ASUS TS300-E3 User Manuals

Table of Contents

• System package contents

  1
• System specifications

  1
• System specifications

  1
• Front panel features

  1
• Rear panel features

  1
• Internal features

  1
• LED information

  1
• Chassis cover

  2
• Removing the side cover

  2
• Reinstalling the side cover

  2
• Motherboard overview

  2
• Central Processing Unit (CPU)

  2
• Installing the CPU

  2
• Installing the CPU heatsink and airduct assembly

  2
• System memory

  2
• Overview

  2
• Memory configurations

  2
• Installing a DIMM

  2
• Removing a DIMM

  2
• Front panel assembly

  2
• Removing the front panel assembly

  2
• Reinstalling the front panel assembly

  2
• 5.25-inch drives

  2
• Hard disk drives

  2
• Installing a hot-swap SATA/SCSI HDD

  2
• Installing an HDD dummy cover

  2
• Expansion cards

  2
• Installing an expansion card

  2
• Removing an expansion card

  2
• Cable connections

  2
• Motherboard connections

  2
• SATA backplane connections

  2
• SCSI backplane connections

  2
• Removable components

  2
• Chassis fan

  2
• HDD blower

  2
• SATA/SCSI backplane

  2
• Floppy disk drive

  2
• Front I/O board

  2
• Chassis footpads and roller wheels

  2
• Power supply unit

  2
• Preparing the system for rack mounting

  3
• Motherboard layouts

  4
• Jumpers

  4
• Internal connectors

  4
• Managing and updating your BIOS

  5
• Creating a bootable floppy disk

  5
• AFUDOS utility

  5
• ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2 utility

  5
• ASUS Update utility

  5
• BIOS setup program

  5
• BIOS menu screen

  5
• Menu bar

  5
• Navigation keys

  5
• Menu items

  5
• Sub-menu items

  5
• Configuration fields

  5
• Pop-up window

  5
• Scroll bar

  5
• General help

  5
• Main menu

  5
• 5.3.1 System Time

  5
• 5.3.2 System Date

  5
• 5.3.3 Legacy Diskette A

  5
• 5.3.4 IDE Configuration

  5
• 5.3.6 System Information

  5
• Advanced menu

  5
• 5.4.1 MPS Configuration

  5
• 5.4.2 CPU Configuration

  5
• 5.4.3 Chipset Configuration

  5
• 5.4.4 Onboard Devices Configuration

  5
• 5.4.5 PCI PnP

  5
• Power Configuration

  5
• ACPI APIC support

  5
• APM configuration

  5
• Hardware Monitor

  5
• Server menu

  5
• Remote Access Configuration

  5
• Boot menu

  5
• Boot Device Priority

  5
• Boot Settings Configuration

  5
• Security

  5
• Exit menu

  5
• Setting up RAID

  6
• RAID definitions

  6
• Installing hard disk drives

  6
• Setting the RAID item in BIOS

  6
• RAID configuration utilities

  6
• LSI Logic Embedded SATA RAID Setup Utility

  6
• Creating a RAID 0 or RAID 1 set

  6
• Creating a RAID 10 set

  6
• Adding or viewing a RAID configuration

  6
• Initializing the logical drives

  6
• Rebuilding failed drives

  6
• Checking the drives for data consistency

  6
• Deleting a RAID configuration

  6
• Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set

  6
• Enabling the WriteCache

  6
• Global Array Manager

  6
• Adaptec SCSISelect(TM) Utility! (P5MT-S model only)

  6
• Configuring the SCSI controller

  6
• Enabling the HostRAID controller

  6
• Creating a RAID 0 set (Stripe)

  6
• Creating a RAID 1 set (Mirror)

  6
• Creating a RAID 10 set (Stripe+Mirror)

  6
• Adding a spare drive to a RAID 10 set

  6
• Deleting a RAID 10 set spare drive

  6
• Deleting a RAID set

  6
• Rebuilding a RAID set

  6
• 6.4.10 Verifying a RAID set hard disk drive

  6
• 6.4.11 Making a RAID set bootable

  6
• RAID driver installation

  7
• Creating a RAID driver disk

  7
• Installing the RAID controller driver

  7
• LAN driver installation

  7
• Windows® 2000/2003 Server

  7
• Red Hat® Enterprise ver. 3.0

  7
• VGA driver installation

  7
• Windows® 2000 Server

  7
• Windows® 2003 Server

  7
• Red Hat® Enterprise ver. 3.0

  7
• Management applications and utilities installation

  7
• Running the support CD

  7
• Drivers menu

  7
• Management Software menu

  7
• Utilities menu

  7
• Contact information

  7