Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 - Congratulations
You have purchased one of the most powerful server solutions available. The
Thunder h2000M (S3992-E) is a high-end server motherboard, based on the
ServerWorks BCM5780 & BCM5785 chipsets. It also includes the SMSC
SCH4307 Super I/O and SMSC EMC6D103 Hardware Monitoring chipsets.
This motherboard is designed to support up to two AMD Opteron™ Rev. F 2000
Series / Barcelona Quad core processors and DDRII 667/533 memory. The
S3992-E is ideal for CPU, memory, and network intensive applications required
in the HPC and clustering environments.
Remember to visit TYAN's Website at http://www.tyan.com. There you can find
information on all of TYAN's products with FAQs, online manuals and BIOS
upgrades.
1.2 - Hardware Specifications
Processors
• Two uPGA 1207-pin ZIF sockets
•
Supports up to two AMD Opteron
Rev. F 2000 Series Santa Rosa Dual
core processors, and Barcelona Quad
core processors
• Supports AMD dual dynamic power
feature
•
Integrated 128-bit DDRII memory
controller
Chipset
• ServerWorks BCM5780 (HT2000) +
BCM5785 (HT1000) chipsets
•
SMSC SCH4307 Super I/O chip
*
S3992 and S3992-E are with
different Super I/O chips.
Memory
•
128-bit dual channel memory bus
•
Total sixteen (16) 240-pin 1.8V DDRII
DIMM sockets (8 on CPU1 and 8 on
CPU2)
•
Supports up to DDRII 667MHz
•
Registered, ECC module supported
Integrated Video Controller
•
ATI ES1000 controller
TM
•
32MB DDR frame buffer
Integrated Enhanced IDE
Controller
•
Single-channel master mode supports
up to two IDE devices
•
Supports IDE drives and ATAPI-
compliant devices
Integrated SATA Controllers
•
Supports four SATA ports at 1.5 Gb/s
with NCQ (BCM5785 Chipset)
*
•
RAID 0/1/5/10 supported
BIOS
• AMI BIOS on 8Mbit LPC Flash ROM
• ACPI 2.0 and SRAT support
• PXE via Ethernet, USB device boot
• SMBIOS 2.3.1, BBS 1.1 compliant
• Headless Operation via serial console
redirect
•
48-bit LBA Support
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