned off in Setup PS 2 Mouse PS 2 mouse identiﬁed Run the I2O Conﬁguration Utility One or more unclaimed block storage devices have the Conﬁguration Request bit set in the LCT Run an I2O Conﬁguration 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 t...

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Page 91: ... error in the top left corner of the screen The following is a list of codes that may be written to port 80h Appendix B BIOS POST Codes POST Code Description 01h IPMI Initialization 02h Verify Real Mode 03h Disable Non Maskable Interrupt NMI 04h Get CPU type 06h Initialize system hardware 07h Disable shadow and execute code from the ROM 08h Initialize chipset with initial POST values 09h Set IN PO...

Page 92: ...wn 38h Shadow system BIOS ROM 3Ah Auto size cache 3Ch Advanced conﬁguration of chipset registers 3Dh Load alternate registers with CMOS values 41h Initialize extended memory for RomPilot optional 42h Initialize interrupt vectors 45h POST device initialization 46h 2 1 2 3 Check ROM copyright notice 48h Check video conﬁguration against CMOS 49h Initialize PCI bus and devices 4Ah Initialize all video...

Page 93: ... and IRQs optional 81h Late POST device initialization 82h Detect and install external RS232 ports 83h Conﬁgure non MCD IDE controllers 84h Detect and install external parallel ports 85h Initialize PC compatible PnP ISA devices 86h Re initialize onboard I O ports 87h Conﬁgure Motherboard Conﬁgurable Devices optional 88h Initialize BIOS Data Area 89h Enable Non Maskable Interrupts NMIs 8Ah Initiali...

Page 94: ...done prepare to boot operating system B4h 1 One short beep before boot B5h Terminate 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 optional BFh Check virus and backup reminders C0h Try to boot with INT 19 C1h Initialize POST Error Manager PEM C2h...

Page 95: ...mory type EDh Initialize Memory size EEh Shadow Boot Block EFh System memory test F0h Initialize interrupt 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 If the BIOS detects error 2C 2E or 30 base 512K RAM error it displays an additional word bitmap xxxx indicat...

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Page 97: ... The necessary drivers are all included on the Supermicro CD that came with your motherboard Note that the current version of the ICH7R SATA RAID Utility can only support Windows XP 2000 2003 Serial ATA SATA Serial ATA SATA is a physical storage interface that uses a single cable with a minimum of four wires to create a point to point connection between devices It is a serial link which supports t...

Page 98: ...rtition size without any data Conﬁguring BIOS settings for SATA RAID Functions Native Mode 1 Press the Del key during system bootup to enter the BIOS Setup Utility Note If it is the ﬁrst time powering on the system we recommend that you load the Optimized Default Settings If you have already done so please skip to Step 3 2 Use the arrow keys to select the Exit Settings Once in the Exit settings Sc...

Page 99: ... after Power On Self Test b When you see the above screen press the Ctrl and the I keys simultane ously to have the main menu of the SATA RAID Utility appear Note All graphics and screen shots shown in the manual are for reference only The screen shots shown in the manual do not imply Supernicro s endorsement or non endorsement on any 3rd party s product Your screens may or many not look exactly t...

Page 100: ...e and press Space to select it A triangle appears to conﬁrm the selection of the drive f Use the Up Arrow Down Arrow keys to select the stripe size ranged from 4 KB to 128 KB for the RAID 0 array and hit Enter Note For a server please use a lower stripe size and for a multimedia system use a higher stripe size The default stripe size is 128 KB g Press Enter when the Create Volume item is highlight...

Page 101: ...the previous menu c When RAID Level item is highlighted press the Up Arrow Down Arrow keys to select RAID 1 Mirror and hit Enter d When the Capacity item is highlighted enter your RAID volume capacity and hit Enter The default setting is the maximum capacity allowed e Press Enter when the Create Volume item is highlighted A warning message displays f When asked Are you sure you want to create this...

Page 102: ... Down Arrow keys to select the stripe size from 4 KB to 128 KB for your RAID 10 and hit Enter The default setting is 6 4KB Note For a server please use a lower stripe size and for a multimedia system use a higher stripe size e When the RAID Volume Capacity item is highlighted enter your RAID volume capacity and hit Enter The default setting is the maximum capacity allowed f Press Enter when the Cr...

Page 103: ...light a drive and press Space to select it A triangle appears to conﬁrm the selection of the drive f Use the Up Arrow Down Arrow keys to select the stripe size ranged from 4 KB to 128 KB for the RAID 5 array and hit Enter Note For a server please use a lower stripe size and for a multimedia system use a higher stripe size The default stripe size is 128 KB g Enter your desired RAID volume capacity ...

Page 104: ... drives when deleting a RAID set a From the main menu select item2 Delete RAID Volume and press Enter b Use the Up Arrow Down Arrow keys to select the RAID set you want to delete and press Del A Warning message displays c When asked Are you sure you want to delete this volume Y N press Y to delete the RAID volume or type N to go back to the Delete Volume menu ...

Page 105: ...t drive A Warning message displays d Press Y to reset the drive or type N to go back to the main menu Exiting the Intel Matrix Storage Manager Utility a From the main menu select item4 Exit and press Enter A warning message will appear b Press Y to reset the drive or type N to go back to the main menu Warning Be cautious when you reset a RAID volume HDD to non RAID or Resetting a RAID HDD Resettin...

Page 106: ...om the list indicated in the XP 2000 2003 Setup Screen and press the Enter key f Press the Enter key to continue the installation process If you need to specify any additional devices to be installed do it at this time Once all devices are speciﬁed press the Enter key to continue with the installation g From the Windows XP 2000 2003 Setup screen press the Enter key The XP 2000 2003 Setup will auto...

Page 107: ...th access to the rest of the system It supports a single channel Ultra ATA 100 Bus Master IDE controller PATA and an Adaptec SATA Host controller which supports up to six Serial ATA drives up to two RAID volumes and up to four drives in RAID conﬁgurations See the table below for details Raid Level Create Via When Appropriate RAID 0 Quick Init Creating a RAID 0 on new drives RAID 0 Migrate Creating...

Page 108: ...ing 3 Use the arrow keys to select the Main section in BIOS 4 Scroll down to SATA Control Mode and press Enter to select Enhanced 5 Scroll down to SATA RAID Enabled and press Enter Then select En abled 6 Scroll down to ICH RAID Codebase and select Adaptec Then press Enter For Adaptec ICH RAID conﬁgurations Change the setting from Intel to Adaptec 7 Scroll down to Exit Select Exit Saving Changes fr...

Page 109: ...ications Using the Adaptec RAID Conﬁguration Utility ARC The Adaptec RAID Conﬁguration Utility an embedded BIOS Utility includes the following Array Conﬁguration Utility Use this utility to create conﬁgure and manage arrays Disk Utilities Use this option to format or verify disks To run the Adaptec RAID Conﬁguration Utility you will need to do the following 1 Enable RAID functions in the system BI...

Page 110: ... UR User s Manual Managing Arrays Select this option to view array properties and conﬁgure array settings To select this option using the arrow keys and the enter key select Managing Arrays from the main menu as shown above ...

Page 111: ... may make any data on the disk inaccessible If the drive is used in an array you may not be able to use the array again Note Do not conﬁgure a disk that is part of a boot array To determine which disks are associated with a particular array please refer to the section Viewing Array Properties To conﬁgure a disk drive 1 From the main menu shown on page D 4 select Conﬁgure Drives and hit Enter as sh...

Page 112: ...rives you want to conﬁgure and press Insert 3 The drive you ve selected will appear in the Selected Drives Dialog Box on the right as shown below Repeat the same steps until all drives that you want to conﬁgure appear in the selected drives box 4 Once both drives display in the selected drive box press Enter ...

Page 113: ...pendix D Adaptec HostRAID Setup Guidelines D 7 5 Read the warning message as shown in the screen below 6 Make sure that you have selected the correct disk drives to conﬁgure If correct type Y to continue ...

Page 114: ... It is recommended that you conﬁgure devices before you create arrays To create an array 1 From the main menu shown on page D 4 select Create Array 2 Select the disks for the new array and press Insert as the screen shown below Note To de select any disk highlight the disk and press Delete 3 The arrays you have selected will appear on the Selected Drives dialog box on the right as shown below 4 Pr...

Page 115: ...reate RAID via allows you to select between the different ways of creating methods for RAID 0 and RAID 1 The following table gives examples of when each is appropriate Note If you select Migrate for RAID 0 or Build for RAID 1 you will be asked to select the source drive The contents of the source drive will be preserved However the data on the new drive will be lost Raid Level Create Via When Appr...

Page 116: ...nt sizes in a RAID However you can only select a smaller drive as the source or ﬁrst drive during a build operation 5 When migrating from single volume to RAID 0 migrating from a larger drive to a smaller drive is allowed However the destination drive must be at least half the capacity of the source drive 6 It is not recommended that you migrate or build an array on Windows dynamic disks volumes b...

Page 117: ...ed An asterisk will appear next to the bootable array as shown in the picture below Deleting a Bootable Array To delete a bootable array 1 From the Main menu select Manage Arrays 2 From the List of Arrays select the bootable array you want to delete and press Ctrl and B Note a bootable array is the array marked with an asterisk as shown in the picture above 3 When the following message is displaye...

Page 118: ...are and press Insert and then press Enter 3 Press Yes when the following prompt is displayed Do you want to create spare Yes No The spare you have selected will appear in the Selected drives Menu To delete a hotspare 1 From the main menu shown on Page D 4 select Add Delete Hotspares 2 Use the up and down arrow keys to highlight and select the Hotspare you want to delete and press delete and then p...

Page 119: ... Arrays and hit Enter as shown on the previous page 2 From the List of Arrays dialog box shown below select the array you want to view and press Enter The Array Properties dialog box appears as shown below showing detailed in formation on the array The physical disks associated with the array are displayed here 3 Press Esc to return to the previous menu ...

Page 120: ...form a Rebuild to restore its functionality For a critical array rebuild operation the optimal drive is the source drive If no spare array exists and a hard disk drive fails you need to create a spare before you can rebuild an array To Rebuild an array 1 From the Main Menu select Manage Arrays as shown in the screen below From the List of Arrays select the array you want to Rebuild 2 Press Ctrl an...

Page 121: ... to delete and press delete 3 In the Array Properties dialog box select Delete and press Enter The follow ing prompt is displayed Warning Deleting the array will render array unusable Do you want to delete the array Yes No RAID 1 only the following prompt is also displayed Deleting the partition will result in data loss Do you also want to delete the parti tion Yes No 4 Press Yes to delete the arr...

Page 122: ...ou to format or verify the media of your Serial ATA hard disks To access the disk utilities 1 From the Adaptec RAID Conﬁguration Utility Menu select Disk Utilities as shown above and press Enter The following screen appears 2 Select the desired disk and press Enter The following screen appears ...

Page 123: ...at the factory and do not need to be low level formatted again 1 When the screen shown below displays select Format Disk and press Enter The following screen appears 2 Read the warning message when it appears in the screen as shown below To continue with disk formatting select Yes and hit Enter Otherwise select No and press Enter Caution Formatting a disk destroys all data on the drive Be sure to ...

Page 124: ... When the screen shown above displays select Verify Disk Media and press Enter 2 A message will display indicating that the selected drive will be scanned for me dia defects Select Yes and hit Enter to proceed with disk verifying otherwise select No and hit Enter ...

Page 125: ...ptec HostRAID Setup Guidelines D 19 To Exit the Adaptec RAID Conﬁguration Utility 1 Once you have completed RAID array conﬁgurations press ESC to exit The following screen will appear 2 Press Yes to exit the Utility ...

Page 126: ...y when the message Press F6 if you need to install a third party SAS or RAID driver displays 8 When the Windows OS Setup screen appears press S to specify additional device s 9 Insert the driver diskette Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA Raid Controller Driver into Drive A and press the Enter key 10 Choose The Adaptec Embedded Host Serial ATA Raid Controller from the list indicated in the Windows OS Set...

Page 127: ...et BIOS 8 Mb Phoenix Flash ROM Memory Capacity Four 240 pin DIMM sockets supporting up to 8 GB of unbuffered ECC non ECC DDR2 667 533 400 SDRAM interleaved or non interleaved See the memory section in Chapter 5 for details SATA Controller Intel ICH7R on chip controller for Serial ATA RAID 0 1 5 and 10 supported SAS SATA Drive Bays Eight 8 hot swap drive bays Peripheral Drive Bays One 1 slim DVD RO...

Page 128: ...equirements AC Input Voltage 100 240V AC auto range Rated Input Current 10A 4A Rated Input Frequency 50 to 60 Hz Power Supply Rated Output Power 700W Part PWS 702A 1R Rated Output Voltages 12V 57A 5V 30A 3 3V 24A 12V 0 6A 5Vsb 4A BTU Rating 3431 BTUs hr for rated output power of 700W Operating Environment Operating Temperature 10º to 35º C 50º to 95º F Non operating Temperature 40º to 70º C 40º to...

Page 129: ...EN 61000 4 5 EN 61000 4 6 EN 61000 4 8 EN 61000 4 11 Safety EN 60950 IEC 60950 Compliant UL Listed USA CUL Listed Canada TUV Certiﬁed Germany CE Marking Europe California Best Management Practices Regulations for Perchlorate Materials This Perchlorate warning applies only to products containing CR Manganese Dioxide Lithium coin cells Perchlorate Material special handling may apply See www dtsc ca ...

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