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Chapter 1: Instruction

1.00 – Congratulations

You are now the owner of the ideal solution for rackmount servers. Tyan S2937
supports Dual AMD Opteron 2000 series processors, up to 64G
Registered/ECC memories, 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports, one IDE connector, 6
Serial ATA-II (SATA) connectors, 8 SAS connectors and 2 USB ports. S2937
offers exceptional performance for your server platform needs.
Remember to visit TYAN’s Website at http://www.TYAN.com. There you can
find information on all of TYAN’s products with FAQs, online manuals and BIOS
upgrades.

1.01 – Hardware Specifications

Processors
- Dual 1207-pin sockets
- Supports up to 2 x AMD Opteron
Rev.F 2000 series Dual-core / Quad-
core processors.
- Up to 1.0GHz Hyper-Transport link
support
- AMD Dual Dynamic Power support
Chipset
- nVidia NFP3600 (MCP55)
- Winbond 83627HG Super I/O chip
- Analog Devices ADT7476 Hardware
Monitoring IC
Memory
- Dual-channel memory bus
- (16) 240-pin DDR2 DIMM sockets (8
per CPU)
- Supports registered, ECC DIMMs
- 64GB maximum of DDR2 667 / 533 /
400 memory
Expansion Slots
- (2) PCI-E x16 slots (w/ x8 signal)
- (1) PCI-E x16 slot (w/ x4 signal)
- (1) OPMA connector support M3
OPMA card
Integrated Serial ATA II Controller
- Supports (6) SATA-II ports
- Supports up to 3.0Gb/s
- Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5
System Management
- (9) 4-pin fan headers
- CPU temperature & voltage monitor
support
- Watchdog timer support
Integrated SAS Controller
- LSI® 1068E SAS controller with PCI-
E x4 interface
- Supports (8) SAS/SATA ports
- RAID 0, 1 and 1E support
Integrated LAN Controller
- Intel “Ophir” (82571EB) Gigabit
Ethernet Controller
- (2) 10/100/1000 LAN ports
Server Management
- OPMA card support M3
- TYAN M3295-2