About This Manual; Manual Organization - Supermicro H8DC8 User Manual

Preface
Preface

About This Manual

This manual is written for system integrators, PC technicians and
knowledgeable PC users. It provides information for the installation and use of the
H8DC8/H8DCi serverboard. The H8DC8/H8DCi is based on the nVidia® nForce
Pro 2200/2050 chipset and supports single or dual AMD Opteron 200 series type
processors in 940-pin microPGA ZIF sockets and up to 32 GB of DDR333 or
DDR266 or up to 16 GB of DDR400 registered ECC SDRAM.
Please refer to the serverboard specifi cations pages on our web site for updates on
supported processors (http://www.supermicro.com/aplus/). This product is intended
to be professionally installed.

Manual Organization

Chapter 1 includes a checklist of what should be included in your serverboard
box, describes the features, specifi cations and performance of the serverboard and
provides detailed information about the chipset.
Chapter 2 begins with instructions on handling static-sensitive devices. Read this
chapter when installing the processor(s) and memory modules and when installing
the serverboard in a chassis. Also refer to this chapter to connect the fl oppy and
hard disk drives, the parallel and serial ports, the mouse and keyboard and the
twisted wires for the power and reset buttons and the system LEDs.
If you encounter any problems, see Chapter 3, which describes troubleshooting
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 pro-
vided. Instructions are also included for contacting technical support. In addition,
you can visit our web site 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 Error Beep Code Messages.
Appendix B lists BIOS POST Checkpoint Codes.
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