Tyan THUNDER K8SRE User Manual

Thunder K8SRE

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Version 1.0

S2891

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Information contained in this document is furnished by TYAN Computer Corporation and has been reviewed for accuracy and reliability prior to printing. TYAN assumes no liability whatsoever, and disclaims any express or implied warranty, relating to sale and/or use of TYAN products including liability or warranties relating to fitness for a particular purpose or merchantability. TYAN retains the right to make changes to product descriptions and/or specifications at any time, without notice. In no event will TYAN be held liable for any direct or indirect, incidental or consequential damage, loss of use, loss of data or other malady resulting from errors or inaccuracies of information contained in this document.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 Congratulations Page 3

1.2 Hardware Specifications Page 3

1.3 Software Specifications Page 5 Chapter 2: Board Installation

2.1 Board Image Page 8

2.2 Block Diagram Page 9

2.3 Board Parts, Jumpers and Connectors Page 10

2.4 Installing the Processor(s) Page 18

2.5 Heatsink Retention Frame Installation Page 19

2.6 Thermal Interface Material Page 20

2.7 Heatsink Installation Procedures Page 21

2.8 Finishing Installing Heatsink Page 23

2.9 Tips on Installing Motherboard in Chassis Page 24

2.10 Installing the Memory Page 25

2.11 Attaching Drive Cables Page 28

2.12 Installing Add-In Cards Page 30

2.13 Connecting External Devices Page 31

2.14 Installing the Power Supply Page 32

2.15 Finishing Up Page 33 Chapter 3: BIOS

3.1 BIOS Setup Utility Page 35

3.2 BIOS Menu Bar Page 36

3.3 BIOS Legend Bar Page 36

3.4 Getting Help Page 36

3.5 BIOS Main Menu Page 37

3.6 BIOS Advanced Menu Page 38

3.7

BIOS Memory Menu

3.8

Security Menu

3.9 BIOS Boot Menu Page 54

3.10

Power Menu

3.11

BIOS Exit Menu

Chapter 4: Diagnostics

4.1 Beep Codes Page 59

4.2 Flash Utility Page 59

4.3 BIOS Post Code Page 60

Glossary Technical Support

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Page 56 Page 57 Page 59

Page 63 Page 69

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Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 - Congratulations

You have purchased one of the most powerful server solutions. The Thunder K8SRE (S2891) is a high-end server mainboard, based on Nvidia nForceTM Professional 2200 Media and Communications Processor (MCP) and AMD 8131 PCI-X HyperTransport™ Tunnel.

Designed to support up to two AMD Opteron™ (200 series) processors and 16GB of DDR400 memory, the S2891 is ideal for CPU, memory, and network intensive applications required in the HPC and clustering applications.

1.2 - Hardware Specifications

Processors

•Two uPGA 940-pin ZIF sockets

•Two onboard 4-phase VRM

•Supports one or two AMD

Opteron

•Scalable 32bit and 64bit computing

•Integrated 144-bit DDR memory controller (128bit+16bit ECC)

Chipset

•Nvidia nForce Professional 2200 (CrushK8-04 Pro)

•AMD 8131™ PCI-X Tunnel

•Winbond W83627HF Super I/O

•Analog Devices ADT7463

Hardware Monitoring IC

Memory

•128-bit dual channel memory bus

•Total Eight DDR DIMM sockets

(Four per CPU)

•Supports up to 16GB Registered DDR

•Supports ECC and Chipkill

•Supports DDR400

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Integrated Video Controller

•ATI® RAGE XL PCI VGA w/8MB onboard memory

Integrated LAN Controllers

•One Broadcom Port GbE

- Connected to PCI-X bus A

(133MHz)

- Two RJ-45 LAN connectors with

LEDs

- Two front panel LED headers

Integrated Enhanced IDE Controller

•Two IDE dual-drive ports for up to four EIDE devices

•Supports for ATA-133 IDE drives and ATAPI devices

System Management

• Total ten 3-pin fan headers with PWM support

- Seven fan headers with

tachometer

•One 2-pin chassis intrusion hdr

•Temperature, voltage and fan

monitoring

•Port 80h LED 7-segment display

BCM5704 Dual

Expansion Slots

•One PCI Express x16 slot with riser support for the following configuration

- One 16 slot

- Future multiple slot riser support

in development (Check TYAN.COM for updates)

•One Tyan TARO

SODIMM

100MHz (PCI-X B)

•One PCI-X 100MHz slot (PCI-X B)

•Total of three usable slots in

pedestal chassis or two slots in 1U rackmount configuration

Integrated SATAII Controllers

•Two integrated dual port SATAII controllers

•Four SATA connectors support up to four drives

•Supports 3.0Gb/s per port

•NvRAID

v2.0 support

•Supports RAID 0, 1, and 0+1

Integrated I/O

•One floppy connector supports up to two drives

•One parallel port header and two serial ports (one connector, one header)

•Six USB2.0 ports (two rear connectors & four front panel headers)

•One 15-pin VGA connector

•PS/2 mouse and keyboard

connectors

Regulatory

•FCC Class B (DoC)

•European Community CE (DoC)

Intelligent Platform Management Interface Header

•Tyan Server Management Daughter card (optional) supports features listed below via SMDC header

- Baseboard Management

Controller (BMC)

- Tailored for IPMI

- Supports KCS and BT styles

- Flexible Windows or Linux

management solution

- Supports RMCP and SNMP

protocols

- Supports ASF standard and EMP

- 1

C serial multi-master controllers

and UARTs

- Built-in IPMB connector

- Remote power on/off and reset

support (IPMI-over-LAN)

BIOS

•Phoenix BIOS on 8Mbit LPC Flash ROM

•ACPI 2.0 and SRAT support

•PXE via Ethernet

•USB device boot

•SMBIOS 2.3.1, BBS 1.1 compliant

•48-bit LBA support

Form Factor

•Extended ATX Footprint (12”x13”,

304.8x330.2mm)

•SSI 3.0/3.51 (24 + 8 pin) power connectors

•Serial (one) and VGA (one) connectors

•Stacked USB 2.0 (two) connectors

•Stacked PS/2 connectors

•Two RJ-45 LAN connectors with

LEDs

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1.3 - Software Specifications

OS (Operating System) Support

Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SUSE Professional 9.x and SLES 9 RHEL3 Update 4 TYAN reserves the right to add support or discontinue support for any OS with or without notice.

Remember to visit TYAN’s websit at http://www.tyan.com. There you can find information on all of TYAN’s products with FAQs, manuals, and BIOS updates.

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Chapter 2: Board Installation

Precautions: The Thunder K8SRE supports SSI, EPS12V type power supplies

(24pin + 8pin) and will not operate with any other types. For proper power supply installation procedures see page 32.

DO NOT USE ATX 2.x or ATXGES power supplies as they will damage the board and void your warranty.

How to install our products right… the first time The first thing you should do is reading this user’s manual. It contains important

information that will make configuration and setup much easier. Here are some precautions you should take when installing your motherboard:

(1) Ground yourself properly before removing your motherboard from the

antistatic bag. Unplug the power from your computer power supply and then touch a safely grounded object to release static charge (i.e. po wer supply case). For the safest conditions, TYAN recommends wearing a static safety wrist strap.

(2) Hold the moth erboard by its edges and do not touch the bottom of the

board, or flex the board in any way.

(3) Avoid touching the motherboard components, IC chips, connectors,

memory modules, and leads.

(4) Place the motherboard on a grounded antistatic surface or on the

antistatic bag that the board was shipped in.

(5) Inspect the board for damage.

The following pages include details on how to install your motherboard into your chassis, as well as installing the processor, memory, disk drives and cables.

NOTE

DO NOT APPLY POWER TO THE BOARD IF IT HAS BEEN

DAMAGED

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2.1- Board Image

This picture is representative of the latest board revision a vailable at the time of publishing. The board you receive may or may not look exactly like the above picture.

The following page includes details on the vital components of this motherboard.

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2.2 - Block Diagram

Thunder K8SRE (S2891) Block Diagram

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2.3 - Board Parts, Jumpers and Connectors

This diagram is representative of the latest board revision available at the time of publishing. The board you receive may not look exactly like the above diagram.

Jumper Legend

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OPEN - Jumper OFF, without jumper cover CLOSED – Jumper ON, with jumper cover

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Jumper/Connector Function

J14 Onboard Buzzer/Speaker Header J25/J140 USB Front Panel Header J42 COM2 Header J53 PCI-X Slot & TARO Connector Bus Speed Override J73/J75 Front Panel LAN LED Headers J77 INTR-Chassis Intrusion Header J85 ATI Video Disable Jumper J87 Gigabit Ethernet Disable Jumper J112 Clear CMOS Jumper J113 PCI Express x16 slot with riser card support J139 Front Panel Header TARO Connector

Connector for TYAN TAROTMSO-DIMM Controller Cards

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