Supermicro MBDX7DA3O - Manual

Supermicro MBDX7DA3O

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Table of Contents:

  • Page 2 – Printed in the United States of America
  • Page 3 – Preface; About This Manual; iii
  • Page 4 – iv; Table of Contents
  • Page 6 – Chapter 3: Troubleshooting
  • Page 7 – Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter; Checklist; listed here is damaged or missing, contact your retailer.
  • Page 10 – X7DA3+ Motherboard Layout; Jumpers not indicated are for test purposes only.
  • Page 11 – rd PWR Failure Detect; Connector
  • Page 14 – Block Diagram of the 5000X (Greencreek) Chipset
  • Page 15 – Chipset; Xeon Dual Core Processor Features; Dual Core Processors provide a feature set as follows:; The Xeon Dual Core Processors
  • Page 16 – Recovery from AC Power Loss; The default setting is; Last State; PC; Onboard Voltage Monitoring; sensitivity of the voltage monitor.; Fan Status Monitor with Firmware Control; Hardware Monitoring in the Advanced Setting).; Environmental Temperature Control; sis temperature is too high.; CPU Fan Auto-Off in Sleep Mode
  • Page 17 – CPU Overheat LED and Control; Features; Slow Blinking LED for Suspend-State Indicator
  • Page 18 – the BIOS Setup routine.; Note; Power
  • Page 20 – Notes
  • Page 21 – Chapter 2: Installation; Chapter 2; Devices; Precautions; • Use a grounded wrist strap designed to prevent static discharge.; Unpacking; Motherboard; : some components are very close to the mounting holes. Please
  • Page 22 – Installing the LGA771 Processor; When handling the processor package, avoid placing; Processor and Heatsink Installation
  • Page 23 – Warning
  • Page 24 – Installing the Heatsink; CEK Heatsink Installation
  • Page 25 – Uninstalling the Heatsink
  • Page 26 – CAUTION; Memory Support; Both FBD 533 MHz and 667MHz DIMMs are supported however,; both; For memory to work properly, you need to follow the
  • Page 27 – Installing and Removing DIMMs; DDR2 FBD
  • Page 28 – Control Panel Connectors/IO Ports; Back Panel Connectors/IO Ports; Back Panel USB Port 0
  • Page 29 – Front Control Panel; for descriptions and pin defi nitions.; JF1 Header Pins
  • Page 30 – Front Control Panel Pin Defi nitions
  • Page 32 – Power Fail LED
  • Page 33 – Reset Button
  • Page 34 – ATX Power Connector
  • Page 36 – Fan Headers
  • Page 37 – Serial Port
  • Page 41 – SMB
  • Page 42 – SGPIO Headers
  • Page 43 – CD Connector
  • Page 44 – Explanation of
  • Page 49 – GLAN LEDs; Onboard; Onboard Power LED
  • Page 51 – Parallel Port, Floppy Drive, Hard Disk Drive and; • The fl oppy disk drive cable has seven twisted wires.
  • Page 52 – Floppy Connector; The fl oppy connector is located at; SIMLP IPMI Slot; There is a SIM Low Profi le IPMI Slot
  • Page 53 – IDE Connectors
  • Page 54 – SAS Connectors; There are eight Serial Attached
  • Page 55 – Troubleshooting; Before Power On
  • Page 56 – Losing the System’s Setup Confi guration; NOTE; Memory Errors; Technical
  • Page 57 – do not; What's on the CD that came with my motherboard?
  • Page 58 – maintenance of products.
  • Page 59 – System BIOS
  • Page 60 – Default settings are in bold text unless otherwise noted; Main BIOS Setup; detail how to navigate through the menus.
  • Page 61 – Main BIOS Setup Menu; Main Setup Features; System Time; The item displays the date that the BIOS was built.; Legacy Diskette A
  • Page 62 – SATA Port3; confi gurations accordingly. The items included in the submenu are:; Type; Auto; ATAPI if a removable disk drive is installed.; Multi-Sector Transfer; in multi-sector transfer. The options are; Disabled
  • Page 64 – HostRAID fi rmware. The options are; Intel; and Adaptec; System Memory; present in the system.; Advanced
  • Page 67 – confi guration with 4GB or more memory. The options are Enabled and; PCI Confi guration; Select; Default Primary Video Adapter; are Other and
  • Page 68 – Emulated IRQ Solutions; PCI Parity Error Forwarding; ROM Scan Ordering; Onboard fi rst; PCI Fast Delayed Transaction; Reset Confi guration Data
  • Page 72 – Set to; Enabled; to enable Execute Disable Bit and allow the processor
  • Page 74 – Access the submenu to make changes to the following settings.; options are; Port B. The options are; Normal; Select the base I/O address for the parallel port. The options are
  • Page 76 – either; Direct; after POST routines. The options are On and; Off
  • Page 77 – Hardware Monitor Logic; CPU Temperature Threshold; : If the feature of Auto Fan Control is enabled, the BIOS will; Voltage Monitoring; The following items will be monitored and displayed:
  • Page 79 – boot failure. The options are; No Action
  • Page 80 – Realtime Sensor Data; fan speeds and voltages of various components.
  • Page 81 – BIOS settings are described in this section.; Supervisor Password Is:; password has been entered.; Set Supervisor Password; to allow access to the BIOS.; Set User Password
  • Page 82 – described in this section.; Password on Boot; Boot Priority Order/Excluded from Boot Orders
  • Page 83 – Exit; Exit Saving Changes; the BIOS Setup utility.; Exit Discarding Changes; changes you may have made.; Load Setup Defaults; BIOS Setup. These are the safest settings to use.; Discard Changes; You will remain in the Setup utility.; Save Changes; remain in the Setup utility.
  • Page 91 – Appendix B: POST Error Beep Codes; Appendix B; This section lists Beep Codes for recoverable POST errors.; Recoverable POST Error Beep Codes; long and two shor t beeps - video confi guration error
  • Page 93 – C-1 The Adaptec Embedded SAS with HostRAID Controller; : If you do not wish to confi gure Adaptec SAS/SATA HostRAID functions,; Using the Adaptec RAID Confi guration Utility; able to use the controller.
  • Page 94 – Manual; Managing Arrays; access the following submenu:; A. Using the Array Confi guration Utility
  • Page 95 – RAID 1 only; —the following prompt is also displayed:
  • Page 96 – Creating Arrays; initialized are shown in gray and cannot be used.
  • Page 97 – The label; 4LK is default. Please
  • Page 99 – window as shown in the screen below:
  • Page 100 – Deleting a Bootable Array
  • Page 101 – RAID Confi guration Utility.; To Add a HotSpare Drive; The hotspare drive you have selected will be deleted.
  • Page 102 – Initializing Disk Drives; Do not
  • Page 105 – Rebuilding Arrays; You can use Rebuilding on Fault Tolerant array (RAID 1) only.
  • Page 106 – Using the SerialSelect Utility to Confi gure SAS Settings; To access the SAS utilities:; RAID Confi guration Utility as shown in the screen below.
  • Page 107 – confi gure the setting for the item selected.; : The default setting for each item is listed below:; To Set Controller Confi guration:
  • Page 108 – To Set Physical Confi guration:
  • Page 109 – Using the Disk Utilities; To access the disk utilities:; —Simulates a low-level format of the hard drive by writing zeros to; : Serial ATA drives are low-level formatted at the factory and do; Verify Disk Media; —Scans the media of a disk drive for defects.
  • Page 110 – To Exit Adaptec RAID Confi guration Utility; following screen will appear.
  • Page 111 – System; c. To use the Intel ESB2 SATA RAID Driver produced by Adaptec, select
  • Page 112 – with one drive installed.
  • Page 113 – Appendix D: Confi guring Intel HostRAID and the Windows OS; Appendix D; Important Notes to the User:; D-1 Introduction to Serial ATA and Parallel ATA; : the current version of the ESB2 SATA RAID Utility can only; Introduction to the Intel ESB2 Serial RAID Controller Hub; confi gurations: Legacy mode and Native mode.
  • Page 114 – The Intel HostRAID Confi gurations; information) to get the benefi ts of both.; The Intel Matrix Storage; you the change the HDD partition size without any data.; Confi guring BIOS settings for SATA RAID Functions (Native Mode); settings for the BIOS.
  • Page 115 – Using the Intel ESB2 SATA RAID Utility Program; reboot. The following screen appears after Power-On Self Test.; same as the graphics shown in this manual.
  • Page 116 – Creating a RAID 0 Volume:; The following screen will appear:
  • Page 117 – Creating a RAID 1 Volume:
  • Page 120 – Deleting RAID Volume:; : Be sure to back up your data before deleting a RAID set. You
  • Page 121 – Resetting to Non-RAID and Resetting a RAID HDD; Exiting the Intel Matrix Storage Manager Utility:; Be cautious when you reset a RAID volume HDD to non-
  • Page 122 – system will start booting up from CD.
  • Page 123 – Appendix E: Installing Other Software Programs and Drivers; Driver/Tool Installation Display Screen; The bottom icon; Appendix E; E-1 Installing Other Software Programs and Drivers; icons to the right of these items.
  • Page 124 – Supero Doctor III Interface Display Screen-I (Health Information); Confi guring Supero Doctor III; The default password and username are ADMIN.
  • Page 125 – Supero Doctor III Interface Display Screen-II (Remote Control); Linux, we will still recommend that you use Supero Doctor II.
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The information in this User’s Manual has been carefully reviewed and is believed to be accurate. The vendor assumes no responsibility for any inaccuracies that may be contained in this document, makes no commitment to update or to keep current the information in this manual, or to notify any person...

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Preface About This Manual This manual is written for system integrators, PC technicians and knowledge- able PC users. It provides information for the installation and use of the X7DA3+ motherboard. The X7DA3+ supports dual Intel Quad-Core and Dual-Core processors with a front side bus speed of 1.333...

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iv Preface About This Manual ...................................................................................................... iii Manual Organization ................................................................................................... iii Conventions Used in the Manual ............

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