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Onboard LAN LED Color Definition

The three onboard Ethernet ports have green and yellow LEDs to indicate LAN
status. The chart below illustrates the different LED states.

10/100/1000 Mbps LAN Link/Activity LED Scheme

Left LED

Right LED

Link

Green

Off

10 Mbps

Active

Blinking Green

Off

Link

Green

100 Mbps

Active

Blinking Green

Green

Link

Green

Yellow

1000 Mbps

Active

Blinking Green

Yellow

No Link

Off

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Page 1: ...re trademarks of IBM Corporation Broadcom is a trademark of Broadcom Corporation and or its subsidiaries ATI and Rage XL are trademarks of ATI Corporation nVIDIA nForce are trademarks of NVIDIA Corpor...

Page 2: ...2 Installing Add In Cards Page 35 2 13 Installing Graphic Cards SLI Bridge Page 36 2 14 Connecting External Devices Page 39 2 15 Installing the Power Supply Page 41 2 16 Finishing Up Page 41 Chapter 3...

Page 3: ...http www TYAN com 3 Appendix SMDC Information Page 72 Glossary Page 74 Technical Support Page 80...

Page 4: ...DMA 100 66 IDE cable 1 x Ultra DMA 100 66 IDE cable 1 x IEEE1394a Cable 1 x USB2 0 cable 1 x USB2 0 cable 1 x Tomcat K8E user s manual 1 x Tomcat K8E user s manual 1 x Tomcat K8E Quick Reference guid...

Page 5: ...of TYAN s products with FAQs online manuals and BIOS upgrades 1 2 Hardware Specifications Processor uPGA 939 pin socket AMD Athlon 64 939 processor up to Athlon 64 4000 Athlon64 FX55 X2 and 939 Opter...

Page 6: ...ntegrated Serial ATA II Serial ATA Host controllers embedded Supports four Serial ports running at 3 0Gb s NVRAID 0 1 0 1 and JBOD support SATA activity LED connector Ethernet PHY 32 bit PCIv2 3interf...

Page 7: ...COM port via cable Tyan 2x9 front panel pin header 2x25 pin SMDC pin header Regulatory FCC Class B Declaration of Conformity CE Declaration of Conformity Special Accessories 1 SLI card M5001 2 SLI bri...

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Page 9: ...from the antistatic bag Unplug the power from your computer power supply and then touch a safely grounded object to release static charge i e power supply case For the safest conditions TYAN recommend...

Page 10: ...p www TYAN com 10 2 1 Board Image This picture is representative of the latest board revision available at the time of publishing The board you receive may or may not look exactly like the above pictu...

Page 11: ...http www TYAN com 11 2 2 Block Diagram Tomcat K8E SLI S2866 Block Diagram...

Page 12: ...1 1 SMSC DME1737 SMSC DME1737 VIA Vt6307 J28 J26 1 1 SMSC DME1737 SMSC DME1737 BIOS J27 1 J25 J27 1 1 J38 J37 J36 J39 J43 IDE 1 J39 JP3 JP4 JP5 1 1 1 J341 J40 J42 J41 JP7 JP6 1 1 JP8 1 J33 J32 1 1 1...

Page 13: ...J27 COM2 Header JP2 LCM Module Connector J8 Front Audio Header JP1 PCI Slot Volt Select Header J25 J26 Front Panel USB2 0 Connectors J45 Front Panel LAN1 LAN2 LAN3 LED Headers JP3 Clear CMOS Jumper JP...

Page 14: ...http www TYAN com 14 JP4 JP5 SMDC ASF1 0 Select Header 1 3 Support ASF1 0 1 3 Support SMDC card J9 J28 P6P J7 JP5 JP4...

Page 15: ...4 GND B0P 5 6 B0N VCC 7 8 VCC _ 9 10 GND Use this header to connect to the external device of IEEE 1394a J9 IEEE1394a Connector 9 1 10 2 Signal Pin Pin Signal A1P 1 2 A1N GND 3 4 GND B1P 5 6 B1N VCC...

Page 16: ...YAN com 16 J15 SMDC Connector The SMDC connector allows you to connect with Tyan Server Management Daughter Card SMDC The S2866 supports Tyan SMDC M3291 See Appendix for more information on SMDC J15 J...

Page 17: ...GND 9 10 _ JP2 LCM Module Connector 1 5 2 6 Use this header to connect the LCM module with system monitoring function This header is reserved for barebone use Signal Pin Pin Signal VCC 1 2 RXD2 _ 3 4...

Page 18: ...http www TYAN com 18 JP1 PCI Slot Volt Select Header 3 1 Select 3 3 volt for PCI slot 3 1 Select 5 volt for PCI slot Default J25 J26 J45 JP3 JP1...

Page 19: ...ND IDLEDBTN 9 10 GND NC 11 12 _ Use these headers to connect the front panel dual color LEDs to indicate the speed of LAN1 LAN2 and LAN3 Refer to p 39 for the correct LAN LED color definition JP3 Clea...

Page 20: ...http www TYAN com 20 JP9 JP10 JP11 JP12...

Page 21: ...er Default 3 1 Disable the integrated LAN function of Intel82551 controller JP11 VT6307 1394a Control Jumper 3 1 Enable the integrated 1394a function of VT6307 PCI FireWire controller Default 3 1 Disa...

Page 22: ...http www TYAN com 22 J32 J33 J41 J42 J40 J12 J39 J36 J37 J38...

Page 23: ...cooling fan to your motherboard to keep the system at optimum performance levels J12 FAN 5 J40 CPU_FAN Connector 12V V3P3 Speed Control Tachometer Use this header to connect the processor cooling fan...

Page 24: ...ay not be an exact representation of the processor you have Step 1 Lift the lever on the socket until it is approximately 90o or as far back as possible to the socket Step 2 Align the processor with t...

Page 25: ...the installation of the heatsink retention bracket and heatsink Because there are many different types of heatsinks available from many different manufacturers a lot of them have their own methods of...

Page 26: ...ake care not to touch this material Simply remove the protective cover and place the heatsink on the processor The second type of interface material is usually packaged separately It is commonly refer...

Page 27: ...gn plastic retention bracket screw holes with CPU back plate standoffs Tighten screws to secure plastic retention bracket Repeat for the other side DO NOT OVER TIGHTEN 2 After tightening screws secure...

Page 28: ...top of motherboard Align heatsink retention frame screw hole with backplate assembly standoffs Place heatsink inside plastic retention bracket Place metal clip over retention frame tab Repeat for othe...

Page 29: ...ocessor and socket attach the end wire of the fan which should already be attached to the heatsink to the motherboard The following diagram illustrates how to connect fans onto the motherboard Once yo...

Page 30: ...ply lay the motherboard inside the chassis and align the screw holes of the motherboard to the studs inside the case If there are any studs missing you will know right away since the motherboard will...

Page 31: ...2100 DDR SDRAM memory modules are supported All installed memory will be automatically detected and no jumpers or settings need to be set The Tomcat K8E SLI S2866 supports up to 4GB of memory Register...

Page 32: ...ng diagrams Once the memory modules are firmly seated in the slot two latches on either side will close and secure the module into the slot Sometimes you may need to close the latches yourself To remo...

Page 33: ...tor and the other end s into the drive s Each standard IDE cable has three connectors two of which are closer together The BLUE connector that is furthest away from the other two is the end that conne...

Page 34: ...Attaching floppy diskette drives are done in a similar manner to hard drives See the picture below for an example of a floppy cable Most of the current floppy drives on the market require that the cab...

Page 35: ...if they do not seat in place It is better to try another slot or return the faulty card rather than damaging both the motherboard and the add in card PCI IDESELs and IRQ Assignments Slot or Device IDS...

Page 36: ...ning two NVIDIA SLI certified graphics cards in a single system allows you to highly increase your graphic performance Installing Graphic Card Locate the SLI card and SLI bridge There are two sides s...

Page 37: ...Step 2 Press the graphic card to secure the installation Step 3 After installing two graphic cards into the PCI E slots connect the SLI Bridge onto the graphic cards Step 4 Secure the SLI bracket to...

Page 38: ...http www tyan com 38 Uninstalling SLI Card Step 1 Press the two levers of SO DIMM connector to release SLI card Step 2 Remove the SLI card...

Page 39: ...s are different due to the different configurations See the following diagrams for the details S2866G3NR S2866A2NRF NOTE Peripheral devices can be plugged straight into any of these ports but software...

Page 40: ...o indicate LAN status The chart below illustrates the different LED states 10 100 1000 Mbps LAN Link Activity LED Scheme Left LED Right LED Link Green Off 10 Mbps Active Blinking Green Off Link Green...

Page 41: ...ower outlet NOTE YOU MUST unplug the power supply before plugging the power cables to motherboard connectors 2 16 Finishing Up Congratulations on making it this far You re finished setting up the hard...

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Page 43: ...e current at the time of print and are subject to change and therefore may not match exactly what is displayed on screen This section describes the BIOS setup program The setup program lets you modify...

Page 44: ...hipset defaults have been carefully chosen either by TYAN or your system manufacturer for best performance and reliability Even a seemingly small change to the Chipset setup options may cause the syst...

Page 45: ...his menu to show your system temperature speed and voltage status Frequency Voltage Control Use this menu to specify your settings for frequency voltage control Load Fail Safe Defaults Use this menu t...

Page 46: ...MOS Setup Utility Standard CMOS Features Item Specific Help Date mm dd yy Time hh mm ss 4IDE Channel 0 Master 4IDE Channel 0 Slave 4IDE Channel 2 Master 4IDE Channel 3 Master 4IDE Channel 4 Master 4ID...

Page 47: ...one Sector Press Enter Auto Auto Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized defaults IDE HDD Auto Detection To auto detect th...

Page 48: ...Priority Virus Warning CPU Internal Cache External Cache Quick Power On Self Test First Boot Device Second Boot Device Third Boot Device Boot Other Device Swap Floppy Drive Boot Up Floppy Seek Boot Up...

Page 49: ...oiry Item Specific Help 1 LS120 2 ZIP100 3 USB FDD0 4 USB FDD1 5 USB ZIP0 6 Floppy Disks 7 USB ZIP1 3 7 2 Hard Disk Boot Priority This item allows you to select the hard disk boot priority Phoenix Awa...

Page 50: ...che also called as the external cache is placed between the CPU and the DRAM dynamic RAM Enabled Disabled Quick Power On Self Test This option allows you to use the function of quick power on test Ena...

Page 51: ...t rate when you depress a key continuously When enabled you can manually adjust the settings using the two typematic controls Typematic Rate and Typematic Delay If disabled the BIOS will use the defau...

Page 52: ...is a specification by which PC manufacturers design and build Intel architecture systems with two or more processors 1 1 1 4 Installed O S This feature is used to select Linux if your are running Linu...

Page 53: ...ill redirect the BIOS and POST screens to the serial port to allow remote management using a term inal server SMDC Enabled Disabled Baud Rate This feature allows you to select the baud rate of transfe...

Page 54: ...16 16 Press Enter Disabled Disabled Disabled Enabled Disabled Auto Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized defaults CPU F...

Page 55: ...Disabled Timing Mode This option permits you to either manually select memory timings or allow the SPD Serial Presence Detect to determine the said timings automatically Auto Manual Memclock index va...

Page 56: ...exception function for ECC Disabled Enabled Chip Kill mode enable This option is used to enable the function of Chip Kill mode Disabled Enabled ECC Redirection This feature is used to enable ECC scrub...

Page 57: ...ead spectrum Disabled Down Spread PCIE Spread Spectrum This feature is used to configure PCIE spread spectrum Disabled Down Spread SSE SSE2 Instructions This feature is used to enable the function of...

Page 58: ...rd Support USB Mouse Support AC97 Audio MAC Media Interface IDE HDD Block Mode BCM5705 Lan Boot ROM Intel82551 Lan Boot ROM Nvidia Lan Boot ROM Onboard FDC Controller Onboard Serial Port 1 Onboard Ser...

Page 59: ...or secondary add in IDE interface Enabled Disabled Primary Master Slave PIO The four IDE PIO Programmed Input Output fields let you set a PIO mode 0 4 for each of the four IDE devices that the onboar...

Page 60: ...ndary RAID Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled RAID Enable This item allows you to Enable or Disable the onboard RAID function Enabled Disabled IDE Primary Master Slave RAID...

Page 61: ...at once instead of using the old single sector transfer mode Enabled Disabled BCM5705 Lan Boot ROM This feature is used to decide whether to invoke the boot ROM of the Broadcom 5705 Lan chip Enabled D...

Page 62: ...e of the selected option Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Power Management Setup Item Specific Help ACPI function ACPI Suspend Type Power Management Video Off Method HDD Power Down HDD Down in Sus...

Page 63: ...Mode Doze Standby Suspend HDD Power Down Min Saving 1 hour 1 hour 1 hour 15 min Max Saving 1 min 1 min 1 min 1 min Video Off Method This option defines the method used to power off video Blank Screen...

Page 64: ...turn on at a pre selected time Enabled Disabled Day of Month Alarm This option allows you to set the date on which the system will turn on every month Enter 0 to disable this function Time hh mm ss Al...

Page 65: ...d or the PCI graphics card This is particularly important if you have PCI Express and PCI graphics cards but only one monitor PCI Slot PCI Ex Reset Configuration Data This feature allows you to manual...

Page 66: ...3 12 PC Health Status Menu This section monitors critical parameters of your PC and can automatically shutdown the PC if the temperature of the processor exceeds the specified threshold value This is...

Page 67: ...detects the system motherboard and CPU temperature It detects the CPU and chassis fan speeds in RPM The hardware monitor ASIC also detects the voltage output through the voltage regulators Auto FAN Po...

Page 68: ...his option controls how much voltage is supplied to your processor with a maximum allowable voltage of 1 55V Select Default if you are not sure Default 0 025v 0 050v 0 075v 0 100v 0 025v 0 050v 0 075v...

Page 69: ...assword Can enter but does not have permission to change any options When you select this function the following message will appear at the center of the screen to assist you in creating a password En...

Page 70: ...e to CMOS and EXIT Y N Y Pressing Y stores the selections made in the menus in CMOS a special section of memory that stays on after you turn your system off The next time you boot your computer the BI...

Page 71: ...r is a memory error Before contacting your vendor or TYAN Technical Support be sure that you note as much as you can about the beep code length and order that you experience Also be ready with informa...

Page 72: ...P card Network card or SCSI card SMDC does not require any hardware specific driver As long as a standby power comes into the system SMDC will begin looking after the system Tyan SMDC provides diversi...

Page 73: ...C will continue to function even if the system is not powered on How SMDC and TSO Work The brief descriptions below will help explain how these items function Agent a system with SMDC installed The SM...

Page 74: ...to the drive bays and the CPU is closer to the power supply and cooling fan The keyboard mouse USB serial and parallel ports are built in Bandwidth refers to carrying capacity The greater the bandwidt...

Page 75: ...emiconductors chips that hold the basic startup information for the BIOS COM port another name for the serial port which is called as such because it transmits the eight bits of a byte of data along o...

Page 76: ...BIOS This information helps properly configure the system each time it boots Firmware low level software that controls the system hardware Form factor an industry term for the size shape power supply...

Page 77: ...olatile RAM memory that holds its data without power DRAM in contrast is volatile Parallel port transmits the bits of a byte on eight different wires at the same time PCI Peripheral Component Intercon...

Page 78: ...iping and mirroring providing fault tolerance striping and faster access all at the same time RAIDIOS RAID I O Steering Intel RAM Random Access Memory technically refers to a type of memory where any...

Page 79: ...e normally UltraDMA 33 66 100 a fast version of the old DMA channel UltraDMA is also called UltraATA Without a proper UltraDMA controller your system cannot take advantage of higher data transfer rate...

Page 80: ...your dealer for help BEFORE calling TYAN 4 Check the TYAN user group alt comp periphs mainboard TYAN Returning Merchandise for Service During the warranty period contact your distributor or system ve...

Page 81: ...a circuit different from that of the receiver Consult the dealer on an experienced radio television technician for help Notice for Canada This apparatus complies with the Class B limits for radio inte...

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