About This Manual; About This Motherboard - Supermicro X11DAi-N User Manual

About This Manual

This manual is written for system integrators, IT technicians, and knowledgeable end users.
It provides information for the installation and use of the X11DAi-N motherboard.

About This Motherboard

The Super X11DAi-N motherboard supports dual Intel® Xeon 81xx/61xx/51xx/41xx/31xx Series
(Socket P) processors with a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of up to 205W and UPI (UltaPath
Interconnect) of up to 10.4 GT/s. With the Intel® C621 PCH built-in, this motherboard supports
four PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots, two PCI-E 3.0 x8 slots, ten SATA 3.0 connections, and LRDIMM/
RDIMM/NVDIMM DDR4 ECC 2666 MHz (max) memory in 16 memory slots. The X11DAi-N
provides maximum performance, system cooling, and PCI-E capacity currently available on
the market. This motherboard is optimized for high-performance computing platforms, and
is ideal for use in data centers. Please note that this motherboard is intended to be installed
and serviced by professional technicians only. For processor/memory updates, please refer
to our website at http://www.supermicro.com/products/.
Manual organization
Chapter 1 describes the features, specifications and performance of the motherboard, and
provides detailed information on the Intel C621 chipset.
Chapter 2 provides hardware installation instructions. Read this chapter when installing the
processor, memory modules and other hardware components into the system.
If you encounter any problems, see Chapter 3, which describes troubleshooting procedures
for video, memory and system setup stored in the CMOS.
Chapter 4 includes an introduction to the BIOS, and provides detailed information on running
the CMOS Setup utility.
Appendix A provides BIOS Error Beep Codes.
Appendix B lists software program installation instructions.
Appendix C lists standardized warning statements in various languages.
Appendix D contains UEFI BIOS Recovery instructions.
Preface
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Preface