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Contents
5.25-inch or 3.5-inch drives ....................................................... 2-14
Installing a 5.25-inch drive ............................................ 2-14
Installing a 3.5-inch drive .............................................. 2-15
SATA/SAS hard disk drives ....................................................... 2-16
Hot-swap HDD module ................................................. 2-16
Expansion cards ........................................................................ 2-20
Installing an expansion card ......................................... 2-20
Installing ASUS PIKE RAID card .................................. 2-21
Configuring an expansion card ..................................... 2-22
Cable connections ..................................................................... 2-23
Motherboard connections ............................................. 2-23
SATA/SAS backplane connections .............................. 2-24
Removable components ............................................................ 2-26
System fan .................................................................... 2-26
Chassis footpads .......................................................... 2-28
Power supply unit .......................................................... 2-29
Preparing the system for rack mounting ................................... 3-2
Attaching the inner rail to the server ......................................... 3-2
Attaching the rails to the rack ..................................................... 3-3
Mounting the server to the rack .................................................. 3-4
Motherboard layout ...................................................................... 4-2
Jumpers ........................................................................................ 4-4
Internal connectors ...................................................................... 4-9
Managing and updating your BIOS ............................................ 5-2
Creating a bootable floppy disk ....................................... 5-2
AFUDOS utility ................................................................ 5-3
ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 utility ...................................... 5-6
BIOS setup program .................................................................... 5-7
BIOS menu screen .......................................................... 5-8
Menu bar ......................................................................... 5-8
Navigation keys ............................................................... 5-8