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... Installing an ASUS PIKE RAID card 2-20 2.5.11 Installing i Button 2-21 2.5.12 Installing ASMB4 management board 2-21 2.5.13 Connect Thermal sensor cable 2-22 2.5.14 Installing the audio card 2-22 2.6 Jumpers 2-23 2.7 Connectors 2-27 2.7.1 Rear panel connectors 2-27 2.7.2 Internal connectors 2-28
Chapter 3: Powering up 3.1 Starting up for the first time 3-3 3.2 Powering off the computer...
User Manual - Page 6
...174; Matrix Storage Manager 5-32
5.3.7 Rebuilding the RAID 5-32
5.3.8 Setting the Boot array in the BIOS Setup Utility 5-34
Chapter 6: Driver installation 6.1 RAID driver installation 6-3
6.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk 6-3 6.1.2 Installing the RAID controller driver 6-6 6.2 Intel® chipset device installation 6-19 6.3 LAN driver installation 6-21 6.4 VGA driver installation 6-24...
User Manual - Page 9
... on the motherboard.
• Chapter 3: Powering up This chapter describes the power up sequence and ways of shutting down the system.
• Chapter 4: BIOS setup This chapter tells how to change system settings through the BIOS Setup menus. Detailed descriptions of the BIOS parameters are also provided.
• Chapter 5: RAID configuration
This chapter provides instructions for setting up...
User Manual - Page 12
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SATA Controller
SAS Controller
LAN VGA PSU Connector USB Connectors Fan Header SMBus Chassis Intruder Serial Port Header External Serial Port External USB Port VGA Port RJ-45 PS/2 KB/Mouse Software Out of Band Remote Management CPU Temperature FAN RPM
Intel® 3420: 6* SATA2 300MB/s portsIntel Matrix Storage utility supports software RAID 0, 1, 10 & 5 (Windows) LSI MegaRAID driver supports...
User Manual - Page 35
... BIOS setup.
2. Assign an IRQ to the card. Refer to the tables on the next page. 3. Install the software drivers for the expansion card.
When using PCI cards on shared slots, ensure that the drivers support "Share IRQ" or that the cards do not need IRQ assignments. Otherwise, conflicts will arise between the two PCI groups, making the system unstable and the card inoperable.
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User Manual - Page 65
... example, you can enable the security password feature or change the power management settings. This requires you to reconfigure your system using the BIOS Setup program so that the computer can recognize these changes and record them in the CMOS RAM of the LPC chip.
The LPC chip on the motherboard stores the Setup utility. When you start up the...
User Manual - Page 99
5.1 Setting up RAID
The motherboard comes with the Intel® 3420 controller that supports the following SATA RAID solutions:
• LSI MegaRAID software RAID Configuration Utility (default) with RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 10 support (for both Linux and Windows OS).
• Intel Matrix Storage Manager with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, and RAID 5 support (for Windows OS only).
5.1.1 RAID definitions...
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... the SATA hard disk drives.
2. During POST, the LSI MegaRAID software RAID configuration utility automatically detects the installed SATA hard disk drives and displays any existing RAID set(s). Press + to enter the utility.
LSI MegaRAID Software RAID BIOS Version A.09 04300936R
LSI SATA RAID Found at PCI Bus No: Dev No:1F
Device present at Port 0
ST3160812AS
152114MB
Device present at Port...
User Manual - Page 132
Chapter summary
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6.1 RAID driver installation 6-1 6.2 Intel chipset device software installation 6-19 6.3 LAN driver installation 6-21 6.4 VGA driver installation 6-24 6.5 Management application and utilities installation 6-26
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User Manual - Page 133
...provides instructions on how to install the RAID controller drivers during OS installation.
6.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk
The system does not include a floppy drive. You have to use a USB floppy drive when creating a SATA RAID driver disk.
If you have created RAID sets with the LSI Software RAID configuration utility, the boot priority of the SATA optical disk drive has to be manually adjusted...
User Manual - Page 134
...RAID Driver
PXH LSI RAID Driver Windows XP 32 bit Windows XP 64 bit Windows Server 2003 32 bit Windows Server 2008 64 bit Windows Vista 32 bit Windows Vista 64 bit Windows Server 2008 32 bit Windows...
6. Locate the RAID driver and place a blank, high-density floppy disk to the floppy disk drive.
7. Press .
8. Follow screen instructions to create the driver disk.
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Chapter 6: Driver installation
User Manual - Page 136
...of one or more mass storage devices installed in your system, or you have chosen to manually specify an adapter. Currently, Setup will load support for the following mass storage devices(s):
* To specify additional SCSI adapters, DVD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers for use with Windows, including those for which you have a device support disk from a mass storage device manufacturer, press...
User Manual - Page 137
... Upgrade Device Driver Wizard window appears. Click Next. 8. Insert the RAID driver disk you created earlier to the floppy disk drive. 9. Select the option Install the software automatically (Recommended), and
then click Next. 10. The wizard searches the RAID controller drivers. When found, click Next to
install the drivers. 11. Click Finish after the driver installation is done.
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To verify the RAID controller driver installation: 1. Right-click the My Computer icon on the Windows® desktop, and then select
Properties from the menu. 2. Click the Hardware tab, and then click the Device Manager button. 3. Click the "+" sign before the item SCSI and RAID controllers, and then the
Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO/PCH SATA RAID Controller item should appear.
The screen differs...
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... Yes using the key when asked if you have the driver disk, then press .
Main Menu
Do you have a driver disk?
Yes
No
5. Press to continue.
Insert Driver Disk
Insert your driver disk into /dev/sda and press "OK" to continue.
OK
Cancel
6. Select No and press to continue.
More Driver Disks?
Do you wish to load any more driver disks?
Yes
No
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...a driver disk, press F2.
LSI Logic Fusion MPT SPI Driver (mptspi) LSI MegaRAID Controllers (megaraid_mbox) LSI MegaRAID Controllers (megaraid_sas) LSI megasr Driver ver 13.10.0708.2009 (megasr) Marvell SATA controllers (sata_mv) Mylex DAC960 RAID Controller (DAC960)
[] Specify optional module arguments
OK
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The driver version may vary with time and model. Select LSI Mega Software RAID driver...
User Manual - Page 144
... RAID controller driver when installing�R��e�d�H��a�t® Enterprise OS:
1. Boot the system from the Red Hat® OS installation CD. 2. At the boot:, type linux dd noprobe=ata[n]. The number of ata varies with
the hard disk drive number you have when building a RAID set. For example, if you want to build a RAID set with 6 hard disk drives...
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... Options and press Enter to continue. 5. When below screen appears, select the floppy disk drive (fd0) as the driver update medium. Select OK, then press .
Please choose the Driver Update medium.
fd0: Floppy sr0: CD-ROM, TEAC DV-516E sda: Disk, SEAGATE ST336754SS sdb: Disk, SEAGATE ST336754SS Other device
OK
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The drivers for the RAID controller are installed to the system.
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... Restart the computer, then log on with Administrator privileges. 2. Insert the motherboard/system support DVD to the optical drive. The support
DVD automatically displays the Drivers menu if Autorun is enabled in your computer. 3. Click the item Intel Chipset Device Software from the menu.
4. The Intel(R) Chipset Device Software window appears. Click Next to start installation.
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6.3 LAN driver installation
This section provides instructions on how to install the Intel® Gigabit LAN controller drivers on a Windows® Server OS. To install the LAN controller drivers 1. Restart the computer, and then log on with Administrator privileges. 2. Insert the motherboard/system support DVD to the optical drive. The DVD
automatically displays the Drivers menu if Autorun is ...