User Guide

Vertical mounting hole pattern 31
Screw types used 32
Installing cage nuts 33
Installing the system into the rack 34
3 Upgrading your system 39
Installation precautions 41
ESD precautions 41
Preinstallation instructions 41
Post-installation instructions 42
Opening your system 43
Removing the system cover 43
Replacing the system cover 44
System boards 45
Mainboard layout 45
SCSI backplane board layout 48
Adaptec Raptor RAID card 48
Installing the Raptor RAID card 49
Installing an expansion card 50
Hot-swapping a SCSI SCA hard disk drive 54
Removing and installing the CPU 57
Removing the CPU 57
Installing the CPU 58
Removing and installing memory modules 60
Removing a DIMM 60
Installing a DIMM 61
4 BIOS Setup utility 63
BIOS Setup utility 65
Entering Setup 66
System Information 68
Product Information 70
Disk Drives 71
IDE Channel Type 72
Onboard Peripherals 75
Power Management 77
Boot Options 80
Date and Time 82
System Security 83
Setting and changing the password 85
Removing a password 86
IPMI Configuration 87
RDM Configuration 90
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