Supermicro Pentium® D Board PDSLA Motherboard PDSLA User Manual

This manual is written for system integrators, PC technicians and 

knowledgeable PC users.  It provides information for the installation and use of the 

 PDSLA/PDSLE motherboard.  The PDSLA/PDSLE supports single Intel 

Pentium

®

 D/Pentium

®

 4/Celeron Processor in the 775-Land Grid Array Package  at a 

system bus speed of 1066/800/533 MHz.  The Intel Pentium

®

 D/Pentium

®

 4/Celeron 

Processor in the 775-Land Grid Array Package is housed in a Flip-Chip Land Grid Ar-

ray (FC-LGA4) package that interfaces with the motherboard via an LGA775 socket. 

The package consists of a processor core mounted on a substrate land-carrier.  

An integrated heat spreader (IHS) is attached to the package substrate and core 

and serves as the contacting  surface for processor component thermal solutions, 

such as a heatsink.  Please refer to the motherboard specifi cations pages on our 

web site (http://www.supermicro.com/Product_page/product-m.htm) for updates on 

supported processors.  This product is intended to be professionally installed.    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 1 includes a checklist of what should be included in your mainboard box, 

describes the features, specifi cations and performance of the PDSLA/PDSLE main-

board and provides detailed information about the chipset.

Chapter 2 begins with instructions on handling static-sensitive devices.  Read 

this chapter when installing the processor and DDR 2 memory modules and when 

mounting the mainboard in the chassis.  Also refer to this chapter to connect the 

fl oppy and hard disk drives, the IDE interfaces, the parallel and serial ports, the 

mouse and keyboard and the twisted wires for the power supply, the reset button, 

the keylock/power LED and the speaker.

If you encounter any problems, see Chapter 3, which describes troubleshoot-

ing procedures for the video, the memory and the setup confi guration stored in 

CMOS.  For quick reference, a general FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) section 

is provided.  Instructions are also included for contacting technical support.  In ad-

dition, you can visit our web site at www.supermicro.com/techsupport.htm for more 

detailed information. 

 

Chapter 4 includes an introduction to BIOS and provides detailed information on 

running the CMOS Setup utility.

Appendix A provides BIOS POST Messages. 

Appendix B lists BIOS POST Codes. 

 

 

Preface

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