Advantech RS-400-SF User manual

User’s Manual
RS-400-SF
4U Server

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Copyright Notice
This document is copyrighted, 2002, by Advantech
Co., Ltd. All rights are reserved. Advantech Co., Ltd.
reserves the right to make improvements to the products
described in this manual at any time without notice.
No part of this manual may be reproduced, copied,
translated or transmitted in any form or by any means
without the prior written permission of the original
manufacturer. Information provided in this manual is
intended to be accurate and reliable. However, the original
manufacturer assumes no responsibility for its use, nor for
any infringements upon the rights of third parties that may
result from its use.
CE Notification
RS-400-SF and RS-400-SF-S4, developed by Advantech
Co., Ltd., have passed the CE test for environment
specifications when shielded cables are used for external
wiring. We recommend the use of shielded cables.

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Acknowledgements
zAWARD is a trademark of AWARD Software, Inc.
zIBM and PC are trademarks of International Business
Machines Corporation
zIntel Pentium 4 is trademarks of Intel Corporation
zWindows 98, ME, 2000, XP are trademarks of
Microsoft Corporation
zSiS is a registered trademark of Silicon Integrated Systems
Corp.
zITE is a trademark of ITE Corp.
All other product names or trademarks are properties of
their respective owners.
Part No. 2002040050
1st Edition Printed in Taiwan
July 2002

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Product Warranty
Advantech warrants to you, the original purchaser, that each
of its products will be free from defects in materials and
workmanship for one year from the date of purchase.
This warranty does not apply to any products which have
been repaired or altered by persons other than repair
personnel authorized by Advantech, or which have been
subject to misuse, abuse, accident or improper installation.
Advantech assumes no liability under the terms of this
warranty as a consequence of such events.
Because of Advantech’s high quality-control standards and
rigorous testing, most of our customers never need to use
our repair service. If an Advantech product is defective, it
will be repaired or replaced at no charge during the warranty
period. For out-of-warranty repairs, you will be billed
according to the cost of replacement materials, service time
and freight. Please consult your dealer for more details.
If you think you have a defective product, follow these
steps:

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1. Collect all the information about the problem encountered.
For example, CPU speed, Advantech products used, other
hardware and software used, etc. Note anything abnormal
and list any on-screen messages you get when the
problem occurs.
2. Call your dealer and describe the problem. Please have
your manual, product, and any helpful information
readily available.
3. If your product is diagnosed as defective, obtain an RMA
(return merchandise authorization) number from your
dealer. This allows us to process your return more
quickly.
4. Carefully pack the defective product, a fully completed
Repair and Replacement Order Card and a photocopy
proof of purchase date (such as your sales receipt) in a
shippable container. A product returned without proof of
the purchase date is not eligible for warranty service.
5. Write the RMA number visibly on the outside of the
package and ship it prepaid to your dealer.

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Packing List
The following items should come with package. If anything
is missing or damaged, please consult with your vendor for
resolution.
z2 IDE HDD brackets
z1 Key for front panel
z1 key for mobile rack
z1 CD Title-Driver Bank
z1 Parallel cable
z1 Power cord
z1 Air filter
z1 Mobile Rack Manual
z1 IPC-610F User’s Manual
zRS-400-SF User’s Manual (in Driver Bank CD)
z1 Warrant Card
Technical Support and Sales Assistance
If you have any technical questions about the RS-400-SF
series products, please visit our support website at
http://www.advantech.com.tw/support
For more information about Advantech products and sales
information, please visit: http://www.advantech.com.

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Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction --------------------------------- 11
1.1 Hardware Specification --------------------------- 13
1.2 Software Specification ---------------------------- 15
1.3 Environmental Specification --------------------- 16
Chapter 2 Placement and Installation --------------- 17
2.1 System Placement --------------------------------- 17
2.2 Board Layout --------------------------------------- 20
2.3 I/O Ports --------------------------------------------- 21
2.4 Jumpers and Connectors on motherboard--------- 22
2.5 Safety Precautions --------------------------------- 24
2.6 Installing Memory --------------------------------- 25
2.7 Memory Installation Procedures ----------------- 26
2.8 Cache memory ------------------------------------- 29
2.9 CPU Installation ----------------------------------- 30
Chapter 3 BIOS Setup --------------------------------- 35
3.1 Function Keys -------------------------------------- 36
3.2 Main Menu ----------------------------------------- 37
3.2.1 Standard CMOS Features ------------------- 38
3.2.2 Advanced BIOS Features ------------------- 43
3.2.3 Advanced Chipset Features ----------------- 47
3.2.4 Integrated Peripherals ----------------------- 48

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3.2.5 Power Management Setup ------------------ 57
3.2.6 PnP/ PCI Configurations -------------------- 62
3.2.7 PC Health Status ----------------------------- 65
3.2.8 Frequency/Voltage Control ----------------- 66
3.2.9 Load Optimized Defaults ------------------- 67
3.2.10 Set Password -------------------------------- 68
3.2.11 Save & Exit Setup -------------------------- 69
3.2.12 Exit without Saving ------------------------ 70
Chapter 4 Driver Installation ------------------------- 71
4.1 Install VGA Driver -------------------------------- 73
4.1.1 Driver Installation for Win98/ME --------- 73
4.1.2 Driver Installation for Win2K/XP --------- 74
4.1.3 Driver Installation for Linux --------------- 75
4.1.4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD 4.x ------ 75
4.1.5 Driver Installation for QNX R6.1 --------- 75
4.2 Install LAN Driver -------------------------------- 76
4.2.1 Driver Installation for Win98/ME --------- 76
4.2.2 Driver Installation for Win2K/XP --------- 78
4.2.3 Driver Installation for Linux --------------- 80
4.2.4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD 4.x ------ 80
4.2.5 Driver Installation for QNX R6.1 --------- 80

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4.3 Install PCI to ISA Bridge Driver ---------------- 81
4.3.1 Driver Installation for Win98/ME --------- 81
4.3.2 Driver Installation for Win2K/XP --------- 83
Appendix A Memory Approval List ---------------- 85
Appendix B ISA Add-on Card Approval List ----- 86
Appendix C Safety Instructions --------------------- 87
C.1 English --------------------------------------------- 87
C.2 German- Wichtige Sicherheishinweise -------- 89

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Chapter1Introduction
RS-400-SF is equipped with the SMB-2501, an ATX
size Pentium 4 motherboard, designed for high-density
Internet services, CT and industrial automation. The
serverboard uses a highly integrated core logic chipset,
SIS650 chipset with a high performance host interface for
Intel Pentium 4 processor, a high performance 2D/3D
Graphic Engine, a high performance memory controller and
an AGP 4X interface. The SiS 650 integrated a high
performance 2D/3D Graphic Engine, Video Accelerator and
Advanced Hardware Acceleration MPEGI/MPEGII Video
Decoder for the Intel Pentium 4 series based PC systems. It
also integrates a high performance 2.1GB/s DDR266
Memory controller to sustain the bandwidth demand from
the integrated GUI or external AGP master, host processor,
as well as the multi I/O masters. In addition to the integrated
GUI, the SiS650 can also support external AGP slot with
AGP 4X capability and Fast Write Transactions. The
SiS650 adopts a Shared Memory Architecture, eliminating
the need and thus the cost of the frame buffer memory by
organizing it in the system memory. The frame buffer size
can be allocated from 8MB to 64MB. The Integrated GUI
features a high performance 3D accelerator with 2 Pixel / 4
Texture, and a 128 bit 2D accelerator with 1T pipeline

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BITBLT engine. It also features a Video Accelerator and
advanced hardware acceleration logic to deliver high quality
DVD playback.
The RS-400-SF has 1 AGP 4X slot, 2 PCI slots, 4 ISA
slots and 1 CNR slot for function expansion. It supports
maximum 5 add-on cards for PCI slots and ISA slots. ISA
bus support PIO mode only, doesn’t support DMA mode.
CNR slot supports modem only.
The SIS650 currently supports processor front bus
(PSB) 400MHz. The RS-400-SF will support PSB 533MHz
once it upgrades to the SIS651 chipset.

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1.1HardwareSpecifications
CPU Intel® Pentium® 4/
Celeron CPU
Max. Speed 2.4GHz / 1.8GHz
L2 Cache 512 KB/128 KB
Chipset SIS 650
Processor
BIOS Award 2 Mb Flash
FSB 400 MHzBus
PCI 32-bit/33 MHz
Technology DDR-266 SDRAM
Max. Capacity 3 GB
Memory
Socket DDR-266 DIMM x 3
Controller SIS 650 with AGP 4XGraphic
VRAM Shares with system memory
up to 4/8/16/32/64MB
Interface 10/100 Base-TX
Controller Intel 82559ER x2
Ethernet
Connector RJ-45 x2
AGP 1 AGP 4X slot
PCI 2 PCI bus slots
ISA 4 ISA bus slots*
Expansion
CNR 1 CNR slot**
3.5” HDD 1 swappable HDD cartridge
2 fixed HDD bay
3.5” FDD 1
Drive Bay
5.25”CD-ROM 1 (52X speed)
USB 2
Serial 2 (RS-232)
Parallel 1 (Accessory)
PS/2 2 (mouse x1, keyboard x1)
I/O Interface
CRT 1

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Cooling Fan 2 (86 CFM, 37CFM)
Operating
System
Compatibility Windows 98/ME/2000/XP,
Linux Red Hat 7.x,
FreeBSD 4.x, QNX R6.1
Management Indicator LED for power, LANs and
HDDs
MiscellaneousControl Momentary power switch
Watt 300W or 400 W ATXPower
Supply Input AC 90 ~ 264 V Full Range
@47 ~ 63 Hz
Operating
Non-Operating
Temperature 0 ~ 50 °C(32 ~ 122 °F)
-20 ~ 70 °C(-68 ~ 158 °F)
Environment
Humidity 5 ~ 85 % @40 °C (104 °F)
5 ~ 95 %
Physical Dimension
(W x H x D)
482 x 177 x 502 mm
(19” x 7” x 19.76”)
Weight 20.5 kg (45.1 lb)
Note: * ISA slot doesn’t support DMA mode
** CNR slot supports Modem only
*** SIS651 supports PSB 400/533MHz. Motherboard
A103-1 version supports FSB 533.
RS-400-SFsupports 300W ATX Power
RS-400-SF-S4 supports 400W ATX power

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1.2SoftwareSpecifications
OS support: Windows 98/ME/XP/2000
RedHatLinux6.x/7.x
FreeBSD 4.x, QNX R6.1
* No support for Win NT Series

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1.3 Environmental Specifications
• Operating temperature: 0 ~ 50° C
• Storage temperature: -40 ~ 75° C (-40 ~ 167° F)
• Operating Humidity: 10 ~ 85% @ 40℃
• Storage Humidity: 5~95%

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Chapter 2 Placement and Installation
2.1SystemPlacement
2.1.1 Frontal View
CD-ROMdrive
Reset HDD cartridge*
FDDdrive
AirFilter Powerswitch HDDbay**
Note:
*- Please refer to mobile rack manual in accessory box.
**- Please refer to section 2.2 “adding your disk drives” in
the manual of IPC-610F Industrial Chassis. When you
install HDD drive, it is necessary to fix HDD bracket in
accessory box on the two sides of the HDD drive first.

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2.1.2 Rear View
Powerswitch PS/2 VGA LAN
Powersocket USB RS-232 Expansion

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2.1.3 Top View
Hold-down Clamp Fan Power Supply
Motherboard
FAN Air Filter
Please refer to IPC-610 Manual (IPC-610MB) for more information
about it mechanism.