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Chapter 1: Introduction

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Onboard Controllers/Ports

An onboard IDE controller supports up to four Ultra ATA 100 hard drives or ATAPI 

devices.  Onboard I/O backpanel ports include one COM port, one parallel (printer) 

port, a VGA port, two USB ports, PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports and two GLAN 

(NIC) ports.  

Other Features

Other onboard features that promote system health include voltage monitors, a 

chassis intrusion header, auto-switching voltage regulators, chassis and CPU 

overheat sensors, virus protection and BIOS rescue. 

 

Summary of Contents for SUPERSERVER 5014C-MT

Page 1: ...SUPER SUPERSERVER 5014C MT USER S MANUAL Revision 1 0c...

Page 2: ...R 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 OR DATA STORED OR USED W...

Page 3: ...er provides a checklist of the main components included with the server system and describes the main features of the Super P8SCT motherboard and the SC813MT 300C chassis Chapter 2 Server Installation...

Page 4: ...adding or removing processors or main memory and when recon guring the motherboard Chapter 6 Advanced Chassis Setup Refer to Chapter 6 for detailed information on the SC813MS 300C 1U rackmount server...

Page 5: ...v Preface Notes...

Page 6: ...utions 2 2 Rack Mounting Considerations 2 3 2 4 Installing the System into a Rack 2 4 Identifying the Sections of the Rack Rails 2 4 Installing the Rear Inner Rails 2 4 Installing the Rack Rails 2 5 I...

Page 7: ...g the Control Panel 5 3 5 4 I O Ports 5 4 5 5 Installing the Processor 5 5 5 6 Installing Memory 5 8 5 7 Adding PCI Cards 5 9 5 8 Motherboard Details 5 10 P8SCT Layout 5 10 P8SCT Quick Reference 5 11...

Page 8: ...20 JLAN1 JLAN2 LEDs 5 20 5 12 Parallel Port Floppy and IDE Drive Connections 5 21 Parallel Port 5 21 Floppy Connector 5 22 IDE Connector 5 23 Chapter 6 Advanced Chassis Setup 6 1 Static Sensitive Dev...

Page 9: ...nning Setup 7 2 7 3 Main BIOS Setup 7 2 7 4 Advanced BIOS Setup 7 5 7 5 Security 7 15 7 6 Boot 7 16 7 7 Exit 7 17 Appendices Appendix A BIOS POST Messages A 1 Appendix B BIOS POST Codes B 1 Appendix C...

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Page 11: ...ith the 5014C MT as listed below One CPU heatsink SNK P0011 One 1 slim CD ROM drive CDM TEAC 24 B SATA Accessories Four 4 SATA hard drive carriers CSE PT 39 B One 1 internal SATA backplane CSE SATA 81...

Page 12: ...con guration and memory modules must be installed in pairs two at a time All memory modules used to populate the system should be the same size type and speed Serial ATA The ICH6R South Bridge of the...

Page 13: ...ckpanel ports include one COM port one parallel printer port a VGA port two USB ports PS 2 mouse and keyboard ports and two GLAN NIC ports Other Features Other onboard features that promote system hea...

Page 14: ...1 4 SUPERSERVER 5014C MT User s Manual Figure 1 1 Intel E7221 Chipset System Block Diagram Note This is a general block diagram Please see Chapter 5 for details...

Page 15: ...pability of the Serial ATA drives Control Panel The SC813MT 300C s control panel provides important system monitoring and con trol information LEDs indicate power on network activity hard disk drive a...

Page 16: ...system cooling fans Each of these fans plug into a chassis fan header on the motherboard An air shroud channels the air ow generated by the fans to ef ciently cool the processor area of the system A f...

Page 17: ...s 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 Techni...

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Page 19: ...damaged in any way If the server itself shows damage you should le a damage claim with the carrier who delivered it Decide on a suitable location for the rack unit that will hold the SuperServer 5014C...

Page 20: ...d be coupled together Always make sure the rack is stable before extending a component from the rack You should extend only one component at a time extending two or more simultaneously may cause the r...

Page 21: ...mised Mechanical Loading Equipment should be mounted into a rack so that a hazardous condition does not arise due to uneven mechanical loading Circuit Overloading Consideration should be given to the...

Page 22: ...hind the preinstalled front inner rails Note that these two rails are left right speci c Installing the Rear Inner Rails First locate the right rear inner rail the rail that will be used on the right...

Page 23: ...on the chassis rail guides at the desired location in the rack keeping the sliding rail guide facing the inside of the rack Screw the assembly securely to the rack using the brackets provided Attach t...

Page 24: ...e server into the rack Do this by lining up the rear of the chas sis rails with the front of the rack rails Slide the chassis rails into the rack rails keeping the pressure even on both sides you may...

Page 25: ...Telco Rack If you are installing the SuperServer 5014C MT into a Telco type rack follow the di rections given on the previous pages for rack installation The only difference in the installation proce...

Page 26: ...nside of the server 2 Check the CPU processor You may have the processor already installed into the system board The pro cessor should have its own heatsink attached See Chapter 5 for instructions on...

Page 27: ...Chapter 2 Server Installation 2 9 Figure 2 4 Accessing the Inside of the SuperServer 5014C MT...

Page 28: ...your system s con guration your system may have one or more SATA drives already installed If you need to install SATA drives please refer to the appropriate section in Chapter 6 4 Check the air ow Air...

Page 29: ...switch on the power supply This chapter explains the meanings of all LED indicators and the appropriate response you may need to take 3 2 Control Panel Buttons There are two push button buttons locate...

Page 30: ...dition which may be caused by cables obstructing the air ow in the system or the ambient room temperature being too warm Check the routing of the cables and make sure all fans are present and operatin...

Page 31: ...perating 3 4 Serial ATA Drive Carrier LED Each Serial ATA drive carrier has a green LED When illuminated this green LED on the front of the Serial ATA drive carrier indicates drive activity A connec t...

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Page 33: ...oard memory modules and CD ROM drive When disconnecting power you should rst power down the system with the operating system rst and then unplug the power cords of all the power supply units in the sy...

Page 34: ...from your body which are excellent metal conductors that can create short circuits and harm you if they come into contact with printed circuit boards or areas where power is present After accessing t...

Page 35: ...l components and printed circuit boards PCBs in their antistatic bags until ready for use Touch a grounded metal object before removing the board from the antistatic bag Do not let components or PCBs...

Page 36: ...hat the chassis cover is in place when the 5014C MT is operating to assure proper cooling Out of warranty damage to the 5014C MT system can occur if this practice is not strictly followed Figure 4 1 I...

Page 37: ...to handle them very carefully see previous chapter To prevent the P8SCT motherboard from bend ing keep one hand under the center of the board to support it when handling The following measures are gen...

Page 38: ...out until the rails lock into place 2 Check compatibility of motherboard ports and I O shield The P8SCT requires a chassis big enough to support a 12 x 9 5 motherboard such as Supermicro s SC813MT 300...

Page 39: ...page 5 9 for connector locations CD ROM cable IDE Front side USB port cables USB3 4 Front side COM port cable COM2 SATA drive cable SATA 0 3 Control Panel cable JF1 Connecting Power Cables The P8SCT h...

Page 40: ...motherboard located near the PCI 1 slot at the corner of the motherboard COM2 should be connected to the COM port at the front of the chassis Mouse Green Parallel Port Burgundy JLAN1 JLAN2 Keyboard P...

Page 41: ...h load plate Socket Lever 2 Carefully lift the socket lever up to open the load plate Load Plate 3 Locate Pin 1 on the CPU socket Pin 1 is closest to the notched corner of the housing Please note that...

Page 42: ...socket which may damage the CPU and or the socket 6 With the CPU inside the socket inspect the four corners of the CPU to make sure that the CPU is properly installed 7 Use your thumb to gently press...

Page 43: ...ws which may damage the CPU 4 Finish the installation by fully tightening all four screws Heatsink Removal 1 Unscrew and remove the heatsink screws from in the sequence as show in the picture on the r...

Page 44: ...nel operation 2 Installing memory modules Insert each memory module vertically Pay attention to the notches along the bottom of the module to prevent inserting it incorrectly Gently press down on the...

Page 45: ...riser card allows a 64 bit 133 MHz 3 3V standard size PCI X card to sit at a 90 degree angle so it can t inside the chassis 2 PCI card installation The riser card has already been preinstalled into th...

Page 46: ...llel Port VGA ATX Power Connector CPU LGA775 JLAN1 JLAN2 DIMM1A DIMM1B 12V PWR E7221 North Bridge JF1 PCI X 6 133 MHz BATTERY BIOS S UPER P8SCT JPWAKE1 DIMM2A DIMM2B USB5 6 BANK1 BANK2 JK1 PCI 5 33 MH...

Page 47: ...Watchdog Pins 1 2 Reset Connector Description COM1 COM2 COM1 COM2 Serial Port Connectors Fan1 5 System Fan Headers Floppy Floppy Disk Drive Connector IDE IDE Hard Disk Drive Connector IPMI IPMI 2 0 He...

Page 48: ...the right for the pin de nitions of the ATX 24 pin power connector You must also connect the 4 pin PW2 processor power connec tor to your power supply Refer to the table below right for the PW2 12V co...

Page 49: ...E SATA LED The IDE SATA LED connection is lo cated on pins 13 and 14 of JF1 This LED is used to display all IDE and SATA activity See the table on the right for pin de nitions OH Fan Fail LED Pin De n...

Page 50: ...in de nitions ATX PS 2 Keyboard and PS 2 Mouse Ports The ATX PS 2 keyboard and the PS 2 mouse are located on J14 The mouse port is above the keyboard port See the table on the right for pin de nitions...

Page 51: ...ersal Serial Bus ports located on the I O panel and four additional USB headers located on the motherboard The headers labeled USB3 4 and USB5 6 can be used to provide front side USB access cables not...

Page 52: ...to display all SATA activity See the table on the right for pin de nitions Serial Ports Two serial ports are included on the motherboard COM1 is a port located under the parallel port and COM2 is a he...

Page 53: ...also clear any passwords Instead of pins this jumper consists of contact pads to prevent accidentally clearing the contents of CMOS To clear CMOS 1 First power down the system and unplug the power co...

Page 54: ...he jumper to allow the system to be woken up from an S1 or S3 state in Windows OS See the table on the right for jumper settings The default setting is disabled Keyboard Wake Up The JPWAKE1 jumper is...

Page 55: ...rrupt for the program that has frozen See the table on the right for jumper settings Watch Dog must also be enabled in BIOS Note when Watch Dog is enabled the user must write their own application sof...

Page 56: ...de Bus Speed Pin De nitions JFSB1 JFSB2 JFSB1 JFSB2 De nition Pins 1 2 Pins 1 2 Auto Pins 2 3 Pins 2 3 266 MHz Pins 2 3 Open 200 MHz Open Open 166 MHz Open Pins 2 3 133 MHz Note Clock values are shown...

Page 57: ...cts to the onboard IDE connector interface and the other connector s to your hard drive s Consult the documentation that came with your disk drive for details on actual jumper locations and settings f...

Page 58: ...Ground 12 Drive Select B 13 Ground 14 Drive Select B 15 Ground 16 Motor Enable 17 Ground 18 DIR 19 Ground 20 STEP 21 Ground 22 Write Data 23 Ground 24 Write Gate 25 Ground 26 Track 00 27 Ground 28 Wr...

Page 59: ...a 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 17...

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Page 61: ...very carefully The following measures are generally suf cient to protect your equipment from ESD discharge Precautions Use a grounded wrist strap designed to prevent static discharge Touch a grounded...

Page 62: ...ese wires have been bundled together in a ribbon cable to simplify the connection Connect the cable from JF1 on the motherboard to JP4 on the Control Panel PCB printed circuit board Make sure the red...

Page 63: ...ed by a setting in BIOS see page 7 13 System Fan Failure If a fan fails you will need to have it replaced with the same type Contact your vendor or Supermicro for information on replacement fans 6 4 D...

Page 64: ...y of the SATA drives CD ROM Drive For installing removing a CD ROM drive you will need to gain ac cess to the inside of the server by removing the top cover of the chassis Proceed to the CD ROM Drive...

Page 65: ...d with the backplane to provide data security The backplane is already precon gured so there are no jumpers or switches present on it The SATA ports are assigned differently based on the setup of the...

Page 66: ...elease the top cover and at the same time push the cover away from you until it stops You can then lift the top cover from the chassis to gain full access to the inside of the server With the chassis...

Page 67: ...Next depress the two buttons on the top of the chassis to release the top cover and push it away from you You can then lift the top cover from the chassis to gain full access to the inside of the serv...

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Page 69: ...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 powered on the computer is then con gured with the...

Page 70: ...gram 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 brie y at the bottom of the screen during the POST Power On S...

Page 71: ...Swap Floppy Drive If the system has two oppy 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 Disabled IDE Chan...

Page 72: ...rs the con gurations 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 theAwardBIOS accesses the ID...

Page 73: ...g POST while booting If an error occurs The system will automatically switch to the text mode The options are Enabled and Disabled ACPI Function Select Enabled to enable BIOS Support for the Advanced...

Page 74: ...ower failure The options are Off On and Former Sts Watch Dog Timer Select This setting is for enabling the Watch Dog feature The options are Enabled and Disabled Please refer to Chapter 2 for more det...

Page 75: ...ndary for Parallel ATA IDE The options are Primary and Secondary If On chip Serial ATA is set to Enhanced Mode only Serial ATA will be activated and Primary PATA IDE will be available Secondary PATA I...

Page 76: ...de for the onboard Parallel port The options are 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 Us...

Page 77: ...feature is set to Enabled the following item will display Resources Controlled By This setting allows the BIOS to automatically con gure all boot and Plug and Play compatible devices If you choose Au...

Page 78: ...CI Express Port 2 PCI Express Port 3 PCI Express Port 4 Select Enabled to enable the PCI Express Root Port Functions for the PCI Express port speci ed The options are Disabled Enabled and Auto PCI E C...

Page 79: ...and 850 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 wil...

Page 80: ...XP 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...

Page 81: ...ear all DMI event logs The default setting is Yes 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 Ent...

Page 82: ...sabled 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 bits per second Agent Connect Via This setting allows you to s...

Page 83: ...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 84: ...P USB CDROM USB HDD LAN and Disabled Second Boot Device This item allows the user to set the second boot up device The options are Floppy LS120 HDD CDROM ZIP100 USB FDD USB ZIP USB CDROM USB HDD LAN a...

Page 85: ...t saving any changes you may have made Your system 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 items...

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Page 87: ...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 short beep System Normal 1 long beep 2 short beeps VGA Errors 1 long beep 9...

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Page 89: ...ress 1000 0 02h Reserved 03h Initial Superio_Early_Init switch 04h Reserved 05h 1 Blank out screen 2 Clear CMOS error ag 06h Reserved 07h 1 Clear 8042 interface 2 Initialize 8042 self test 08h 1 Test...

Page 90: ...Check validity of RTC value e g a value of 5Ah is an invalid value for RTC minute 2 Load CMOS settings into BIOS stack If CMOS checksum fails use default value instead 3 Prepare BIOS resource map for...

Page 91: ...Reserved 45h Reserved 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 AMDK5 CPU 4Ah 1...

Page 92: ...k to enter Setup utility i e not until this POST stage can users enter the CMOS Setup utility 61h Reserved 62h Reserved 63h Reserved 64h Reserved 65h Initialize PS 2 mouse 66h Reserved 67h Prepare mem...

Page 93: ...e Clear EPA or customization logo 80h Reserved 81h Reserved 82h 1 Call chipset power management hook 2 Recover the text font used by EPA logo not for full screen logo 3 If password is set ask for pass...

Page 94: ...itialization 5 Clear screen and display summary table 6 Program K6 write allocation 7 Program P6 class write combining 95h 1 Program daylight savings 2 Update keyboard LED and typematic rate 96h 1 Bui...

Page 95: ...e 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 that supports SATA transfer rates of up to 150MBps Because the serial...

Page 96: ...s 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 press t...

Page 97: ...Controller driver Accessing the LSI SATA RAID Utility After the system exits from the BIOS Setup Utility it will automatically reboot To run the LSI Logic Embedded SATA RAID Setup Utility press the CT...

Page 98: ...press the Enter key The following screen displays 2 From the Con guration submenu select New Con guration and press the Enter key to activate the following submenu 3 When the submenu appears highligh...

Page 99: ...al drives that you wish to con gure as RAID drives The text of the selected drives will change from Ready to Online as shown below 5 When the screen shown above displays press F10 to associate the sel...

Page 100: ...s Manual 7 When the pop up submenu indicating SPAN 1 appears as shown above use the space bar to con gure the selected drive and press F10 The following screen appears 6 In the above display press the...

Page 101: ...RAID 1 to select it this is the default setting or press Enter for other RAID options 9 After completing the RAID level selection use the arrow keys to highlight Ac cept and press Enter 10 Once you ve...

Page 102: ...partition table on the disk and makes 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 initialize a disk that is part of a boot arr...

Page 103: ...prompted for con rmation use the arrow keys to select Yes and press Enter A new screen will con rm the initialization of the selected disk drive Creating Hot Spare Drives 1 Use the arrow keys to sele...

Page 104: ...pop up submenu and press Enter The status of the disk drive selected will be changed from Ready to HOTSP Note For detailed information regarding LSI s SATA RAID con guration please re fer to the LSI U...

Page 105: ...river is displayed 8 When the Windows OS Setup screen appears press S to specify additional device s 9 Insert the driver diskette labelled LSI Embedded Serial ATA RAID Controller Driver into your oppy...

Page 106: ...e 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 install each item from top to the bottom one at a time After instal...

Page 107: ...cal management 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 D...

Page 108: ...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 w...

Page 109: ...GB of unbuffered ECC or non ECC DDR2 533 400 SDRAM modules Note all memory modules should be the same size speed and type Serial ATA Controller Intel ICH6R on chip controller for 4 port Serial ATA RAI...

Page 110: ...C Input Voltage 100 240V AC auto range Rated Input Current 5A max Rated Input Frequency 50 to 60 Hz Power Supply Rated Output Power 300W Model SP302 1S Part PWS 0054 Rated Output Voltages 3 3V 15A 5V...

Page 111: ...B EN 55022 Class B EN 61000 3 2 3 3 CISPR 22 Class B Electromagnetic Immunity EN 55024 CISPR 24 EN 61000 4 2 EN 61000 4 3 EN 61000 4 4 EN 61000 4 5 EN 61000 4 6 EN 61000 4 8 EN 61000 4 11 Safety EN 60...

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