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Chapter 1: Introduction

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Figure 1-4. SUPER P4SCE Motherboard Layout

CPU

478 PGA

M C H

CPU FAN

PWR LED

COM2

J17

J21

J20

USB 1/2

Parallel Port

RAGE XL

JP8

JP3

J11

JL1

JPWAKE

WOR1

JP1

JP2

OHFAN

COM 1

VGA

JG1

GLAN 1

PCI 1

PCI 2

PCI 3

PCI 5

FLOPPY

BATTERY

BIOS

DIMM 0A

DIMM 0B

DIMM 1B

FRONT PANEL CTR

BANK0

BANK1

ICH5

J33

JF1

LE2

WOL1

J10

Super I/O

J16

SPEAKER

J18

J37

SATA LED

Pin 1

J36

Keylock

USB 3/4

USB 7/8

USB5/6

Pin 1

J38

4-pinPWR

24-pin ATX PWR

Conn

UPER P4SCE

GLAN 2

PCI 4

DIMM 1A

CHS FAN1

SATA2

SATA1

IDE2

IDE1

JBT1

J35

J34

KB/mouse

J13

JPUSB1

J23/JP24

J25/JP26

Pin1 Pin1

JP7

JP20

CMOS Clear

CH Instrusion

LAN Enable

+12V PWR

PWR Froce On

(North Bridge)

(South Bridge)

VGA Enable

See Chapter 2 for detailed information on jumpers, I/O ports and JF1front

panel connections.

Jumpers not indicated are for test purposes only.

CHS FAN2

CHS FAN3

CHS FAN4

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Page 1: ...P4SCA P4SCE USER S MANUAL Revision 2 0a...

Page 2: ...total liability for all claims will not exceed the price paid for the hardware product California Best Management Practices Regulations for Perchlorate Materials This Perchlorate warning applies only...

Page 3: ...ter 2 begins with instructions on handling static sensitive devices Read this chapter when installing the processor and DDR memory modules and when mounting the mainboard in the chassis Also refer to...

Page 4: ...erview 1 13 1 3 PC Health Monitoring 1 14 1 4 Power Configuration Settings 1 15 1 5 Power Supply 1 17 1 6 Super I O 1 18 Chapter 2 Installation 2 1 Static Sensitive Devices 2 1 2 2 Processor and Heats...

Page 5: ...r 2 16 IDE Connectors 2 16 2 9 Installing Intel ICH5R SATA RAID Utility 2 17 2 10 Installing the Operating System and Software 2 24 SuperO Doctor II 2 29 Chapter 3 Troubleshooting 3 1 Troubleshooting...

Page 6: ...iguration 4 11 4 4 5 Hardware Monitors 4 12 4 4 6 Processor Clock Options 4 13 4 5 Security 4 14 4 6 Boot 4 15 4 7 Exit 4 17 Appendices Appendix A BIOS POST Messages A 1 Appendix B BIOS POST Codes B 1...

Page 7: ...ormance 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 in the Retail Box Only One 1...

Page 8: ...ess Super Micro 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 Tec...

Page 9: ...Chapter 1 Introduction 1 3 Notes...

Page 10: ...1 4 SUPER P4SCA P4SCE User s Manual Figure 1 1 SUPER P4SCA Image SUPER P4SCA...

Page 11: ...JG1 GLAN PCI 1 PCI 2 PCI 3 PCI 4 ISA1 ISA2 ISA3 FLOPPY BATTERY JBT1 CMOS Clear BIOS J7 CH CPU Fan1 DIMM 0A DIMM 0B DIMM 1B DIMM 1A WD FRONT PANEL CTR BANK0 BANK1 ICH5R South Bridge J33 S UPER P4SCA JF...

Page 12: ...1 6 SUPER P4SCA P4SCE User s Manual SUPER P4SCE Figure 1 3 SUPER P4SCE Image...

Page 13: ...J16 SPEAKER J18 J37 SATA LED Pin 1 Pin 1 Pin 1 Pin 1 J36 Keylock J2 J5 USB 3 4 USB 7 8 USB5 6 Pin 1 Pin 1 J38 4 pinPWR J3 J4 24 pin ATX PWR Conn Conn S UPER P4SCE GLAN 2 PCI 4 DIMM 1A CHS FAN1 SATA2 S...

Page 14: ...Fan 3 4 Not monitored by BIOS CPU OH FAN CPU Overhead Fan Headers DIMM0A 0B 1A 1B Memory DIMM Slots 1 through 4 GLAN1 GLAN2 Gigabit LAN Ethernet Ports GLAN2 P4SCE J2 J5 IDE Ports J2 IDE1 J5 IDE2 J3 J...

Page 15: ...present the features on your motherboard See the follow ing pages for the actual specifications of each motherboard Processor MCH ICH5 F W H LPC I O PCI Bus LPC BUS DDR SDRAM BUS Hub A SATA PRI SEC ID...

Page 16: ...AN1 2 VGA FDD KB MS SER1 2 PRINTER H W MONITOR UDMA 100 SATA USB Figure 1 6 P4SCE System Block Diagram with the E7210 Canterwood Chipset Note This is a general block diagram and may not exactly repres...

Page 17: ...l four DDR slots are populated with 1 GB modules However the OS may detect only up to 3 65 GB the remaining memory is reserved for system BIOS use Intel Performance Acceleration Technology Chipset Lat...

Page 18: ...hernet Controller 33 MHz 1 EPP Enhanced Parallel Port and ECP Extended Capabilities Port supported parallel port PS 2 mouse and PS 2 keyboard ports Up to 8 USB Universal Serial Bus 2 0 ports for a spe...

Page 19: ...0 333 Memory Interface 533 MHz FSB 333 266 Memory Inter face and 400 MHz FSB 266 MHz Memory Interface System Memory Interface The E7210 Canterwood Memory Controller MCH supports two 64 bit wide DDR da...

Page 20: ...er management functions Environmental Temperature Control The P4SCA P4SCE has a CPU thermal trip feature A thermal control sen sor monitors the CPU temperature in real time and will send a signal to s...

Page 21: ...yboard 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 button can function as a system su...

Page 22: ...emote PC setup up dates and asset tracking can occur after hours and on weekends so that daily LAN traffic is kept to a minimum and users are not interrupted The motherboards have a 3 pin header WOL t...

Page 23: ...nstall a power surge protector to help avoid problems caused by power surges It also provides two high speed 16550 compatible serial communication ports UARTs one of which supports serial infrared com...

Page 24: ...te pre compensation circuitry decode logic data rate selec tion a clock generator drive interface control logic and interrupt and DMA logic The wide range of functions integrated onto the Super I O gr...

Page 25: ...hen 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 provi...

Page 26: ...Bracket 1 2 Insert the white pegs into the black an chors Do not force the white pegs all the way in about 1 3 of the white pegs should be inside the black anchors These are for chassis that do not ha...

Page 27: ...u hear it click into the locked position Socket lever in locked position 8 Apply the proper amount of thermal compound to the CPU die 9 Place the heatsink on top of the CPU and press firmly down ward...

Page 28: ...snaps into place 2 3 Mounting the Motherboard in the Chassis All motherboards have standard mounting holes to fit different types of chassis Make sure that the locations of all the mounting holes for...

Page 29: ...IMM0B DIMM1B with memory modules of the same size same type will result in dual channel two way interleaved memory which is faster than single channel memory The P4SCA P4SCE supports up to 4 GB when a...

Page 30: ...Purple Parallel Port Burgundy VGA Port USB 0 1 Ports GLAN1 GLAN2 LAN Port COM1 Port Turquoise Front Control Panel JF1 contains header pins for various front control panel connectors See Figure 2 4 fo...

Page 31: ...round 12 V 12V 4 pin Connector J21 Required Connection IR Connector The infrared connector is located at J16 See the table on the right for pin definitions See the Tech nical Support section of our we...

Page 32: ...Definition Pins 1 4 Pins 3 4 External Speaker Internal Speaker Reset Connector The reset connector is located on pins 3 and 4 of JF1 This connec tor attaches to the reset switch on the computer chassi...

Page 33: ...Chassis Fan 4 are not monitored by BIOS Con nect the fan on your CPU heatsink to the CPU Fan header See the table on the right for pin defini tions Fan Header Pin Definitions CPU Chassis and Overheat...

Page 34: ...aders are located on the moth erboard These ports labeled USB3 to USB8 can be used to pro vide front side chassis access cables not included See the tables on the right below for pin definitions Pin D...

Page 35: ...er will display all SATA activities See the table on the right for pin definitions Pin Number 1 2 Definition Ground Wake up Wake On Ring Pin Definitions WOR SATA LED Pin Definitions J37 Pin Number 1 2...

Page 36: ...aring CMOS 2 7 Jumper Settings Explanation of Jumpers To modify the operation of the motherboard jumpers can be used to choose between optional set tings Jumpers create shorts be tween two pins to cha...

Page 37: ...stem Close pins 1 2 to reset the system if a program freezes Close pins 2 3 to gener ate a non maskable interrupt for the program that has frozen See the table on the right for jumper settings Watch D...

Page 38: ...3 Definition Enabled Disabled LAN Enable Disable Jumper Settings J34 J35 Keyboard Wake Up The JPWAKE jumper is used to al low the system to be awakened by pressing a key on the keyboard from S1 or S3...

Page 39: ...to support two drives This special cable should be used to take advantage of the speed this new technology offers The blue connector connects to the onboard IDE connector inter face and the other conn...

Page 40: ...a 9 8 Host Data 10 10 Host Data 11 12 Host Data 12 14 Host Data 13 16 Host Data 14 18 Host Data 15 20 Key 22 GND 24 GND 26 GND 28 BALE 30 GND 32 IOCS16 34 GND 36 Addr 2 38 Chip Select 1 40 GND IDE Con...

Page 41: ...all ribbon wire cables from the motherboard including those for the keyboard and mouse 5 Remove all add on cards 6 Install a CPU and heatsink making sure it is fully seated and connect the chassis sp...

Page 42: ...ection 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 does not replace it with a new one 3 If the above st...

Page 43: ...ECC non ECC unbuf fered DDR 400 333 266 two way interleaved SDRAM See Section 2 4 for details on installing memory Question How do I update my BIOS Answer It is recommended that you not upgrade your...

Page 44: ...CD and install the applications you need Applications on the CD include chipset drivers for Windows and security and audio drivers Question I see some of my PCI devices sharing IRQs but the sys tem se...

Page 45: ...header and the other connector s to your hard drive s Consult the docu mentation that came with your disk drive for details on actual jumper loca tions and settings 3 4 Returning Merchandise for Servi...

Page 46: ...3 6 SUPER P4SCA P4SCE User s Manual NOTES...

Page 47: ...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 th...

Page 48: ...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 Test...

Page 49: ...B 3 5 in Legacy Diskette B This setting allows the user to set the type of floppy disk drive installed as diskette B The options are None 360Kb 5 25 in 1 2MB 5 25 in 720Kb 3 5 in 1 44 1 25MB 3 5 in an...

Page 50: ...ch will allow BIOS to automatically detect the status of the IDE HDD installed in the system such as the size the number of cylinders the configurations of items such as Head Precomp Landing Zone and...

Page 51: ...up Choose 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 52: ...ed the option allows the user to determine the ACPI Suspend type The options are S1 POS S3 STR S1 S3 APIC Mode This setting allows you to Enable or Disable APIC APIC is used to assign interrupt signal...

Page 53: ...ed Mode to combine the functionality of Parallel ATA PATA and Serial ATA SATA with the maximum of two IDE drives available for each channel If Enhanced Mode is selected both SATA and PATA are supporte...

Page 54: ...gacy Support This setting allows you to enable or disable the functions of USB Keyboard Mouse under POST and DOS The options are Disabled and Enabled CPU THRM Throttling THRM throttling is used to low...

Page 55: ...and Normal RxD TxD Active This allows the user to change the settings for the RxD TxD Active function The options are Hi Hi Hi Lo Lo Hi and Lo Lo IR Transmission Delay If Enabled the transmission of I...

Page 56: ...ng allows you to select the setting for the Watch Dog Timer The Options are Disabled 10 Sec 20 Sec 30 Sec 40 Sec I min 2 min and Enabled Power On Function This setting allows the user to decide which...

Page 57: ...Auto ESCD and Manual Enter Yes if are you are using an OS that is PnP Plug and Play compatible Enter No if your OS does not support PnP Reset Configuration Data Enabling this setting resets the exten...

Page 58: ...70 F 800 C 1760 F and 850 C 1850 F Note In the Windows OS environment the Supero Doctor III settings take precedence over the BIOS settings When first installed the SD III adopts the temperature thres...

Page 59: ...to 50x to set the clock ratio of the processor The default setting is 8x 8x is only available for retail CPUs 4 4 6 Processor Clock Options Spread Spectrum Spread Spectrum is a technique used to stab...

Page 60: ...prompted type the User Password in the dialogue box to set or to change the User Password Password Check 4 5 Security Choose Security from the Award BIOS main menu with the Left Right arrow keys You s...

Page 61: ...PCI Card First Boot Device This item allows the user to set the first boot up device The options are Floppy LS120 HDD CDROM ZIP100 USB FDD USB ZIP USB CDROM USB HDD LAN and Disabled Second Boot Devic...

Page 62: ...e BIOS to load the OS from another device rather than the ones that have been specified as the first second and third boot up devices The settings are Enabled and Disabled Save Exit Setup When the ite...

Page 63: ...imized Defaults Highlight this item and hit Enter to load the optimized settings for all items in the BIOS Setup These settings provide you with optimal system performance Discard Changes When the ite...

Page 64: ...SUPER P4SCA 4SCE User s Manual 4 18 Notes...

Page 65: ...he Power On Self 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 Memory...

Page 66: ...A 2 SUPER P4SCA P4SCE User s Manual Notes...

Page 67: ...ck to 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 fla...

Page 68: ...Initial EARLY_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...

Page 69: ...ed 46h 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...

Page 70: ...t registers 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...

Page 71: ...s 6 Assign 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 fo...

Page 72: ...SUPER P4SCA P4SCE User s Manual B 6 APPENDIX A NOTES...

Page 73: ...g System 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 w...

Page 74: ...the use of HDD Up to 4 ATA devices are support by this mode Within Legacy Mode the following three modes are supported Non Combined Mode Parallel ATA only with the maximum of 4 devices supported Non...

Page 75: ...elect OK to confirm the selection Press the Enter key to load the default settings for the BIOS 3 Use the arrow keys to select the Advanced in the BIOS 4 Scroll down to the item Advanced Chipset Contr...

Page 76: ...The following screen will appear 1 Creating Deleting and Resetting RAID Volumes a After the system exits from the BIOS Setup Utility the system will auto matically reboot The following screen appears...

Page 77: ...the 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...

Page 78: ...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 79: ...e main 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...

Page 80: ...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 Res...

Page 81: ...00 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 Wind...

Page 82: ...system before moving on to the next item on the list The bottom icon with a CD on it allows you to view the entire contents of the CD Installing Intel Application Accelerator Utility a When the above...

Page 83: ...Appendix C Software Installation C 11 b When the above screen appears click on the icon marked Next on the screen and the following screen will appear...

Page 84: ...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 85: ...dition 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 Syst...

Page 86: ...he screen below will appear Since the utility was designed for all Intel RAID control lers some of the features included in the utility may not be supported by the onboard ICH5R Therefore when you see...

Page 87: ...lace it with a new one 5 Reboot the system once and then go to Disk Management The following screen will appear 6 Then click Action to scan disks 3 Then you can double click the Intel AARE SATARAID Co...

Page 88: ...llowing screen 8 Once the above screen appears right click on the new disk and It will bring up a manual for the new disk Select the item Write Signature to the new disk and the following screen will...

Page 89: ...ect that you have a new disk available 11 Right click on the new disk and select Mark as Normal and the follow ing screen will appear 12 Once you ve made your selection you can go up to the setting of...

Page 90: ...motherboard Note for the Windows 2003 OS please refer to Page C 14 Driver Tool Installation Display Screen Note Click the icons showing a hand writing on the paper to view the readme files for each i...

Page 91: ...voltages and fan status See the Figure below for a display of the Supero Doctor III interface Note 1 The default password and User Name are ADMIN Note 2 In the Windows OS environment the Supero Docto...

Page 92: ...d 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 r...

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