AOpen Fortress 9000 Setup guide

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
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 ! " !
!#" "!
 $%
"  &  ' "     !  !
"! !!
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(!  '''
! '''''"'"
"!
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          % ) 
%!

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                             
* !#!!!
 ""%
+ ,"
- , ''  $!'
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. #         %     ! / 
    !       ! '  
  %$ % 
' !' '    ! $         
' 0
1 $     !   ! "    %    !
!!" '"
2 $3"+0"0'45
$"!0"$!!!
 ' 
,!!0
6 ,"",""

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=A 2
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1.2.1 Front Panel ....................................................................................................25
1.2.2 Real Panel .....................................................................................................29
1.2.3 Internal Component .......................................................................................32
1.2.4 BPL6 Jumpers and Connectors (Optional) .....................................................34

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1.3.1 Opening the front panel door..........................................................................37
1.3.2 Removing the front panel door .......................................................................38
1.3.3 Removing the side panels..............................................................................39
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1.4.1 Removing drive bay covers............................................................................40
1.4.2 Installing and Removing a 3.5” Device Drive..................................................41
1.4.3 Installing and Removing a 5.25” Device Drive ................................................45
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1.5.1 Installing a HSC5 Hot-Swap Cage .................................................................49
1.5.2 Hot-Swapping SCSI SCA Hard Disk Drive .....................................................51
1.5.3 Hot-Swapping the Hot-Plug Fan-Sink Module ................................................54
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1.8.1 Hot-Swap Fan Base Board.............................................................................63
1.8.2 Replacing Housing Fans ................................................................................64

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CPU........................................................................................................................69
Chipset ...................................................................................................................69
Memory ..................................................................................................................69
Expansion Slots......................................................................................................70
SCSI On-board .......................................................................................................70
Video Subsystem....................................................................................................70
Intel 82559 LAN controller ......................................................................................71
Power Management/Plug and Play .........................................................................71
Super Multi-I/O .......................................................................................................72
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2.6.1 CPU Installation .............................................................................................78
2.6.2 CPU Fan (3-pins) & Housing Fan (4-pins) Connector.....................................79
2.6.3 Thermal Sensse Connector............................................................................80
2.6.4 JP10 CPU Terminator Jumper........................................................................81
2.6.5 DIMM Slots ....................................................................................................82
2.6.6 ATX Power Connector....................................................................................84
2.6.7 Redundant SPS Connector............................................................................85
2.6.8 IDE and Floppy Connector.............................................................................86
2.6.9 68-pins Ultra160/50-pins Narrow SCSI Connector .........................................89
2.6.10 JP6 SCSI Channel Terminator Control .........................................................90
2.6.11 Front Panel Connector .................................................................................91
2.6.12 WOL (Wake on LAN) Connector ..................................................................92
2.6.13 Support 2nd USB Port ...................................................................................94
2.6.14 NMI (Non-Maskable Interrupt) Switch Jumper..............................................95
2.6.15 BP (Backplane) Connector...........................................................................96
2.6.16 External Speaker Connector ........................................................................97
2.6.17 JP5 System Event Clear Jumper..................................................................98

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2.6.18 JP8 System BIOS Password Check.............................................................99
2.6.19 Event LED Connector ................................................................................100
2.6.20 PC99 Color Coded Back Panel ..................................................................101
2.6.21 Low ESR Capacitor....................................................................................102
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3.2.1 Processor ....................................................................................................107
3.2.2 Processor Speed .........................................................................................107
3.2.3 CPU/SDRAM BUS Frequency .....................................................................107
3.2.4 Level 1 Cache..............................................................................................107
3.2.5 Level 2 Cache..............................................................................................108
3.2.6 Diskette Drive A ...........................................................................................108
3.2.7 Diskette Drive B ...........................................................................................108
3.2.8 IDE Primary Channel Master........................................................................108
3.2.9 IDE Primary Channel Slave..........................................................................108
3.2.10 Total Memory .............................................................................................109

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3.2.11 1st/2nd/3rd Bank............................................................................................109
3.2.12 Serial Port 1 ...............................................................................................109
3.2.13 Serial Port 2 ...............................................................................................110
3.2.14 Parallel Port ...............................................................................................110
3.2.15 PS/2 Mouse ...............................................................................................110
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3.3.1 Product Name..............................................................................................112
3.3.2 System S/N..................................................................................................112
3.3.3 Main Board ID..............................................................................................112
3.3.4 Main Board S/N............................................................................................112
3.3.5 System BIOS Version ..................................................................................112
3.3.6 SMBIOS Version..........................................................................................113
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3.4.1 Floppy Drives...............................................................................................115
3.4.2 IDE Drives....................................................................................................115
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3.5.1 Serial Ports 1 and 2 .....................................................................................121

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3.5.2 Parallel Port .................................................................................................122
3.5.3 Onboard Device Settings .............................................................................126
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3.6.1 Power Management Mode ...........................................................................132
3.6.2 Power Switch < 4 sec...................................................................................134
3.6.3 System Wake-up Event................................................................................134
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3.7.1 Boot Sequence ............................................................................................138
3.7.2 Primary Display Adapter ..............................................................................138
3.7.3 Fast Boot .....................................................................................................139
3.7.4 Silent Boot ...................................................................................................139
3.7.5 Num Lock After Boot....................................................................................140
3.7.6 Memory Test ................................................................................................140
3.7.7 Release All Blocked Memory .......................................................................140
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3.8.1 Date.............................................................................................................142
3.8.2 Time.............................................................................................................142

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3.9.1 Supervisor Password ...................................................................................145
3.9.2 User Password ............................................................................................147
3.9.3 Disk Drive Control........................................................................................147
+*#>=*-
3.10.1 System Event Logging ...............................................................................151
3.10.2 Events Control ...........................................................................................153
3.10.3 Event Process............................................................................................154
3.10.4 Threshold Event Control ............................................................................155
3.10.5 Temperature Threshold Setting ..................................................................155
3.10.6 Voltage Threshold Setting ..........................................................................156
+**=,# *.2
+*#*.6
%187 #*
Settings for the SCSI Controller and All Devices...................................................159
Individual Settings for SCSI Drives .......................................................................160
When to Use the SCSISelect™ Utility...................................................................161

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4.2.1 Configuring Channel A.................................................................................164
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4.3.1 Host Adapter SCSI ID ..................................................................................169
4.3.2 SCSI Parity Checking...................................................................................172
4.3.3 Boot Device Options ....................................................................................174
4.3.4 Boot Channel Options..................................................................................175
4.3.5 Boot SCSI ID Options ..................................................................................176
4.3.6 Boot LUN Number Options...........................................................................177
4.3.7 Boot LUN Number........................................................................................178
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4.4.1 Host Adapter BIOS ......................................................................................185
4.4.2 Display <Ctrl-A> Message During BIOS Initialization....................................185
4.4.3 Extended BIOS Translation for DOS Drives > 1 GByte.................................185
4.4.4 Support Removable Disks Under BIOS as Fixed Disks ................................186
4.4.5 BIOS Support for Bootable CD-ROM ...........................................................187

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4.4.6 BIOS Support for Int13 Extensions...............................................................187
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4.5.1 Format Disk .................................................................................................190
4.5.2 Verify Media.................................................................................................190
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4.6.1 Extended Translation ...................................................................................192
4.6.2 DOS 1 GByte Limit.......................................................................................192
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4.7.1 with DOS 5.0 and above ..............................................................................194
4.7.2 drives with mixed partitions ..........................................................................194
4.7.3 Using FDISK ................................................................................................194
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2*.
?4H?5*.
?4?5 *1
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