TYAN THUNDER N4250QE User manual

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Thunder n4250QE /// S4985G3NR
Version 1.00
Copyright
Copyright © TYAN Computer Corporation, 2006. All rights reserved. No part of
this manual may be reproduced or translated without prior written consent from
TYAN Computer Corp.
Trademark
All registered and unregistered trademarks and company names contained in
this manual are property of their respective owners including, but not limited to
the following.
TYAN, Thunder n4250QE are trademarks of TYAN Computer Corporation.
AMD, Opteron, and combinations thereof are trademarks of AMD Corporation.
Phoenix, Phoenix-AwardBIOS are trademarks of Phoenix Technologies.
Notice
Information contained in this document is furnished by TYAN Computer
Corporation and has been reviewed for accuracy and reliability prior to printing.
TYAN assumes no liability whatsoever, and disclaims any express or implied
warranty, relating to sale and/or use of TYAN products including liability or
warranties relating to fitness for a particular purpose or merchantability. TYAN
retains the right to make changes to product descriptions and/or specifications
at any time, without notice. In no event will TYAN be held liable for any direct or
indirect, incidental or consequential damage, loss of use, loss of data or other
malady resulting from errors or inaccuracies of information contained in this
document.

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Table of Contents
Check the box contents! 3
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Congratulations…………………………………………………………… 5
1.2 Hardware Specifications………………………………………………… 5
Chapter 2: Board Installation
2.1 Board Image……………………………………………………………… 8
2.2 Block Diagram……………………………………………………………. 9
2.3 Board Parts, Jumpers and Connectors………………………………... 10
2.4 Tips on Installing Motherboard in Chassis…………………………….. 20
2.5 Installing the Processor(s)………………………………....................... 21
2.6 Installing the Memory……………………………………………………. 24
2.7 Attaching Drive Cables………………………………………………….. 26
2.8 Installing Add-in Cards………………………………............................ 28
2.9 Connecting External Devices…………………………………………… 29
2.10 Installing the Power Supply……………………………………………... 30
2.11 Finishing up………………………………………………………………. 30
Chapter 3: BIOS Setup
3.1 About the BIOS…………………………………………………………… 31
3.2 BIOS Main Menu…………………………………………………………. 33
3.3 Advanced Menu………………………………………………………….. 41
3.4 Security Menu…………………………………………………………….. 54
3.5 Power Menu………………………………………………………………. 55
3.6 Boot Menu………………………………………………………………… 56
3.7 Exit Menu…………………………………………………………………. 57
Chapter 4: Diagnostics
4.1 Beep Codes………………………………………………………………. 59
4.2 Flash Utility……………………………………………………………….. 59
4.3 BIOS Post Code………………………………………………………….. 60
Appendix I: SMDC Information
Appendix II: How to Make a Driver Diskette
Glossary

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Check the box contents!
1x S4985 motherboard
1x 34-Pin floppy drive cable
2 x Ultra-DMA-133/100/66/33 IDE cable
2 x Serial ATA power cable
4 x Serial ATA Cable
1 x COM Port Cable
1 x S4985 user’s manual
1 x S4985 Quick Reference guide
1 x TYAN driver CD
1 x I/O shield
If any of these items are missing, please contact your vendor/dealer for
replacement before continuing with the installation process.

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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 - Congratulations
You have purchased the high performance server with four processors (can
expand to eight). The Thunder n4250QE (S4985G3NR) is a flexible AMD®
platform for multiple applications, based on NVIDIA®nForce Professional 2200
(CK804pro) and NVIDIA nForce Professional 2050 (IO4) chipsets.
Designed to support four AMD®Opteron processors and max 64GB DDR2-
667/533/400 memory, and featured with integrated RJ-45 LAN connectors, PCI-
Express x16 slots plus eight serial ATA ports, the S4985 offers exceptional
performance and versatile solution for your server platform.
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.
1.2 - Hardware Specifications
Processors
•Supports four AMD OpteronTM
Socket F (1207) 8000 series
processors
•Four onboard 5-phase digital
VRMs
Chipset
•NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200
(CK804pro)
•NVIDIA nForce Professional 2050
(IO4)
•Winbond W83627HF Super I/O
•Three Analog Devices ADT7476
Hardware Monitoring IC
Memory
•Dual channel memory bus
•Sixteen DDR2 DIMM sockets
(Four per CPU)
•Supports up to 64GB Registered
DDR2 memory
•Supports ECC type memory
modules
•Supports DDR2-667/533/400
Integrated LAN Controller
•Two (2) Marvell 88E1111 GbE
PHY
- Each one has RJ-45 LAN
connector with LEDs
- Each one has front panel LED
header
•One Intel 82541PI GbE LAN
controller
- RJ-45 LAN connector with LED
Integrated Video Controller
•XGI XG20
•PCI interface
•16MB DDR memory
Intelligent Platform
Management Interface Header
•Tyan Server Management
Daughter card (optional) supports
features listed below via IPMI
header
- Renesas Baseboard
Management Controller (BMC)
- Tailored for IPMI 2.0 spec.

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•Supports four rank memory
Expansion Slots
•Two (2) x16 PCI Express slots
with x16 signal
•Two (2) x16 PCI Express slots
with x4 signal
•One 32bit/33MHz PCI v2.3 slot
•Total of five usable slots
Integrated I/O
•One (1) floppy connector supports
up to two drives
•One (1) parallel port header and
two (2) serial ports (one
connector, one header)
•Six (6) USB 2.0 EHCI ports (two
rear connectors & four headers)
•PS/2 mouse and keyboard
connectors
System Management
•Modular BMC 2x25 pin header for
SMDC support
•Six (6) 4-pin fan headers support
tachometer monitoring and smart
FAN control (PWM), four (4) 3-
pin fan headers support
tachometer monitoring
•Temperature and voltage
monitoring
•Port 80h LED display
Integrated ATA-133
•Two (2) ATA-133 channels for up
to four (4) ATA-133 devices
Integrated SATA Controllers
•Four (4) integrated dual port
SATA controllers (two from
CK804pro and two from IO4)
•Supports up to eight (8) SATA
drives
•Supports up to 3.0Gb/s
•Supports four (4) independent
SATA ports
•Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5
- Supports KCS and BT styles
- Flexible Windows or Linux
Management Solution
- Supports RMCP and SNMP
protocols
- Supports ASF standard and EMP
-12C serial multi-master controllers
and UARTs
- Built-in IPMB connector
- Remote power on/off and reset
support (IPMI-over-LAN)
BIOS
•PhoenixBIOS on 8Mbit LPC Flash
ROM
•ACPI 2.0
•Serial Console Redirect
•USB device boot
•48-bit LBA support
•Power management: S0, S1, S4
and S5
Form Factor
•SSI MEB Footprint (13” x 16”)
•EPS12V/SSI v3.5 (24+8+8) power
connectors
•One (1) serial connector and one
(1) VGA port
•Stacked USB 2.0 connectors
•Stacked PS/2 keyboard and
mouse connectors
•Three (3) RJ-45 LAN connectors
with LEDs
Power Supply
•EPS 12V Power Supply

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Chapter 2: Board Installation
You are now ready to install your motherboard. The mounting hole pattern of
the Thunder n4250QE S4985G3NR matches the SSI MEB specification. Before
continuing with installation, confirm that your chassis supports an SSI MEB
motherboard.
How to install our products right… the first time
The first thing you should do is reading this user’s manual. It contains important
information that will make configuration and setup much easier. Here are some
precautions you should take when installing your motherboard:
(1) Ground yourself properly before removing your motherboard from the
antistatic bag. Unplug the power from your computer power supply and
then touch a safely grounded object to release static charge (i.e. power
supply case). For the safest conditions, TYAN recommends wearing a
static safety wrist strap.
(2) Hold the motherboard by its edges and do not touch the bottom of the
board, or flex the board in any way.
(3) Avoid touching the motherboard components, IC chips, connectors,
memory modules, and leads.
(4) Place the motherboard on a grounded antistatic surface or on the
antistatic bag that the board was shipped in.
(5) Inspect the board for damage.
The following pages include details on how to install your motherboard into your
chassis, as well as installing the processor, memory, disk drives and cables.
NOTE DO NOT APPLY POWER TO THE BOARD IF IT HAS BEEN
DAMAGED

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2.1- Board Image
This picture is representative of the latest board revision available at
the time of publishing. The board you receive may or may not look
exactly like the above picture.

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2.2 - Block Diagram
Thunder n4250QE S4985G3NR Block Diagram

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2.3 - Board Parts, Jumpers and Connectors
This diagram is representative of the latest board revision available at the time of
publishing. The board you receive may not look exactly like the above diagram.

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Jumper Legend
 OPEN - Jumper OFF, without jumper cover
 CLOSED – Jumper ON, with jumper cover
Jumper/Connector Function
J1 SMBUS Connector
J14 Fan Connector (for barebone use only)
J20 Clear CMOS Jumper - Pin 2-3 closed: Normal (Default)
- Pin 1-2 closed: Clear
J22 NMI Header
J30/J95 USB Front Panel Headers J30: USB2
J95: USB3
J101 COM2 Header
J115 Front Panel Header
JP1 RI Header
JP2 Intruder Header
CPUFAN0/1/2/3 CPU Fan Connectors
SYSFAN0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7 Chassis Fan Connectors
SATA0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7 Serial ATA RAID Connectors

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J14: FAN Connector (for barebone use only)
2
1
3
1
14
Use these pin definitions to connect to the barebone
fans.
Signal Pin Pin Signal
CPUFAN0_TACH 1 2 CPUFAN2_TACH
CPUFAN1_TACH 3 4 CPUFAN3_TACH
SYSFAN0_TACH 5 6 CPU_FAN_TACH2
SYSFAN4_TACH 7 8 SYSFAN5_TACH
NC 9 10 NC
GND 11 12 Key
GND 13 14 CPUFAN0_PWM
JP1
J1
J14
J22
JP2
J32

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JP1: RI Header
1
Use this header to connect to the external device
of wake on ring.
JP2: Intruder Header
1
Use this header to connect to the device for
intruder function .
J22: NMI Header
1
Use this header to issue a non-maskable
interrupt.
J1: SMBUS Connector
1
Use this header to connect to the external
SMBUS devices.
J32: External SCSI LED Connector
1
Use this header to connect to the external SCSI
LED.

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J115: Front Panel Header
The Front Panel Header is used to connect some control or signal wires from
motherboard to chassis, such as HDD LED, power LED, power button, and
reset button.
HDDLED+ 1 2 PWR LED+
HDDLED- 3 4 PWR LED-
Reset SW 5 6 PWR SW
Reset SW 7 8 PWR SW
VCC 9 10 NC
IRRX 11 12 VCC
GND 13 14 key
IRTX 15 16 GND
NC 17 18 Speaker
J115
J20
J101 J30
J95

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J20: Clear CMOS Jumper
3
1
Normal
(Default)
1 3
Clear
Use this jumper when you forgot your system/setup
password or need to clear system BIOS setting.
How to clear the CMOS data
-Power off system and disconnect power
supply from AC source
-Use jumper cap to close Pin_1 and 2 for
several seconds to Clear CMOS
-Replace jumper cap to close Pin_2 and 3
Reconnect power supply to AC source
Power on system
J101: COM2 Header
1
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2 10
Use these pin definitions to connect a port to COM2.
*TYAN does not provide cable for this header. It is
designed for OEM use only.
Signal Pin Pin Signal
DCD 1 2 DSR
RXD 3 4 RTS
TXD 5 6 CTS
DTR 7 8 RI
GND 9 10 Key
J30/J95: USB Front Panel Headers
1
9
2 1
0
J30: USB2
J95: USB3
Signal Pin Pin Signal
VCC 1 2 VCC
Data- 3 4 Data-
Data+ 5 6 Data+
GND 7 8 GND
Key 9 10 NA
Use these headers to connect to the USB devices
via the enclosed USB cable.

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SYSFAN4
SATA 0/1/2/3/4/5
/
6/7
SYSFAN3
SYSFAN6
SYSFAN2
SYSFAN1
SYSFAN0
SYSFAN5
SYSFAN7

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CPUFAN0/CPUFAN1/CPUFAN2/CPUFAN3: CPU Fan Connectors
12V
PWM
GND
Ta c ho met e r
Use this header to connect the processor cooling
fan to your motherboard to keep the system at
optimum performance levels.
SYSFAN0/SYSFAN1/SYSFAN2/SYSFAN3/SYSFAN4/SYSFAN5: Chassis
Fan Connectors
12V
PWM
GND
Ta c ho met e r
Use this header to connect the chassis cooling
fan to your motherboard to keep the system at
optimum performance levels.
SYSFAN6/SYSFAN7: Chassis Fan Connectors
+12VSpeedGND
Use this header to connect the chassis cooling
fan to your motherboard to keep the system at
optimum performance levels.
SATA0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7: Serial ATA RAID Connectors
7 GND
6 RXP
5 RXN
4 GND
3 TXN
2 TXP
7
1
1 GND
Connects to the Serial ATA ready drives via the
Serial ATA cable
You may use these eight Serial ATA ports to
have the support of RAID 0, 1, 0+1 or 5
through the on board NVIDIA nForce
Professional chipset (CK804pro & IO4).

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2.4 - Tips on Installing Motherboard in Chassis
Before installing your motherboard, make sure your chassis has the
necessary motherboard support studs installed. These studs are usually
metal and are gold in color. Usually, the chassis manufacturer will pre-install
the support studs. If you are unsure of stud placement, simply lay the
motherboard inside the chassis and align the screw holes of the
motherboard to the studs inside the case. If there are any studs missing,
you will know right away since the motherboard will not be able to be
securely installed.
Some chassis’ include plastic studs instead of metal. Although the plastic
studs are usable, TYAN recommends using metal studs with screws that will
fasten the motherboard more securely in place.
Below is a chart detailing what the most common motherboard studs look
like and how they should be installed.

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2.5 - Installing the Processor(s) & Heatsink(s)
Your Thunder n4250QE S4985G3NR supports the latest processor
technologies from AMD. Check the TYAN website for latest processor support:
http://www.tyan.com

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Processor Installation
The processor should be installed carefully. Make sure you are wearing an
antistatic strap and handle the processor as little as possible.
Follow these instructions to install your processor:
1. Place the PCB such that the socket cam side faces you. Make sure
the lever hook is on your top-left side.
2. Use your left thumb and forefinger to hold the lever hook, then pull it
to the left side to clear the retention tab.
3. Rotate the lever to a fully open position.
4. Lift the load plate to a fully open position.
5. Locate the Pin 1 indicator of the package. Align the package with the
socket and carefully insert the package into the socket with vertical
motion only. Vertically check if the CPU is seated well in the socket
housing. If not, take out the CPU, with vertical motion only, and
repeat the above steps.
NOTE: The alignment keys must be located in the notches of the package.