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P8SC8/P8SCi User's Manual

VGA Connector

A VGA connector (JG1) is
located next to the COM1 on the
IO backplane. Refer to the board

layout below for the location.

SMB Header

A S y s t e m M a n a g e m e n t B u s

header is located at J5. Connect

the appropriate cable here to uti-

lize SMB on your system.

SMB Header

Pin Definitions (J5)

Number

1
2
3
4

Definition

Data

Clock

Ground

No Connection

0/1

arallel P

ort

JPUSB1

ATX-24 Pin PWR

JPF

JPWAKE1

4-Pin

PWR

CPU

CopperRiver

NorthBridge

GLAN1

GLAN2

DIMM 1A
DIMM 1B

DIMM 2A

DIMM 2B

GLAN

CTRL

GLAN

CTRL

JPL1
JPL2

PCI-X 133/100 MHz

PCI-Ex1

(LGA 775)

SCSI CTRL

7902 W

SCSI Channel A

SCSI Channel B

J W D

USB6/7

BIOS

J L 1

IDE

Floppy

JBT1

JF1

JLED

Fan3

Fan2

JSLED

Fan1

Fan5

Fan4

ICH6R

SouthBridge

PXH-V

PCI 33MHz

Battery

PCI-Ex1

SATA3 SATA2 SATA1 SATA0

JWOR

JPA1

IPMI

COM2

USB2/3

Buzzer

WOL

JBT1

JSLED

LE1

E 7 2 2 1

SMB

VGA

Giga-bit LAN (Ethernet)
Ports

There are two RJ45 Ethernet
(Gigabit LAN) ports located on
the IO backplane.

GLAN1

GLAN2

Summary of Contents for P8SC8

Page 1: ...P8SC8 P8SCi USER S MANUAL Revision 1 0a SUPER...

Page 2: ...ILITY TO USE THIS PRODUCT OR DOCUMENTATION EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES IN PARTICULAR THE VENDOR SHALL NOT HAVE LIABILITY FOR ANY HARDWARE SOFTWARE OR DATA STORED OR USED WITH TH...

Page 3: ...uded in your mainboard box describes the features specifications and performance of the P8SC8 P8SCi mainboard and provides detailed information about the chipset Chapter 2 begins with instructions on...

Page 4: ...l Management 1 10 1 5 Power Configuration Settings 1 11 1 6 Power Supply 1 12 1 6 Super I O 1 13 Chapter 2 Installation 2 1 Static Sensitive Devices 2 1 2 2 Processor and Heatsink Installation 2 2 2 3...

Page 5: ...ce Power On Enable 2 21 SCSI Enable 2 21 Watch Dog Enable 2 22 2 8 Onboard Indicators 2 23 GLAN LEDs 2 23 2 9 Parallel Port Floppy Hard Drive and SCSI Connections 2 24 Parallel Port Connector 2 24 Flo...

Page 6: ...4 4 2 Advanced Chipset Control 4 7 4 4 3 I O Device Configuration 4 9 4 4 4 PnP Configuration 4 10 4 4 5 Hardware Monitors 4 13 4 4 6 Processor Clock Options 4 14 4 4 7 DMI Event Log 4 15 4 4 8 Consol...

Page 7: ...erformance Please check that the following items have all been included with your motherboard If anything listed here is damaged or missing contact your retailer All Included with Retail Box Only One...

Page 8: ...SuperMicro Computer B V Het Sterrenbeeld 28 5215 ML s Hertogenbosch The Netherlands Tel 31 0 73 6400390 Fax 31 0 73 6416525 Email sales supermicro nl General Information support supermicro nl Technic...

Page 9: ...Chapter 1 Introduction 1 3 Figure 1 1 P8SC8 Image Note SCSI support is available for the P8SC8 motherboard only...

Page 10: ...it supports PCI X up to 133MHz Notes KB MS USB0 1 COM1 VGA Parallel Port J P U S B 1 ATX 24 Pin PWR J P F JPWAKE1 4 Pin PWR CPU CopperRiver NorthBridge GLAN1 GLAN2 DIMM 1A DIMM 1B DIMM 2A DIMM 2B GLAN...

Page 11: ...hrough 4 Floppy Connector Floppy Disk Connector IDE IDE Connector IPMI IPMI 2 0 Socket J9 Internal Speaker Buzzer Enable JL1 Chassis Intrusion Header JLED Power LED Connector JSLED SATA LED Connector...

Page 12: ..._PROCESSOR ICH6R USB Ports 0 1 2 3 6 7 FWH LPC I O MS KB FDD SER 1 SER 2 PRN Primary IDE VRM 10 0 ADDR CTRL CTRL ADDR DATA DATA UDMA 100 LPC BUS PCI 32 BUS VRM V10 0 1 PCI H W MONITOR UDMA 100 S ATA C...

Page 13: ...E7221 Copper River Expansion Slots Two 2 PCI Express x1 One 1 PCI X up to 133MHz P8SCi PCI X 100MHz P8SC8 One 1 32 bit PCI BIOS 8 Mb Firmware Hub AwardBIOS Flash BIOS APM 1 2 DMI 2 3 PCI 2 2 ACPI 1 0...

Page 14: ...B 2 Fast UART 16550 compatible serial connectors 1 header 1 port 2 Broadcom 5721 PCI Exp Gigabit Ethernet Controllers 1 EPP Enhanced Parallel Port and ECP Extended Capabilities Port supported parallel...

Page 15: ...optimized for the Prescott processors in an LGA775 Package It supports one or two channels of unbuffered ECC Non ECC DDR2 533 400 SDRAM The ACPI component provides the data buffering and interface ar...

Page 16: ...an Fail LED and Control This feature is available when the user enables the CPU overheat Fan Fail warning function in the BIOS This allows the user to define an overheat temperature When this temperat...

Page 17: ...he USB keyboard is the only keyboard in the system it keyboard will function like a normal keyboard during system boot up Main Switch Override Mechanism When an ATX power supply is used the power butt...

Page 18: ...transmission is present you may choose to in stall a line filter to shield the computer from noise It is recommended that you also install a power surge protector to help avoid problems caused by pow...

Page 19: ...speed 16550 compatible serial communication ports UARTs one of which supports serial infrared communication Each UART includes a 16 byte send receive FIFO a programmable baud rate generator complete m...

Page 20: ...1 14 P8SC8 P8SCi User s Manual Notes...

Page 21: ...ripherals back into their antistatic bags when not in use For grounding purposes make sure your computer chassis provides ex cellent conductivity between the power supply the case the mounting fastene...

Page 22: ...l the CPU heatsink 2 2 LGA775 Processor and Heatsink Fan Installation When handling the processor package avoid placing direct pressure on the label area of the fan Installation of the LGA775 Processo...

Page 23: ...the CPU on the socket Do not move the CPU horizontally or vertically Do not rub the CPU against the surface of the socket or against any pins of the socket to avoid damage to the CPU or the socket 7...

Page 24: ...e copper core of the heatsink Warning CPU overheat may occur if the protective film is not removed from the heatsink 5 Apply the proper amount of thermal grease on the CPU Note if your heatsink came w...

Page 25: ...screwdriver to secure the motherboard onto the motherboard tray Heatsink Removal 8 Repeat Step 6 to insert all four heatsink fasteners into the mounting holes 9 Once all four fasteners are securely in...

Page 26: ...pulate any number of DIMM slots Popu lating DIMM 1A DIMM 2A and or DIMM 1B DIMM 2B with memory modules of the same size and of the same type will result in dual channel two way interleaved memory whic...

Page 27: ...finitions Mouse Green Keyboard Purple Parallel Port Burgundy VGA Port USB 0 1 Ports COM1 Port Turquoise Front Control Panel JF1 contains header pins for various front control panel connectors See Figu...

Page 28: ...COM 16 PS_ON 17 COM 18 COM 19 COM 20 Res NC 21 5V 22 5V 23 5V 24 COM Pin Number Definition 1 3 3V 2 3 3V 3 COM 4 5V 5 COM 6 5V 7 COM 8 PWR_OK 9 5VSB 10 12V 11 12V 12 3 3V KB MS USB0 1 COM1 VGA Parall...

Page 29: ...GLAN1 GLAN2 DIMM 1A DIMM 1B DIMM 2A DIMM 2B GLAN CTRL GLAN CTRL JPL1 JPL2 PCI X 133 100 MHz PCI Ex1 LGA 775 SCSI CTRL 7902 W SCSI Channel A SCSI Channel B JWD USB6 7 BIOS J L 1 IDE Floppy J 5 JBT1 J F...

Page 30: ...ni tions NIC1 LED Pin Definitions JF1 Pin Number 11 12 Definition Vcc GND NIC2 LED Pin Definitions JF1 Pin Number 9 10 Definition Vcc GND NIC1 LED Power Button Overheat Fan Fail LED 1 Reset Button 2 I...

Page 31: ...Ground NMI Button Pin Definitions JF1 NIC1 LED Power Button Overheat Fan Fail LED 1 Reset Button 2 IDE SATA LED Power On LED Reset Signal Vcc Vcc Vcc Vcc Ground 3V Standby 19 20 Vcc X Ground NMI X X...

Page 32: ...nition 1 CD 2 RD 3 TD 4 DTR 5 Ground Pin Number Definition 6 DSR 7 RTS 8 CTS 9 RI Serial Port Pin Definitions COM2 Pin Number Definition 1 CD 2 RD 3 TD 4 DTR 5 Ground Pin Number Definition 6 DSR 7 RTS...

Page 33: ...ardware Monitor ing Section in the BIOS 3 pin Fan Header Pin Definitions Pin Number 1 2 3 Definition Ground black 12V red Tachometer Caution Fan headers use DC power KB MS USB0 1 COM1 VGA Parallel Por...

Page 34: ...ersal Serial Bus ports USB O 1 located at J15 on the I O panel and addi tional four USB ports are located at J10 J7 on the motherboard These ports labeled USB 2 3 and USB 6 7 can be used to provide fr...

Page 35: ...B GLAN CTRL GLAN CTRL JPL1 JPL2 PCI X 133 100 MHz PCI Ex1 LGA 775 SCSI CTRL 7902 W SCSI Channel A SCSI Channel B JWD USB6 7 BIOS J L 1 IDE Floppy J 5 JBT1 J F 1 JLED Fan3 Fan2 JSLED Fan1 Fan5 Fan4 ICH...

Page 36: ...VGA Parallel Port J P U S B 1 ATX 24 Pin PWR J P F JPWAKE1 4 Pin PWR CPU CopperRiver NorthBridge GLAN1 GLAN2 DIMM 1A DIMM 1B DIMM 2A DIMM 2B GLAN CTRL GLAN CTRL JPL1 JPL2 PCI X 133 100 MHz PCI Ex1 LG...

Page 37: ...VGA Parallel Port J P U S B 1 ATX 24 Pin PWR J P F JPWAKE1 4 Pin PWR CPU CopperRiver NorthBridge GLAN1 GLAN2 DIMM 1A DIMM 1B DIMM 2A DIMM 2B GLAN CTRL GLAN CTRL JPL1 JPL2 PCI X 133 100 MHz PCI Ex1 LG...

Page 38: ...square solder pad on the printed circuit board See the motherboard layout pages for jumper locations Note On a two pin jumper Closed means the jumper is on both pins and Open means the jumper is eith...

Page 39: ...pressing a key on the key board See the table on the right for jumper settings Your power supply must meet ATX specifica tion 2 01 or higher and supply 720 mA of standby power to use this feature Jump...

Page 40: ...initions Enable Disable GLAN Enable JPL1 JPL2 KB MS USB0 1 COM1 VGA Parallel Port J P U S B 1 ATX 24 Pin PWR J P F JPWAKE1 4 Pin PWR CPU CopperRiver NorthBridge GLAN1 GLAN2 DIMM 1A DIMM 1B DIMM 2A DIM...

Page 41: ...on automatically If this function disabled the user needs to press the power button to power on the system Jumper Position Open Closed Definition Normal Force On Force Power On JPF KB MS USB0 1 COM1...

Page 42: ...ite his own application software in order to disable the Watch Dog Timer Jumper Position Pins 1 2 Pins 2 3 Open Definition WD to Reset WD to NMI Disabled Watch Dog Jumper Settings JWD KB MS USB0 1 COM...

Page 43: ...Indicator Speed LED Right Left Back Panel View LED Color Amber Definition Blinking 10 100MHz 1GHz 1 Gb LAN Right LED Indicator Activity LED KB MS USB0 1 COM1 VGA Parallel Port J P U S B 1 ATX 24 Pin...

Page 44: ...A and the connector that does not have twisted wires always connects to drive B The 80 wire ATA100 66 IDE hard disk drive cable that came with your system has two connectors to support two drives Thi...

Page 45: ...en the IDE slot and the IPMI Socket Refer to Figure 2 3 for location See the table on the right for pin definitions Pin Number Function 1 GND 3 GND 5 Key 7 GND 9 GND 11 GND 13 GND 15 GND 17 GND 19 GND...

Page 46: ...49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 68 pin Ultra320 SCSI Connectors JA1 and JA2 Ultra320 SCSI Connectors P8SC8 only Refer to the table below for the pin definitions of the Ult...

Page 47: ...nd mouse 5 Remove all add on cards 6 Install a CPU and heatsink making sure that it is fully seated and connect the chassis speaker and the power LED to the motherboard Check all jumper settings as we...

Page 48: ...tem to lose the CMOS setup information Refer to Section 1 6 for details on recommended power supplies 2 The battery on your motherboard may be old Check to verify that it still supplies 3VDC If it doe...

Page 49: ...The P8SC8 P8SCi supports up to 4 GB of ECC Non ECC unbuf fered DDR2 533 400 two way interleaved or non interleaved SDRAM See Section 2 4 for details on installing memory Question How do I update my B...

Page 50: ...the first screen that appears when the system is turned on the momentary on off switch must be held for more than four seconds to shut down the system This feature is required to implement the ACPI f...

Page 51: ...be rendered You can obtain service by calling your vendor for a Returned Merchandise Authorization RMA number When returning to the manufacturer the RMA number should be prominently displayed on the...

Page 52: ...3 6 P8SC8 P8SCi User s Manual Notes...

Page 53: ...e computer is turned off a back up battery provides power to the BIOS Flash chip enabling it to retain the system parameters Each time the computer is pow ered on the computer is then configured with...

Page 54: ...can be activated in one of two ways 1 By pressing Del immediately after turning the system on or 2 When the following message appears briefly at the bottom of the screen during the POST Power On Self...

Page 55: ...8MB 3 5 in Swap Floppy Drive If the system has two floppy drives enable this feature to assign physical drive B to logical drive A or physical drive A to logic drive B The options are Enabled and Disa...

Page 56: ...e configurations of items such as Head Precomp Landing Zone and Sector The options are None Auto and Manual Access Mode This item determines the location through which the AwardBIOS accesses the IDE P...

Page 57: ...hoose the Advanced BIOS Setup from the Award BIOS main menu with the Left Right arrow keys You should see the following display Select one of the items in the left frame of the screen to go to the sub...

Page 58: ...features The settings are Enabled or Disabled APIC Mode This setting allows you to Enable or Disable APIC APIC is used to assign interrupt signals to a specific processor on a multiprocessor system an...

Page 59: ...ode This feature allows you to select the channel for SATA mode The options are IDE RAID and AHCI Advanced Host Controller Interface On Chip Serial ATA Select Disabled to disable the SATA Controller S...

Page 60: ...TA IDE will not be available SATA Port This setting allows you configure the setting for the SATA port The options are P1 and P3 is Secondary USB Controller This setting allows you to enable or disabl...

Page 61: ...ed the transmission of IR infrared signals will be delayed The settings are Enabled and Disabled UR2 Duplex Mode This setting sets the mode for the UR2 Duplex Mode The options are Full and Half UART M...

Page 62: ...SPP EPP ECP ECP EPP and Normal EPP Mode Select This setting allows the user to select the EPP port type The options are EPP 1 9 and EPP 1 7 ECP Mode Use DMA This setting allows the user to select the...

Page 63: ...the OS cannot reboot the system The options are Enabled and Disabled Resources Controlled By This setting allows the BIOS to automatically configure all boot and Plug and Play compatible devices If y...

Page 64: ...6 bytes 512 bytes 1024 bytes 2048 bytes and 4096 bytes PCI Express Root Port Function PCI Express Port 1 PCI Express Port 2 PCI Express Port 3 PCI Express Port 4 Select Enabled to enable the PCI Expre...

Page 65: ...C 1850 F Highlight this and hit Enter to see monitor data for the following items CPU Temperature System Temperature In addition to temperature monitoring the status of the following items will also...

Page 66: ...OS The options are Enabled and Disabled Hyper Threading Set this option to Enabled to activate the hyper threading function of the CPUs Enabling the hyper threading function makes each CPU appear as t...

Page 67: ...ear all DMI event logs The default setting is No View DMI Event Log Highlight this item and press Enter to view the contents of the event log Mark DMI Events as Read Highlight this item and press Ente...

Page 68: ...abled and Enabled BAUD Rate Select the BAUD rate for console redirection The options are 300 1200 2400 9600 19 2K 38 4K 57 6K and 115 2K Agent Connect Via This setting allows you to select the device...

Page 69: ...s highlighted on the above screen press the Enter key When prompted type the User Password in the dialogue box to set or to change the User Password Password Check This setting allows the user to dete...

Page 70: ...Boot Priority Hard Drive Boot Priority CD ROM Boot Priority This item allows the user to select the Boot Priority of Hard Disk Devices First Boot Device This item allows the user to set the first boo...

Page 71: ...e Floppy LS120 HDD SCSI CDROM ZIP100 USB FDD USB ZIP USB CDROM USB HDD LAN and Disabled Boot Other Device If enabled this option enables the BIOS to load the OS from another device rather than the one...

Page 72: ...ithout saving any changes you may have made Your sys tem should then continue with the boot up procedure Load Fail Safe Defaults Highlight this item and hit Enter to load the default settings for all...

Page 73: ...lf Test POST the BIOS will check for problems If a problem is found the BIOS will activate an alarm or display a message The following is a list of such BIOS messages 1 long beep 1 short pause continu...

Page 74: ...A 2 P8SC8 P8SCi User s Manual Notes...

Page 75: ...E000 F000 shadow RAM 0h1 Expand the Xgroup codes locating in physical address 1000 0 02h Reserved 03h Initial Superio_Early_Init switch 04h Reserved 05h 1 Blank out screen 2 Clear CMOS error flag 06h...

Page 76: ...ARLY_PM_INIT switch 1Eh Reserved 1Fh Load keyboard matrix notebook platform 20h Reserved 21h HPM initialization notebook platform 22h Reserved 23h 1 Check validity of RTC value e g a value of 5Ah is a...

Page 77: ...h Reserved 47h Initialize EISA slot 48h Reserved 49h 1 Calculate total memory by testing the last double word of each 64K page 2 Program writes allocation for AMD K5 CPU 4Ah Reserved 4Bh Reserved 4Ch...

Page 78: ...rs according to items described in Setup Auto configuration table 6Ch Reserved 6Dh 1 Assign resources to all ISA PnP devices 2 Auto assign ports to onboard COM ports if the corresponding item in Setup...

Page 79: ...sign IRQs to PCI devices 7 Initialize APM 8 Clear noise of IRQs 86h Reserved 87h Reserved 88h Reserved 89h Reserved 90h Reserved 91h Reserved 92h Reserved 93h Read HDD boot sector information for Tren...

Page 80: ...P8SC8 P8SCi User s Manual B 6 NOTES...

Page 81: ...tem Serial ATA SATA Serial ATA SATA is a physical storage interface It 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...

Page 82: ...d press the Enter Key to select this option 5 Select the item On Chip Serial ATA and press the Enter Key When the sub menu appears select the item Enhanced Mode 6 Scroll up to the item SATA Mode and p...

Page 83: ...y The following screen will appear 1 Creating Deleting and Reseting RAID Volumes a After the system exits from the BIOS Setup Utility the system will auto matically reboot The following screen appears...

Page 84: ...e previous menu c Use the Tab Upper Arrow Down Arrow and Enter keys to enter the appropriate values for the items selected and go to the next field d When asked Are you sure you want to create this vo...

Page 85: ...You will return to the main menu with DISK VOLUME INFORMATION updated as shown in the following screen f Once the above screen appears use the Down Arrow key to select item 4 Exit and press the Enter...

Page 86: ...ain menu Deleting RAID Volume a When you are in the main menu use the Down Arrow and the Upper Arrow keys to select item 2 Delete RAID Volume in the main menu b When the item 2 is highlighted press th...

Page 87: ...to return to the main menu Note the Esc key is used to select the previous menu Reset Disks to Non RAID a When you are in the main menu use the Down Arrow and the Upper Arrow keys to select item 3 Re...

Page 88: ...0 Setup CD in the CD Driver and the system will start booting up from CD b Press the F6 key when the message Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver displays c When the Windo...

Page 89: ...except for the SUPER Doctor utility and the LAN SCSI driver diskettes which are optional The bottom icon with a CD on it allows you to view the entire contents of the CD Installing Intel Application A...

Page 90: ...C 10 P8SC8 P8SCi User s Manual b When the above screen appears click on the icon marked Next on the screen and the following screen will appear...

Page 91: ...own in the following screen and click on the icon marked Next d Specify the folder that you want the program to be installed in and then click on the icon marked Next to begin the installation process...

Page 92: ...ion Installation g Once the Application Accelerator RAID Edition installation is completed the following screen will appear and the system will start to re boot Note Once the XP 2000 Operating System...

Page 93: ...to Page C 14 Driver Tool Installation Display Screen Note Click the icons showing a hand writing on paper to view the readme files for each item Click the computer icons to the right of these items t...

Page 94: ...is called SD III Client The Supero Doctor III program included on the CDROM that came with your motherboard allows you to monitor the environment and operations of your system Supero Doctor III displa...

Page 95: ...ed from our Website 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...

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