Asus RS160-E4/PA4- User Manual

Asus RS160-E4/PA4

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Table of Contents:

  • Page 3 – Contents; System specifications; Memory configurations
  • Page 4 – Creating a bootable floppy disk
  • Page 5 – RAID Configuratio; Intel
  • Page 6 – Exiting the Intel; Windows; Power supply specifications
  • Page 7 – Notices; may cause undesired operation.
  • Page 8 – Safety information
  • Page 9 – About this guide; Audience; least basic knowledge of configuring a server.; This guide contains the following parts:
  • Page 10 – Used to emphasize a word or a phrase.; Command
  • Page 11 – Chapter 1; ct
  • Page 12 – System package contents; Check your package for the following standard items.; Serial number label; See the figure below.; xxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Page 13 – technologies through the chipsets embedded on the motherboard.
  • Page 14 – drive, and two USB ports are located on the front panel.
  • Page 15 – Internal features
  • Page 16 – LED information
  • Page 17 – Chapter 2; Hardware setup
  • Page 18 – Chassis cover; firmly hold the tray level and pull all
  • Page 22 – alignment key should fit
  • Page 25 – System memory; Overview; The figure illustrates the location of the FB-DIMM sockets:
  • Page 26 – MCH
  • Page 28 – rank will be used in its place. Refer to
  • Page 31 – Hard disk drives; Each side has three holes to fit
  • Page 33 – Expansion slot; Place the riser card bracket on
  • Page 34 – Install a PCI Express x8 card to the
  • Page 35 – fit the slot and the bracket aligns
  • Page 36 – Configuring an; Chapter 5 for information on BIOS setup.; * These IRQs are usually available for ISA or PCI devices.
  • Page 37 – Cable connections
  • Page 38 – SATA backplane cabling
  • Page 39 – Removable components; Refer to the illustration below for location of the system fans.
  • Page 40 – airflow directional arrow on the
  • Page 41 – airflow directional arrow on the fan
  • Page 46 – Motherboard
  • Page 47 – until the rear panel ports fit in place.
  • Page 49 – Chapter 3; Installation options
  • Page 50 – To assemble the rack rails:
  • Page 52 – To mount the server to the rack:
  • Page 53 – Chapter 4; Motherboard info; This chapter includes the motherboard
  • Page 56 – Jumpers; This jumper allows you to clear the Real Time Clock (RTC) RAM in CMOS.
  • Page 57 – This jumper allows you to enable or disable the onboard Intel
  • Page 58 – an ATX power supply that can supply at least 1A on the +5VSB lead, and a
  • Page 59 – Set to pins 1-2 to activate the VGA feature.
  • Page 60 – BIOS for your motherboard model.
  • Page 62 – on the SCSI or RAID card.
  • Page 63 – This connector allows you to connect SMBus (System Management Bus)
  • Page 64 – of the system chassis.; cable matches the ground pin of the connector.
  • Page 65 – supports the SMBus function.
  • Page 66 – This is a low pin count interface used to plug in the LPC debug card.
  • Page 71 – Chapter 5; BIOS setup; This chapter tells how to change the
  • Page 72 – Managing and updating your BIOS; (To recover the BIOS using a bootable floppy disk; Do either one of the following to create a bootable floppy disk.; from the format options field,; Start
  • Page 73 – Utility; of the support CD to the floppy disk with the latest BIOS file.
  • Page 74 – update a corrupted BIOS file using a floppy disk.; Recovering the BIOS from a floppy disk; the screen will show several optional items.; B. To recover the BIOS from a floppy disk:; machine to boot from the floppy disk.
  • Page 76 – Save the current BIOS file; Utilities
  • Page 77 – you to avoid network traffic, or
  • Page 78 – Updating the BIOS through a BIOS file; To update the BIOS through a BIOS file:; Locate the BIOS file from the
  • Page 79 – BIOS setup program; can update using the provided utility described in section
  • Page 80 – Main; For changing the basic system configuration; Advanced; For changing the system boot configuration
  • Page 81 – respective menu items.; Configuration fields; Refer to
  • Page 82 – configuration options for that item.
  • Page 83 – Main menu; you an overview of the basic system information.
  • Page 84 – IDE Configuration; Allows you to enable or disable the parallel ATA function.
  • Page 86 – from and to the device occurs one sector at a time.
  • Page 87 – Displays the ASUS internal model information.
  • Page 88 – Processor.Information; Displays the auto-detected CPU specification.; Displays the auto-detected system memory information.
  • Page 89 – Advanced menu; If you install a 5000 series CPU, the BIOS appears as screen below.; Scroll down to display the following items:
  • Page 90 – Allows you to configure the MP Specification revision level.; Allows you to enable or disable the Intel
  • Page 91 – to dynamically change based on system loading.
  • Page 92 – Allows you to enable or disable C1E mode. In C1E mode, the CPU power
  • Page 93 – Chipset Configuration; Allows you to select the ECC error that the SERR# asserts.; Scroll down to display the following item:
  • Page 96 – PCI Configuration; to display the configuration options.; Allows you to enable or disable the device expansion ROM.
  • Page 97 – an item then press to display the configuration options.; when you install high speed USB devices.
  • Page 98 – Peripheral Devices Configuration; Allows you to configure COM1 port.
  • Page 100 – ACPI Configuration; configuration options.
  • Page 101 – Power On Configuration; Allows you to enable or disable RTC to generate a wake-up event.
  • Page 102 – To set the time of alarm:
  • Page 103 – Scroll down to display more items:
  • Page 104 – Allows you to disable or configure the Smart Fan feature.
  • Page 105 – Server menu; This Server menu items allow you to customize the server features.; Allows you to disable or select the COM port to use.
  • Page 106 – Allows you to enable the specified baud rate.
  • Page 107 – Displays the auto-detected system information.
  • Page 108 – Security menu; These fields allow you to set passwords:; Set; or
  • Page 109 – field, type in your current password. Press; Confirm New Password; system preventing unauthorized use.
  • Page 110 – Boot menu
  • Page 111 – Allows you to select the power-on state for the NumLock.
  • Page 112 – Exit menu; to CMOS before exiting the Setup utility.
  • Page 115 – Chapter 6; ra
  • Page 116 – Setting up RAID; Storage Manager also supports RAID5 configuration.; RAID definitions; optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and write
  • Page 117 – To install the SATA hard disks for RAID configuration:; RAID configuration utilities
  • Page 118 – descriptions on the next page.; LSI Logic Embedded SATA RAID
  • Page 119 – New; Using Easy Configuration; To create a RAID set using the Easy Configuration option:; Configure; Use the arrow keys to select; Easy Configuration
  • Page 120 – The configurable array appears on screen.; READY; to
  • Page 121 – Drive; menu that allows you to change the logical drive parameters.
  • Page 122 – from the; from the; On; to enable the
  • Page 123 – Accept
  • Page 124 – Using New Configuration; To create a RAID set using the New Configuration option:; New Configuration
  • Page 125 – From the utility main menu, highlight; displays the available drives connected to
  • Page 126 – configurable array appears on screen.
  • Page 127 – DWC
  • Page 129 – Adding or viewing a RAID configuration; Adding a new RAID configuration; To add a new RAID configuration:
  • Page 131 – Follow steps 8 to 12 of the; Creating a RAID set: Using Easy Configuration; section to add the new RAID configuration.
  • Page 132 – initialize the logical drives of a RAID set(s) using the; command on the; the
  • Page 133 – Yes
  • Page 134 – To initialize the logical drives using the
  • Page 135 – Select the logical drive to initialize from the
  • Page 137 – You can manually rebuild failed hard disk drives using the; command in the; Rebuild; displays the available drives
  • Page 138 – drive now shows; RBLD
  • Page 139 – in data redundancy depending on the selected option in the; To check data consistency using the
  • Page 140 – continues from zero percent.
  • Page 141 – When prompted, use the arrow keys to select; from the dialog box to
  • Page 142 – Deleting a RAID configuration; To delete a RAID configuration:; When prompted, use the arrow keys to select
  • Page 143 – boot drive from a RAID set. Refer to the; Configuration; section for details.
  • Page 144 – transmission performance.; To enable WriteCache:; to display the adapter properties.; WriteCache
  • Page 145 – The Intel; the menus and select the menu options.
  • Page 146 – Disks; you want to include in the RAID set. The
  • Page 147 – go back to the
  • Page 148 – To create a RAID 1 set:
  • Page 149 – To create a RAID 10 set:; Follow steps 4 to 9 of section
  • Page 150 – To create a RAID 5 set:
  • Page 151 – To delete a RAID set:
  • Page 152 – To reset a RAID set hard disk drive:
  • Page 153 – Rebuilding the RAID with other non-RAID disk:
  • Page 154 – the Intel Matrix Storage Console.
  • Page 155 – Global Array Manager; You may also create a RAID set(s) in Windows
  • Page 156 – Setting the Boot array with MB BIOS; status of current arrays:
  • Page 157 – Chapter 7; Driver installation; This chapter provides instructions for
  • Page 158 – RAID driver installation; or Red Hat
  • Page 160 – During Windows
  • Page 161 – - If SATA RAID mode is to enabled, select
  • Page 164 – linux dd
  • Page 165 – using the key when asked to select the driver disk source.; OK; using the key when asked if you have the driver disk. Press
  • Page 166 – Follow screen instructions to continue the OS installation.; The drivers for the RAID controller are installed to the system.
  • Page 169 – You need to manually install the Intel; Administrator
  • Page 170 – window appears. Follow; to accept the terms of the
  • Page 171 – and press; Next; to activate the; Finish; to restart the computer.
  • Page 172 – LAN driver installation; support CD to locate the file
  • Page 173 – button when the; option to begin installation.
  • Page 174 – and then click the; and click; button to fully install the driver, Intel
  • Page 176 – To verify the LAN controller driver installation:
  • Page 177 – application; Building the driver from the TAR file:; directory of your local hard disk. The name format of driver file is “
  • Page 178 – VGA driver installation; This section provides instructions on how to install the ATI; Drivers; menu if Autorun is enabled in your computer.; You need to manually install the ATI
  • Page 180 – button to select; Express; installation to activate quick
  • Page 181 – Drivers menu if Autorun is enabled in your computer.
  • Page 182 – information. You can also find
  • Page 183 – Appendix; This appendix includes additional
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Summary

Page 3 - Contents; System specifications; Memory configurations

iii Contents Contents....................................................................................................... iii Notices......................................................................................................... vii Safety.information.......................................

Page 4 - Creating a bootable floppy disk

iv Contents 2.8.1 System fans .................................................................. 2-23 2.8.2 Device fan ..................................................................... 2-25 2.8.3 Power supply module .................................................... 2-26 2.8.4 Optical drive .....

Page 5 - RAID Configuratio; Intel

v Contents 5.4.1 Advanced Processor Options ....................................... 5-19 5.4.2 Chipset Configuration ................................................... 5-23 5.4.3 PCI Configuration .......................................................... 5-26 5.4.4 ICH USB Control Sub-Menu ..........

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