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Hard disk drives 2-21 2.8.1 Removing a SATA HDD 2-21 2.8.2 Installing a SATA HDD 2-22 Expansion cards 2-23 2.9.1 Installing an expansion card 2-23 2.9.2 Removing an expansion card 2-25 Cable connections 2-26 2.10.1 Motherboard connections 2-26 Removable components 2-27 2.11.1 Chassis fan 2-27 2.11.2 Floppy disk drive 2-29 2.11.3 Front I/O board 2-31 2.11.4 Power supply unit 2-33...
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6.1 RAID driver installation 6-2 6.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk 6-2 6.1.2 Installing the RAID controller driver 6-3
6.2 LAN driver installation 6-12 6.2.1 Windows® 2000/2003 Server 6-12 6.2.2 Red Hat® Enterprise ver. 3.0 6-13
6.3 Management applications and utilities installation 6-15 6.3.1 Running the support CD 6-15 6.3.2 Drivers menu 6-15 6.3.3 Management Software menu...
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... hard disk drives as RAID sets. 6. Chapter 6: Driver installation This chapter provides information on how to create a RAID set and how to install the drivers for system components. This chapter also describes the software applications that the barebone server supports. 7. Appendix: Reference information This section provides information about the power supply unit and a troubleshooting guide for...
User Guide - Page 30
...2.5.2 Configuring an expansion card
After installing the expansion card, configure it by adjusting the software settings:
1. Turn on the system and change the necessary BIOS settings, if any. 2. Assign an IRQto 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 "Shared IRQ" or...
User Guide - Page 65
... ATA signal cables to Serial ATA hard disk drives.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and software RAID 5 configuration using the Intel® Matrix Storage Technology or RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 configuration using the LSI MegaRAID® utility embedded on the Intel® ICH7R Southbridge. (The server only support two HDD to using RAID...
User Guide - Page 74
... disk drive.
A:\>afudos /iP5MT-MX.ROM AMI Firmware Update Utility - Version 1.19(ASUS V2.07(03.11.24BB)) Copyright (C) 2002 American Megatrends, Inc. All rights reserved.
WARNING!! Do not turn off power during flash BIOS Reading file ....... done Reading flash ...... done
Advance Check ...... Erasing flash ...... done Writing flash ...... done Verifying flash .... done Please restart your computer...
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... an updated BIOS file • Update the BIOS directly from the Internet • View the BIOS version information. This utility is available in the support CD that comes with the motherboard package.
ASUS Update requires an Internet connection either through a network or an Internet Service Provider (ISP).
Installing ASUS Update
To install ASUS Update:
1. Place the support CD in the optical drive...
User Guide - Page 79
... the Windows® desktop by clicking S t a r t > P r o g r a m s > A S U S > A S U S U p d a t e > A S U S U p d a t e. The ASUS Update main window appears.
2. Select Update BIOS from a file option from the drop-down menu, then click N e x t.
3. Locate the BIOS file from the O p e n window, then click S a v e. 4. Follow the screen instructions to complete the update process.
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... 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 firmware hub.
The firmware hub on the motherboard stores the Setup utility. When you start up the computer, the system provides you...
User Guide - Page 108
... access and storage. Use of two new identical hard disk drives is required for this setup.
RAID 1 (Data mirroring) copies and maintains an identical image of data from one drive to a second drive. If one drive fails, the disk array management software directs all applications to the surviving drive as it contains a complete copy of the data in the other drive. This RAID configuration provides...
User Guide - Page 134
... driver Disk E) Create ICH7R Intel Matrix Storage for Windows 64 bit driver Disk F) Write TS100-E3/P12 FRu
6. Place a blank, high-density floppy disk to the floppy disk drive, then select the type of RAID driver disk you want to create by typing the number before the option
7. Press . 8. Follow screen instructions to create the driver disk.
For systems with Red Hat® Enterprise versions that...
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... OS: 1. Boot the computer using the Windows® 2000/2003 Server installation CD. The W i n d o w s® 2 0 0 0 / 2 0 0 3 S e t u p starts.
2. Press when the message "P r e s s F 6 i f y o u n e e d t o i n s t a l l a t h i r d p a r t y S C S I o r R A I D d r i v e r . . ." appears at the bottom of the screen.
3. When prompted, press to specify an additional device.
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4. Insert the RAID driver disk you created earlier to the floppy disk drive, then press .
5. Select the RAID controller driver from the list, then press .
6. The Windows® 2000/2003 Setup loads the RAID controller drivers from the RAID driver disk. When prompted, press to continue installation.
7. Setup then proceeds with the OS installation. Follow screen instructions to continue.
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8. Insert the RAID driver disk you created earlier to the floppy disk drive.
9. Select the option "S e a r c h f o r a s u i t a b l e d r i v e r f o r m y d e v i c e ( r e c o m m e n d e d ), then click N e x t.
10. The wizard searches the RAID controller drivers. When found, click N e x t to install the drivers.
11. Click F i n i s h after the driver installation is done.
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To verify the RAID controller driver installation: 1. Right-click the M y C o m p u t e r icon on the Windows® desktop , then
select P r o p e r t i e s from the menu. 2. Click the H a r d w a r e tab, then click the D e v i c e M a n a g e r button. 3. Click the "+" sign before the item S C S I a n d R A I D c o n t r o l l e r s.
4. Right-click the RAID controller driver item, then select P...
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4. When prompted, insert the RAID driver disk to the floppy disk drive, then press .
5. When prompted, select the floppy disk drive (fd0) as the driver update medium, select OK, then press .
The drivers for the RAID controller are installed to the system.
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6.2 LAN driver installation
This section provides instructions on how to install the Broadcom® Gigabit LAN controller drivers.
6.2.1 Windows® 2000/2003 Server
To install the Broadcom® Gigabit LAN controller driver on a Windows® 2000/ 2003 Server OS:
1. Restart the computer, then log on with A d m i n i s t r a t o r privileges. 2. Insert the motherboard/system support CD to the...
User Guide - Page 145
... -bb SPECS/bcm5700.spec or rpmbuild -bb SPECS/ bcm5700.spec
The RPM path is different for different Linux distributions.
3. Install the newly built package (driver and main page):
rpm -ivh RPMS/i386/bcm5700-.i386.rpm
You need the force option when installing the driver on some distributions that has an older version of the driver.
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... the support CD to locate the file ASSETUP.EXE from the BIN folder. Doubleclick the A S S E T U P . E X E to run the CD.
6.3.2 Drivers menu
The D r i v e r s menu shows the available device drivers if the system detects installed devices. Install the necessary drivers to activate the devices.
The screen display and driver options vary under different operating system versions.
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...Click on an item to install.
6.3.4 Utilities menu
The U t i l i t i e s menu displays the software applications and utilities that the motherboard supports. Click on an item to install.
6.3.5 Contact information
Click the C o n t a c t tab to display the ASUS contact information. You can also find this information on the inside front cover of this user guide.
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