User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Safety information
- Chapter 1: Product Introduction
- Chapter 2: Hardware Setup
- Chapter 3: Motherboard Information
- Chapter 4: BIOS Setup
- 4.1 Knowing BIOS
- 4.2 BIOS setup program
- 4.3 My Favorites
- 4.4 Main menu
- 4.5 Ai Tweaker menu
- 4.6 Advanced menu
- 4.6.1 CPU Configuration
- 4.6.2 Platform Misc Configuration
- 4.6.3 PCH-FW Configuration
- 4.6.4 System Agent (SA) Configuration
- 4.6.5 PCH Configuration
- 4.6.6 PCH Storage Configuration
- 4.6.7 USB Configuration
- 4.6.8 Network Stack Configuration
- 4.6.9 Onboard Devices Configuration
- 4.6.10 APM Configuration
- 4.6.11 HDD/SSD SMART Information
- 4.7 Monitor menu
- 4.8 Boot menu
- 4.9 Tool menu
- 4.10 Exit menu
- 4.11 Updating BIOS
- Chapter 5: RAID Configuration
- 5.1 RAID configurations
- 5.1.1 RAID definitions
- 5.1.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks
- 5.1.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS
- 5.1.4 Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise SATA Option ROM Utility
- 5.1.5 Creating a RAID set
- 5.1.6 Deleting a RAID set
- 5.1.7 Resetting disks to Non-RAID
- 5.1.8 Exiting the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise SATA Option ROM utility
- 5.1.9 Rebuilding the RAID
- 5.1.10 Setting the Boot array in the BIOS Setup Utility
- 5.2 Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise (Windows)
- 5.1 RAID configurations
- Chapter 6: Driver Installation
- Appendix
ASUS ESC500 G4
1-3
1.3 ESC500 G4 specifications summary
The ASUS ESC500 G4 is a workstation featuring the ASUS P10S WS server board.
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Processor / System Bus
1 x Socket LGA1151
Intel
®
Xeon
®
E3-1200 v6/v5 Processor Family
Intel
®
7
th
/6
th
Generation Core™ i7/i5/i3 processors
Intel
®
Pentium™ processors
Intel
®
Celeron™ processors
Core Logic
Intel
®
C236 Chipset
Memory
Total Slots
4 (2-channel per CPU, 4 DIMM per CPU)
Capacity
Maximum up to 64GB (UDIMM)
Memory Type
4 x DIMM, Max 64GB, DDR4 2400/2133 MHz, ECC/
non-ECC UDIMM
* Refer to ASUS server AVL for the latest update
Memory Size
1 GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB (UDIMM)
Expansion
Slots
Total PCI/PCI-X
/PCI-E Slots
4
Slot Type
PCIEX16_1: PCI-E x16 slot, x16/ x8 Gen3 Link
PCIEX16_2: PCI-E x16 slot, x8 Gen3 Link, switched from PCIEX16_1
PCIEX16_3: PCI-E x16 slot, x4 Gen3 Link, from PCH
PCIEX16_4: PCI-E x16 slot, x4 Gen3 Link, from PCH
Disk
Controller
SATA
Controller
Intel
®
C236 Chipset:
8 x SATA 6Gb/s ports or 6 * SATA 6Gb/s with 2* M.2 (SATA 6Gb/s &
PCIe Gen3 x1 link, NGFF 22110/2280/2260/2242)
Intel
®
RSTe (Windows & Linux)
(Support software RAID 0, 1, 10 & 5)
Storage
Bays
I = internal
A or S will be
hot-swappable
3 x Internal 3.5" HDD Bays
1 x Internal 2.5" HDD/SSD Bays
Networking
LAN
2 x Intel
®
I210 GbE LAN
Graphic
VGA
Integrated Graphics Processor x 1
Multi-VGA output support: DVI-D/HDMI/DisplayPort/VGA
- Supports DVI-D with Max resolution 1920 x 1200@60 Hz
- Supports HDMI with Max resolution 4096 x 2160@60/24 Hz
- Supports DisplayPort with Max resolution 4096 x 2304@60 Hz
- Supports VGA with Max resolution 1920 x 1200@60 Hz
- Supports Intel
®
HD Graphics, InTru™ 3D, Quick Sync Video, Clear
Video HD Technology, Insider™
- Maximum shared memory of 512MB
Auxiliary Storage Device
Bay (Floppy / Optical
Drive)
2 x 5.25" media bays
(Options:
DVD-ROM/DVD-RW
)