Asus AP5000 User manual

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AP5000
Dual Pentium®II Server Platform
Installation Guide

ASUS AP5000 Installation Guide
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CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION............................................................................7
Preface .............................................................................................7
II. BARE-BONE KITS........................................................................9
Bare-Bone Kits Overview................................................................9
HOUSING .......................................................................................9
MOTHERBOARD.........................................................................10
DRIVE BAY ..................................................................................11
BACK PLANE BOARD ...............................................................11
SLOT CARD .................................................................................12
III. INTEGRATION ..........................................................................15
PROCEDURES .............................................................................15
SYSTEM UNIT .............................................................................15
Opening the cover ..........................................................................15
Inserting the motherboard ..............................................................16
Installing the memory and power I/O cables .................................17
Installing the CPU..........................................................................17
Installing the memory ..............................................................18
Installing a VGAor PCI add-on card .......................................18
Installing the ATX power switch and other signal pins............18
Closing the cover......................................................................19
CABLING......................................................................................20
DRIVE SETUP ..............................................................................20
Installing a slot card .................................................................21
SAF-TE back plane boards.................................................21
NON SAF-TE back plane boards .......................................22
Indicator lights .........................................................................23
Installing SCSI devices ..................................................................24
Drive locations ...............................................................................24
BACK PLANE BOARD INSTALLATION ..................................26
Integrating the DA-BP4-1(S) ...................................................26
Integrating with the housing.....................................................27
Connecting the SCSI cables .....................................................27
Installing the disk drive bay to the back plane board...............28
POWER SUPPLY UNIT................................................................29
Replacements ...........................................................................29

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FCC & DOC COMPLIANCE
FederalCommunicationsCommissionStatement
This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the
following two conditions:
• This device may not cause harmful interference, and
• This device must accept any interference received, including interfer-
ence that may cause undesired operation.
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a
Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits
are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference
in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate
radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with
manufacturer’s instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio com-
munications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not oc-
cur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful inter-
ference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turn-
ing the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the
interference by one or more of the following measures:
• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
• Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to
which the receiver is connected.
• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
WARNING! The use of shielded cables for connection of the monitor
to the graphics card is required to assure compliance with FCC regula-
tions. Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by
the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to
operate this equipment.
CanadianDepartmentofCommunicationsStatement
This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class B limits for radio noise
emissions from digital apparatus set out in the Radio Interference Regula-
tions of the Canadian Department of Communications.

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Preface
I. INTRODUCTION
I. INTRODUCTION
Preface
A Guide to build up the ASUSTeK newer and more powerful server system:
AP5000.
The AP5000 uses the P2L97-DS smart motherboard as its base to support
dual Pentium II processor.With a built-inAGPslot, theAP5000 can be both
a server and workstation. The following introductions will guide you to
understand and build up such a best system - AP5000.
Two sections will be introduced as following:
* Bare-Bone Kits Overview
* Integration Procedure

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Bare-Bone Kits Overview
This section will show you the component kits of AP5000 including
housing, motherboard, CPU card, device drive-bay, back plane board,
and slot card.
HOUSING
The housing of theAP5000 is ivory white. Its front and back view after
system assembly is shown below:
Fig 2-1: Front view of housing
Fig 2-2: Back side of housing
Power button
Front door
Device drive-bay
Key locker of front door
Cover install/
remove locker
Tower feet with wheel
Redundant power supply
Power connectors
Parallel I/O port
Serial I/O port
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MOTHERBOARD
TheAP5000 uses the P2L97-DS motherboard which is designed to support
dual Pentium II processors. For detailed specifications, refer to the P2L97-
DS user’s manual.
Fig 2-3: P2L97-DS Layout
USB Port 1 (Top)
USB Port 2 (Bottom)
Programmable
2Mbit Flash ROM
4 PCI Slots
2ISASlots
Parallel (Top)
Hardware Monitor
(optional)
Multi-I/O Chip
Floppy Disk
Drive
Connector
Narrow/Wide SCSI
Connectors (optional)
Adaptec’s 7880
Fast/Wide SCSI Chipset
(optional)
Intel PIIX4 PCIset
Primary/Secondary
IDE Connectors
PS/2 Mouse (Top)
PS/2 K’Board (Bottom)
SEC CPU Slots Intel 440LX
AGPset DIMM Sockets
Accelerated
Graphics Port
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DRIVE BAY
There are two types of drive bays, that could mount, floppy drive, CD-
ROM drive and hard disk drive. One type is fixed type and another is
removable type which has key-lock feature, refer to the following figures:
BACK PLANE BOARD
TheASUS Back Plane Board, DA-BP4 series, were designed for carrying
four removable SCSI devices per Back Plane Board. Normally those re-
movable SCSI drives are installed on the Hot-Swap Drive Bay with a small
slot card connected together (Fig 2-7). When the completed drive set plugs
in, the slot board of drive Bay and bus of DA-BP4 will be connected to-
gether. After that, all the four SCSI-ID of SCSI devices could be managed
from the switches of Back Plane Board (Fig 2-6). Moreover there are two
modelsof Back PlaneBoards availablefor noneSAF-TE andSAF-TEwhich
are named DA-BP4-1 and DA-BP4-1S. SAF-TE one mounted one more
management chip named GEM200RE in which could provide additional
status information of device drives (Detail refer to chapter 3).
Fig 2-6: DA-BP4 series Back Plane Board
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Fig 2-4: Fixed type drive bay
Fig 2-5: Hot-Swap drive bay
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SLOT CARD
TheASUS slot card is DA-BC68 which uses for wide SCSI. Its jumpers and
connectors are shown on Fig:2-7. It will setup with Hot-Swap drive bay.
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II. BARE-BONE KITS
Fig 2-7: Jumper & Connector of Slot Card
Table 2-1: Jumper of Slot Card with SAF-TE Back Plane Board
KEY SLED PLED ALED_IN SCSI_ID
SCSI Connector
Golden Finger
Power Cable
Items Functions Cables Uses Connect To
Golden Finger Bus of Slot Card None DA-BP4-1S
Power Cable Power of SCSI drive None SCSI drive
SCSI connector Connector of wide SCS I DA-BP4-1S
SCSI ID could be managed
from DA-BP4-1(S), refer to
Fig: 3-28
SCSI_ID cable, 8-
wire,
68-pin wide SCSI
cable
PLED (3-pin) Power LED
SCSI_ID
(8-pin) ID jumper of
SCSI drive.
*Be sure the
target SCSI ID is
in the right order.
Jumper of device accessing ALED_IN cable, 2-
wire, (Red/Black) Access jumper of
SCSI drive
ALED_IN
(2-pin)
PLED cable, 3-wire,
(Orange/Black/
Green)
SLED (3-pin) Status LED
Light-1 of Drive
Bay
SLED cable, 3-wire,
(Green/Black/Red) Light-2 of Drive
Bay
KEY (2-pin) Insure the SCSI drive power
has been off while Key Lock of
Drive Bay being opened. To
protect device during hot-
swap.
KEY cable, 2-wire,
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** TheALED_IN and SLED jumpers of slot card will be no function if the
Back Plane Board is none SAF-TE, thus they should not connect any cable
on these two jumpers. But theALED_IN (from SCSI drive) cable and SLED
cable (from Drive Bay) must be connected together directly in order to light
up on Light-2 (Fig: 2-8) of Drive Bay during SCSI device access.
Key Lock
Fig 2-8: Indicator Light of Drive Bay
Light-1 (PLED)
Light-2 (SLED)
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II. BARE-BONE KITS
Table 2-2: Jumper of Slot Card with none SAF-TE Back
Plane Board
Items Functions Cables Uses Connect To
Golden Finger Bus of Slot Card None DA-BP4-1
Power Cable Power of SCSI drive None SCSI drive
SCSI connector Connector of wide SCS I DA-BP4-1
SCSI ID could be managed
from DA-BP4-1(S), refer to
Fig: 3-28
SCSI_ID cable, 8-
wire,
68-pin wide SCSI
cable
SLED (3-pin) None None **None
SCSI_ID (8-pin) ID jumper of
SCSI drive.
*Be sure the
target SCSI ID is
in the right order.
None None **None
ALED_IN(2-pin)
PLED (3-pin) Power LED PLED cable, 3-
wire, (Orange/
Black/Green)
Light-1 of Drive
Bay
KEY (2-pin) Insure the SCSI drive
power has been off while
Key Lock of Drive Bay
being opened. To protect
device during hot-swap.
KEY cable, 2-wire,
(Black/Red) Key Lock of Drive Bay

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PROCEDURES
Along with previous product shipping kits, this section will introduce you on
how to integrate anAP5000 together, and some of the notices you need to be
aware of during installation.The step-by-step procedures have divided to five
topics which are System Unit Integration, CPU Card Installation, Cabling,
Device Drives, Installation, and Back Plane Board Installation.
SYSTEM UNIT
System assembly steps are as follows:
1. Open cover.
2. Remove fan frame.
3. Install the motherboard.
4. Install the CPU, memory, and add-on cards.
Opening the cover
Remove the four screws in the back of the system (Fig 3-1). Follow the
direction on the cover locker to release (Fig 3-2) and remove the cover of
housing (Fig 3-3).
Fig 3-2: Release cover lock
Fig 3-1: Open the cover-locker
Fig 3-3: Remove the cover
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Fig 3-4: Remove Fan Frame
Fig 3-7: Motherboard installed
Inserting the motherboard
Set the system down with on a level surface with the open side facing up.
Remove the system fan frame module (Fig 3-4). Put the motherboard sup-
port (spacer) in order to balance the power of plugging add-on and CPU
cards (Fig 3-5), then place the motherboard into the housing (Fig 3-6). Next,
screw the motherboard into the housing (Fig 3-7). Please do not over tighten
as this may damage the surface of the motherboard.
Fig 3-6: Place the motherboard
Fig 3-5: Put in Main Board Spacer
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Fig 3-8: Installation of Cables, Memory and I/O brackets
Fig 3-9: Pull back the fan frame
Installing the CPU
Pull back the fan frame (Fig 3-9), and install the CPU (Fig 3-10).
Fig 3-10: Insert CPU
Installing the memory and power I/O cables
Next, install the memory, power cable, serial/parallel/VGA brackets, and
HDD/FDD cable (Fig 3-8). For more details about cable paths of device
drives, refer to Cabling (p.20).
Insert the CPU into the retention module. If you only have one CPU, insert
a termination card into the other CPU slot.
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Power connector
Memory
I/O ports and brackets
SCSI hard disk
connector
FDD cable connector

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Fig 3-14
Fig 3-13
Installing the memory
Insert the SDRAM (168-pin) into the DIMM socket (Fig 3-11).
Installing a VGA or PCI add-on card
Insert a VGA or PCI add-on card into the PCI slot.
Installing theATX power switch and other signal pins
Refer to the P2L97-DS user’s manual to install the ATX power switch pin,
system indicator pin, and IDE device indicator pin. (Fig 3-13).
Fig 3-12: Insert a VGA/ PCI add-on card
Fig 3-11: Insert the SDRAM
Secure the power switch next to the FDD with screws (Fig 3-13).
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IDE device indicator pin
System power indicator pin
ATX power switch pin

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Closing the cover
Follow the figures below (Fig 3-15, 3-16, 3-17) to complete the hard-
ware installation.
Fig 3-17: Lock the cover
Fig 3-15: CPU and motherboard installed
Fig 3-16: Replace the cover
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Fig 3-19: Cable Path of Floppy, IDE, CD-ROM, and SCSI
DRIVE SETUP
To install device drives on fix-type drive bay is quite straight forward, sim-
ply by screwing the device, inserting it to housing and down at connecting
necessary cables. But for Hot-Swap drive bay, the cables connecting and
means of indicator light on drive bay are quite complex. This section shows
that the installation of slot card with drive bay, the specification of indica-
tor light, device installation and the recommendation of drive position on
the housing.
CABLING
There are three sets of cables, and their locations are indentified in Fig
3-18 and Fig 3-19.
Fig 3-18: Cable locations
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Connections
Cabling path for CD-ROM/IDE
drives
Cabling path for SCSI hard disk
Cabling path for Floppy
Cabling path for Floppy/CD-ROM/IDE drives
Cabling path for SCSI