Tyan Computer S2912 User Manual

S2912

Thunder n3600R

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Version 1.0

Copyright

Copyright © TYAN Computer Corporation, 2006. All rights reserved. No part of
this manual may be reproduced or translated without prior written consent from
TYAN Computer Corp.

Trademark

All registered and unregistered trademarks and company names containe d in
this manual are property of their respective owners including, but not limited to
the following.

TYAN, Taro and Thunder n3600R are trademarks of TYAN Computer
Corporation.
AMD, Opteron, and combinations thereof are trademarks of AMD Corporation.
Nvidia and nForce are trademarks of Nvidia Corporation
LSI is trademarks of LSI Logic Corporation
ATI is trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc
Microsoft, Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
SuSE is a trademark of Novell, Inc.
Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds
IBM, PC, AT, and PS/2 are trademarks of IBM Corporation.
Winbond is a trademark of Winbond Electronics Corporation.

Notice

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
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 Congratulations Page 5

1.2 Hardware 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 11

2.4 Tips on Installing Motherboard in Chassis Page 21

2.5 Installing the Processor(s) Page 22

2.6 Installing the Memory Page 25

2.7 Attaching Drive Cables Page 28

2.8 Installing Add-In Cards Page 30

2.9 Connecting External Devices Page 31

2.10 Installing the Power Supply Page 32

2.11 Finishing Up Page 33
Chapter 3: BIOS

3.1 About the BIOS Page 34

3.2 Main BIOS Setup Page 36

3.3 Main Menu Page 37

3.4 Advanced Menu Page 39

3.5 Security Menu Page 59

3.6 Boot Menu Page 60

3.7 Power Menu Page 61

3.8 Exit Menu Page 63

Chapter 4: Diagnostics

4.1 Flash Utility Page 65

4.2 Phoenix BIOS Post Code Page 66

Appendix I: How to Make a Driver Diskette
Glossary
Technical Support

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Check the box contents!

The retail motherboard package should contain the following:

1x Thunder n3600R motherboard

1x 34-Pin floppy drive cable

6 x SATA cable

3 x SATA Drive Power Adapter

1 x Ultra-DMA-100/66 IDE cable

If any of these items are missing, please contact your vendor/dealer for
replacement before continuing with the installation process.

2 x SAS cable (for S2912WG2NR only)

1 x Thunder n3600R User’s Manual

1 x Thunder n3600R Quick Reference Guide

1 x TYAN driver CD

1 x I/O shield

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Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 - Congratulations

You have purchased one of the most powerful server solutions available. The
Thunder n3600R (S2912) is a high-end server motherboard, based on the
NVIDIA NPF3600 chipset. It also includes the Winbond W83627HF Super IO
and Analog Devices ADT7476 Hardware Monitoring chipsets.

This motherboard is designed to support two AMD Opteron RevF 2000 Series
processors and up to 32GB of DDR2 400/533/667 memory. The S2912 is ideal
for high-density performance serving and clustering, data center and IT
infrastructure development. The S2912 is also ideal for multi-node rendering
and processing, web and business application serving, Large-scale visual
simulations.

Remember to visit TYAN’s website at http://www.tyan.com
information on all of TYAN’s products with FAQs, online manuals and BIOS
upgrades.

1.2 - Hardware Specifications

Processors

• Dual 1207-pin ZIF sockets

• Supports up to two AMD Opteron

RevF 2000 Series processors

• Two onboard 4-phase digital VRMs

Chipset

• NVIDIA NPF3600

• Winbond W83627HF Super IO

• Analog Devices ADT7476 Hardware

Monitoring IC

Integrated I/O

•

One floppy connector supports up to

two drives

• One IDE connector supports up to two

ATA 133 devices

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One parallel port header and one

serial port

•

Eight USB 2.0 EHCI ports (two rear

connectors and six headers)

Onboard SAS Controller

S2912WG2NR only)

LSI 1064E SAS controller

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Four SAS ports

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Memory

Dual-channel memory bus

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• Eight DDR2 sockets (four per CPU)

• Supports ECC Registered DIMMs

• Maximum of 32GB DDR2-

400/533/667

Integrated Network Processor

Two GbE via Marvell PHY 88E1121

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• Supports WOL and PXE

• Two RJ-45 ports with LEDs

Integrated SATA Controllers

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Three Integrated dual port SATA

Controllers from NFP3600

• Supports up to 6 SATA drives

• Supports up to 3.0Gb/s

• Supports 4 independent SATA ports

• Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, JBOD-

Integrated Video Controller

ATI ES1000

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• PCI Interface

• 32MB DDR memory

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. There you can find

• Supporting RAID 0 (Integrated
Stripping), RAID 1E (Integrated
Enchanced Mirroring) and RAID 1
(Integrated Mirroring)

System Management

CPU thermal & voltage monitor

•

support

• Six 4-pin fan header (PWM and

tachometer support)

• One 2-pin chassis intrusion header

• Watchdog timer support

Expansion Slots

Two PCI Express x 16 slots

•

- one with x16 signal

- one with x8 signal

• One HTX-pro connector

- supports Pathscale InfiniPath HTX

Adapter

• One OPMA connector for KVM

Form Factor

•

SSI / Extended ATX (12” x 13”)

• EPS 12V/SSI (24 + 8 + 4 pin) power

connectors

• Stacked PS/2 keyboard and mouse

connectors

• Stacked Serial (1) connector

• Stacked VGA (1) connector

• Stacked USB 2.0 (2)

• Stacked RJ-45 (2) connectors for GbE

LAN

• Stacked RJ-45 (1) connector for

OPMA

BIOS

• Phoenix BIOS on 8Mbit LPC Flash

ROM

• Supports ACPI (S0, S1, S3, S4, S5)

• Serial Console Redirect

• PXE via Ethernet, USB device boot

• PnP, DMI 2.0, WfM 2.0 Power

Management

• User-configurable H/W monitoring

• Auto-configuration of hard disk types

• Multiple boot options

• 48-bit LBA support

Regulatory

• FCC Class B (DoC)

• European Community CE (DoC)

• BSMI (optional)

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Chapter 2: Board Installation

Precautions: The Thunder n3600R supports SSI, EPS12V type power supplies

(24pin + 8pin +4pin) and will not operate with any other types. For proper po wer
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 n3600R (S2912WG2NR) Block Diagram

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Thunder n3600R (S2912G2NR) 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




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

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Jumper/Connector Function

CPU_FAN1/CPU_FAN2 CPU FAN Connector
SYSFAN1/2/3/4/5/6/7 FAN Connector
IPMB (J14) IPMB Connector
COM2 (J95) COM2 Header

FRNTUSB0_1 (J2)
FRNTUSB2_3 (J3)

USB Pin Header

FRNTUSB4_5 (J4)
J26 (TYFP) Front Panel Header

J113 LCD Model Pin Header
JP1*

SAS Disable Jumper (for S2912WG2NR

only)

JP2 OPMA Card Select Jumper
JP3 Clear CMOS Jumper
J15/J111 Reserved for Barebone

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SYSFAN6

SYSFAN5

CPU_FAN1

SYSFAN7

CPU_FAN2

SYSFAN3

SYSFAN4

SYSFAN1

SYSFAN2

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CPU_FAN1/2 and SYSFAN1/2/3/4: 4-pin Fan Connector with Speed

Control

1

GND

+12V
Tachometer

PWM

Use these headers to connect the cooling fans to
the motherboard to keep the system stable and
reliable.

This connector supports the tachometer monitoring
and auto fan speed control.

Pin 1 Pin 2 Pin 3 Pin 4

GND +12V Tachometer PWM

SYSFAN5/6: 3-pin Fan Connector

GND

+12V

Tach om ete

Use these headers to connect the cooling fans to
the motherboard to keep the system stable and
reliable.

This connector supports the tachometer monitoring.

1

Pin 1 Pin 2 Pin 3

Tachometer +12V GND

SYSFAN7: 4-pin CPU Fan Connector

Use these headers to connect cooling fans to the
motherboard to keep the system stable and
reliable.

Pin 1 Pin 2 Pin 3 Pin 4

GND +12V NC NC

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IPMB (J14

FRNTUSB4_5
(J4)

FRNTUSB0_1
(J2)

J26
(TYFP)

FRNTUSB2_3
(J3)

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IPMB (J14): IPMB Connector

1

Pin 1 IPMB

Pin 2 GND

DATA

Pin 3 IPMB

Pin 4 NC

CLK

J2/J3/J4: USB Front Panel Header

J2/J4

2 10

Use this header to connect to front panel USB

connector.

1 9

J3

9

10 2

Signal Pin Pin Signal

VCC 1 2 VCC
DATA- 3 4 DATA­DATA+ 5 6 DATA+

GND 7 8 GND

KEY 9 10 NA

J26 (TYFP): Front Panel Header

The motherboard provides one front panel header for electrical connection to
the front panel switches and LED’s.

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1

18

2

SMBUIS_CLK

VDD_5_STBY

SMBUS_DATA

VCC

EXT_NMI_BTN_L

Reset SW-

HDD LED-

Reset SW+

HDD LED+

17 15 13 11 9

18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2

Key

GND

INTRUDER_L

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GND

7 5 3 1

PWR SW-

FAULT_LED_L_L

PWR SW+

Power LED-

Power LED+

COM2

(J95)

J113

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COM2 (J95): COM2 Header

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Use these pin definitions to connect a port to COM2.

*TYAN does not provide cable for this header. It is designed for OEM
use only

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J113: LCD Model Pin Header

Pin Signal Pin Signal

1 DCD 2 DSR
3 RXD 4 RTS
5 TXD 6 CTS
7 DTR 8 RI
9 GND 10 NA

2 6

1

Pin Signal Pin Signal

1 +5V 2 SIN
3 Key 4 GND­5 +5Vsb 6 SOUT

J15: TYAN Front Panel 2 for Barebone (reserved)

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1

Pin Signal Pin Signal

1 VDD_3P3_DUAL 2 P0_LED
3 VDD_3P3_DUAL 4 P1_LED

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2

5 VDD_3P3_DUAL 6 M_LAN_ACT_L
7 FP_ID_LED_PW 8 GND
9 IDLED_IN 10 GND
11 NC 12 KEY

FP_ID_LED_PW: Use to turn on and turn off ID LED
IDLED_IN: Use to help identify a system for servicing

when it is installed within a high density rack or cabinet
that is populated with several other similar systems. The
first press of the ID Switch will turn on the LED, and the
second press will turn off ID LED.

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JP2

JP3

JP1

J111

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J111: Fan Connector for Barebone (reserved)

2 1

Pin Signal Pin Signal

1 CPUFAN0_TACH 2 CPUFAN2_TACH
3 CPUFAN1_TACH 4 CPUFAN3_TACH

1 13

5 SYSFAN0_TACH 6 CPU_FAN_TACH2
7 SYSFAN1_TACH 8 SYSFAN5_TACH
9 NC 10 NC
11 GND 12 KEY
13 GND 14 CPUFAN0_PWM

JP1: SAS Disable Jumper (for S2912WG2NR only)

1

1

Open: Enable SAS Controller (Default)

Closed: Disable SAS Controller

JP2: OPMA Card Supporting Select Jumper

1

1

Open: Use other OPMA card

Closed: Use TYAN OPMA card (Default)

JP3: Clear CMOS Jumper

1

3

Normal

(Default)

1

3

Clear

Use this jumper when you have forgotten your
system/setup password or need to clear the system
BIOS settings.

How to clear the CMOS data

- Power off system and disconnect the power

supply from the AC source

- Use jumper cap to close Pin 2 and 3 for several
seconds to Clear CMOS

- Replace jumper cap to close Pin 1 and 2
Reconnect the power supply to the AC source

- Power on system

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2.4 - Tips on Installing Motherboard in Chassis

Before installing your motherboard, make sure your chassis has the
necessary motherboard support studs installed. These studs are usually
metal and are gold in color. Usually, the chassis manufacturer will pre-install
the support studs. If you are unsure of stud placement, simply lay the
motherboard inside the chassis and align the screw holes of the
motherboard to the studs inside the case. If there are any studs missing,
you will know right away since the motherboard will not be able to be
securely installed.

Some chassis’ include plastic studs instead of metal. Although the plastic
studs are usable, TYAN recommends using metal studs with screws that will
fasten the motherboard more securely in place.

Below is a chart detailing what the most common motherboard studs look
like and how they should be installed.

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2.5 - Installing the Processor(s)

Your S2912 supports the latest processor technologies from AMD. Check the
TYAN website for latest processor support:

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Figure 1. Detailed View of the Thermal Solution AMD PIB Platforms based
on the AMD Socket F Processor

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Back plate Assembly

S2912 follows AMD 1U/2S CPU keep out zoon spec, please use 1U RevF back
plate on S2912, the distance of two mounting hole use to lock the CPU heatsink
is 4.1 inch. The back plate is mounted on the backside of the motherboard and
enhances local stiffness to support shock and vibration loads acting on the heat
sink. The back plate assembly prevents excessive motherboard stress in the
area near the processor. Without a back plate, excessive stress could cause
serious damage to electrical connections of the processor socket and integrated
circuit packages surrounding the processor. The back plate also serves as a
reinforcement plate for the LGA socket.

While doing the installation, be careful in holding the components. Follow these
instructions to install your back plate:

1. Remove the release liner from the back plate.

2. Align the PEM nuts on the back plate to the holes on the reverse side
of the PCB.

3. First, insert the taller upper & lower middle PEM nuts through the
holes of the PCB. The remaining four shorter PEM nuts should
automatically fit the 4 holes on the PCB as shown in the following
pictures.

Let 2 upper &
lower-middle PEM
nuts pass
through the
holes.

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4 PEM nuts
should fit 4 holes.

4. Locate four screw holes on socket and screw the socket to the PCB
board.

NOTE: Do not assemble CPU before securing socket with screws.

5. Inspect Socket F assembly to PCB. The Socket F must be tightly
attached onto the PCB. There must NOT be any gap between stand
off the PCB.

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