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Chapter 2: Installation

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X7DWT-INF

Front Control Panel

JF1 contains header pins for various buttons and indicators that are normally

located on a control panel at the front of the chassis. These connectors are de-

signed speciﬁ cally for use with Supermicro server chassis. See Figure 2-4 for

the descriptions of the various control panel buttons and LED indicators. Refer

to the following section for descriptions and pin deﬁ nitions.

JF1 Header Pins

Power Button

OH/Fan Fail LED

NIC1 LED

Reset Button

HDD LED

Power LED

Reset

PWR

Vcc

Ground

Vcc

Ground

NMI

Vcc

PWR Fail LED

NIC2 LED

Summary of Contents for X7DWT

Page 1: ...SUPER X7DWT X7DWT INF USER S MANUAL Revision 1 0 ...

Page 2: ...PERMICRO SHALL NOT HAVE LIABILITY FOR ANY HARDWARE SOFTWARE OR DATA STORED OR USED WITH THE PRODUCT INCLUDING THE COSTS OF REPAIRING REPLACING INTEGRATING INSTALLING OR RECOVERING SUCH HARDWARE SOFTWARE OR DATA Any disputes arising between manufacturer 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...

Page 3: ...therboards This motherboard is ideal for high performance dual processor DP enterprise server environments This product is intended to be professionally installed Manual Organization Chapter 1 describes the features specifications and performance of the mainboard and provides detailed information about the chipset Chapter 2 provides hardware installation instructions Read this chapter when install...

Page 4: ...4 PC Health Monitoring 1 10 1 5 ACPI Features 1 11 1 6 Power Supply 1 12 1 6 Super I O 1 12 Chapter 2 Installation 2 1 Static Sensitive Devices 2 1 Precautions 2 1 Unpacking 2 1 2 2 Processor and Heatsink Installation 2 2 2 3 Installing DIMMs 2 6 2 4 Control Panel Connectors and IO Ports 2 8 Back Panel Connectors IO Ports 2 8 Front Control Panel 2 9 Front Control Panel Pin Deﬁnitions 2 10 NMI Butt...

Page 5: ...lanation of Jumpers 2 22 GLAN Enable Disable 2 22 Clear CMOS 2 23 Watch Dog 2 23 VGA Enable Disable 2 24 2 7 Onboard Indicators 2 25 GLAN LEDs 2 25 Onboard Standby Power LED 2 25 InﬁniBand LEDs 2 26 2 8 SIMSO IPMI and InﬁniBand Connections 2 27 SIMSO IPMI Slot 2 27 InﬁniBand Connector 2 27 Chapter 3 Troubleshooting 3 1 Troubleshooting Procedures 3 1 Before Power On 3 1 No Power 3 1 No Video 3 1 Lo...

Page 6: ...urity Setup 4 22 4 6 Boot Setup 4 23 4 7 Exit 4 24 Appendices Appendix A BIOS POST Messages A 1 Appendix B BIOS POST Codes B 1 Appendix C Intel HostRAID Setup Guidelines C 1 Appendix D Adaptec HostRAID Setup Guidelines D 1 Appendix E Installing Other Software Programs and Drivers E 1 X7DWT X7DWT INF User s Manual ...

Page 7: ...on to detail to provide you with the highest standards in quality and performance Check that the following items have all been included with your motherboard If anything listed here is damaged or missing contact your retailer All the following items are included in the retail box One 1 Supermicro Mainboard Four 4 SATA cable for IDE devices CBL 0044 One 1 Supermicro CD containing drivers and utilit...

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Page 9: ...ge Note The drawings and pictures shown in this manual were based on the latest PCB Revision available at the time of publishing of the manual The motherboard you ve received may or may not look exactly the same as the graphics shown in the manual ...

Page 10: ... PWR cables based on the Power Connector Pin Out Deﬁni tions listed on Page 2 14 6 The 4 pin Auxiliary Power Connector is used for power supply output to the HDDs only 7 Refer to Pages 2 14 2 15 for more information on power connectors not drawn to scale Notes J29 JPCIE1 JLAN1 JUSB1 JUSB2 JPL1 J_VMEM JL1 LE2 LE1 JCOM1 J9B2 JBT1 JF1 JP10 J17 LAN1 JLAN2 LAN2 BIOS SIMSO IPMI LAN CTRL Battery JVGA1 LE...

Page 11: ...Connector Note1 JSPK Speaker Header JWOL Wake on LAN Header USB 0 1 Back Panel USB 0 1 for external use JUSB1 USB 2 3 Front Panel USB 2 3 VGA VGA Connector JVGA1 SIMSO SIMSO IPMI slot SATA 0 3 Intel SATA 0 3 Connectors LED Indicator Description See Chapter 2 LE1 Onboard Power LED Indicator LE2 InﬁniBand Link LED green LE3 InﬁniBand Activity LED yellow Note 1 You cannot use both 20 pin power connec...

Page 12: ... 3 PCI 2 2 ACPI 1 0 2 0 Plug and Play PnP USB Keyboard Support SMBIOS 2 3 PC Health Monitoring Onboard voltage monitors for CPU cores chipset voltage 1 5V memory voltage 3 3V 5V 12V 12V 3 3V Standby 5V standby HT and VBAT Fan status monitor with ﬁrmware control CPU chassis environment monitoring Platform Environment Control Interface PECI ready CPU fan auto off in sleep mode CPU slow down on tempe...

Page 13: ... two Giga bit LAN ports One COM port Up to four USB 2 0 Universal Serial Bus 2 ports 2 Headers ATI ES1000 Graphic Controller with 32 MB Video Memory Super I O Winbond W83627HF Mellanox MT25204A0 FCC D InﬁniBand Controller supports one InﬁniBand connector X7DWT INF only Other Wake on LAN Chassis Intrusion Console redirection Onboard Fan Speed Control by Thermal Management via BIOS CD Diskette Utili...

Page 14: ...ORT PORT PORT PORT PORT PORT 0 MCH PROCESSOR 2 ESB2 PCI EXP x8 GILGAL GB LAN FWH RJ45 RJ45 LPC COM2 SIO W83627 VGA PCI 33MHz ES1000 VGA CONN KB MS VRM ISL6327 5 1 2 3 4 4 3 2 0 VRM ISL6327 PROCESSOR 1 MT S 1600 1333 1067 MT S FBD DIMM 4B 4A 2B 3B 2A 3A FBD DIMM FBD DIMM HF USB 0 1 2 3 4 PCIE x4 PCIE x4 Bank 1 Bank 3 Bank 4 1B 1A FBD DIMM SATA 0 1 2 3 PORT 1 PORTS 7 8 PCI EXP x16 MT25204 PCI E SLOT...

Page 15: ...e bus interfaces Each front side bus uses a 64 bit wide 1600 MHz data bus to transfer data The MCH chipset connects up to eight Fully Buffered DIMM modules providing a total memory of up to 64 GB for DDR2 FBD 800 667 533 MHz The MCH chipset also provides one x8 PCI Express and one x4 ESI interfaces to the ESB2 In addition the 5400 chipset offers a wide range of RAS features including memory interf...

Page 16: ...tus Monitor with Firmware Control The PC health monitor can check the RPM status of the cooling fans The onboard CPU and chassis fans are controlled by Thermal Management 2 TM2 in the BIOS under Hardware Monitoring in the Advanced Setting Environmental Temperature Control The thermal control sensor monitors the CPU temperature in real time and will turn on the thermal control fan whenever the CPU ...

Page 17: ...such as VCRs TVs telephones and stereos In addition to enabling operating system directed power management ACPI provides a generic system event mechanism for Plug and Play and an operating system independent interface for conﬁguration control ACPI leverages the Plug and Play BIOS data structures while providing a processor architecture indepen dent implementation that is compatible with Windows 20...

Page 18: ...ntroller that is compatible with industry standard 82077 765 a data separator write pre compensation circuitry decode logic data rate selection a clock genera tor drive interface control logic and interrupt and DMA logic The wide range of functions integrated onto the Super I O greatly reduces the number of components required for interfacing with ﬂoppy disk drives The Super I O supports 360 K 720...

Page 19: ...o not touch its components peripheral chips memory modules or gold contacts When handling chips or modules avoid touching their pins Put the motherboard and peripherals back into their antistatic bags when not in use For grounding purposes make sure your computer chassis provides excellent conductivity between the power supply the case the mounting fasteners and the motherboard Use only the correc...

Page 20: ...ng any hardware components Make sure that you install the processor into the CPU socket before you install the CPU heatsink 2 Intel s boxed Xeon CPU package contains the CPU fan and heatsink assembly If you buy a CPU separately make sure that you use only Intel certiﬁed multi directional heatsink and fan 3 Make sure to install the motherboard into the chassis before you install the CPU heatsink an...

Page 21: ...e CPU on the socket Do not move the CPU horizontally or vertically Do not rub the CPU against the surface or any pins of the socket to avoid damage to the CPU or the socket 7 With the CPU inside the socket inspect the four corners of the CPU to make sure that the CPU is properly installed 8 Use your thumb to gently push the socket clip down to the clip lock 9 If the CPU is properly installed into ...

Page 22: ...e retention mechanism 3 Screw in two diagonal screws ie the 1 and the 2 screws until just snug do not fully tighten the screws to avoid possible damage to the CPU 4 Finish the installation by fully tightening all four screws CEK Heatsink Installation Screw 2 Warning We do not recommend that the CPU or the heatsink be removed However if you do need to uninstall the heatsink please follow the instru...

Page 23: ... precautionary measures to prevent damage done to these components when you install the motherboard to the chassis 1 Unscrew and remove the heatsink screws from the motherboard in the sequence as show in the picture on the right 2 Hold the heatsink as shown in the picture on the right and gently wriggle the heatsink to loosen it from the CPU Do not use excessive force when wriggling the heatsink 3...

Page 24: ...FBD Fully Buffered 800 667 533 in 8 DIMMs Populating DIMM modules with pairs of memory mod ules of the same size and same type will result in Interleaved Memory which will increase memory performance Note 1 Due to OS limitations some operating systems may not show more than 4 GB of memory Note 2 Both 1 5V and 1 8V memory modules are supported However do not use different memory modules with differ...

Page 25: ...odule This should release it from the slot 2 FBD Possible System Memory Allocation Availability System Device Size Physical Memory Remaining Available 3 GB Total System Memory Physical Memory Remaining Available 4 GB Total System Memory Firmware Hub ﬂash memory System BIOS 1 MB 3 00 3 99 Local APIC 4 KB 3 00 3 99 Area Reserved for the chipset 2 MB 3 00 3 99 I O APIC 4 Kbytes 4 KB 3 00 3 99 PCI Enu...

Page 26: ...Figure 2 3 below for the colors and locations of the various I O ports Back Panel Connectors IO Ports Back Panel I O Port Locations and Deﬁnitions Back Panel Connectors 1 Back Panel USB Port 0 2 Back Panel USB Port 1 3 Gigabit LAN 1 4 Gigabit LAN 2 5 COM Port 2 6 VGA Port Blue 7 InﬁniBand Connector for X7DWT INF only See Section 2 5 for details 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ...

Page 27: ...rs are de signed speciﬁcally for use with Supermicro server chassis See Figure 2 4 for the descriptions of the various control panel buttons and LED indicators Refer to the following section for descriptions and pin deﬁnitions JF1 Header Pins Power Button OH Fan Fail LED 1 NIC1 LED Reset Button 2 HDD LED Power LED Reset PWR Vcc Vcc Vcc Vcc Ground Ground 19 20 Vcc X Ground NMI X Vcc PWR Fail LED NI...

Page 28: ...pins 19 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 Power LED Pin Deﬁnitions JF1 Pin Deﬁnition 15 5V 16 Ground Front Control Panel Pin Deﬁnitions A NMI B PWR LED A B Power Button OH Fan Fail LED 1 NIC1 LED Reset Button 2 HDD LED Power LED Reset PWR Vcc Vcc Vcc Vcc Ground Ground 19 20 Vcc X Ground NMI X Vcc PWR Fa...

Page 29: ...nnection is located on pins 13 and 14 of JF1 Attach a hard drive LED cable here to display disk activity for any hard drives on the system including Serial ATA See the table on the right for pin deﬁnitions HDD LED Pin Deﬁnitions JF1 Pin Deﬁnition 13 5V 14 HD Active GLAN1 2 LED Pin Deﬁnitions JF1 Pin Deﬁnition 9 11 Vcc 10 12 Ground A B C A HDD LED B NIC1 LED C NIC2 LED Power Button OH Fan Fail LED ...

Page 30: ...de advanced warnings of chassis overheating or fan failure Refer to the table on the right for pin deﬁnitions Power Fail LED The Power Fail LED connection is located on pins 5 and 6 of JF1 Re fer to the table on the right for pin deﬁnitions OH Fan Fail LED Pin Deﬁnitions JF1 Pin Deﬁnition 7 Vcc 8 Ground OH Fan Fail Indicator Status State Deﬁnition Off Normal On Overheat Flash ing Fan Fail PWR Fail...

Page 31: ...o function as a suspend but ton with a setting in BIOS see Chapter 4 To turn off the power when set to suspend mode press the button for at least 4 seconds Refer to the table on the right for pin deﬁnitions Power Button Pin Deﬁnitions JF1 Pin Deﬁnition 1 Signal 2 3V Standby A Reset Button B PWR Button B A Reset Button The Reset Button connection is located on pins 3 and 4 of JF1 Attach it to the h...

Page 32: ...tors meet the SSI EPS 12V speciﬁcation For power supply to work properly please follow the instructions given below See the table on the right for pin deﬁnitions Also refer to the layout below for the PWR connector locations ATX Power 20 pin Connector Pin Deﬁnitions Pin Deﬁnition Pin Deﬁnition 11 PS On 1 Ground 12 5VSB 2 Ground 13 Ground 3 Ground 14 Ground 4 Ground 15 Ground 5 Ground 16 NC2 6 NC1 ...

Page 33: ...DWT INF Required Connection D 4 pin Auxiliar y Power Connector In addition to two 20 pin power con nectors a 4 pin 12V PWR supply is located at JP10 on the motherboard This power connector is used to provide power supply to hard drive disks Refer to the layout below for the location Note1 The 4 pin Auxiliary Power Connector is used for power supply output to the HDDs only Note 2 The black square d...

Page 34: ...SB There are four USB 2 0 Universal Serial Bus ports on the motherboard Two of them are Back Panel USB ports JUSB1 USB 0 1 and the other two are front panel accessible USB headers JUSB2 USB 2 3 See the tables on the right for pin deﬁnitions Chassis Intrusion A Chassis Intrusion header JL1 is located on the motherboard Attach an appropriate cable from the chassis to inform you of a chassis intrusio...

Page 35: ... 6 pin proprietary fan headers Each fan header supports two 3 pin fans See the table on the right for pin deﬁnitions Note 1 The onboard fan speed is controlled by the CPU die temperature Note 2 The white dot on each fan header indicates the location of Pin 1 B C E D A A Fans 12 B Fan 3 4 C Fan 5 6 D Fan 7 8 E COM 2 Port Serial Port A serial port connector COM 1 is located on the Backpanel See the ...

Page 36: ...B2 South Bridge FAN3 4 JSPK COM1 SATA2 DIMM4B FPUSB2 3 BANK4 USB0 1 DIMM4A DIMM3B DIMM3A BANK3 BANK2 BANK1 VGA SATA3 SATA0 SATA1 PCI Express x16 FAN5 6 FAN7 8 Infini Band X7DWT INF A B A VGA B SMB VGA Connector A VGA connector is located at JVGA1 ontheI OBackplane Refertotheboard layout below for the location SMB A System Management Bus header is located at J18 Connect the ap propriate cable here ...

Page 37: ...A0 SATA1 PCI Express x16 FAN5 6 FAN7 8 Infini Band X7DWT INF A PWR SMB B Wake on LAN A B Power SMB I2 C Connector Power SMB I2 C Connector J17 monitors the status of the power supply fan speed and system tem perature See the table on the right for pin deﬁnitions PWR SMB Pin Deﬁnitions Pin Deﬁnition 1 Clock 2 Data 3 PWR Fail 4 Ground 5 3 3V Wake On LAN The Wake On LAN header is located at JWOL on t...

Page 38: ...Express x16 FAN5 6 FAN7 8 Infini Band X7DWT INF GLAN 1 2 Giga bit Ethernet Ports Two G bit Ethernet ports are located on the IO backplane These ports accept RJ45 type cables A B A GLAN 1 B GLAN 2 C SGPIO GLAN1 GLAN2 SGPIO Header A SGPIO Serial General Purpose Input Output header is located at J29 on the motherboard This header supports serial link interfaces for the onboard SATA connectors See the...

Page 39: ...S SIMSO IPMI LAN CTRL Battery LE3 J4 VGA CTRL SMB JPL2 SGPIO CPLD Intel 5400 North Bridge CPU 2 FP CTRL JWD CPU 1 FAN1 2 20 Pin PWR PWSMB CTRL InfiniBand DIMM2B DIMM2A DIMM1B DIMM1A 20 Pin PWR 4 Pin Aux PWR S I O JPG1 JWOL Intel ESB2 South Bridge FAN3 4 JSPK COM1 SATA2 DIMM4B FPUSB2 3 BANK4 USB0 1 DIMM4A DIMM3B DIMM3A BANK3 BANK2 BANK1 VGA SATA3 SATA0 SATA1 PCI Express x16 FAN5 6 FAN7 8 Infini Ban...

Page 40: ...odify the operation of the motherboard jumpers can be used to choose between optional settings Jumpers create shorts between two pins to change the function of the connector Pin 1 is identiﬁed with a squaresolderpadontheprintedcircuit board See the motherboard layout pages for jumper locations Note On two pin jumpers Closed means the jumper is on and Open means the jumper is off the pins Connector...

Page 41: ...ring of CMOS To clear CMOS use a metal object such as a small screwdriver to touch both pads at the same time to short the connection Always remove the AC power cord from the system before clearing CMOS Note You must completely shut down the system remove the AC power cord and then short JBT1 to clear CMOS A B A Clear CMOS B Watch Dog Enable Watch Dog Enable Disable Watch Dog is a system monitor t...

Page 42: ... S I O JPG1 JWOL Intel ESB2 South Bridge FAN3 4 JSPK COM1 SATA2 DIMM4B FPUSB2 3 BANK4 USB0 1 DIMM4A DIMM3B DIMM3A BANK3 BANK2 BANK1 VGA SATA3 SATA0 SATA1 PCI Express x16 FAN5 6 FAN7 8 Infini Band X7DWT INF VGA Enable Disable Jumper Settings Both Jumpers Deﬁnition Pins 1 2 Enabled Pins 2 3 Disabled A A VGA Enabled VGA Enable Disable JPG1 allows you to enable or disable the VGA port The default posi...

Page 43: ... Green 100 Mbps Amber 1 Gbps GLAN Activity Indicator Settings Color Status Deﬁnition Yellow Flashing Active GLAN LEDs There are two GLAN ports on the moth erboard Each Gigabit Ethernet LAN port has two LEDs The yellow LED indicates activity while Link LED may be green amber or off to indicate the speed of the connection See the tables at right for more information Onboard PWR LED Indicator LE1 Set...

Page 44: ...CI Express x16 FAN5 6 FAN7 8 Infini Band X7DWT INF B A LE2 IB Link LED B LE3 IB Activity LED InﬁniBand Link LED LE2 Settings Color Status Deﬁnition Green Solid InﬁniBand Connected Off Off No connection InﬁniBand LED Indicators LE2 LE3 Two InﬁniBand LED Indicators LE2 LE3 are located on the motherboard The green LED LE2 is the InﬁniBand Link LED while the yellow LED LE3 indicates activity Refer to ...

Page 45: ...OM1 SATA2 DIMM4B FPUSB2 3 BANK4 USB0 1 DIMM4A DIMM3B DIMM3A BANK3 BANK2 BANK1 VGA SATA3 SATA0 SATA1 PCI Express x16 FAN5 6 FAN7 8 Infini Band X7DWT INF A B A SIMSO IPMI B InﬁniBand Connector 2 8 SIMSO IPMI and InﬁniBand Connections SIMSO IPMI Slot There is a SIMSO IPMI Intelligent Power Management Interfacing Slot on the motherboard Refer to the lay out below for the IPMI Slot location InﬁniBand C...

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Page 47: ...er and the power LED to the motherboard Check all jumper settings as well No Power 1 Make sure that there are no short circuits between the motherboard and the chassis 2 Make sure that all jumpers are set to their default positions 3 Make sure that the 115V 230V switch on the power supply is properly set 4 Turn the power switch on and off to test the system 5 The battery on your motherboard may be...

Page 48: ...ots and noting the results 5 Make sure all memory modules are fully seated in their slots As the interleaved memory scheme is used you must install two modules at a time beginning with Bank 1 then Bank 2 and so on see Section 2 3 6 Check the position of the 115V 230V switch on the power supply 3 2 Technical Support Procedures Before contacting Technical Support please take the following steps Also...

Page 49: ...es with dif ferent speeds voltages sizes or types on the same motherboard See Page 2 6 for detailed Information Question How do I update my BIOS Answer It is recommended that you do not upgrade your BIOS if you are ex periencing no problems with your system Updated BIOS ﬁles are located in our web site at http wwwwww supermicro com support bios Please check our BIOS warning message and the informa...

Page 50: ...o the manufacturer the RMA number should be prominently displayed on the outside of the shipping carton and mailed prepaid or hand carried Ship ping and handling charges will be applied for all orders that must be mailed when service is complete This warranty only covers normal consumer use and does not cover damages in curred in shipping or from failure due to the alternation misuse abuse or impr...

Page 51: ...turned off a backup battery provides power to the CMOS Logic enabling it to retain system parameters 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 ...

Page 52: ...By 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 4 3 Main BIOS Setupʳ All main Setup options are described in this section The main BIOS Setup screen is displayed below Use the Up Down arro...

Page 53: ... set the parameters of IDE Channel 0 Master Slave IDE Channel 1 Master Slave SATA Port 3 SATA Port 4 slots Hit Enter to activate the following sub menu screen for detailed options of these items Set the correct conﬁgurations accordingly The items included in the sub menu are Type This option allows the user to select the type of IDE hard drive The option Auto will allow the BIOS to automatically c...

Page 54: ... 5 Serial ATA This setting allows the user to enable or disable the function of Serial ATA The options are Disabled and Enabled SATA Controller Mode Option Select Compatible to allow the SATA and PATA drives to be automatically detected and be placed in the Legacy Mode by the BIOS Select Enhanced to allow the SATA and PATA drives to be to be automatically detected and be placed in the Native IDE M...

Page 55: ...e to enable the function of Serial ATA Advanced Host Interface Take caution when using this function This feature is for advanced programmers only The options are Enabled and Disabled System Memory This display informs you how much system memory is recognized as being present in the system Extended Memory This display informs you how much extended memory is recognized as being present in the syste...

Page 56: ...utine by skipping certain tests 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 POST Errors Set to Enabled to display POST Error Messages if an error occurs during bootup If set to Disabled the system will continue to boot wi...

Page 57: ...ows the user to determine how to use the keyboard to power on the system from S3 S5 States Select Space to allow the user to power on the system by pressing the space bar Select Password to allow the user to enter the password to power on the system Select Disabled to disable this function Power Loss Control This setting allows you to choose how the system will react when power returns after an un...

Page 58: ... 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 base memory area of Block 0 512K Select Write Back to allow the CPU to write data back directly from the buffer without writing data to the System...

Page 59: ...he user can achieve better graphic effects when using a Linux graphic driver that requires the write combining conﬁguration with 4GB or more memory The options are Enabled and Disabled PCI Conﬁguration Access the submenu to make changes to the following settings for PCI devices Onboard GLAN1 Onboard GLAN2 Gigabit LAN OPROM Conﬁgure Select Enabled to allow the system to boot from the GLAN1 connecti...

Page 60: ... change this setting and try again A different OS requires a different Bus Master clock rate Large Disk Access Mode This setting determines how large 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 Take caution when changing the Advanced set...

Page 61: ... in two branches Single Channel 0 allows a single DIMM population during system manufacturing The options are Interleave Sequential Mirroring and Single Channel 0 Branch 0 Rank Interleaving Branch 1 Rank Interleaving Select enable to enable Interleaved Memory for Memory Bus Branch 0 Rank or Branch 1 Rank The options for Memory Interleaving are 1 1 2 1 and 4 1 Branch 0 Rank Sparing Branch 1 Rank Sp...

Page 62: ... buffered FBD memory modules and allow global thermal throttling to become active when the number of activate control exceeds a predeﬁned number The options are Enabled and Disabled Force ITK Conﬁguration Clocking Select Enabled to conﬁgure FBD clock settings to support ITK testing The options are Disabled and Enabled Reserved Branch for ITK Test This feature allows the user to specify the memory ...

Page 63: ...he settings are Enabled and Disabled Legacy USB Support This setting allows you to enable support for Legacy USB devices The settings are Enabled and Disabled Advanced Processor Options Access the submenu to make changes to the following settings CPU Speed This is a display that indicates the speed of the installed processor Frequency Ratio Available when supported by the CPU The feature allows th...

Page 64: ...ute and where it cannot and thus preventing a worm or a virus from inserting and creating a ﬂood of codes to overwhelm the processor or damage the system during an attack Note this feature is available when your OS and your CPU support the function of Execute Disable Bit The options are Disabled and Enabled For more information please refer to Intel s and Microsoft s web sites Adjacent Cache Line ...

Page 65: ...CPU Select Enabled to use the Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology and allows the system to automatically adjust processor voltage and core frequency in an effort to reduce power consumption and heat dissipation The options are Enabled and Disabled Please refer to Intel s web site for detailed information I O Device Conﬁguration Access the submenu to make changes to the following settings KBC Clock...

Page 66: ...anges to the following settings Event Log Validity This is a display to inform you of the event log validity It is not a setting Event Log Capacity This is a display to inform you of the event log capacity 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 Even...

Page 67: ...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 the console The options are None XON XOFF and CTS RTS Console Connection This item allows you to decide how console redirection is to be ...

Page 68: ...s used as a Workstation Select Server if your system is used as a Server Select 3 pin if your chassis uses 3 pin fans Select 4 pin if your chassis uses 4 pin fans Select Disable to disable the fan speed control function and allow the onboard fans to constantly run at the full speed 12V The Options are 1 Disable 2 Optimized Server w 3 pin 3 Optimized Workstation w 3 pin 4 Optimized Server w 4 pin 5...

Page 69: ...face The options are Enabled and Disabled Clear System Event Logging Enabling this function to force the BIOS to clear the system event logs during the next cold boot The options are Enabled and Disabled Existing Event Log Number This item displays the number of the existing event log Event Log Control System Firmware Progress Enabling this function to log POST progress The options are Enabled and...

Page 70: ...s option when OS Boot Watch Dog is set to Disabled Time Out Option This feature allows the user to determine what action to take in an event of a system boot failure The options are No Action Reset Power Off and Power Cycles System Event Log System Event Log List Mode These options display the System Event SEL Log and System Event SEL Log in List Mode Items include SEL System Event Log Entry Numbe...

Page 71: ...Chapter 4 BIOS 4 21 Realtime Sensor Data This feature display information from motherboard sensors such as temperatures fan speeds and voltages of various components ...

Page 72: ... 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 hit the Enter key When prompted type the Supervisor s password in the dialogue box to set or to change supervisor s password which allows access to the BIOS Set User Password When...

Page 73: ...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 bootable devices to make its resource available for other bootable devices Subsequently you can sel...

Page 74: ...xit Discarding Changes Highlight this item and hit Enter to exit the BIOS Setup utility without saving any changes you may have made Load Setup Defaults Highlight this item and hit 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 hit Enter to discard cancel any changes you ve made You will remain in the ...

Page 75: ...d 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 of...

Page 76: ...ious 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 cle...

Page 77: ...MI Failed 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 Startin...

Page 78: ... 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 stor age 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 BIOS...

Page 79: ...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 81: ... 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 82: ... 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 a...

Page 83: ... 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 84: ...ne 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 I...

Page 85: ...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 errors on 2C 2E or 30 base 512K RAM error it displays an additional word bitmap xxxx indicati...

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Page 87: ...ackaged with your motherboard Note the current version of the ESB2 SATA RAID Utility can only support Windows XP 2000 2003 Operating Systems 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 transfer rates up to 3 0 Gbps Because the serial cab...

Page 88: ...TA 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 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 Scroll down to select Load Optimized Default Settings and press the ...

Page 89: ... appears 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 en dorsement on any 3rd party s product Your screens may or many not look ...

Page 90: ... 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 ranging 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 91: ... select 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 mes sage displays f When asked Are you sure you want to cr...

Page 92: ...wn Arrow 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 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 Creat...

Page 93: ...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 ranging 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 94: ...ives 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 95: ...nu select item3 Reset Disks to Non RAID and press En ter The following screen will appear b Use the Up Arrow Down Arrow keys to highlight the RAID set drive to reset and press Space to select c Press Enter to reset the RAID set 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 se...

Page 96: ...A and press the Enter key e Choose the Intel R ESB2 SATA RAID Controller from 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 ...

Page 97: ...stalled in smaller chassis than Parallel ATA In addition the cables used in PATA can only extend to 40cm long while Serial ATA cables can extend up to one meter Overall Serial ATA provides better functionality than Parallel ATA Introduction to the Intel ESB2 I O Controller Hub Located in the South Bridge of the Intel 5400 Chipset the ESB2 I O Controller Hub provides the I O subsystem with access t...

Page 98: ...Enter key to load the default settings for the BIOS 3 Use the arrow keys to select the Main section in BIOS 4 Scroll down to SATA Control Mode and press the Enter key 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 En ter For ICH RAID Codebase Change the setting from Intel to Adaptec 7 Go to...

Page 99: ...pplications 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 ar rays 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 syste...

Page 100: ... 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 101: ...disk and 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 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 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 shown below...

Page 102: ...ves 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 103: ...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 104: ... 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 Press...

Page 105: ...ge the default setting 4 The item Create 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 l...

Page 106: ... 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 bec...

Page 107: ...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 108: ... 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 pres...

Page 109: ... 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 information on the array The physical disks associated with the array are dis played here 3 Press Esc to return to the previous menu ...

Page 110: ... Rebuild to restore its functionality For a critical array rebuild operation the optimal drive is the source drive Note 2 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 a...

Page 111: ... to delete and press delete 3 In the Array Properties dialog box select Delete and press Enter The fol lowing 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 112: ...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 113: ...d at the factory and do not need to be low level formatted again 3 When the screen shown below displays select Format Disk and press Enter The following screen appears 4 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 t...

Page 114: ...hen the screen shown above displays select Verify Disk Media and press Enter 4 A message will display indicating that the selected drive will be scanned for media defects Select Yes and hit Enter to proceed with disk verifying other wise select No and hit Enter ...

Page 115: ...daptec HostRAID Setup Guidelines D 19 To Exit 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 ...

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Page 117: ...ystem before proceeding with the next item on the list The bottom icon with a CD on it allows you to view the entire contents of the CD Appendix E Installing Other Software Programs and Drivers E 1 Installing Drivers other than the Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA RAID Controller Driver After you ve installed the Windows Operating System a screen as shown below will appear You are ready to install soft...

Page 118: ...isplays crucial system information such as CPU temperature system voltages and fan status See the Figure below for a display of the Supero Doctor III interface Note 1 The default User Name and the Password are ADMIN Note 2 In the Windows OS environment the Supero Doctor III settings take pre cedence over the BIOS settings When ﬁrst installed Supero Doctor III adopts the temperature threshold setti...

Page 119: ...II Remote Control Note SD III Software Revision 1 0 can be downloaded from our Web site at ftp ftp supermicro com utility Supero_Doctor_III You can also download SDIII User s Guide at http www supermicro com PRODUCT Manuals SDIII UserGuide pdf For Linux we will still recommend that you use Supero Doctor II ...

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