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Chapter 4: BIOS

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Fixed Disk Boot Sector

This setting may offer some protection against viruses when set to Write Protect,

which protects the boot sector on the hard drive from having a virus written to it.

The other option is

Normal

Password on Boot

This setting allows you to require a password to be entered when the system

boots up. The options are Enabled (password required) and Disabled (password

not required).

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Page 1: ...PDSMP 8 PDSMP i USER S MANUAL Revision 1 0...

Page 2: ...S ARISING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY 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...

Page 3: ...cribes the features speci cations and performance of the PDSMP 8 PDSMP i mainboard and provides detailed information about the chipset Chapter 2 provides hardware installation instructions Read this c...

Page 4: ...toring 1 10 1 4 Power Con guration Settings 1 10 1 5 ACPI Features 1 11 1 6 Power Supply 1 12 1 7 Important Safety and Regulatory Information 1 13 Chapter 2 Installation 2 1 Static Sensitive Devices 2...

Page 5: ...20 SMB to PCE X PCI E Slots 2 21 VGA Enable 2 21 SCSI Enable 2 22 2 8 LED Indicators 2 23 G LAN LEDs 2 23 Unit Identi cation Indicators 2 24 SCSI Channel Indicators 2 24 2 9 Floppy Hard Drive 1UIPMI a...

Page 6: ...ion 4 1 4 2 Running Setup 4 2 4 3 Main BIOS Setup 4 2 4 4 Advanced Setup 4 7 4 5 Security Setup 4 18 4 6 Boot Setup 4 20 4 7 Exit 4 21 Appendices Appendix A BIOS POST Messages A 1 Appendix B BIOS POST...

Page 7: ...to detail to provide you with the highest standards in quality and performance Please check that the following items have all been included with your motherboard If anything listed here is damaged or...

Page 8: ...ss 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 Techn...

Page 9: ...portant Note to the User All images and layouts shown in this manual were based upon the latest PCB Revision available at the time of publishing of this manual The motherboard you ve received may or m...

Page 10: ...he 5V Standby PWR is on Maker sure to turn off the power before installing or removing components Figure 1 3 Motherboard Layout not drawn to scale JPL1 LAN CTRL LAN CTRL 1U IPMI SI O BIOS J W D COM2 J...

Page 11: ...Drive Connector JA1 JB1 PDSMP 8 only SCSI Channel A JA1 SCSI Channel B JB1 JD1 Speaker Pins 3 4 Internal Pins 1 4 External Note 3 JL1 Chassis Intrusion Header JPB1 Universal Identi cation Indicator Se...

Page 12: ...otherboard MUKILTEO LGA775_PROCESSOR ICH7R USB PORT_0 7 FWH LPC I O PRI_IDE VRM 10 1 CTRL ADDR DATA UDMA 100 LPC PCI_32_BUS DDR2_667 533 VRM V10 1 SMBUS ATI VGA DIMM_CHA S ATA 300 4 x SATA CK410 CLK P...

Page 13: ...the BIOS Enable the HT feature in the BIOS under Advanced Setting before install ing a supported OS Note visit www Intel com for CPU support and driver updates OS Licensing Support Intel Dual Core CP...

Page 14: ...vices 3Gbps with support of RAID functions 0 1 10 and 5 1 oppy port interface up to 2 88 MB 2 Fast UART 16550 compatible serial connections 1 port 1 header Dual Intel 82573 PCI E Gigabit Ethernet Cont...

Page 15: ...RAMa x8 PCI Express The I O Controller ICH7R provides the data buffering and interface arbitration re quired for the system to operate ef ciently It also provides the bandwidth needed for the system t...

Page 16: ...s allows the user to de ne an overheat temperature When this temperature reaches the threshold the CPU thermal trip feature will be activated and it will send a signal to the Speaker LED and at the sa...

Page 17: ...s a 3 pin header WOL to connect to the 3 pin header on a Network Interface Card NIC that has WOL capability Wake On LAN must be enabled in BIOS Note that Wake On LAN can only be used with an ATX 2 01...

Page 18: ...e that will supply at least 350W of power Also your power supply must supply 1 5A for the Ethernet ports It must also be SSI compliant info at http www ssiforum org Additionally in areas where noisy p...

Page 19: ...its edges only do 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...

Page 20: ...tall the CPU heatsink 2 Intel s boxed Pentium 4 CPU package contains the CPU fan and heatsink as sembly If you buy a CPU separately make sure that you use only Intel certi ed multi directional heatsin...

Page 21: ...d carefully lower the CPU straight down to the socket Do not drop the CPU on the socket Do not move the CPU horizontally or vertically Do not rub the CPU against the surface or against any pins of the...

Page 22: ...occur if the protective lm is not removed from the heatsink 5 Apply the proper amount of thermal grease on the CPU Note if your heatsink came with a thermal pad please ignore this step 6 If necessary...

Page 23: ...take all necessary precautionary measures to prevent damage done to these components when installing the motherboard into the chassis 8 Repeat Step 6 to insert all four heatsink fasteners into the mou...

Page 24: ...nd non interleaved memory are supported so you may populate any number of DIMM slots Populating DIMM 1A DIMM 1B and or DIMM 2A DIMM 2B with memory modules of the same size and of the same type will re...

Page 25: ...ns for various buttons and indicators that are normally located on a control panel at the front of the chassis These connectors are designed speci cally for use with Supermicro server chassis See Figu...

Page 26: ...IPMI SI O BIOS J W D COM2 J13 JPF1 JF1 FP CTRL Battery J D 1 JPL2 KB MS J7 E7230 Mukilteo JPG1 PentiumDuralCoreCPU SCSI CTRL ICH7R South Bridge PXH PCI X 1 100MHz PCI X 2 133MHz JPCIX2 JPCIX1 LGA 775...

Page 27: ...A 4 Port J50 J48 DIMM 1A DIMM 1B DIMM 2A DIMM 2B Floppy J15 Fan5 Fan6 Fan3 Fan4 J 4 3 SPKR1 JA1 JPA1 SMBus SUPER PDSMP Rev 1 01 USB0 1 COM1 VGA VGA CTRL USB2 3 USB4 5 20 pin PWR 9 pin PWR LE1 JL1 WOR...

Page 28: ...H PCI X 1 100MHz PCI X 2 133MHz JPCIX2 JPCIX1 LGA 775 JPB1 JB1 SCSI Channel B SCSI Channel A JBT1 JPCI1 PCIEx4 SATA 4 Port J50 J48 DIMM 1A DIMM 1B DIMM 2A DIMM 2B Floppy J15 Fan5 Fan6 Fan3 Fan4 J 4 3...

Page 29: ...3MHz JPCIX2 JPCIX1 LGA 775 JPB1 JB1 SCSI Channel B SCSI Channel A JBT1 JPCI1 PCIEx4 SATA 4 Port J50 J48 DIMM 1A DIMM 1B DIMM 2A DIMM 2B Floppy J15 Fan5 Fan6 Fan3 Fan4 J 4 3 SPKR1 JA1 JPA1 SMBus SUPER...

Page 30: ...ttery J D 1 JPL2 KB MS J7 E7230 Mukilteo JPG1 PentiumDuralCoreCPU SCSI CTRL ICH7R South Bridge PXH PCI X 1 100MHz PCI X 2 133MHz JPCIX2 JPCIX1 LGA 775 JPB1 JB1 SCSI Channel B SCSI Channel A JBT1 JPCI1...

Page 31: ...CTRL USB2 3 USB4 5 20 pin PWR 9 pin PWR LE1 JL1 WOR WOL J 5 1 J 5 2 J49 DA1 DA2 LAN2 JLAN2 LAN1 JLAN1 JIDE1 IDE Fan1 Fan2 JP17JWF1 Chassis Intrusion A Chassis Intrusion header is located at JL1 Attach...

Page 32: ...1 COM1 VGA VGA CTRL USB2 3 USB4 5 20 pin PWR 9 pin PWR LE1 JL1 WOR WOL J 5 1 J 5 2 J49 DA1 DA2 LAN2 JLAN2 LAN1 JLAN1 JIDE1 IDE Fan1 Fan2 JP17JWF1 USB 0 1 FP USB4 5 Universal Serial Bus USB There are t...

Page 33: ...Rev 1 01 USB0 1 COM1 VGA VGA CTRL USB2 3 USB4 5 20 pin PWR 9 pin PWR LE1 JL1 WOR WOL J 5 1 J 5 2 J49 DA1 DA2 LAN2 JLAN2 LAN1 JLAN1 JIDE1 IDE Fan1 Fan2 JP17JWF1 ATX PS 2 Keyboard and PS 2 Mouse Ports...

Page 34: ...n2 JP17JWF1 Fan 3 4 Fan 5 6 Fan Headers The PDSMP 8 PDSMP i has six fan headers Fans 1 2 3 4 5 6 These fan headers use DC Power Note please be sure to use Supermicro s P N Fan 0079 on the motherboard...

Page 35: ...N1 JLAN1 JIDE1 IDE Fan1 Fan2 JP17JWF1 Wake On Ring The Wake On Ring header JWOR is located close to the ICH7R South Bridge This function allows your computer to receive an incoming call to the modem a...

Page 36: ...ttery J D 1 JPL2 KB MS J7 E7230 Mukilteo JPG1 PentiumDuralCoreCPU SCSI CTRL ICH7R South Bridge PXH PCI X 1 100MHz PCI X 2 133MHz JPCIX2 JPCIX1 LGA 775 JPB1 JB1 SCSI Channel B SCSI Channel A JBT1 JPCI1...

Page 37: ...Enable Connector Pins Jumper Setting 3 2 1 3 2 1 JPL1 LAN CTRL LAN CTRL 1U IPMI SI O BIOS J W D COM2 J13 JPF1 JF1 FP CTRL Battery J D 1 JPL2 KB MS J7 E7230 Mukilteo JPG1 PentiumDuralCoreCPU SCSI CTRL...

Page 38: ...a soft ware application freezes the system Pins 1 2 will have WD reset the system if a program freezes Pins 2 3 will generate a non maskable interrupt for the program that hangs This function requires...

Page 39: ...WR 9 pin PWR LE1 JL1 WOR WOL J 5 1 J 5 2 J49 DA1 DA2 LAN2 JLAN2 LAN1 JLAN1 JIDE1 IDE Fan1 Fan2 JP17JWF1 SMBus to PCI PCI Exp Slots Jumpers J51 J52 allow you to con nect PCIX PCI E slots to the System...

Page 40: ...M 2A DIMM 2B Floppy J15 Fan5 Fan6 Fan3 Fan4 J 4 3 SPKR1 JA1 JPA1 SMBus SUPER PDSMP Rev 1 01 USB0 1 COM1 VGA VGA CTRL USB2 3 USB4 5 20 pin PWR 9 pin PWR LE1 JL1 WOR WOL J 5 1 J 5 2 J49 DA1 DA2 LAN2 JLA...

Page 41: ...5 20 pin PWR 9 pin PWR LE1 JL1 WOR WOL J 5 1 J 5 2 J49 DA1 DA2 LAN2 JLAN2 LAN1 JLAN1 JIDE1 IDE Fan1 Fan2 JP17JWF1 LAN1 Port GLAN LEDs There are two GLAN ports on the mother board Each Gigabit Etherne...

Page 42: ...ID Indicators will be lit Push the UID button again to turn off both Indicators These UID Indicators provide easy identi cation of a system unit that may be in need of service JPL1 LAN CTRL LAN CTRL 1...

Page 43: ...ive cable has seven twisted wires A red mark on a wire typically designates the location of pin 1 A single oppy disk drive ribbon cable has 34 wires and two connectors to provide for two oppy disk dri...

Page 44: ...Blue IDE Connector The IDE Connector JIDE1 Blue is located on JIDE1 on the motherboard See the table on the right pin de ni tions 1U IPMI There is a 1U IPMI Socket JIPMI0 on the motherboard Refer to...

Page 45: ...n the motherboard SCSI Channel A is located on JA1 and SCSI Channel B is located on JB1 Refer to the table below for the pin de nitions of the Ultra 320 SCSI connectors located at JA1 and JB1 SCSI Cha...

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Page 47: ...herboard including those for the keyboard and mouse 5 Remove all add on cards 6 Install a CPU and heatsink Be sure that it is fully seated and then connect the chassis speaker and the power LED to the...

Page 48: ...power supplies 2 The battery on your motherboard may be old Check to verify that it still sup plies 3VDC If it does not replace it with a new one 3 If the above steps do not x the Setup Con guration...

Page 49: ...i supports up to 8 GB of unbuffered ECC DDR2 677 533 400 two way interleaved or non interleaved SDRAM See Section 2 4 for details on installing memory Question How do I update my BIOS Answer It is not...

Page 50: ...ial cable must be used to take advantage of the speed the ATA100 66 technology offers Connect the blue connector to the onboard IDE header and the other connector s to your hard drive s Consult the do...

Page 51: ...lays etc in the CMOS The CMOS memory requires very little electrical power When the computer is turned off a backup battery provides power to the BIOS ash chip enabling it to retain system parameters...

Page 52: ...ge shown below appears brie y 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 Note Please load S...

Page 53: ...ey in the correct information in the appropriate elds Then press the Enter key to save the data System Date Using the arrow keys highlight the month day and year elds and enter the correct data Press...

Page 54: ...The Enhanced mode is supported by the Windows 2000 OS or a later version When the SATA Controller Mode is set to Enhanced the following items will display Serial ATA SATA RAID Select Enable to enable...

Page 55: ...f IDE hard drive The options are Auto which allows BIOS to automatically determine the hard drive s capacity number of heads etc a number from 1 39 to select a predetermined type of hard drive CDROM a...

Page 56: ...re allows the user to enable or disable the function of 32 bit data transfer The options are Enabled and Disabled Transfer Mode Thisfeatureallowstheuserto selectthetransfermode TheoptionsareStandard F...

Page 57: ...ting option using the arrow keys and pressing Enter All Advanced BIOS Setup options are described in this section Boot Features Access the submenu to make changes to the following settings Quick Boot...

Page 58: ...power returns after an unexpected loss of power The options are Last State Stay off and Power On Watch Dog If enabled this option will automatically reset the system if the system is not active for m...

Page 59: ...e will allow the data stored in the base memory area block 512K 640K to be cached written into a buffer a storage area in the Static DRM SDROM or to be written into L1 L2 cache inside the CPU to speed...

Page 60: ...e the bus frequency for the devices installed in the slots indicated The options are Auto PCI 33 MHz PCI 66 MHz PCI X 66 MHz PCI X 100 MHz and PCI X 133 MHz Slot 1 PCI X 100 MHz ZCR Slot 2 PCI X 133 M...

Page 61: ...o select the type of interrupt to be activated as a result of an ECC error The options are None NMI Non Maskable Interrupt SMI System Management Interrupt and SCI System Control Interrupt Note This it...

Page 62: ...Default X14 X15 and X16 Hyper threading Available when supported by the CPU This setting allows you to Enable or Disable the function of hyper threading Enabling hyper threading results in increased C...

Page 63: ...information No Execute Mode Memory Protection Enable this feature to enable the functionality of Execute Disable Bit and allow the processor to classify areas in the memory where an application code c...

Page 64: ...al Port A The options are IRQ3 and IRQ4 Serial Port B This setting allows you to decide how Serial Port B is controlled The options are Enabled user de ned Disabled and Auto BIOS or OS controlled Mode...

Page 65: ...ity 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...

Page 66: ...K Console Type This item allows you to choose from the available options to select the console type for console redirection The options are VT100 VT100 8bit PC ANSI 7bit PC ANSI VT100 VT UTF8 Flow Con...

Page 67: ...System Temperature Fan Speed This item displays the speed of each onboard cooling fan Fan 1 Speed FAN 6 Speed Fan Speed Control Modes This feature allows the user to decide how the system controls th...

Page 68: ...isor password has been entered for the system User Password Is This displays whether a user password has been entered for the system Clear means such a password has not been used and Set means a user...

Page 69: ...to Write Protect which protects the boot sector on the hard drive from having a virus written to it The other option is Normal Password on Boot This setting allows you to require a password to be ent...

Page 70: ...ettings are described in this section Boot Priority Order Excluded from Boot Order Use the Up and Down Arrow Keys to select a device Use a key or a key to move the device up or down Use the f key or t...

Page 71: ...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 defau...

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Page 73: ...er On Self Test POST the BIOS will check for problems If a prob lem is found the BIOS will activate an alarm or display a message The following is a list of such BIOS messages 1 repetitive long beep M...

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Page 75: ...attempt to initialize video and write the 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 0...

Page 76: ...Shadow system BIOS ROM 3Ah Auto size cache 3Ch Advanced con guration of chipset registers 3Dh Load alternate registers with CMOS values 41h Initialize extended memory for RomPilot 42h Initialize inter...

Page 77: ...t 80h Disable onboard Super I O ports and IRQs 81h Late POST device initialization 82h Detect and install external RS232 ports 83h Con gure non MCD IDE controllers 84h Detect and install external para...

Page 78: ...QuietBoot optional B6h Check password optional B7h Initialize ACPI BIOS B9h Prepare Boot BAh Initialize SMBIOS BBh Initialize PnP Option ROMs BCh Clear parity checkers BDh Display MultiBoot menu BEh C...

Page 79: ...ize 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 Cl...

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Page 81: ...g system and other software drivers The necessary drivers are all included on the Supermicro CD that came packaged with your motherboard Note that the current version of the ICH7R SATA RAID Utility ca...

Page 82: ...HDD partition size without any data Con guring 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 rst time po...

Page 83: ...ppears 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 s...

Page 84: ...nd press Space to select it A triangle appears to con rm the selection of the drive f Use the Up Arrow Down Arrow keys to selet the stripe size ranged from 4 KB to 128 KB for the RAID 0 array and hit...

Page 85: ...t 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 capaci...

Page 86: ...n 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...

Page 87: ...drive and press Space to select it A triangle appears to con rm 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...

Page 88: ...ves 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 m...

Page 89: ...ID 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 select item4 Exit and p...

Page 90: ...ntroller 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...

Page 91: ...st re boot the system before moving on to the next item on the list You should install everything here except for the SUPER Doctor utility and the LAN SCSI driver diskettes which are optional The bott...

Page 92: ...the installation in the welcoming window 15 Intel ICH5R Serial ATA RAID Introduction The InstallShield Wizard will begin automatically for installation showed as following Click on the Next button to...

Page 93: ...marked Yes on the screen and the following screen will appear Intel ICH5R Serial ATA RAID Introduction 16 After reading the license agreement in the following window click Y es button to continue Sel...

Page 94: ...2000 2003 Operating System is installed please read the Readme text les for the instructions to use the SATA RAID Utility in the Windows XP 2000 2003 OS environment 17 Intel ICH5R Serial ATA RAID Intr...

Page 95: ...to Page C 14 Driver Tool Installation Display Screen Note Click the icons showing a hand writing on paper to view the readme les for each item Click the computer icons to the right of these items to...

Page 96: ...t is called SD III Client The Supero Doctor III program included on the CDROM that came with your motherboard allows you to moni tor the environment and operations of your system Supero Doctor III dis...

Page 97: ...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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