Turning off your system

32

4 Upgrading your system

33

Installation precautions

35

ESD precautions

35

Preinstallation instructions

35

Post-installation instructions

36

Opening your system

37

Removing the system cover

37

Replacing the system cover

38

System boards

39

Mainboard layout

39

SCSI card layout

42

Adaptec ZCR daughter card layout

42

Installing an expansion card

44

Hot-swapping a SCSI SCA hard disk drive

47

Removing and installing the CPU

50

Removing the CPU

50

Installing the CPU

51

Removing and installing memory modules

53

Removing a DIMM

53

Installing a DIMM

54

5 Setup utility

57

BIOS Setup utility

59

Entering Setup

60

System Information

62

Product Information

64

Disk Drives

65

IDE Channel Type

66

Onboard Peripherals

69

Power Management

71

Boot Options

74

Date and Time

76

System Security

77

Setting and changing the password

79

Removing a password

80

IPMI Configuration

81

RDM Configuration

84

Advanced Options

87

Memory/Cache Options

87

PnP/PCI Options

89

CPU Frequency

92

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