Supero X7SBA User Manual

X7SBA

USER’S MANUAL

Revision 1.1

Manual Revision 1.1

Release Date: August 27, 2009

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Preface

About This Manual

This m a n u a l is wr i t t e n for system i ntegrators, P C technicians a n d

knowledgeable PC users. It provides information for the installation and use of

the X7SBA motherboard. The X7SBA supports a Quad-Core or a Dual-

Core Intel® Xeon 3000 Series Processor at system bus speeds of 1333/1066/800

MHz. With the Intel® Xeon 3000 Series Processor and the 3210 Chipset built in,

the X7SBA offers unprecedented energy efciency performance and provides

optimized low-power, 64-bit computing solutions for single/uni-processor (UP)

systems based on the Intel Core™ microarchitecture. With support of the Intel

Virtualization Technology, the Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology, and the

Enhanced Intel Speedstep Technology, the X7SBA delivers server platforms that

are reliable, easy-to-use, environmentally-friendly, and economical in TCO(Total

Cost of Operations). Please refer to our web site (http://www.supermicro.com/

Products) for updates or visit Intel's web site for processor support. This product

is intended to be professionally installed and serviced by a technician.

Manual Organization

Chapter 1 describes the features, specications and performance of the X7SBA

mainboard and provides detailed information about the chipset.

Chapter 2 provideshardware installation instructions. Read this chapter when

installing the processor, memory modules and other hardware components into

the system. If you encounter any problems, see Chapter 3, which describes

troubleshooting procedures for the video, the memory and the system setup.

Chapter 4 includes an introduction to BIOS and provides detailed information on

running the CMOS Setup utility.

Appendix A provides BIOS POST Beep Codes.

Appendix B and Appendix C provide the Windows OS and other software instal-

lation instructions.

Conventions Used in the Manual

Special attention should be given to the following symbols for proper installation
and to prevent damage done to the components or injury to yourself:

Warning: Important information given to ensure proper system installation

or to prevent damage to the components.

Note: Additional Information given to differentiate various models or to ensure

correct system setup.

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Table of Contents

Preface

About This Manual ...................................................................................................... iii

Manual Organization .................................................................................................... iii

Conventions Used in the Manual .................................................................................. iii

Chapter 1: Introduction

1-1 Overview ......................................................................................................... 1-1

Checklist .....................................................................................................1-1

Contacting Supermicro ............................................................................... 1-2

X7SBA Image ............................................................................ 1-3

X7SBA Layout ............................................................................ 1-4

X7SBA Quick Reference ............................................................. 1-5

Motherboard Features .............................................................................. 1-6

Chipset/System Block Diagram .................................................................. 1-8

1-2 Chipset Overview ........................................................................................... 1-9

1-3 PC Health Monitoring ................................................................................... 1-10

1-4 Power Conguration Settings ....................................................................... 1-10

1-5 ACPI Features ............................................................................................... 1-11

1-6 Power Supply .................................................................................................. 1-12

Chapter 2: Installation

2-1 Static-Sensitive Devices ................................................................................. 2-1

2-2 Mounting the Motherboard in the Chassis ..................................................... 2-1

2-3 Processor and Heatsink Installation ............................................................... 2-2

2-4 Installing DDR 2 Memory ............................................................................... 2-6

2-5 I/O Port/Front Control Panel Connector Locations ........................................ 2-7

Back Panel Connectors/IO Ports ...................................................................... 2-7

Front Control Panel .......................................................................................... 2-8

Front Control Panel Pin Denitions .................................................................. 2-9

NMI Button ............................................................................................... 2-9

Power LED ............................................................................................... 2-9

HDD LED ................................................................................................. 2-10

NIC1/NIC2 LED Indicators ..................................................................... 2-10

OH/Fan Fail LED ......................................................................................2-11

Power Failure LED ....................................................................................2-11

Reset Button ............................................................................................ 2-12

Power Button ........................................................................................... 2-12

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2-6 Connecting Cables ....................................................................................... 2-13

ATX Power Connectors ......................................................................... 2-13

Processor Power Connector .................................................................... 2-13

Overheat/Fan Failure .............................................................................. 2-14

Chassis Intrusion ...................................................................................... 2-14

Alarm Reset .............................................................................................. 2-15

Power LED ............................................................................................. 2-15

Universal Serial Bus (USB) ..................................................................... 2-16

GLAN Ports .............................................................................................. 2-16

ATX PS/2 Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse Ports ............................................ 2-17

Speaker Connector .................................................................................. 2-17

Fan Headers ............................................................................................. 2-18

Wake-On-Ring ......................................................................................... 2-19

Wake-On-LAN .......................................................................................... 2-19

VGA Connector ........................................................................................ 2-20

SMB_PS Connector ................................................................................. 2-20

T-SGPIO Headers .................................................................................... 2-21

Power Fault .............................................................................................. 2-21

2-7 Jumper Settings ............................................................................................ 2-22

Explanation of Jumpers ......................................................................... 2-22

GLAN Enable/Disable .............................................................................. 2-22

Clear CMOS ............................................................................................ 2-23

SMBus to PCI/PCI-Exp. Slots .................................................................. 2-23

Watch Dog Enable ................................................................................... 2-24

VGA Enable .............................................................................................. 2-24

USB Wake-Up .......................................................................................... 2-25

2-8 Onboard Indicators ....................................................................................... 2-26

GLAN LED Indicators ..................................................................................... 2-26

Onboard Power LED Indicator........................................................................ 2-26

2-9 Floppy Connector, SIMSO IPMI and Printer Connections ........................... 2-27

Floppy Connector .................................................................................... 2-27

Parallel Connector ................................................................................... 2-28

SIMSO IPMI .............................................................................................. 2-28

Chapter 3: Troubleshooting

3-1 Troubleshooting Procedures ........................................................................... 3-1

Before Power On ....................................................................................... 3-1

No Power ................................................................................................... 3-1

No Video .................................................................................................. 3-1

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Memory Errors ........................................................................................... 3-2

Losing the System’s Setup Conguration ................................................ 3-2

3-2 Technical Support Procedures ........................................................................ 3-2

3-3 Frequently Asked Questions ........................................................................... 3-3

3-4 Returning Merchandise for Service ................................................................. 3-4

Chapter 4: BIOS

4-1 Introduction ....................................................................................................... 4-1

4-2 Running Setup ................................................................................................. 4-2

4-3 Main BIOS Setup ............................................................................................. 4-2

4-4 Advanced Setup ............................................................................................... 4-5

4-5 Security Setup ............................................................................................... 4-22

4-6 Boot Setup ...................................................................................................... 4-24

4-7 Exit .................................................................................................................. 4-25

Appendices:

Appendix A: BIOS POST Beep Codes .....................................................................A-1

Appendix B: Installing the Windows OS ....................................................................B-1

Appendix C: Other Software Installation Instructions ................................................C-1

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Chapter 1

Introduction

1-1 Overview

Checklist

Congratulations on purchasing your computer motherboard from an acknowledged

leader in the industry. Supermicro boards are designed with the utmost attention

to detail to provide you with the highest standards in quality and performance.

Please check that the following items have all been included with your mother-

board. If anything listed here is damaged or missing, contact your retailer.

All the following items are included in the retail box only:

One (1) Supermicro Mainboard

One (1) oppy drive ribbon cable (CBL-022)

Six (6) SATA cables (CBL-044)

One (1) I/O shield (CSE-P0T7L)

One (1) Supermicro CD containing drivers and utilities

One (1) User's/BIOS Manual

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Contacting Supermicro

Headquarters

Address: Super Micro Computer, Inc.

980 Rock Ave.

San Jose, CA 95131 U.S.A.

Tel: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

Email: [e-mail] (General Information)

[e-mail] (Technical Support)

Web Site: www.supermicro.com

Europe

Address: Super Micro Computer B.V.

Het Sterrenbeeld 28, 5215 ML

's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

Tel: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

Email: [e-mail] (General Information)

[e-mail] (Technical Support)

[e-mail] (Customer Support)

Asia-Pacic

Address: Super Micro, Inc.

4F, No. 232-1 Liancheng Road

Chung-Ho 235, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Tel: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

Web Site: www.supermicro.com.tw

Technical Support:

Email: [e-mail]

Tel: [phone], ext.132 or 139

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X7SBA Image

An Important Note to the User

• All images and graphics shown in this manual were based upon the latest PCB

Revision available at the time of publishing. The motherboard you've received

may or may not look exactly the same as the graphics shown in this manual.

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Important Notes to the User

• Jumpers not indicated are for testing only.

• See Chapter 2 for detailed information on jumpers, I/O ports and JF1 Front

Panel Connections.

• " " indicates the location of "Pin 1".

• When the LE1 LED is on, the 5V Standby PWR is on. Maker sure to turn off

the power before installing or removing components.

Motherboard Layout

X7SBA

4

Battery

Slot1 PCI 33 MHz

SI/O

JPL1

LAN
CTRL

Intel

Slot7 PCI-E x8 on x16

Slot6 PCI-X 100/133 MHz

Slot5 PCI-X 100/133 MHz

Slot4 PCI 33 MHz

Slot3 PCI 33 MHz

Slot2 PCI 33 MHz

LAN
CTRL

Intel

J28

KB/MS

J11

USB0/1

COM1

J7

VGA

LAN1

LAN2

JLAN1

JLAN2

JPW1

Fan6

AT X 24-Pin PWR

CPU Fan

SMB PS

PWR Fail

JAR

Fan1

8-Pin PWR

JPW2

CPU

3210

Xeon
3000

DIMM2B

DIMM1B

DIMM2A

DIMM1

DIMM2

DIMM3

DIMM4

Fan 5

JLED1

JF1

LE1

JOH

Fan2

Fan3

JL1

JWD

JD1

Speaker

Floppy

Fan4

J48

JBT1

JWOR

I-SATA2

JWOL

J44

J45

JI

2

C1JI2C2

COM2

Printer

SIMSO (IPMI 2.0)

USB8/9 USB6/7

BP USB11

FP CTRL

JPWF

R171

Q15

DIMM1A

JPL2

I-SATA0

PXH-V

I-SATA1

I-SATA3

I-SATA4

I-SATA5

Buzzer

Intel

Intel

J29

J30

T-SGPIO1

T-SGPIO2

JPG1

ICH9R

SPKR1

MCH

JUSB1

1

JUSB2

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X7SBA Quick Reference

Jumper Description Default Setting

JBT1 CMOS Clear (See Chapter 2)

JI2C1/JI2C2 I2C (SMB) Bus to PCI slots (Open/Open: Disabled)

JPG1 Video Enable Pins 1-2 (Enabled)

JPL1/JPL2 Giga-bit LAN 1/2 Enable Pins 1-2 (Enabled)

JWD Watch Dog Time-out Pins 1-2 (Reset)

JPUSB1 Back Panel USB Wake Up Pins 1-2 (Enabled)

JPUSB2 Front Panel USB Wake Up Pins 2-3 (Disabled)

Connector Description

Alarm Reset Alarm Reset Connection (JAR)

COM1, COM2 COM Port 1 & COM 2 Header

Fans 1-6 System Fan Headers (Fans 1-5), Fan6: CPU Fan

Floppy Connector Floppy Disk Connector

FP Control Front Panel Control Header (JF1)

I-SATA0~I-SATA5 Intel SATA Headers #0~#5 (JS1-JS6)

JD1 Speaker Header (Pins 3-4: Internal Buzzer Enable,

Pins 1-4: External Speaker Cable)

JL1 Chassis Intrusion Header

JLED1 Power LED Header

JOH Overheat LED Header

JPW1 ATX 24-Pin Power Connector

JPW2 12V 8-pin Power Connector (Required)

JWOL Wake On LAN Header

JWOR Wake On Ring header

KB/Mouse PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse Connector (J28)

LAN 1/LAN 2 Ethernet RJ45 (Gigabit LAN) Port1/Port2 Connectors

Power Fail Power Failure Connector (JPWF)

Printer Parallel Port (Printer) Header

SMB PS Power Supply SMbus (I2C)

SIMSO IPMI SIMSO IPMI 2.0 Socket

SPKR1 Internal Buzzer

T-SGPIO 1/2 Serial General Purpose I/O Headers 1/2 (J29/J30)

USB 0/1 Backpanel USB Ports 0/1 (J11)

USB 6/7, 8/9 Front Panel USB headers #6/#7 (J44), #8/#9 (J45)

USB 11 Front Accessible USB Port 11 (JUSB48)

VGA VGA Connector (J7)

LED Indicator Description

LE 1 Onboard Standby PWR warning LED Indicator

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Motherboard Features

CPU

• A Quad Core/Dual Core Intel Xeon 3000 Series Processor at a system bus

speed of 1333/1066/800 MHz.

• EM64T, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep (EIST) supported

Using the EM64T Feature

• Install a 64-bit OS (Windows XP Professional x64 Ed, Server 2003x64 Ed.)

• Install the 64-bit drivers for all MB components, devices and add-on cards

OS Licensing Support

• Intel Quad Core/Dual Core CPU supports: Windows 2000 Professional,

Windows Advanced Server, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional,

Windows Server 2003 (Standard, Enterprise) and Windows Vista Operating

Systems

Memory (Note: See Section 2- 4 for details.)

• Four DIMM slots support Dual/Single Channel DDR2 800/667 MHz up to 8 GB

of ECC Unbuffered DDR2 SDRAM.

Chipset

• Intel 3210

• Intel ICH9R

• Intel PXH-V

Expansion Slots

• Four (4) PCI 32-Bit/33 MHz (Slot 1~Slot 4)

• Two (2) PCI-X 64-Bit 100/133 MHz slot (Slot 5/Slot 6)

• One (1) PCI-Exp. x8 on x16 slot (Slot 7)

BIOS

• 16Mb Firmware Hub Phoenix BIOS 

• APM 1.2, DMI 2.3, PCI 2.3, ACPI 1.0, Plug and Play (PnP), SMBIOS 2.3 and

USB Keyboard support

PC Health Monitoring

• Onboard voltage monitors for CPU cores, Chipset Voltage, Memory Voltage,

+1. 8V,+3.3 V, +3.3V Standby, +5V, +5V Standby, +12V, and −12V

• CPU 3-phase-switching voltage regulator

• Status monitor for fan speed & System OH/Fan Fail LED/Control

• Pulse Width Modulation Fan Control & Low noise fan speed control

• Environmental temperature monitoring via BIOS, PWR-Up from AC PWR

loss

• Supero Doctor III, NMI

• System Resource alert via Supero Doctor III

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ACPI Features

• Slow blinking LED for suspend state indicator

• Main switch override mechanism

• External modem ring-on

Onboard I/O

• Intel ICH9R SATA Controller, 6 connectors for 6 devices with support of RAID

functions 0, 1, 5 and 10 (in the Windows OS environment)

• 1 oppy port interface (up to 2.88 MB)

• 1 Fast UART 16550 compatible serial port and 1 header

• 1 Parallel (Printer) Port

• Two Intel single-port 82573V and 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controllers

• PS/2 mouse and PS/2 keyboard ports

• Up to 7 USB (Universal Serial Bus) 2.0 ports/headers

• VGA Connector

• Low Prole SIMSO IPMI 2.0

• Super I/O (Winbond 83627HF) with hardware monitoring

• XGI Z9S w/32 MB DDR2

Temperature

• Monitoring CPU, chassis environment

• CPU Thermal Trip support

• Thermal Monitor 2 (TM2) (available if supported by the CPU)

Other

• Wake-on-LAN (WOL)

• Wake-on-Ring (WOR)

• Onboard Standby PWR warning LED Indicator ("LE 1")

CD Utilities

• Drivers and software for Intel 3210 chipset utilities

Dimensions

• 12" (L) x 9.5" (W) (304.8 mm x241.30 mm)

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The Intel 3210 Chipset:

System Block Diagram

Note: This is a general block diagram and may not exactly represent

the features on your motherboard. See the following pages for the

actual specications of the motherboard.

Intel 3210

LGA775_PROCESSOR

ICH9R

USB

PORT_0~6

LPC I/O

MS.

KB. FDD. SER.1

SER.2

VRM 11

ADDR

CTRL CTRL

ADDR

DATADATA

LPC

PCI_32_BUS

DDR2_667/800

DMI

XGI Z9S

DIMM_CHA

S-ATA/300

4 x SATA

CK505 CLK

MCH

DIMM_CHB

PORTS

PCIE_x8

GLAN1 82573V

PCIE_x1

W83627HF

FSB: 1333/1066/800

USB 2.0/1.1

PXH - V

1x PCIX_64

PCI-X BUS

IPMI

IPMI I/F

PCIE_x8

PCIE_x16

Print port

GLAN2 82573L

LCI/GLCI

1x PCIX_64

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1-2 Chipset Overview

The Intel 3210 chipset, designed for use with the Quad Core/Dual Core Intel® Xeon

3000 Series Processor, is comprised of two primary components: the Memory

Controller Hub (MCH) and the I/O Controller Hub ICH9R. In addition, the PXH-V

chip is used for added functionality. The X7SBA provides the performance and

feature-set required for cost-effective, power-efcient UP system platforms.

Memory Controller Hub (MCH)

The function of the MCH is to manage the data ow between four interfaces: the

CPU interface, the DDR2 System Memory Interface, the PCI Express Interface

(Note Below), and the Direct Media Interface (DMI).

The MCH is optimized for a Quad Core/Dual Core Xeon 3000 series processor

in the LGA775 Land Grid Array Package with a FSB frequency of 1333/1066/800

MHz. The 3210 MCH supports 36-bit host bus addressing, allowing the CPU to

access to the entire 64 GB of the host address space. It also has a 12-deep In-

Order Queue to support up to 12 outstanding pipelined address request on the host

bus. It supports one or two channels of DDR2 SDRAM. The 3210 platform uses

the ninth generation I/O Controller Hub (ICH9R) to provide I/O related functions.

The Ninth Generation I/O Controller Hub (ICH9R)

The I/O Controller ICH9R provides the data buffering and interface arbitration

required for the system to operate efciently. It also provides the bandwidth needed

for the system to maintain its peak performance. The Direct Media Interface (DMI)

provides the connection between the MCH and the ICH9R. The ICH9R supports

up to two PCI-Express x8 slots, six Serial ATA ports and eight USB 2.0 ports. In

addition, the ICH 9R of fers the Intel Matr ix S tor age Tech nology whic h pr ovi des var i -

ous RAID options for data protection and rapid data access. It also supports the

next generation of client management through the use of PROActive technology

in conjunction with Intel's next generation Gigabit Ethernet controller.

Intel ICH9R System Features

The I/O Controller Hub provides the I/O subsystem with access to the rest of the

system. Functions and capabilities include:

Advanced Power Management

SMBus 2.0 (I

2

C)

SST/PECI Fan Speed Control

SPI Flash

Low Pin Count (LPC) Interface

Note: The Intel 3210 chipset does not support add-in graphics cards in the PCI-E
interface provided by the Memory Controller Hub (MCH).

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1-3 PC Health Monitoring

This section describes the PC health monitoring features of the X7SBA. The

motherboard has an onboard System Hardware Monitor chip that supports PC

health monitoring.

Onboard Voltage Monitors

The onboard voltage monitor will scan the voltages for the CPU Cores, Chipset

Voltage, Memory Voltage, +1.8V, +3.3V, +3.3V Standby, +5V, +5V Standby, +12V,

and −12V continuously (via SuperO Doctor III). Once a voltage becomes unstable,

it will give a warning or send an error message to the screen. The user can adjust

the voltage thresholds to dene the sensitivity of the voltage monitor.

Fan Status Monitor with Firmware Speed Control

The PC health monitor can check the RPM status of the cooling fans. The on-

board fans are controlled by Thermal Management via Hardware Monitoring in

the BIOS.

CPU Overheat/Fan Fail LED and Control

This feature is available when the user enables the CPU overheat warning func-

tion in the BIOS. This allows the user to dene an overheat temperature. When

the temperature reaches the predened threshold, the CPU thermal trip feature

will be activated and it will send a signal to the Speaker LED and, at the same

time, the CPU speed will be decreased. It will also activate the alarm if a fan

failure occurs.

Recovery from AC Power Loss

BIOS provides a setting for you to determine how the system will respond when

AC power is lost and then restored to the system. You can choose for the system

to remain powered off (in which case you must hit the power switch to turn it

back on) or for it to automatically return to a power on state. See the Power Lost

Control setting in the BIOS chapter to change this setting. The default setting is

Last State.

1-4 PowerCongurationSettings

This section describes features of your motherboard that deal with power and

power settings.

Slow Blinking LED for Suspend-State Indicator

When the CPU goes into a suspend state, the chassis power LED will start blinking

to indicate that the CPU is in suspend mode. When the user presses any key, the

CPU will wake-up and the LED will automatically stop blinking and remain on.

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BIOS Support for USB Keyboard

If the USB keyboard is the only keyboard in the system, this keyboard will function

like a normal keyboard during system boot-up.

Main Switch Override Mechanism

When an ATX power supply is used, the power button can function as a system

suspend button. When the user presses the power button, the system will enter

a SoftOff state. The monitor will be suspended and the hard drive will spin down.

Pressing the power button again will cause the whole system to wake-up. Dur-

ing the SoftOff state, the ATX power supply provides power to keep the required

circuitry in the system "alive". In case the system malfunctions, and you want to

turn off the power, just press and hold the power button for 4 seconds. The power

will turn off and no power will be provided to the motherboard.

Wake Ring-On (WOR)

Wake-up events can be triggered by a device such as the external modem ringing

when the system is in the SoftOff state. Note that external modem ring-on can

only be used with an ATX 2.01 (or above) compliant power supply.

Wake-On-LAN (WOL)

Wake-On-LAN is dened as the ability of a management application to remotely

power up a computer that is powered off. Remote PC setup, up-dates and asset

tracking can occur after hours and on weekends so that daily LAN trafc is kept

to a minimum and users are not interrupted. The motherboard has a 3-pin header

(WOL) to connect to the 3-pin header on a Network Interface Card (NIC) that has

WOL capability. In addition, an onboard LAN controller can also support WOL

without any connection to the WOL header. The 3-pin WOL header is to be used

with a LAN add-on card only.

Note: Wake-On-LAN requires an ATX 2.01 (or above) compliant power supply.

1-5 ACPI Features

ACPI stands for Advanced Conguration and Power Interface. The ACPI speci-

cation denes a exible and abstract hardware interface that provides a standard

way to integrate power management features throughout a PC system, including

its hardware, operating system and application software. This enables the system

to automatically turn on and off peripherals such as CD-ROMs, network cards,

hard disk drives and printers. This also includes consumer devices connected to

the PC such as VCRs, TVs, telephones and stereos.

In addition to enabling operating system-directed power management, ACPI

provides a generic system event mechanism for Plug and Play and an operating

system-independent interface for conguration control. ACPI leverages the Plug

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and Play BIOS data structures while providing a processor architecture-indepen-

dent implementation that is compatible with both Windows and Linux Operating

Systems.

1-6 Power Supply

As with all computer products, a stable power source is necessary for proper and

reliable operation. It is even more important for processors that have high CPU

clock rates of 1 GHz and faster.

The X7SBA accommodates 12V ATX power supplies. Although most

power supplies generally meet the specications required by the CPU, some are

inadequate. A 2 amps of current supply on a 5V Standby rail is strongly recom-

mended.

The X7SBA accommodates ATX power supplies. It is strongly recommended that

you use a high quality power supply that meets ATX power supply Specication

2.02 or above. You should use one that will supply at least 350W of power. Also

your power supply must supply 1.5A for the Ethernet ports. It must also be SSI

compliant (info at http://www.ssiforum.org/). Additionally, in areas where noisy

power transmission is present, you may choose to install a line lter to shield

the computer from noise. It is recommended that you also install a power surge

protector to help avoid problems caused by power surges.

Chapter 2: Installation

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Chapter 2

Installation

2-1 Static-Sensitive Devices

Electrostatic-Discharge (ESD) can damage electronic com ponents. To prevent

damage to your system board, it is important to handle it very carefully. The fol-

lowing measures are generally sufcient to protect your equipment from ESD.

Precautions

• Use a grounded wrist strap designed to prevent static discharge. Touch a

grounded metal object before removing the board from the antistatic bag.

• Handle the board by its edges only; do not touch its components, peripheral

chips, memory modules or gold contacts. When handling chips or modules,

avoid touching their pins.

• Put the motherboard and peripherals back into their antistatic bags when not

in use.

• For grounding purposes, make sure your computer chassis provides excellent

conductivity between the power supply, the case, the mounting fasteners and

the motherboard.

• Use only the correct type of onboard CMOS battery. Do not install the onboard

upside down battery to avoid possible explosion.

Unpacking

The motherboard is shipped in antistatic packaging to avoid static damage. When

unpacking the board, make sure the person handling it is static protected.

2-2 Mounting the Motherboard in the Chassis

All motherboards have standard mounting holes to t different types of chassis.

Make sure that the locat ions of all the mou nti ng hole s fo r bo th t he m oth erbo ard and

the chassis match. Although a chassis may have both plastic and metal mounting

fasteners, metal ones are highly recommended because they ground the mother-

board to the chassis. Make sure that the metal standoffs click in or are screwed

in tightly. Then use a screwdriver to secure the motherboard onto the motherboard

tray. To avoid damaging the motherboard and its components, please do not use a

force greater than 8 lb/inch on each mounting screw during motherboard installation.

Note: Some components are very close to the mounting holes. Please take all

necessary precautionary measures to prevent damage done to these components

when installing the motherboard into the chassis.

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When handling the processor package, avoid placing

direct pressure on the label area of the fan.

Notes:

1. Always connect the power cord last and always remove it before adding, re-

moving or changing any hardware components. Make sure that you install the

processor into the CPU socket before you install the CPU heatsink.

2. Intel's boxed LGA 775 package contains the CPU fan and heatsink assembly.

If you buy a CPU separately, make sure that you use only Intel-certied multi-

directional heatsink and fan.

3. The Intel LGA 775 heatsink and fan comes with a push-pin design and no tool

is needed for installation. (Refer to Note 7 below.)

4. Make sure to install the motherboard into the chassis before you install the CPU

heatsink and fan. (Refer to Note 7 below.)

5. When purchasing an LGA 775 CPU or when receiving a motherboard with an

LGA 775 CPU pre-installed, make sure that the CPU plastic cap is in place and

none of the CPU pins are bent; otherwise, contact the retailer immediately.

6. Refer to the MB Features Section for more details on CPU support.

7. When the X7SBA motherboard is installed in a server, please use the SNK-

P0016/SNK-P0016P Passive Heatsink only.

2-3 Processor and Heatsink Installation

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Installation Procedures

For proper system setup, please follow the

procedure below:

1. Install the heatsink backplate into the

chassis if needed.

2. Install the motherboard into the chas-

sis.

3. Install the CPU onto the motherboard.

4. Install the heatsink or/and cooling fans

(if any).

5. Connect fan and power cables (if any).

Backplate

CPU Retention
Bracket (Pre­installed)

Motherboard

CPU Socket

CPU

Heatsink

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Installation of the LGA775 Processor

1. Press the socket lever to release

the load plate, which covers the CPU

socket, from its locking position.

2. Gently lift the socket lever to open

the load plate.

3. Locate Pin 1 on the CPU socket.

Note: Pin 1 is the corner marked with

a triangle. Please Note that the North

Key and the South Key are located

vertically in the CPU housing.

4. Position the motherboard in such

a way that Pin 1 of the CPU socket is

located at the left bottom of the CPU

housing.

Socket Lever

Load Plate

Load Plate

Pin 1

South Key

North Key

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South Center Edge

North Center Edge

Socket Lever

CPU in the CPU socket

Plastic cap is released

from the load plate if

CPU properly installed.

5. Use your thumb and your index nger

to hold the CPU at the North Center Edge

and the South Center Edge of the CPU.

6. Align Pin 1 of the CPU with Pin 1 of the

socket. Once aligned, carefully lower the

CPU straight down to the socket. (Do not

drop the CPU on the socket. Do not move

the CPU horizontally or vertically. Do not

rub the CPU against the surface or against

any pins of the socket to avoid damage to

the CPU or the socket.)

7. With the CPU inside the socket, inspect

the four corners of the CPU to make sure

that the CPU is properly installed.

8. Use your thumb to gently push the lever

down and lock it in the hook.

9. If the CPU is properly installed into the

socket, the plastic cap will be automatically

released from the load plate when the le-

ver is pushed into the hook. Remove the

plastic cap from the motherboard.

Warning: Please keep the plastic

cap. The motherboard and the CPU

must be shipped with the plastic cap

properly installed to protect the CPU

pins. Shipment without the CPU plas-

tic cap properly installed will void the

warranty.

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1. Unscrew and remove the heatsink screws

from the motherboard in the sequence as

show in the picture on the right.

2. Hold the heatsink as shown in the picture

on the right and gently wriggle the heatsink

to loosen it from the CPU. (Do not use exces-

sive force when wriggling the heatsink.)

3. Once the CPU is loosened, remove the

heatsink from the CPU socket.

4. Clean the surface of the CPU and the

heatsink to get rid of the old thermal grease.

Reapply the pro per amount of th ermal

grease on the surface before you re-install

the CPU and the heatsink.

Screw#1

Screw#2

Warning: We do not recommend that the CPU or the heatsink be removed.

However, if you do need to uninstall the heatsink, please follow the instruc-

tions below to uninstall the heatsink to prevent damage done to the CPU

or the CPU socket.

To Un-install a Passive Heatsink

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Installing a Passive Heatsink

1. Do not apply any thermal grease to the

heatsink or t he CPU d ie; the required amount

has already been applied.

2. Place the heatsink on top of the CPU so

that the four mounting holes are aligned with

those on the retention mechanism.

3. Screw in two diagonal screws (ie the #1

and the #2 screws) until just snug (-do not

over-tighten the screws to avoid possible

damage to the CPU.)

4. Finish the installation by fully tightening

all four screws.

Installation and Removal of the Heatsink

Passive Heatsink

Screw#1

Screw#2

Screw#1

Screw#2

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2-4 Installing DDR2 Memory

Memory Module Installation (See Figure 2-1)

Exercise extreme care when installing or removing memory modules

to prevent any possible damage.

Support

The X7SBA supports up to 8 GB of Dual channel, unbuffered ECC DDR2

800/667 SDRAM in 4 DIMM slots. Both interleaved and non-interleaved

memory are supported, so you may populate any number of DIMM slots.

Note: Populating DIMM#1A,DIMM#2A, and/or DIMM#1B, DIMM#2B with

memory modules of the same size and of the same type will result in dual

channel, two-way interleaved memory which is faster than the single chan-

nel, non-interleaved memory. When ECC memory is used, it may take 25-40

seconds for the VGA to display.

Notes:

Due to chipset limitation, 8GB Memory can only be supported by the fol-1.

lowing operating systems: 32-Bit: Windows 2000 Advanced Server/2003

Enterprise; 64-Bit: Windows Server 2003 Standard/Enterprise/Windows XP

Professional x64 Edition.

Some old-version of DDR2-667 may not match Intel's On-Die-Temperature 2.

requirement and will automatically be down-graded to run @ 533 MHz, If this

occurs, contact your memory vendor to check the ODT value.

Due to memory allocation to system devices, memory remaining available 3.

for operational use will be reduced when 4 GB of RAM is used. The reduction

in memory availability is disproportional. (Refer to the Table below.)

Possible System Memory Allocation & Availability

System Device Size Physical Memory

Remaining (-Available)
(4 GB Total System Memory)

Firmware Hub ash memory

(System BIOS)

1 MB 3.99

Local APIC 4 KB 3.99

Area Reserved for the chipset 2 MB 3.99

I/O APIC (4 Kbytes) 4 KB 3.99

PCI Enumeration Area 1 256 MB 3.76

PCI Express (256 MB) 256 MB 3.51

PCI Enumeration Area 2 (if
needed) -Aligned on 256-MB
boundary-

512 MB 3.01

VGA Memory 16 MB 2.85

TSEG 1 MB 2.84

Memory available to OS and
other applications

2.84

Note to Microsoft Users:

Microsoft implemented a de-

sign change in Windows XP

with Service Pack 2 (SP2) and

Windows Vista. This change

is specic to the Physical Ad-

dress Extension (PAE) mode

behavior w h i c h improves

driver compatibility. For more

information, please read the

following article at Microsoft’s

Knowledge Base website at:

http://support.microsoft.com/

kb/888137.

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To Install:
Insert module verti­cally and press it
down until it snaps
into place. Pay atten­tion to the notch.

Figure 2-1. Installing DIMM into Slot

To Remove:

Use your thumbs to
gently push each
release tab outward
to release the DIMM
from the slot.

Top View Of DDR2 Slot

DDR2

2-5 Control Panel Connectors/IO Ports

The I/O ports are color coded in conformance with the PC 99 specication. See

Figure 2-2 below for the colors and locations of the various I/O ports.

Back Panel Connectors/IO Ports

Figure2-2.BackPanelI/OPortLocations andDenitions

Back Panel Connectors

1. Keyboard (Purple)

2. PS/2 Mouse (Green)

3. Back Panel USB Port 0

4. Back Panel USB Port 1

5. COM Port 1 (Turquoise)

6. VGA Port (Blue)

7. Gigabit LAN 1

8. Gigabit LAN 2

(See Section 2-5 for details.)

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Front Control Panel

JF1 contains header pins for various buttons and indicators that are normally

located on a control panel at the front of the chassis. These connectors are de-

signed specically for use with Supermicro server chassis. See Figure 2-4 for the

descriptions of the various control panel buttons and LED indicators. Refer to the

following section for descriptions and pin denitions.

JF1 Header Pins

Power Button

OH/Fan Fail LED

1

NIC1 LED

Reset Button

2

HDD LED

Power LED

Reset

PWR

Vcc

Vcc

Vcc

Vcc

Ground

Ground

1920

Vcc

X

Ground

NMI

X

Vcc

PWR Fail LED

NIC2 LED

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Power LED

The Power LED connection is located

on pins 15 and 16 of JF1. Refer to the

table on the right for pin denitions.

NMI Button

The non-maskable interrupt button

header is located on pins 19 and 20

of JF1. Refer to the table on the right

for pin denitions.

Power Button

OH/Fan Fail LED

1

NIC1 LED

Reset Button

2

HDD LED

Power LED

Reset

PWR

Vcc

Vcc

Vcc

Vcc

Ground

Ground

1920

Vcc

X

Ground

NMI

X

Vcc

PWR Fail LED

NIC2 LED

NMI Button

PinDenitions(JF1)

Pin# Denition

19 Control

20 Ground

Power LED

PinDenitions(JF1)

Pin# Denition

15 +5V

16 Ground

FrontControlPanelPinDenitions

A. NMI

B. PWR LED

A

B

X7SBA

4

Battery

Slot1 PCI 33 MHz

SI/O

JPL1

LAN
CTRL

Intel

Slot7 PCI-E x8 on x16

Slot6 PCI-X 100/133 MHz

Slot5 PCI-X 100/133 MHz

Slot4 PCI 33 MHz

Slot3 PCI 33 MHz

Slot2 PCI 33 MHz

LAN
CTRL

Intel

KB/MS

USB0/1

COM1

VGA

LAN1

LAN2

Fan6

ATX 24-Pin PWR

CPU Fan

SMB PS

PWR Fail

JAR

Fan1

8-Pin PWR

CPU

MCH

3210

Xeon
3000

DIMM2B

DIMM1B

DIMM2A

DIMM1

DIMM2

DIMM3

DIMM4

Fan 5

JLED1

LE1

JOH

Fan2

Fan3

JL1

JWD

JD1

Floppy

Fan4

JBT1

JWOR

I-SATA2

JWOL

JI

2

C1JI2C2

COM2

Printer

SIMSO (IPMI 2.0)

USB8/9 USB6/7

BP USB11

FP CTRL

R171

Q15

DIMM1A

JPL2

I-SATA0

PXH-V

I-SATA1

I-SATA3

I-SATA4

I-SATA5

Buzzer

Intel

Intel

T-SGPIO1

T-SGPIO2

JPG1

ICH9R

JUSB1

JUSB2