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H8DCE

USER’S MANUAL

Revision 1.1b

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Page 1: ...H8DCE USER S MANUAL Revision 1 1b SUPER...

Page 2: ...or the resolution of any such disputes Super Micro s total liability for all claims will not exceed the price paid for the hardware product FCC Statement This equipment has been tested and found to co...

Page 3: ...ation about the chipset Chapter 2 begins with instructions on handling static sensitive devices Read this chapter when installing the processor s and memory modules and when installing the serverboard...

Page 4: ...Static Sensitive Devices 2 1 Precautions 2 1 Unpacking 2 1 Installation Procedures 2 1 2 2 Processor and Heatsink Installation 2 2 Installing the CPU Backplates 2 2 Installing the Processor install t...

Page 5: ...rrors 3 2 Losing the System s Setup Con guration 3 2 3 2 Technical Support Procedures 3 2 No Video 3 2 3 3 Frequently Asked Questions 3 3 3 4 Returning Merchandise for Service 3 4 Chapter 4 BIOS 4 1 I...

Page 6: ...H8DCE User s Manual vi Notes...

Page 7: ...ormance Please check that the following items have all been included with your serverboard If anything listed here is damaged or missing contact your retailer Included with retail box only One 1 H8DCE...

Page 8: ...er 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 Technical...

Page 9: ...Chapter 1 Introduction 1 3 Figure 1 1 H8DCE Image...

Page 10: ...Express 6 PCI 33 MHz 5 x16 PCI Express 4 PCI 33 MHz 3 PCI 33 MHz 2 x4 PCI Express 1 BIOS JWOL USB6 7 Battery nForce Pro 2200 JWD FAN4 FAN7 CPU1 Fan JPAC IDE 1 IDE 2 JFDD1 JI2 C1 J3P JAR SPKR Figure 1...

Page 11: ...der JAR Power Supply Fail Alarm Reset JF1 Front Control Panel Connector JF2 Onboard Speaker Keylock Power LED JFDD1 Floppy Disk Drive Connector JL1 Chassis Intrusion Header JLAN1 2 Gigabit Ethernet RJ...

Page 12: ...can support x8 cards Three 3 32 bit 33 MHz PCI 5V BIOS 4 Mb Firmware Hub AMIBIOS Flash ROM APM 1 2 DMI 2 3 PCI 2 2 ACPI 1 0 ACPI 2 0 is BIOS supported SMBIOS 2 3 Plug and Play PnP PC Health Monitorin...

Page 13: ...0 1 Two 2 UltraDMA133 IDE ports One 1 oppy port interface up to 2 88 MB Two 2 Fast UART 16550 compatible serial ports On chip nVidia 2200 2050 Ethernet controller supports two Gigabit LAN ports PS 2...

Page 14: ...ns of your serverboard 2050 2200 Slot 4 PCI E x16 Slot 1 PCI E x4 LAN 2 SATA Ports 4 Slot 6 PCI E x16 Slot 7 PCI E x4 PCI slots 3 LAN 1 SATA Ports 4 AC97 IDE USB Ports 8 LPC I O FWH Kybd Mouse FDD Par...

Page 15: ...and support for 32 bit PCI slots This hub connects directly to CPU 1 and the 2050 MCP The GLAN 1 connects directly to the 2200 MCP 2050 Media and Communications Processor The 2050 is pin to pin compat...

Page 16: ...s are controlled by thermal management via BIOS CPU Overheat Fan Fail LED and Control This feature is available when the user enables the CPU overheat Fan Fail warning function in the BIOS This allows...

Page 17: ...ides power to keep the required circuitry in the system alive In case the system malfunctions and you want to turn off the power just depress and hold the power button for 4 seconds The power will tur...

Page 18: ...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 ont...

Page 19: ...rd 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...

Page 20: ...angles Installing the CPU Backplates Two CPU backplates BKT 0004 are included in the retail box The backplates prevent the CPU area of the serverboard from bending and provide a base for at taching th...

Page 21: ...the CPU 2 socket Installing the Heatsink Retention Modules Two heatsink retention modules BKT 0005 and four screws are included in the retail box Once installed these are used to help attach the heats...

Page 22: ...s with the raised metal standoffs in the tray Insert screws into all the mounting holes in the serverboard that line up with the standoffs Then use a screwdriver to secure the serverboard to the mainb...

Page 23: ...previous page and charts on following page The CPU2 DIMM slots can only be accessed when two CPUs are installed however the CPU2 DIMM slots are not required to be populated when two CPUs are installed...

Page 24: ...X X X X X Populating Memory Banks for 64 bit Operation CPU1 DIMM1A CPU1 DIMM1B CPU1 DIMM2A CPU1 DIMM2B CPU2 DIMM1A CPU2 DIMM1B CPU2 DIMM2A CPU2 DIMM2B X X X X X X X X X X X X Notes X indicates a popu...

Page 25: ...the various I O ports Figure 2 3 I O Port Locations and De nitions Front Control Panel JF1 contains header pins for various front control panel connectors See Figure 2 4 for the pin de nitions of the...

Page 26: ...OM 18 COM 6 5V 19 COM 7 COM 20 Res NC 8 PWR_OK 21 5V 9 5VSB 22 5V 10 12V 23 5V 11 12V 24 COM 12 3 3V Processor Power Connector In addition to the primary ATX power connector above the 12v 8 pin proces...

Page 27: ...etwork activity Refer to the table on the right for pin de nitions OH Fan Fail LED Pin De nitions JF1 Pin De nition 7 Vcc 8 Control NIC1 LED Pin De nitions JF1 Pin De nition 11 Vcc 12 NIC1 Active NIC2...

Page 28: ...f JF1 Mo mentarily contacting both pins will power on off the system This button can also be con gured to function as a suspend button see the Power Button Mode setting in BIOS To turn off the power w...

Page 29: ...abit Ethernet ports desig nated JLAN1 and JLAN2 are located beside the COM2 port These Ether net ports accept RJ45 type cables Note NC indicates no connection Serial Port Pin De nitions COM1 COM2 Pin...

Page 30: ...the right for pin de nitions and below right for pin locations Note The speaker connector pins are for use with an external speaker If you wish to use the onboard speaker you should close pins 5 and...

Page 31: ...Ring Pin De nitions JWOR Pin De nition 1 Ground Black 2 Wake up Wake On LAN Pin De nitions JWOL Pin De nition 1 5V Standby 2 Ground 3 Wake up SMB_PW Header The header at SMB_PW is for I2 C which may...

Page 32: ...ght Signal 2 Ground 3 Ground 4 Left Signal Overheat LED Connect an LED to the JOH header to provide warning of chassis overheat ing See the table on the right for pin de nitions Overheat LED Pin De ni...

Page 33: ...output Line Out green port Front L R MIC pink port Center Subwoofer Line In blue port Surround L R Audio Header The J26 header is used both as a jumper and a cable connector Jump pins 5 6 and 9 10 to...

Page 34: ...Refer to the serverboard layout page for jumper locations Note 1 On two pin jumpers Closed means the jumper is on and Open means the jumper is off the pins Connector Pins Jumper Setting 3 2 1 3 2 1 P...

Page 35: ...for at least four seconds JBT1 contact pads I2 C to PCI Enable Disable The JI2 C1 2 pair of jumpers allows you to connect the System Management Bus to any one of the PCI expansion slots The default se...

Page 36: ...on Pins 1 2 Reset Pins 2 3 NMI Open Disabled Note When enabled the user needs to write their own application software in or der to disable the Watch Dog timer Onboard Speaker Enable Disable The JF2 he...

Page 37: ...associated with the left activity speed LED JLAN Right LED Connection Speed Indicator LED Color De nition Off 10 MHz Green 100 MHz Amber 1 GHz Power On Indicator When illuminated the D25 LED indi cat...

Page 38: ...e should be used to take advantage of the speed this new technology offers The blue connector connects to the onboard IDE connector interface and the other connector s to your hard drive s Consult the...

Page 39: ...Data 7 4 Host Data 8 5 Host Data 6 6 Host Data 9 7 Host Data 5 8 Host Data 10 9 Host Data 4 10 Host Data 11 11 Host Data 3 12 Host Data 12 13 Host Data 2 14 Host Data 13 15 Host Data 1 16 Host Data 14...

Page 40: ...TXN 4 Ground 5 RXN 6 RXP 7 Ground Parallel Port Connector The parallel printer port is designated Printer See the table on the right for pin de nitions Parallel Port Connector Pin De nitions Printer...

Page 41: ...ATA Driver Before installing the OS operating system and SATA RAID driver you must decide if you wish to have the operating system installed as part of a bootable RAID array or installed to a separate...

Page 42: ...s the F10 key when prompted to run the nVidia RAID Utility program Using the nVidia RAID Utility The nVidia RAID Utility program is where you can de ne the drives you want to include in the RAID array...

Page 43: ...d Hardware Support Disk and hit the Enter key Highlight the rst nVidia RAID driver shown and press the Enter key to install it Soon a similar blue screen will appear again Again hit the S key then hig...

Page 44: ...2 26 H8DCE User s Manual Notes...

Page 45: ...serverboard and chassis 4 Disconnect all ribbon wire cables from the serverboard including those for the keyboard and mouse 5 Remove all add on cards 6 Install a CPU and heatsink making sure it is fu...

Page 46: ...may cause the system to lose the CMOS setup information Refer to Sec tion 1 6 for details on recommended power supplies 2 The battery on your serverboard may be old Check to verify that it still suppl...

Page 47: ...s up to 32 GB of registered ECC DDR266 or up to 16 GB of registered ECC DDR400 333 interleaved or non interleaved SDRAM with two CPUs installed With only one CPU installed the maximum memory support i...

Page 48: ...igh density ATA133 IDE cable that came with your system has two connectors to support two drives This special cable must be used to take advantage of the speed the ATA133 technology offers Connect the...

Page 49: ...F2 etc Each main BIOS menu option is described in this manual The Main BIOS screen has two main frames The left frame displays all the options that can be con gured Grayed out options cannot be con gu...

Page 50: ...DD YYYY format The time is entered in HH MM SS format Please note that time is in a 24 hour format For example 5 30 A M appears as 05 30 00 and 5 30 P M as 17 30 00 4 3 Advanced Settings Menu CPU Con...

Page 51: ...a to be transferred from and to the device one sec tor at a time Select Auto to allows the data transfer from and to the device occur multiple sectors at a time if the device supports it The options a...

Page 52: ...rting Technology SMART can help predict impending drive failures Select Auto to allow BIOS to auto detect hard disk drive support Select Disabled to prevent AMI BIOS from using the S M A R T Select En...

Page 53: ...Use this setting to select the rst boot device as being P ATA or S ATA Con guration nVidia RAID ROM RAID Option ROM This setting is used to Enable or Disable the nVidia ROM Floppy Con guration Floppy...

Page 54: ...to use 2F8 as its I O port address and IRQ 3 for the interrupt address The options are Disabled 2F8 IRQ3 3E8 IRQ4 and 2E8 IRQ3 Serial Port 2 Mode Tells BIOS which mode to select for serial port 2 The...

Page 55: ...ers to 64 bit xed system description pages Op tions are Yes and No ACPI APIC Support Select Enabled to allow the ACPI APIC table pointer to be included in the RSDP pointer list The options are Enabled...

Page 56: ...e speed speci ed in this setting if it is slower than or equal to the system clock and if the board is capable Options are Auto 200 MHz 400 MHz 600 MHz 800 MHz and 1 GHz CPU0 PCI X0 HT Link Width The...

Page 57: ...600 8 n 1 38400 8 n 1 19200 8 n 1 and 09600 8 n 1 Flow Control Selects the ow control to be used for console redirection Options are None Hardware and Software Redirection After BIOS POST Options are...

Page 58: ...rts Options are HiSpeed and FullSpeed HiSpeed 480 Mbps FullSpeed 12 Mbps BIOS EHCI Hand Off Enable or Disable a workaround for OS s without EHCI hand off support System Health Monitor CPU Overheat Tem...

Page 59: ...speed control function to allow the onboard fans to continuously run at full speed 12V The options are 1 Dis able Full Speed 2 3 pin Server 3 3 pin Workstation 4 4 pin Server 5 4 pin Workstation 6 4...

Page 60: ...r to assign a PCI slot number to an Off board PCI ISA IDE card in order for it to function properly The options are Auto PCI Slot1 PCI Slot2 PCI Slot3 PCI Slot4 PCI Slot5 and PCI Slot6 IRQ3 IRQ4 IRQ5...

Page 61: ...stem to force a third party BIOS to display during system boot Select Keep Current to allow the computer system to display the BIOS information during system boot Boot up Num Lock Set this to On to al...

Page 62: ...le Drive The options are 1st Floppy Drive and Disabled CD DVD Drives This feature allows the user to specify the boot sequence from available CDROM drives 1st Drive Speci es the boot sequence for the...

Page 63: ...ard disk drive The options are Enabled and Disabled 4 7 Chipset Menu North Bridge Con guration Memory Con guration Memclock Mode This setting determines how the memory clock is set Auto has the memory...

Page 64: ...n guration DRAM ECC Enable DRAM ECC allows hardware to report and correct memory errors automati cally Options are Enabled and Disabled MCA DRAM ECC Logging When Enabled MCA DRAM ECC logging and repor...

Page 65: ...allows the user to select aperture size Memory Ticking Parameters Allows the user to select which CPU Node s timing parameters memory clock etc to display Options are CPU Node 0 and CPU Node1 South B...

Page 66: ...g Timer This setting is used to Enable or Disable the Watch Dog Timer function It must be used in conjunction with the Watch Dog jumper see Chapter 2 for details PCI Express Spread Spectrum This setti...

Page 67: ...boot the computer Select Discard Changes and Exit from the Exit menu and press Enter Discard Changes Select this option and press Enter to discard all the changes and return to AMI BIOS Utility Progra...

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Page 69: ...ult with your system manufacturer for possible repairs These fatal errors are usually communicated through a series of audible beeps The numbers on the fatal error list on the following page correspon...

Page 70: ...A 2 H8DCE User s Manual Notes...

Page 71: ...s are listed in order of execution Checkpoint Code Description D0h The NMI is disabled Power on delay is starting Next the initialization code check sum will be veri ed D1h Initializing the DMA contro...

Page 72: ...red while reading the oppy drive in drive A F0h Next searching for the AMIBOOT ROM le in the root directory F1h The AMIBOOT ROM le is not in the root directory F2h Next reading and analyzing the oppy...

Page 73: ...d during power on Initializing CMOS RAM if the Initialize CMOS RAM in every boot AMIBIOS POST option was set in AMIBCP or the End key was pressed 12h Next disabling DMA controllers 1 and 2 and interru...

Page 74: ...neral devices next if present See the last page of this chapter for additional information 39h Displaying bus initialization error messages See the last page of this chapter for additional information...

Page 75: ...was adjusted for relocation and shadowing Clearing the Hit DEL message next 59h The Hit DEL message is cleared The WAIT message is displayed Starting the DMA and interrupt controller test next 60h The...

Page 76: ...l and has now returned control to BIOS POST Perform ing any required processing after the option ROM returned control 99h Any initialization required after the option ROM test has completed Con guring...

Page 77: ...option ROM had control next Aah Initialization after E000 option ROM control has completed Displaying the system con guration next Abh Uncompressing the DMI data and executing DMI POST initialization...

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