ASUS P5000 User Manual

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AP5000

Dual Pentium® II Server Platform

Installation Guide

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Product Name: ASUS AP5000
Manual Revision: 1.00
Release Date: May 1998

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CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION............................................................................7

Preface .............................................................................................7

II. BARE-BONE KITS........................................................................9

Bare-Bone Kits Overview................................................................9

HOUSING .......................................................................................9

MOTHERBOARD.........................................................................10

DRIVE BAY ..................................................................................11

BACK PLANE BOARD ...............................................................11

SLOT CARD .................................................................................12

III. INTEGRATION ..........................................................................15

PROCEDURES .............................................................................15

SYSTEM UNIT .............................................................................15

Opening the cover ..........................................................................15

Inserting the motherboard ..............................................................16

Installing the memory and power I/O cables .................................17

Installing the CPU..........................................................................17

Installing the memory ..............................................................18

Installing a VGA or PCI add-on card .......................................18

Installing the ATX power switch and other signal pins............18

Closing the cover......................................................................19

CABLING......................................................................................20

DRIVE SETUP ..............................................................................20

Installing a slot card .................................................................21

SAF-TE back plane boards.................................................21

NON SAF-TE back plane boards .......................................22

Indicator lights .........................................................................23

Installing SCSI devices ..................................................................24

Drive locations ...............................................................................24

BACK PLANE BOARD INSTALLATION ..................................26

Integrating the DA-BP4-1(S) ...................................................26

Integrating with the housing.....................................................27

Connecting the SCSI cables .....................................................27

Installing the disk drive bay to the back plane board...............28

POWER SUPPLY UNIT................................................................29

Replacements ...........................................................................29

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FCC & DOC COMPLIANCE

Federal Communications Commission Statement

This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the
following two conditions:

• This device may not cause harmful interference, and

• This device must accept any interference received, including interfer­ence that may cause undesired operation.

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a
Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits
are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference
in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate
radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with
manufacturer’s instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio com­munications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not oc­cur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful inter­ference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turn­ing the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the
interference by one or more of the following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

• Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to
which the receiver is connected.

• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

WARNING! The use of shielded cables for connection of the monitor

to the graphics card is required to assure compliance with FCC regula­tions. Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by
the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to
operate this equipment.

Canadian Department of Communications Statement

This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class B limits for radio noise
emissions from digital apparatus set out in the Radio Interference Regula­tions of the Canadian Department of Communications.

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I. INTRODUCTION

Preface

A Guide to build up the ASUSTeK newer and more powerful server system:

AP5000.

The AP5000 uses the P2L97-DS smart motherboard as its base to support
dual Pentium II processor . W ith a built-in AGP slot, the AP5000 can be both
a server and workstation. The following introductions will guide you to
understand and build up such a best system - AP5000.

Two sections will be introduced as following:
* Bare-Bone Kits Overview
* Integration Procedure

Preface

I. INTRODUCTION

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I. INTRODUCTION

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II. BARE-BONE KITS

Bare-Bone Kits Overview

This section will show you the component kits of AP5000 including
housing, motherboard, CPU card, device drive-bay, back plane board,
and slot card.

HOUSING

The housing of the AP5000 is ivory white. Its front and back view after
system assembly is shown below:

Power button

Front door

Device drive-bay

II. BARE-BONE KITS

Fig 2-1: Front view of housing

Key locker of front door
Cover install/

remove locker

Tower feet with wheel

Redundant power supply

Power connectors

Parallel I/O port

Fig 2-2: Back side of housing

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Serial I/O port

MOTHERBOARD

The AP5000 uses the P2L97-DS motherboard which is designed to support
dual Pentium II processors. For detailed specifications, refer to the P2L97­DS user’s manual.

II. BARE-BONE KITS

II. BARE-BONE KITS

PS/2 Mouse (Top)
PS/2 K’Board (Bottom)

USB Port 1 (Top)
USB Port 2 (Bottom)

Parallel (T op)

Primary/Secondary
IDE Connectors

Narrow/Wide SCSI
Connectors (optional)

Adaptec’s 7880
Fast/Wide SCSI Chipset
(optional)

Accelerated
Graphics Port

4 PCI Slots

Multi-I/O Chip

SEC CPU Slots

Intel 440LX

AGPset

DIMM Sockets

Hardware Monitor
(optional)

2 ISA Slots

Fig 2-3: P2L97-DS Layout

Intel PIIX4 PCIset

Programmable
2Mbit Flash ROM

Floppy Disk
Drive
Connector

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