User manual ASUS RS120-E3

[. . . ] RS120-E3 (PA2) 1U Rackmount Barebone Server User Guide E2155 First Edition V1 September 2005 Copyright © 2005 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. No part of this manual, including the products and software described in it, may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means, except documentation kept by the purchaser for backup purposes, without the express written permission of ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ASUS provides this manual "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties or conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall ASUS, its directors, officers, employees, or agents be liable for any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages (including damages for loss of profits, loss of business, loss of use or data, interruption of business and the like), even if ASUS has been advised of the possibility of such damages arising from any defect or error in this manual or product. [. . . ] Press the Up/Down arrow keys or <Page Up> /<Page Down> keys to display the other items on the screen. Pop-up window Scroll bar 5. 2. 9 General help At the top right corner of the menu screen is a brief description of the selected item. ASUS RS120-E3 (PA2) 5-13 5. 3 Main menu When you enter the BIOS Setup program, the M a i n menu screen appears, giving you an overview of the basic system information. Refer to section "5. 2. 1 BIOS menu screen" for information on the menu screen items and how to navigate through them. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Boot Exit [11:10:19] [Thu 06/17/2005] [Disabled] Use [ENTER]. [TAB], or [SHIFT-TAB] to select a field. Use [+] or [-] to configure system time. Main Advanced Power System Time System Date Legacy Diskette A IDE Configuration System Information Select Screen Select Item +- Change Option F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit v02. 58 (C)Copyright 1985-2004, American Megatrends, Inc. 5. 3. 1 5. 3. 2 5. 3. 3 System Time [xx:xx:xx] System Date [Day xx/xx/xxxx] Legacy Diskette A [Disabled] Allows you to set the system time. Allows you to set the system date. Sets the type of floppy drive installed. Configuration options: [Disabled] [360K, 5. 25 in. ] [1. 2M , 5. 25 in. ] [720K , 3. 5 in. ] [1. 44M, 3. 5 in. ] [2. 88M, 3. 5 in. ] 5-14 Chapter 5: BIOS setup 5. 3. 4 IDE Configuration The items in this menu allow you to set or change the configurations for the IDE devices installed in the system. Select an item then press <Enter> if you want to configure the item. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main IDE Configuration ATA/IDE Configuration Configure SATA As Primary IDE Master Primary IDE Slave Secondary IDE Master Secondary IDE Slave Third IDE Master Third IDE Slave IDE Detect Time Out (Sec) : : : : : : [Enhanced] [IDE] [Not [Not [Not [Not [Not [Not [35] Detected] Detected] Detected] Detected] Detected] Detected] Options Disabled Compatible Enhanced Select Screen Select Item +- Change Option F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit v02. 58 (C)Copyright 1985-2004, American Megatrends, Inc. ATA/IDE Configuration [Enhanced] Allows selection of the IDE operation mode depending on the installed operating system (OS). Set to [Enhanced] mode if you are using native OS, e. g. Set to [Compatible] mode if you are using legacy OS, e. g. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Compatible] [Enhanced] The C o n f i g u r e S A T A A s and Third IDE Master/Slave items appear only when you set the ATA/IDE Configuration to [Enhanced] mode. Configure SATA As [IDE] Sets the configuration for the Serial ATA connectors supported by the Southbridge chip. If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices, set this item to [IDE]. Set this item to [RAID] if you want to create a RAID volume from Serial ATA hard disk drives. Place a jumper cap on pins 1-2 of the R A I D _ S E L 1 jumper to use the LSI Logic Embedded SATA RAID Utility (for RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 0+1 configuration; supported on Windows® 2000/2003 Server/XP and Red Hat® Enterprise ver. Refer to section 4. 2 Jumpers for details. Place a jumper cap on pins 2-3 of the RAID_SEL1 jumper to use the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager (for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, or software RAID 5 configuration; supported on Windows® 2000/2003 Server/XP). ASUS RS120-E3 (PA2) 5-15 The AHCI allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features that increases storage performance on random workloads by allowing the drive to internally optimize the order of commands. If you want the Serial ATA hard disk drives to use the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI), set this item to [AHCI]. For details on AHCI, go to: www. intel. com/support/chipsets/imst/sb/CS-012304. htm www. intel. com/support/chipsets/imst/sb/CS-012305. htm The SATA controller is set to Native mode when this item is set to [RAID] or [AHCI]. Onboard SATA RAID ROM [Disabled] Allows you to enable or disable the onboard SATA RAID boot ROM. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] The O n b o a r d S A T A R A I D R O M item appears only when you set the C o n f i g u r e S A T A A s item to [RAID]. Legacy IDE Channels [SATA Pri, PATA Sec] Allows you to set Serial ATA, Parallel ATA, or both, to legacy mode. Configuration options: · [SATA Only] - SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, and SATA4 ports are available · [PATA Pri, SATA Sec] - PATA, SATA2, and SATA4 ports are available · [SATA Pri, PATA Sec] - SATA1, SATA3, and PATA ports are available · [PATA Only] - Only PATA ports are available The L e g a c y I D E C h a n n e l s option appears only when you set the A/ A T A/ IDE Configuration item to [Compatible] mode. IDE Detect Time Out (Sec) [35] Selects the time our value (in seconds) for detecting ATA/ATAPI devices. Configuration options: [0] [5] [10] [15] [20] [25] [30] [35] 5-16 Chapter 5: BIOS setup 5. 3. 5 Primary/Secondary/Third IDE Master/Slave The BIOS automatically detects the connected IDE devices. There is a separate sub-menu for each IDE device. Select a device item, then press <Enter> to display the IDE device information. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main Primary IDE Master Device : Hard Disk Vendor : ST320413A Size : 20. 0GB LBA Mode : Supported Block Mode : 16 Sectors PIO Mode : Supported Async DMA : MultiWord DMA-2 Ultra DMA : Ultra DMA-5 SMART Monitoring: Supported Type LBA/Large Mode Block(Multi-sector Transfer) PIO Mode DMA Mode SMART Monitoring 32Bit Data Transfer [Auto] [Auto] [Auto] [Auto] [Auto] [Auto] [Disabled] Select the type of device connected to the system. Select Screen Select Item +- Change Option F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit v02. 58 (C)Copyright 1985-2004, American Megatrends, Inc. The BIOS automatically detects the values opposite the dimmed items (Device, Vendor, Size, LBA Mode, Block Mode, PIO Mode, Async DMA, Ultra DMA, and SMART monitoring). These items show N/A if no IDE device is installed in the system. Type [Auto] Selects the type of IDE drive. Setting to [Auto] allows automatic selection of the appropriate IDE device type. [. . . ] 6. Using the EIST To use the EIST feature: Turn on the computer, then enter the BIOS Setup. Go to the Advanced Menu highlight CPU Configuration Menu, Configuration, then press <Enter>. Set the Intel(R) SpeedStep( t m ) t e c h . item to [Automatic], SpeedStep( then press <Enter>. [. . . ]