Contents

2.5

5.25-inch or 3.5-inch drives.......................................................

2-14

 

2.5.1

Installing a 5.25-inch drive.............................................

2-14

 

2.5.2

Installing a 3.5-inch drive...............................................

2-15

2.6

SATA/SAS hard disk drives........................................................

2-16

 

2.6.1

Hot-swap HDD module..................................................

2-16

2.7

Expansion cards.........................................................................

2-20

 

2.7.1

Installing an expansion card..........................................

2-20

 

2.7.2

Installing ASUS PIKE RAID card...................................

2-21

 

2.7.3

Configuring an expansion card......................................

2-22

2.8

Cable connections......................................................................

2-23

 

2.8.1

Motherboard connections..............................................

2-23

 

2.8.2

SATA/SAS backplane connections ...............................

2-24

2.9

Removable components............................................................

2-26

 

2.9.1

System fan.....................................................................

2-26

 

2.9.2

Chassis footpads...........................................................

2-28

 

2.9.3

Power supply unit..........................................................

2-29

Chapter 3:Installation options

 

3.1

Preparing the system for rack mounting....................................

3-2

3.2

Attaching the inner rail to the server..........................................

3-2

3.3

Attaching the rails to the rack.....................................................

3-3

3.4

Mounting the server to the rack..................................................

3-4

Chapter 4:

Motherboard Info

 

4.1

Motherboard layout......................................................................

4-2

4.2

Jumpers

.........................................................................................

4-4

4.3

Internal connectors......................................................................

4-9

Chapter 5:BIOS setup

 

5.1

Managing and updating your BIOS.............................................

5-2

 

5.1.1

Creating a bootable floppy disk.......................................

5-2

 

5.1.2

AFUDOS utility................................................................

5-3

 

5.1.3

ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 utility.......................................

5-6

5.2

BIOS setup program.....................................................................

5-7

 

5.2.1

BIOS menu screen..........................................................

5-8

 

5.2.2

Menu bar.........................................................................

5-8

 

5.2.3

Navigation keys...............................................................

5-8

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