TYAN THUNDER I7501 XTREME, Manual

Page 1: ...ation IBM PC AT PS 2 are trademarks of IBM Corporation Winbond is a trademark of Winbond Electronics Corporation Portable Document Format PDF is a trademark of Adobe Corporation 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 implie...

Page 2: ...Configuration 3 6 Super IO Configuration 3 7 Onboard Device Configuration 3 8 USB Configuration 3 9 PCIPnP 3 10 Chipset 3 11 North Bridge Configuration 3 12 ICH3 Chipset Configuration 3 13 Intel PCI 64 Hub Configuration 3 14 ACPI 3 15 ACPI Advanced 3 16 Boot 3 17 Security 3 18 Exit Chapter 4 Diagnostics 4 1 Hardware Monitor Information 4 2 Beep Codes 4 3 Flash Utility Appendix I Onboard LAN LED Co...

Page 3: ...320 LVD SCSI cable if optional SCSI included 1x Ultra DMA 100 66 33 IDE cable 1x Thunder i7501Xtreme Quick Reference guide sticker 1x Thunder i7501Xtreme User s Manual 1x TYAN driver CD 1x Adaptec Ultra160 Ultra320 SCSI driver diskette if optional SCSI included 1x I O shield with 5 LAN ports If any of these items are missing please contact your vendor dealer for replacement before continuing with ...

Page 4: ...rt for 533 400MHz Chipset Intel E7501 chipset MCH ICH3 P64H2 P64H2 FWH Each P64H2 supports two up to PCI X 133MHz buses Winbond 83627HF Super I O ASIC Memory Six 184 pin 2 5 Volt DDR DIMM sockets Supports up to 12GB of Registered DR200 266 PC1600 PC2100 Dual channel memory bus Supports only Registered ECC type memory modules Expansion Slots Two 64 bit 133 100 66MHz 3 3V PCI X slots One 32 bit 33MH...

Page 5: ...telligent Platform Management Interface ManufacturingOption QLogicTM Zircon Baseboard Management Controller BMC based on powerful ARM7 technology Tailored for IPMI highest 1 5 Spec Supports KCS and BT styles Supports flexible Windows and Linux based Management Solution Supports RMCP and SNMP protocols Supports ASF standard and EMP I2 C serial multi master controllers and UARTs Built in IPMB connec...

Page 6: ...u should do is read this user s manual I t 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 ...

Page 7: ...above photograph is purely representative Due to engineering updates and new board revisions certain components may change and or be repositioned The picture above may or may not look exactly like the board you received The following page includes details on the vital components of this motherboard ...

Page 8: ...oard revision available at the time of publishing The board you receive may or may not look exactly like the above diagram See the jumper descriptions on next page 2 2 LED locations J49 J65 J38 J34 J67 J68 J55 J53 J58 J41 J40 J50 J51 J39 J22 J21 JP3 J42 J43 D36 D11 NOTE See page 11 for information on the LEDs ...

Page 9: ... idea is to run a wire from the activity LED output header of any plug in HD controller car d e g a RAID card to the motherboard so that the card s LED can be combined with the IDE and SCSI activity indicators on the motherboard and then driven to the J40 HD LED output In other words when a card s LED lights up so will the front panel hard disk activity indicator This is useful for chassis that ha...

Page 10: ...J40 Your chassis will usually come with connectors to install onto the motherboard such as HD and Power LEDs The Front Panel Connector J40 has been implemented for such purposes Front Panel Connector J40 Your chassis will usually come with connectors to install onto the motherboard such as HD and Power LEDs The Front Panel Connector J40 has been implemented for such purposes HD LED Header Pin 1 3 ...

Page 11: ...n 3 RPM Read and controlled see information below for fan 3 1 2A 4 Chassis fan 4 RPM Read 1 2A 5 Chassis fan 5 RPM Read 1 2A 6 Chassis fan 6 RPM Read 1 2A 7 Chassis fan 7 None 2A 8 Chassis fan 8 None 2A 9 Chassis fan 9 None 2A 10 Chassis fan 10 None 2A 11 Chassis fan 11 None 2A Use these headers to connect cooling fans both chassis and processor fans to your motherboard Cooling fans help keep the ...

Page 12: ...accepted Slot 2 32 bit 33MHz 5V PCI 5 volt and 3 3 volt cards accepted Slot 3 64 bit 100 133MHz PCI X 2726GN5 non SCSI version supports PCI X 133 3 3 volt cards accepted Supports Zero Channel RAID The PCI X slots on the Thunder i7501 Xtreme operate on independent PCI X buses which gives you maximum bandwidth ...

Page 13: ... 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 t...

Page 14: ... motherboards they will not work if you are required to run the motherboard and processor buses at 133MHz For this PC2100 DDR modules are required Critically important is whether you re using the recommended memory for the current board you have For this information please check Tyan s web site at www tyan com The following diagrams show some types of DDR modules you may encounter Double Sided x4 ...

Page 15: ... DDR DIMM sockets The method of installing memory modules is detailed in the following diagrams Once the memory modules are firmly seated in the socket two clamps on either side will close and secure the module into the socket Sometimes you may need to close the clamps manually To remove the memory module simply push the clamps outwards until the memory module pops up Then simply remove the module...

Page 16: ...s Mixing memory types may affect stability RAM chips are organized as x4 bits or x8 bits On a memory module you re just lining all these chips up in parallel so you have a 64 bit wide data bus All 512MB modules are made using 16 piecesc of either 64Mbit x4 or 32Mbit x8 If you use sixteen x8 chips you would get a 128 bit data bus so it has to be split into two separate banks Each with 64 bit bus Th...

Page 17: ...correct way 3 Seat the processor firmly into the socket by gently pressing down until the processor sits flush with the socket 4 Place the socket lever back down until it snaps into place 5 Your processor is installed 6 Repeat these steps for the second processor if you are using two processors Take care when installing Xeon processors as they have fragile connector pins and can bend and break if ...

Page 18: ...tion modules 1 Align the heatsink mounting bracket to the holes around the processor socket 2 Insert Black securing peg into bracket holes 3 Insert White locking peg into Black securing peg 4 Repeat process to mount all other brackets 5 Seat heatsink between brackets on processor 6 Attach heatsink clips ...

Page 19: ...be connected in the correct manner Tyan motherboards have two on board IDE channels each supporting two drives The black connector designates the Primary channel while the white connector designates the Secondary channel Attaching IDE cables to the IDE connectors is illustrated below Simply plug in the BLUE END of the IDE cable into the motherboard IDE connector and the other end s into the drive ...

Page 20: ...es connected at any given time Below are some symptoms of incorrectly installed floppy drives While they are minor and installing them incorrectly doesn t cause severe problems it may cause your system to freeze or crash when trying to read and or write to diskettes Symptoms of incorrectly installed floppy drives Drive is not automatically detected Usually caused by faulty cables cables put in bac...

Page 21: ...e It s better to try another slot or return the faulty card rather than damaging both the motherboard and the add in card TIP It s good practice to install add in cards in a staggered manner rather than directly adjacent to each other This allows air to more easily circulate within the chassis providing improved cooling for all installed devices NOTE YOU MUST unplug the power connector from the mo...

Page 22: ...They were primarily used to connect external modems but most modems today are using USB or are installed internally TIP While the ports have been created to accept connectors in only one direction Attaching connectors in the incorrect orientation can damage bend and or break the pins 2 13 Installing the Power Supply There are two power connectors on your Thunder i7501Xtreme By default the Thunder ...

Page 23: ...roperly especially IDE cables and most importantly jumpers You may have difficulty powering on your system if the motherboard jumpers are not set correctly In the rare circumstance that you have experienced difficulty you can find help by asking your vendor for assistance If they are not available for assistance please find setup information and documentation online at our website or by calling yo...

Page 24: ...f the industry standard BIOS for IBM PC AT compatible personal computers The BIOS provides critical low level support for the system s central processing unit CPU memory and I O subsystems This BIOS has been customized by adding important features such as virus and password protection power management and chipset tuning features that control the system This section will guide you through the proce...

Page 25: ... best advice is to only alter settings that you thoroughly understand In particular do not change settings in the Chipset section unless you are absolutely sure of the outcome Tyan or your system manufacturer for the best performance and reliability carefully chose the Chipset defaults Even a seemingly small change to the Chipset setup options may cause the system to become unstable or unusable Se...

Page 26: ... 2 Advanced Settings IDE Configuration Floppy Configuration Boot Settings Configuration Super IO Configuration Remote Access Configuration Onboard Device Configuration USB Configuration All settings discussed in following sections 3 3 IDE Configuration Options related to the IDE controller can be altered through the following Onboard PCI IDE Controller Both Primary Secondary Leave as Default This ...

Page 27: ... rate SystemKeyboard Present Unavailable Will allow continual boot even if the keyboard is not attached Parity Check Enabled Disabled Toggles checking of system memory for corruption Wait for F1 if error Enabled Disabled If Enabled you will have to press F1 for the system to continue booting if an error is detected during POST Hit Del Message Enabled Disabled Toggles display of pressing DEL key to...

Page 28: ...ted to the Plug and Play PCI settings interface can be altered through the following Plug Play OS Yes No Toggles the option of letting the OS take care of IRQ routing or the BIOS Select Yes to let the OS manage IRQ settings Reset Config Data Yes No Resets BIOS area where IRQ and DMA settings are stored PCI Latency Timer 32 64 96 128 160 192 224 248 Leave on 64 for best combination of performance a...

Page 29: ...pace and type new ratio Hyper Threading Enable This setting allows you to take advantage of Hyper Threading enabled Xeon processors Enabling Hyper Threading allows a compatible Xeon processor to process applications that are written for a multi processor system even if you are using only one Xeon processor 3 12 ICH3 Chipset Configuration Please leave all options in this section at their default se...

Page 30: ...se leave this option at its default setting 3 14 ACPI Options related to power management settings can be altered through the following options ACPI APIC Support This option allows you to define whether or not to enable ACPI management features BIOS à AML ACPIStable Please leave this option at its default setting This setting toggles BIOS control of ACPI power features Headless Mode After Power Fa...

Page 31: ...DROM Drives Specifies the boot sequence for CD ROM drive booting This option will show all CD ROM devices Interrupt 19 Capture This option allows removable devices to act as non removable devices Some SCSI RAID cards will need this one enabled Please refer to your SCSI card s manual 3 17 Security Options related system security can be altered through the following Change Supervisor Password Change...

Page 32: ... Volt 5V 0 0x23h System Volt 12V 0 0x24h R1 28K R2 10K Battery Voltage 5 0x51h System VRM temp 0 0x27h 2N3904 diode CPU1 533FSB temp 1 0x50h PII compatible diode CPU2 533FSB temp 2 0x50h PII compatible diode W83627HF Super IO hardware Monitor Information Hardware Monitor Chip 2 WinbondW83627HF Super IO Slave Address 0x2ah Chip Clock 48 000MHz Sensor Name Bank Register Chassis Fan 4 0 0x28h Chassis...

Page 33: ...HANNEL DEVICES X X X Winbond 83782D Always on 1 1 3 DIMM SPD 6 devices and CK408B clock chip 0 1 2 CPU1 and CPU2 Thermal sensor Super IO W83627HF 1 0 1 Reserved 0 0 0 Reserved Note if you experience problems with setting up your system always check the following things in the following order Memory Video CPU By checking these items you will most likely find out what the problem might have been whe...

Page 34: ...6 Keyboard controller BAT test error 7 General exception error 8 Display memory error 9 ROM checksum error 10 CMOS shutdown register read write error 11 Cache memory bad Number of Beeps Trouble shooting action 1 2 or 3 Reseat the memory or replace with known good modules Make sure they are Registered ECC 4 7 9 11 Fatal error indicating a serious problem with the system Consult your system manufact...

Page 35: ... to the floppy disk and flash the bios The correct way to flash the BIOS on this board is as follows AMIFLASH 2726v100 rom a b c Where 2726v100 rom is the bios version you downloaded from our website this is an example The space between the characters a b c are very important If you leave out the spaces only the first parameter will be used Please note that you must use ALL the parameters to succe...

Page 36: ...reen Linked at 100 Mbps 100 BaseTX Activity at 100 Mbps Yellow Blink Yellow Off Off Linked at 1000 Mbps 1000 BaseT Activity at 1000 Mbps Yellow Blink Yellow Green Blink Green LAN1 Port 10 100 Mbps Intel 82551 RJ 45 Connector J54 Left LED Right LED Network link not established Off Off Linked at 10 Mbps 10 BaseT Activity at 10 Mbps Off Off Green Blink Green Linked at 100 Mbps 100 BaseTX Activity at ...

Page 37: ...Program Load IPL devices and then stores that list in NVRAM IPL devices have the ability to load and execute an OS as well as provide the ability to return to the BIOS if the OS load process fails for some reason At that point the next IPL device is called upon to attempt loading of the OS BIOS Basic Input Output System the program that resides in the ROM chip and provides the basic instructions f...

Page 38: ...cause the physical slot and the logical unit are the same That is one DIMM module fits into one DIMM socket which is capable of acting as a memory bank DMA Direct Memory Access channels that are similar to IRQs DMA channels allow hardware devices like soundcards or keyboards to access the main memory without involving the CPU This frees up CPU resources for other tasks As with IRQs it is vital tha...

Page 39: ...lt into BBS compliant devices describing those devices as capable of loading and executing an OS as well as being able to provide control back to the BIOS if the loading attempt fails IPL see Initial Program Load IRQ Interrupt Request an electronic request that runs from a hardware device to the CPU The interrupt controller assigns priorities to incoming requests and delivers them to the CPU It is...

Page 40: ...ts that together make up the Wired for Management 2 0 baseline specification PXE was designed to define a standard set of preboot protocol services within a client towards the goal of allowing networked based booting to boot using industry standard protocols RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks a way for the same data to be stored in different places on many hard drives By using this method t...

Page 41: ...y standard V SYNC controls the vertical scanning properties of the monitor WakeO n LAN WOL A remote wake up technology that enables you to remotely power systems on for off hours maintenance A result of the Intel IBM Advanced Manageability Alliance and part of the Wired for Management Baseline Specification this technology helps save time on automated software installations upgrades disk backups a...

Page 42: ...M7 technology IT manager can rest assure his server machines are always taken care Tyan SMDC is not a peripheral card Unlike regular peripheral card such as AGP card Network card or SCSI card SMDC does not require any hardware specific driver As long as a standby power comes into the system SMDC will begin looking after the system Tyan SMDC provides diversified methods to communicate with the hard...

Page 43: ...43 http www TYAN com Appendix IV Riser Cards Please check with your distributor for these riser cards or check http www etyan com to purchase the desired card s ...

Page 44: ... j33 10 PIN header j34 DCD 1 1 RX 2 3 TX 3 5 DTR 4 7 GND 5 9 DSR 6 2 RTS 7 4 CTS 8 6 RI 9 8 NC KEY NC KEY 10 pin one is identified on the motherboard and also on page 8 J53 j58 J67 J68 Intel 82546 4 pin external activity J55 Intel 82551 4 pin external activity J22 Speaker header pin one is identified on the motherboard and also on page 8 J34 header as appears on motherboard Pin 1 VCC Pin 2 No Conn...

Page 45: ... 19 I2C3DA 20 5VSB1 21 I2C2CLK 22 I2C2DA 23 5VSB2 24 GND7 25 PWRBTN 26 PCIPME 27 RSTBTN 28 SVM_IRQ 29 SLPBTN 30 SVM_WOL 31 EXTSMI 32 SVM_THERM NIC four pin Header Pin Out j53 J55 J58 J67 J68 pin one is identified on the motherboard and also on page 8 J50 j51 labeled onboard as USB3 USB4 pin one is identified on the motherboard and also on page 8 Pin 1 VCC Pin 2 USBD 2 3 R Pin3 USBD 2 3 R Pin4 Gnd ...

Page 46: ...the beep codes section of this manual 2 See the TYAN website for FAQ s bulletins driver updates and other information http www TYAN com 3 Contact your dealer for help BEFORE calling TYAN 4 Check the TYAN user group alt comp periphs mainboard TYAN Returning Merchandise for Service During the warranty period contact your distributor or system vendor FIRST for any product problems This warranty only ...

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Page 48: ...on a circuit different from that of the receiver Consult the dealer on an experienced radio television technician for help Notice for Canada This apparatus complies with the Class B limits for radio interference as specified in the Canadian Department of Communications Radio Interference Regulations Cet appareil est conforme aux norms de Classe B d interference radio tel que specifie par le Minist...