User Guide

Vertical mounting hole pattern 25
Screw types used 26
Installing cage nuts 27
Installing the system into the rack 28
3 Upgrading your
system 31
Installation precautions 34
ESD precautions 34
Preinstallation instructions 34
Post-installation instructions 35
Opening your system 36
Removing the system cover 36
Replacing the system cover 37
System boards 38
Mainboard layout 38
IDE RAID / ATA controller jumper (JP2) 40
Clear CMOS jumper (JP3) 41
VGA interrupt jumper (JP5) 41
Power on circuit jumper (JP10) 41
BIOS restore jumper (JP11) 41
Internal cabling 42
System board 42
Hard disk cabling 45
Installing an expansion card 46
Removing/installing a board 46
Accessible drives 48
IDE disk drive 48
Installing/removing hard disks 48
Changing the floppy disk drive 53
Changing the CD-ROM drive 55
Removing and installing the CPU 57
Removing and installing the CPU fan module 58
Removing and installing the rear chassis blowers 59
4 BIOS Setup utility 61
BIOS Setup utility 63
Entering Setup 64
System Information 66
Product Information 68
Disk Drives 69
IDE Channel Type 70
Onboard Peripherals 73
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