System Board Set - NEC Express5800 series User Manual

System Board Set

The system board set inside the server includes the system board, memory board, and
processor board.
Figures 1-7, 1-8 and 1-9 show the major components on the system board, memory
board, and processor board. Table 1-5 summarizes the features of the board set.
Feature
Multiple processor
slots
Upgradable
memory
Hot Plug PCI slots
SCSI controller
BIOS
Video
External device
connectors
Clock
System hardware
monitoring
Configuration
utilities
1-12 System Overview
Table 1-5. Features of the Board Set
Description
Four processor sockets on the system board.
Twelve DIMM sockets on a single memory board, supporting up to 24 GB
memory using 2 GB DIMMs. Must use four sticks (4-way interleaving)
double-sided buffered type only.
Four hot-plug PCI-X add-in board slot locations (Figure 1-6, A), two non-hot-
plug PCI-X add-in board slot locations (Figure 1-6, B) and two non-hot-plug
PCI add-in board slot locations (Figure 1-6, C). The four hot-plug PCI-X
board slot locations are dedicated 64-bit, 100 MHz PCI-X bus slots. The two
non-hot-plug PCI-X board slot locations are dedicated 64-bit, 100 MHz
PCI-X bus slots. And the two non-hot-plug PCI board slot locations are
dedicated 33-bit, 33MHz PCI bus slots.
Adaptec AIC7899 SCSI controller providing dual channel Ultra160 SCSI
interfaces for the hot swap hard disk drives. This controller also supports
Ultra2 SCSI devices.
Flash memory-based BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) and Setup utilities.
Integrated super SVGA controller ships with 4 MB of video memory.
Connectors for two serial ports, parallel printer port, wide SCSI port, two
USB connectors, one 10/100 BaseTX connector and one 10/100/1000
BaseT connector, two optional ICMB port connectors, PS/2-compatible
keyboard and mouse, and SVGA monitor.
Real-time clock/calendar (RTC).
Contains power interlock switch and sensors for temperature, voltage, and
fan failure.
BIOS Setup and SCSISelect Configuration Utility.