Asus Z8NA-D6C- User Manual

Asus Z8NA-D6C

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Table of Contents:

  • Page 3 – Contents; Z8NA-D6 Series specifications summary; Product introduction; Memory Configurations
  • Page 4 – PIKE slot; Powering up; Starting up for the first time; BIOS setup; Configuration fields
  • Page 5 – RAID configuratio; LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility
  • Page 6 – Adding or viewing a RAID configuration; Intel; Exiting the Intel; Driver installation; Windows; Reference information
  • Page 7 – Notices; Federal Communications Commission Statement; may cause undesired operation.; Canadian Department of Communications Statement; REACH
  • Page 8 – Safety information; Electrical safety; qualified service technician or your retailer.; Operation safety
  • Page 9 – About this guide; How this guide is organized; Chapter 5: RAID configuration; configuring the motherboard.; Where to find more information
  • Page 10 – Conventions used in this guide; Typography; Bold text
  • Page 15 – This chapter describes the motherboard
  • Page 16 – Chapter summary
  • Page 17 – Package contents; Check your motherboard package for the following items.
  • Page 18 – Special features; Product highlights; Latest processor technology; The motherboard supports Intel; Serial number label; note of the motherboard's serial number containing 12 characters; xxM0Axxxxxxx; 合格
  • Page 19 – Serial ATA II technology; cables with lower pin count and reduced voltage requirements.
  • Page 20 – All High-quality Conductive Polymer Capacitors; durability, improved lifespan, and enhanced thermal capacity.; Innovative ASUS features; multiple I/O solutions without occupying the Slot 6 in 1U system.; ASUS MIO Audio card; different destinations.
  • Page 21 – This chapter lists the hardware setup
  • Page 23 – Before you proceed; Onboard LED; Standby Power LED; below shows the location of the onboard LED
  • Page 25 – Motherboard overview; Placement direction; as indicated in the image below.; Screw holes
  • Page 26 – Motherboard layouts
  • Page 28 – Layout contents; Page
  • Page 30 – Installing the CPU; Locate the CPU socket on the motherboard.
  • Page 31 – Press the load lever with your; Lift the load lever in the direction of; Remove the PnP cap from the CPU
  • Page 32 – and then fit the socket alignment key
  • Page 33 – Installing the CPU heatsink and fan; ensure optimum thermal condition and performance.; Follow these steps to install the CPU heatsink and fan.
  • Page 34 – CPU, then connect the fan cable to the other 4-pin connector.
  • Page 35 – System memory; Overview; The figure illustrates the location of the DDR3 DIMM sockets:
  • Page 36 – Memory population table; CPU 1 Configuration
  • Page 38 – Expansion slots; describe the slots and the expansion cards that they support.; Installing an expansion card; To install an expansion card:; Configuring an; Chapter 4 for information on BIOS setup.
  • Page 39 – * These IRQs are usually available for ISA or PCI devices.; IRQ; Interrupt assignments; Standard Interrupt assignments
  • Page 40 – MIO PCIE slot; quality to complement the robust video power.; PCI slot; Install an optional ASUS PIKE RAID card based on your needs.
  • Page 41 – Installing an ASUS PIKE RAID card; Locate the PIKE RAID card slot on the motherboard.
  • Page 42 – 1 Installing ASMB4 management board; Orient and press the ASMB4
  • Page 43 – and press firmly until the card sits on
  • Page 44 – Jumpers; This jumper allows you to clear the Real Time Clock (RTC) RAM in CMOS.
  • Page 45 – to pins 1–2 to activate the VGA feature.; CPU Fan and Chassis Fan control setting
  • Page 46 – These jumpers allow you to enable or disable the onboard Intel
  • Page 48 – Insert the USB flash and turn on the system to update the BIOS.
  • Page 49 – Connectors; Rear panel connectors; LAN port LED indications; Speed LED
  • Page 50 – Internal connectors; Serial ATA connectors; Supported by the Intel
  • Page 52 – back of the system chassis. These USB connectors comply with USB 2.0
  • Page 54 – Intel Matrix RAID SATA LED.
  • Page 56 – ATX power connectors; These connectors are for an SSI & ATX power supply plugs. The power
  • Page 59 – This chapter describes the power up
  • Page 61 – b. External SCSI devices (starting with the last device on the chain)
  • Page 62 – Powering off the computer; Using the OS shut down function; If you are using Windows
  • Page 63 – This chapter tells how to change the
  • Page 65 – Managing and updating your BIOS; (Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a bootable USB; ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3; (To recover the BIOS using a bootable USB flash; USB flash; AFUDOS utility; or gets corrupted during the updating process.; Copying the current BIOS; To copy the current BIOS file using the AFUDOS utility:; the bootable USB flash disk drive you created earlier.
  • Page 66 – The utility verifies the file, then starts updating the BIOS file.; Updating the BIOS file; To update the BIOS file using the AFUDOS utility:
  • Page 67 – completed. Reboot the system from the hard disk drive.
  • Page 68 – ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 utility; Recovering the BIOS from a USB flash drive; To recover the BIOS from a USB flash drive:
  • Page 69 – BIOS setup program; can update using the provided utility described in section; updating your BIOS; the first two failed.; Load Setup Defaults
  • Page 70 – Menu bar; Main; For changing the basic system configuration; Advanced; For changing the system boot configuration; Exit
  • Page 71 – Menu items; menu bar displays the specific; configuration options for that item.; Scroll bar; not fit on the screen. Press the Up/Down; General help
  • Page 72 – Main menu; you an overview of the basic system information.
  • Page 74 – Sets the Smart Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology.
  • Page 75 – IDE Configuration; is accessed through BIOS.
  • Page 76 – Allows you to select the type of device connected to the system.; AHCI Configuration; This menu is the section for AHCI configuration.
  • Page 77 – System Information; automatically detects the items in this menu.; AMIBIOS; Displays the auto-detected BIOS information.; Processor; Displays the auto-detected CPU specification.; System Memory; Displays the auto-detected system memory.; System Memory Information; Displays system memory information.
  • Page 78 – CPU1/2 Memory Configuration
  • Page 79 – Advanced menu; CPU Configuration; the related functions.
  • Page 80 – Scroll down for more items.; Allows you to enable or disable Enhanced Halt State support.
  • Page 82 – Allows you to select Nehalem C state action.
  • Page 83 – Chipset Configuration
  • Page 84 – a specific frequency.
  • Page 85 – North Bridge Configuration; Allows you to set the channel interleaving setting.
  • Page 86 – South Bridge Configuration; Allows you to configure the amount of USB ports to be enabled.; unconfigurable if you set the; USB Functions
  • Page 87 – Intel VT-d Configuration; Legacy Device Configuration; Allows you to enable or disable the onboard floppy controller.
  • Page 88 – USB Function; Enables or disables the BIOS EHCI hand-off support.; USB Configuration
  • Page 89 – PCIPnP; configures the Plug and Play devices not required for boot.
  • Page 90 – state was before the AC power loss.; Resume On RTC Alarm; Power On Configuration
  • Page 91 – Event Log Configuration; View Event Log; Hardware Monitor
  • Page 92 – the detected temperatures.
  • Page 93 – PCI Express Configuration; Enables or disables the PCI Express L0s and L1 link power states.
  • Page 94 – Advanced ACPI Configuration
  • Page 95 – Chipset ACPI Configuration; Allows you to enable or disable the Energy Lake feature.; General WHEA Configuration
  • Page 96 – Remote Access Configuration; an item then press to display the configuration options.; Remote Access; Server menu
  • Page 98 – Boot menu; Boot Device Priority
  • Page 99 – Boot Settings Configuration; Allows you to set the display mode for Options ROM.
  • Page 100 – Security; Change Supervisor Password; Select this item to set or change the supervisor password. The
  • Page 101 – change other security settings.; Change User Password; Select this item to set or change the user password. The; User Password; item on; Not Installed
  • Page 102 – Exit menu; Exit & Discard Changes; Time, and Password, the BIOS asks for a confirmation before exiting.; Discard Changes; YES; Load Setup Defaults; YES
  • Page 103 – This chapter provides instructions for
  • Page 105 – Setting up RAID; ICH10R southbridge controller that; RAID definitions; optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and write
  • Page 106 – Installing hard disk drives; To install the SATA hard disks for RAID configuration:; Setting the RAID item in BIOS; Main Menu; RAID configuration utilities; LSI Logic
  • Page 107 – the; Management Menu; Menu descriptions on the next page.; LSI Software RAID Configuration; connectors supported by the motherboard southbridge chip.
  • Page 108 – Creating a RAID set; or RAID 10 set using two types of configurations:; Easy; Using Easy Configuration; Easy Configuration; Menu; Initialize; Objects
  • Page 109 – configure array setting.; ARRAY SELECTION MENU; displays the available drives connected to; READY; to
  • Page 110 – Virtual; menu that allows you to change the virtual drive parameters.; RAID; from the; Virtual Drive
  • Page 112 – configuration, select; Using New Configuration; New Configuration; View/Add Configuration; To create a RAID set using the; New Configuration; option; and
  • Page 113 – Follow step 2 to 7 of the previous section:; Follow step 8 to 12 of the previous section:
  • Page 114 – Adding a new RAID configuration; To add a new RAID configuration:; Configuration; to add a new RAID set.
  • Page 115 – Initializing the virtual drives; initialize the virtual drives of a RAID set(s) using the; or; Using the Initialize command; To initialize the virtual drive using the Initialize command
  • Page 117 – Using the Objects command; To initialize the virtual drives using the; Select the virtual drive to initialize from the
  • Page 119 – Rebuilding failed drives; You can manually rebuild failed hard disk drives using the; command in the; To rebuild a failed hard disk drive; displays the available drives
  • Page 120 – to rebuild the drive.
  • Page 121 – Checking the drives for data consistency; in data redundancy depending on the selected option in the; Using the Check Consistency Command; To check data consistency using the; Check Consistency
  • Page 122 – continues from zero percent.
  • Page 123 – When prompted, use the arrow keys to select; from the dialog box to
  • Page 124 – Deleting a RAID configuration; To delete a RAID configuration; When prompted, use the arrow keys to select; Clear
  • Page 125 – Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set; boot drive from a RAID set. See section; To select the boot drive from a RAID set
  • Page 126 – Enabling WriteCache; RAID set to improve the data transmission performance.; To enable WriteCache
  • Page 127 – The Intel
  • Page 128 – Create RAID Volume; and press; item is selected, press the up/down arrow key to select; Disks; item is selected, press to select the hard disk drives; SELECT DISKS; completing your selection.
  • Page 129 – values range from 4 KB to 128 KB. The following are typical values:; Capacity; item is selected, enter the RAID volume capacity that you; Create Volume; warning message appears.; go back to the; CREATE VOLUME; Creating a Recovery set
  • Page 131 – Deleting a RAID set; To delete a RAID set; Delete RAID Volume; DELETE VOLUME
  • Page 132 – Resetting disks to Non-RAID; To reset a RAID set hard disk drive
  • Page 133 – following the descriptions in the section.; To configure a recovery set; Recovery Volume Options; SELECT RECOVERY VOLUME; completing your selection and return to the utility main menu.
  • Page 134 – Rebuilding the RAID; Rebuilding the RAID with other non-RAID disk; displays the status of the RAID volume as “; Degraded; ” during POST. You can; To exit the utility
  • Page 135 – status. When finished, the status is changed to “; Rebuilding the RAID with a new hard disk; same specification into the same SATA Port.
  • Page 136 – Setting the Boot array in the BIOS Setup Utility; creating multi-RAID using the Intel; Boot; menu and select the option; section; When the confirmation window appears, select; OK
  • Page 139 – RAID driver installation; Creating a RAID driver disk
  • Page 140 – ICH10R Intel RAID Driver; ICH10R INTEL RAID Driver; ICH10R LSI RAID Driver
  • Page 142 – During Windows; To install the RAID controller driver when installing Windows; Window; Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver...
  • Page 143 – Setup loads the RAID controller drivers from the RAID driver
  • Page 144 – To an existing Windows
  • Page 145 – To install the RAID controller driver when installing Red Hat; using the key when asked if you have the driver disk, then
  • Page 146 – Insert the Red Hat; The drivers for the RAID controller are installed to the system.; Follow the onscreen instructions to finish the OS installation.; Reboot; Type the following commands when using a Legacy floppy.; reboot
  • Page 147 – Type the following commands when using a USB floppy.; Major; Minor; sdb
  • Page 148 – SUSE Linux Enterprise Server OS; ����� �in��� ��nterprise �erver; �se the arrow keys to select; Installation; Installation; Installation
  • Page 149 – �pdate medi�m. �elect; Please choose the Driver Update medium.
  • Page 150 – the command-line interface from g�raphic �ser interface.
  • Page 151 – Administrator
  • Page 152 – window appears. Click; Next; to start; to accept the terms of the; License Agreement; and continue the
  • Page 153 – Readme File Information; and click; to activate the installation.
  • Page 154 – Yes, I want to restart this computer now; Finish; to restart
  • Page 155 – LAN driver installation; Autorun
  • Page 156 – I accept the terms in the license agreement; and then click; window; to start the installation.
  • Page 157 – Select the programs you want to install and click
  • Page 158 – The programs you select are being installed.; to finish the installation.
  • Page 159 – Display driver installation; operating; Drivers; menu if Autorun is enabled in your computer.; ASPEED InstallShield Wizard; window appears, click
  • Page 160 – The system installs the driver automatically.; Install
  • Page 161 – When the installation completes, click; to restart the computer.
  • Page 162 – Management applications and utilities; Running the support DVD; Drivers menu if Autorun is enabled in your computer.; Drivers menu; devices. Install the necessary drivers to activate the devices.
  • Page 163 – You can also find this
  • Page 165 – This appendix includes additional
  • Page 166 – Appendix summary
  • Page 167 – Z8NA-D6 block diagram
  • Page 168 – Z8NA-D6C block diagram
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Summary

Page 3 - Contents; Z8NA-D6 Series specifications summary; Product introduction; Memory Configurations

iii Contents Notices ........................................................................................................ viiSafety information .................................................................................... viiiAbout this guide .................................................

Page 4 - PIKE slot; Powering up; Starting up for the first time; BIOS setup; Configuration fields

iv Contents 2.5.8 PIKE slot (Z8NA-D6 model only) .................................. 2-20 2.5.9 Installing an ASUS PIKE RAID card (Z8NA-D6 model only) .................................................. 2-21 2.5.10 Installing i Button (Z8NA-D6 model only) ...................... 2-22 2.5.11 Installing ...

Page 5 - RAID configuratio; LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility

v Contents 4.3.5 IDE Configuration .......................................................... 4-13 4.3.6 AHCI Configuration ....................................................... 4-14 4.3.7 System Information ....................................................... 4-15 4.4 Advanced menu ..............

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