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Preface Preface About This Manual This manual is written for professional system integrators and PC technicians. It provides information for the installation and use of the 4021M-32R server. Installa- tion and maintenance should be performed by experienced technicians only. The 4021M-32R is a high-end server based on the SC745TQ-R800 tower/4U rackmount chassis and the H8DM3-2, a dual processor serverboard that supports AMD Opteron TM 2000 Series Socket F type processors and up to 32 GB of DDR2- 667/533/400 registered ECC SDRAM. Manual Organization Chapter 1:

Introduction The ﬁ rst chapter provides a checklist of the main components included with the server system and describes the main features of the H8DM3-2 serverboard and the SC745TQ-R800chassis, which comprise the 4021M-32R . Chapter 2: Server Installation This chapter describes the steps necessary to install the 4021M-32R into a rack and check out the server conﬁ guration prior to powering up the system. If your server was ordered without processor and memory components, this chapter will refer you to the appropriate se ctions of the manual for their installation. Chapter 3:

System Interface Refer here for details on the system interface, which includes the functions and information provided by the control panel on the chassis as well as other LEDs located throughout the system. iii

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AS4021M-32R User's Manual Chapter 4: System Safety You should thoroughly familiarize yourself with this chapter for a general overview of safety precautions that should be followed when installing and servicing the 4021M-32R. Chapter 5: Advanced Serverboard Setup Chapter 5 provides detailed information on the H8DM3-2 serverboard, including the locations and functions of connections, headers and jumpers. Refer to this chapter when adding or removing processors or main memory and when reconﬁ guring the serverboard. Chapter 6: Advanced Chassis Setup Refer to Chapter 6 for detailed information on the SC745TQ-R800 server chassis.

You should follow the procedures given in this chapter when installing, removing or reconﬁ guring SAS or peripheral drives and when replacing a system power supply or cooling fan. Chapter 7: BIOS The BIOS chapter includes an introduction to BIOS and provides detailed informa- tion on running the CMOS Setup Utility. Appendix A: BIOS Error Beep Codes Appendix B: BIOS POST Checkpoint Codes Appendix C: System Speciﬁ cations iv

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