Transport GT24 B2881 Product Manual
Table Of Contents
- Chapter1Overview.pdf
- Chapter2Setting Up.pdf
- Memory Slots
- CPU Sockets
- Chapter 2: Setting Up
- 2.0.1 Before You Begin
- 2.0.2 Work Area
- 2.0.3 Tools
- 2.0.4 Precautions
- 2.1 Rack Mounting
- 2.1.1 Installing the Server in a Rack
- 1. Screw the mounting ear to each side of Transport GT24 as shown using 2 screws from the supplied screws kit.
- 2. Draw out the inner rails from rail assembly. Install inner rails to left and right sides of chassis using 2 M4-5L(D) screws for each side.
- 3. Measure the distance between inner side of the front and rear mounting brackets in the rack.
- 4. Locate the front and rear brackets.
- 5. Reserve 90mm for GT20 or 40mm for GT24 on the front bracket. Secure the front bracket to outer rail with 2 M4- 4L(C) screws.
- 6. Reserve the distance same as in Step 2 on rear bracket. Secure the rear bracket to outer rail with 2 M4-4L(C) screws.
- 7. Secure the outer rail to the rack using 2 brackets and 4 M4-8L(E) screws for each side (A). Secure the mounting brackets from inside, not outside, of the rack (B).
- 8. Draw out the middle rail to the latch position.
- 9. Lift the chassis and then insert the inner slide rails into the middle rails.
- 10. Push the chassis in and press the latch key (A). Then push the whole system into the rack (B).
- 11. Secure the mounting ears of chassis to the rack with 2 M4-15L(F) screws.
- 2.1.1 Installing the Server in a Rack
- 2.2 Installing Motherboard Components
- 2.2.1 Removing the Chassis Cover
- 2.2.2 Installing the CPU, Heatsink and Air Duct
- 1. After removing the pre-installed air duct, locate the CPU sockets.
- 2. Pull the CPU lever up to unlock the CPU socket.
- 3. Place the CPU in the CPU socket, ensuring that pin 1 is located as shown in the following illustration.
- 4. Press the CPU socket lever down in the direction shown to secure the CPU.
- 5. Align the heatsink screw holes with the holes on the motherboard and insert two heatsink screws as shown.
- 6. Replace the air duct over the heatsink and secure the heatsink with two screws.
- 2.2.3 Installing the Memory
- 1. Locate the memory slots on the motherboard.
- 2. Press the memory slot locking levers in the direction of the arrows as shown in the following illustration.
- 3. Align the memory module with the slot. The module has indentations that align with notches in the slots.
- 4. Insert the memory module into the slot as shown.
- 2.2.4 Installing a PCI-X Card
- 2.3 Installing the Hard Drive for B2881G24S4-LC
- 2.4 Installing the Hard Drive for B2881G24S4H/U4H
- 1. Press the locking lever latch in the direction of arrow (A) and then pull the locking lever open (B).
- 2. Slide the drive tray out.
- 3. Place a hard drive into the drive tray.
- 4. Using 4 HDD screws to secure the HDD.
- 5. Reinsert the drive tray into the chassis (A), ensuring that the drive tray is completely inserted into the chassis (B).
- 6. Pressing the locking lever to secure the hard drive tray.
- 2.5 Installing the Slim FDD (Option)
- 1. Locate the two FDD rails and screws from the FDD kit. Secure the two rails to FDD using four screws.
- 2. Connect the FDD backplane to FDD using 2 screws.
- 3. Connect the FFC cable to FDD.
- 4. Using a screw driver to pull open the door of FDD tray.
- 5. Insert FDD module into the tray.
- 6. Locate the FDD cable from FDD kit. Connect the wrinkle side to the connector on floppy slot. Refer to the picture below for the correct direction. Then, connect the power cable of FDD to the connector on floppy slot.
- 7. Connect the other side to the connector on motherboard.
- 2.6 Installing the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM (for B2881G24S4-LC only)
- 1. Use a screw driver to pull open the door of CD-ROM drive bay.
- 2. Before connecting the CD-ROM backplane to CD_ROM drive, first connect the two white buffers to the backplane with 2 screws (A). Then, secure the CD-ROM backplane to CD-ROM drive with 2 screws provided (B).
- 3. Insert the CD-ROM drive into the chassis
- 4. Connect the CD-ROM power and data cables.
- Chapter3Replacing.pdf
- Chapter 3: Replacing Pre-Installed Components
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Disassembly Flowchart
- 3.3 Removing the Cover
- 3.4 Replacing Motherboard Components
- 3.5 Replacing the LED Control Board
- 1. Remove the 2 screws securing the LED control board to the chassis.
- 2. Pull the LED control board free from the chassis as shown below.
- 3. Unplug the front panel ribbon cable from the connector.
- 4. Unplug the USB cable from the connector.
- 5. Remove the three screws securing the LED control board to the bracket
- 6. Release the LED control board from the chassis. After replacement, insert and secure the unit to the chassis following the reverse procedures from step 1~5.
- 3.6 Replacing the M1012 Adapter Board
- 1. Remove all the cables connected to the adapter board, including front panel, USB, LAN, power and five fan cables.
- 2. Remove the five screws to release the adapter board. Refer to page 49 for the location.
- 3.6.1 M1012 Adapter Board Features
- 3.6.2 M1012 Adapter Board Connector Pin Definition
- 3.6.3 System Fan Layout
- 3.7 Replacing the SATA or SCSI Backplane
- 1. Remove the 3 screws securing the adapter board to the chassis.
- 2. Grab the two lables to lift the adapter board.
- 3. Remove the ten screws that secure the bracket to the adapter board.
- 4. Release the adapter board free from the bracket.
- 5. Replace the unit to the chassis following the reverse procedures from step 1 to 4 after done.
- 3.7.1 S-ATA Backplane (M1204) Features
- 3.7.2 SCSI Backplane (M1205) Features
- 3.8 Replacing the Power Supply
- Chapter 3: Replacing Pre-Installed Components
- Appendix.pdf
- Appendix I: BIOS Differences
- Appendix II: Cable Connection Tables
- Table 1: B2881G24S4-LC Model
- Table 2: System Fan to M1012 Adapter Board
- Table 3: M1012 Adapter Board to Motherboard
- Table 4: Power Supply to Motherboard
- Table 5: Power Supply to M1012 Adapter Board
- Table 6: M1012 Adapter Board to Motherboard
- Table 7: M1003 Front Panel Control Board Related Cable
- Table 8: Chassis Intrusion Cable
- Table 9: FDD Related Cable (Option)
- Table 10: CD-ROM Related Cable (Option)
- Technical Support
- Appendix II: Cable Connection Tables
- Appendix I: BIOS Differences

Chapter 1: Overview 3
1.3 Features
Enclosure
• Industry 19” rack-mountable 1U
chassis storage bay
– (4) 3.5” HDD bays
– (1) slim line CD-ROM bay
– (1) slim line FDD bay
• Dimension: D 25.4 x W 17.17 x H
1.71 inch (645x436x43.6mm)
Processors
• Supports one or two AMD Opter-
on
TM
200 series processors
Chipset
• AMD-8131 Hyper Transport PCI-X
tunnel
• AMD-8111 Hyper Transport I/O hub
• Winbond W83627HF super I/O chip
• ADT7463 Hardware Monitor IC
Memory
• Eight 184-pin 2.5-Volt DDR DIMM
sockets
• Supports up to 16GB of Registered,
ECC DDR400/333 memory
Expansion Slots
• Two 64-bit 133/100MHz (3.3V) PCI-
X slots supporting low profile and
standard card
Back I/O Ports
• One keyboard & one PS/2 mouse
ports
• Two RJ45 10/100/1000 Base-T port
with activity LED
• Two USB 2.0 ports
• One 9-pin UART serial port
• One 15-pin VGA port
Front Panel Features
• I/O
– (2) USB 2.0 ports
• LED indicators
– Power LED
– (2) LAN LEDs
– HDD active LED
• Switches
– Power switch
– Reset switch
Networking
• (2) Gigabit Ethernet ports (Broad-
com BCM5704 dual port controller)
connected to 133MHz PCI-X bus
Video
• ATI RAGE XL PCI graphics control-
ler
• 8MB Frame Buffer of video memory
Integrated Storage Controller
• Model B2881G24S4H/S4-LC
– Dual channel IDE
– Silicon Image Sil3114 SATA
RAID controller, RAID 0,1, and
10 support
• Model B2881G24U4H
– Adaptec AIC-7902N dual-chan-
nel U320 SCSI
– SO-DIMM ZCR support
Storage
• SATA version, supports up to 4
internal SATA-1 HDDs
• Optional slim CD-ROM, DVD-ROM
and FDD
Motherboard
• Tyan Thunder K8SRE S2881G2NR-
BB
• E-ATX footprint (13” x 12”)
BIOS
• AMI BIOS 8.0 on 4Mbit LPC flash
ROM
• PnP, DMI2.0, WfM2.0 power man-
agement
• Power management S1, S4 and S5
support
• ACPI 1.0b & 2.0 support
Server Management
• Automatic fan speed control
• Chassis intrusion alert
• Support Tyan Servr Management
(TSM)
• Tyan SMDC* IMPI 1.5 compliant
*remote server management kit
(option)