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Page 1 This manual is the property of the Inspur Group Co., Ltd. This User Manual is not to be copied by any group or person in any manner without the consent of Inspur Group Co., Ltd. The Inspur Group Co., Ltd. reserves the right of revising this manual momentarily.
Page 2 5. Please read carefully our user manual before you use Inspur Yingxin server. 6. We must call your attention that in the application process you should pay attention to doing necessary backup of your ﬁ...
Page 3 9. The copyright of the marks and names of all the software and hardware products involved in this manual is reserved by the relevant companies. 10. In the statements above, “us” indicates Inspur Group Co., Ltd; Inspur Group Co., Ltd. holds the right of ﬁ nal explanation about the above statements.
Page 4 In this chapter, solutions of some common problems are introduced. We suggest you read this manual seriously before you use this server for sake of the unnecessary faults in your operation. Address: No.1036 Langchao Road, Jinan City, China ( Inspur Group Co., Ltd.) Postcode: 250101...
Page 5: Table Of Contents
4.2 Control Key Application ................21 4.3 SATA HostRaid Conﬁ guration ..............21 Chapter Five Operating System Installation ............25 5.1 Application Instructions for Inspur Driver U Disk ........26 5.2 Manually Install Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition .....30 5.3 Manually Install Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition .....36 5.4 Manually Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 ........40...
Page 6: Chapter One Safety Information
Inspur; only maintenance technicians trained by Inspur have the right to disassemble the cover of the host, dismount and replace the internal components.
Page 7 Chapter One Safety Information the electrician, please. Warning 6: To avoid short circuit of internal components and ﬁ re or electric shock hazards, please do not ﬁ ll any object into the open pores of the system. Warning 7: Please place the system far away from the cooling plate and at the place with heat sources, and be sure not to block the air vents.
Page 8 - Close the cover of the host, re-connect the system to the power socket, and then start the equipment. - In case of operation failure or abnormal situation, please contact Inspur and get technical support. 3. Pay attention to the position of the system cables and power cables, wire them in places not to be stepped on or knocked down and ensure not to place other objectives on the cables.
Page 9 7. When dismounting the internal components with the approval of Inspur, please pay attention to the following matters: - Switch off the system power supply and disconnect the cables, including disconnecting any connection of the system.
Page 10 Chapter One Safety Information the components or connection points on the plug-in cards. When taking the plug-in cards or components, you should grab the edges of the plug-in cards or components or their metal ﬁ xed supports. 8. During the process of cabinet installation and application, please pay attention to the following matters: - After the installation of cabinet is ﬁ...
Page 11: Chapter Two Product Description
Chapter Two Product Description Chapter Two Product Description 2.1 Server Technical Speciﬁ cation Processors Processor Type Dual-processor Intel Xeon 5500 and 5600 series CPU Interface LGA1366 Sockets Chipset North bridge: Intel 5500 chipset Chipset Type South bridge: Intel ICH10R controller Memory Memory Type DDR3 ECC Unbuffered/Registered memory...
Page 12 External Storage Driver Floppy driver Optional USB ﬂ oppy driver Optional Inspur driver U disk, used to load hard disk controller Inspur driver U disk driver when installing the operating system manually CD-ROM(optional) Optional SATA standard CD-ROM or USB CD-ROM...
Page 13: Front Panel Introduction
Chapter Two Product Description 2.2 Front Panel Introduction Front Panel View Number Name Function and Introduction Power button Server on/off button Reset button System reset button Power indicator Always on when server works Display hard disk working condition, blinks Hard disk LED indicator when hard disk is reading and writing Network card 1st indicator light Always on: network is connected Blinking: data are being transmitted...
Page 14: Back Panel Introduction
Chapter Two Product Description 2.3 Back Panel Introduction 2.3.1 Back Panel View Back Panel View Number Name Function and Introduction Power interface Connect the host power line Power fan Power cooling fan I/O interface Input/output interface Chassis fan System cooling fan Expansion devices connecting PCI and PCI and PCI-E expansion slot PCI-E interfaces...
Page 15 Chapter Two Product Description 2.3.2 I/O Interface I/O Interface View Number Name Function and speciﬁ cation PS/2 mouse interface For connecting PS/2 mouse PS/2 keyboard interface For connecting PS/2 keyboard Rear USB interfaces 1, 2 For connecting USB interface devices Serial interface For connecting serial interface devices VGA interface...
Page 16: Chapter Three System Setup
Chapter Three System Setup Chapter Three System Setup In this chapter, the regular jumper of motherboard and BIOS function setup of this server are introduced. Only operator or administrator with qualiﬁ cation of system maintenance can implement these operations described in this part. 3.1 Motherboard BIOS Setup BIOS is a basic input and output system.
Page 17 Chapter Three System Setup 3.1.2 BIOS System Menu Introduction Next the following main function menus of BIOS are introduced. Menu Name Menu Function Configuring the basic system settings, such as system time, system Main date, SATA controller; displaying BIOS, CPU information etc Advanced Conﬁ...
Page 18 Chapter Three System Setup ● System Time Set the system time, adopting 24 hour system, in format of [hour/minute/second]. ● System Date Set the system date, in format of [week month/date/year]. ● SATA1- SATA6 Display information of IDE equipment connected on each SATA1-6 interface, press [Enter] to see the detailed information of equipment, and you can carry out some settings.
Page 19 Chapter Three System Setup CPU Conﬁ guration Chipset Conﬁ guration Legacy Device Conﬁ guration USB Conﬁ guration PCIPnP Conﬁ guration Power On Conﬁ guration Event Log Conﬁ guration Hardware Monitor I/O Virtualization PCI Express Conﬁ guration ACPI Conﬁ guration ● CPU Conﬁ guration This menu is used to display system installed CPU detailed information (including manufacturers, CPU frequency, CPU level-1cache, level-2 cache and level-3 cache capacity, etc.) and to change CPU related setting options, for example, some functions...
Page 20 Chapter Three System Setup default value. * South Bridge Conﬁ guration This menu is used to change related settings of south bridge. USB Functions This menu is used to set up USB interface number to open, including [Disabled] and [2 USB Ports, [4 USB Ports] and [5 USB Ports] four options. USB 2.0 Controller This menu is used to open or close USB 2.0 controller.
Page 21 Chapter Three System Setup ● Power On Conﬁ guration * Restore on AC Power Loss It is the power state configuration after the system powers down. [Power Off] is shutdown state which needs to power on manually; [Last state] is the state when it powers down last time;...
Page 22 Chapter Three System Setup * Wait for ‘F1’ If Error When there is error during system startup, whether it is to press <F1>. * Hit ‘DEL’ Message Display During system startup, whether it is to display “Press DEL to run Setup”. ●...
Page 23: System Jumper
Chapter Three System Setup 4. Exit menu The options in Exit menu can be used to save or discard the settings of the changes in the BIOS and exit the setting program. ●Exit & Save Changes Select this item and press [Enter]. After you select <OK> for conﬁ rmation, the changes in the BIOS settings will be saved and the system will exit the BIOS setup.
Page 24 3.2.1 Open the Chassis Side Panel If the user need alter motherboard jumpers, please ﬁ rst obtain the authorization of Inspur Group Co., Ltd. Then open the chassis side panel according to the following steps: 1. Power off the system (disconnect AC power cable).
Page 25 Chapter Three System Setup Jumper name Function description Jumper function Short-cutting pin1 and 2 to enable onboard Enable/disable onboard network controller 2 (default). LAN_SW2 network controller 2 Short-cutting pin2 and 3 to disable onboard network controller Short-cutting pin1 and 2 to enable onboard Enable/disable onboard network controller 1 (default).
Page 26: Chapter Four Sata Raid Setup
Chapter Four SATA RAID Setup Chapter Four SATA RAID Setup This chapter mainly introduces the conﬁ guration of onboard Intel SATA controller HostRaid and its application method. If the server you purchased does not use onboard SATA HostRaid, you can not refer to this chapter. 4.1 How to Enter the Conﬁ...
Page 27 Chapter Four SATA RAID Setup The executable menus of the conﬁ guration interface of SATA HostRAID are the following ﬁ ve: ● Create RAID Volume Create RAID Volume. ● Delete RAID Volume Delete the existing RAID Volume. ● Reset Disks to Non-RAID Reset Disks to Non-RAID ●...
Page 28 Chapter Four SATA RAID Setup RAID0: it allows 2 or more than two hard disks to create this RAID volume. RAID1: it allows two hard disks to create this RAID volume. Recovery: it allows two hard disks to create this RAID volume. RAID10: it allows four hard disks to create this RAID volume.
Page 29 Chapter Four SATA RAID Setup otherwise, please enter “N”. III . Reset Disks to Non-RAID menu III . Reset Disks to Non-RAID menu After entering the conﬁ guration interface of SATA HostRAID, you can select the menu by up and down arrows, and then press [Enter] to the menu. The system will display all hard disks in RAID volume;...
Page 30: Chapter Five Operating System Installation
Inspur driver U disk to load the driver of hard disk controller. Refer to the readme.pdf ﬁ le under the root directory in Inspur driver CD for the making method of the driver ﬂ oppy disk. If the system you purchased is conﬁ gured with Inspur driver U disk, you may refer to relevant contents of this chapter for the making method of Inspur driver U disk.
Page 31: Application Instructions For Inspur Driver U Disk
Inspur driver U disk to the USB interface of the computer, as shown in the picture below. Inspur driver U disk will be identiﬁ ed as two parts: simulation ﬂ oppy driver [3½ Floppy (A)] and normal partition of U disk [Removable Disk (E:)], in which, the disk character E in [Removable Disk (E)] will be different according to the actual partitions of your computer.
Page 32 A:, and only by this can the normal making of subsequent driver be guaranteed. 2. Put the driver CD (Inspur driver CD and RAID card driver CD) into the CD- ROM, and the driver making software will operate automatically. If the system forbids the automatic operation of CD, please enter CD directory and operate documents of dolphin.bat (Inspur driver CD) in CD or setup.exe (RAID card driver CD) in CD...
Page 33 Chapter Five Operating System Installation Input the navigation code in the text box (the navigation code is shown in CD box), click [OK] button, and it can log in the main interface of driver making software. Click [Cancel] button and exit the logging. (2) Having input the navigation code and logged in the system, enter the main interface of driver making software, and the main interface is shown in the following picture:...
Page 34 The system will display a prompt as shown in the following picture. Please conﬁ rm that Inspur driver U disk is well connected, and format the ﬂ oppy A: of Inspur driver U disk, and then click [OK] to start the driver making.
Page 35: Manually Install Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Inspur driver U disk, entering the interface of disk partition, the Inspur driver U disk will occupy a disk letter. If the disk is not divided, U disk will occupy disk C: and if the disk has other partitions, U disk will occupy other disk letter (please distinguish according to the actual hard disk partition).
Page 36 Chapter Five Operating System Installation applied, please make the driver into the ﬂ oppy disk. If Inspur driver U disk is applied, please make the driver into the Inspur driver U disk.) 5.2.2 Installation steps 1. Connect USB ﬂ oppy or Inspur driver U disk to the USB interface of the server, power up to start the server, and put the installation CD of Windows Server 2003 into CD-ROM and select to boot from CD.
Page 37 Chapter Five Operating System Installation disk (A:)] partition of Inspur driver U disk. ⊙ If using SATA HostRaid of onboard SATA controller, in drive lists, select “Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO SATA RAID Controller”, and then press [Enter] to load the drive. ⊙ If using AHCI mode of onboard SATA controller, in drive lists, select “ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller”, and then press [Enter] to load the drive.
Page 38 Chapter Five Operating System Installation Create partition of size <in MB>: Press [Backspace] to delete the numeral in the frame, input the size of the disk partitions you want to create and then press [Enter] to continue. Note: it is suggested that the partition should be more than 30GB. 8.
Page 39 SP2 patch program. You won’t need to do this if you are using the installation CD for operating system of integrated SP2 patch. 22. Install Chipset patch (1) Insert the Inspur driver CD into CD-ROM, input the navigation No. on the...
Page 40 CD and restart the system. 23. Install Network card driver (1) Insert the Inspur driver CD into CD-ROM, input the navigation No. on the driver CD set in the navigation No. veriﬁ cation interface popped up after the running of CD, click <OK>...
Page 41: Manually Install Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition
● Intel SATA Hostraid driver_EM64T for Windows 2008 driver(if USB ﬂ oppy driver is applied, please make the driver into the ﬂ oppy disk. If Inspur driver U disk is applied, please make the driver into the Inspur driver U disk).
Page 42 (2) When powering up and starting the installation of the operating system, connect the Inspur driver U disk to the USB interface on the server. (3) Please select <Load Driver> in the interface of “Where do you want to install Windows?”...
Page 43 Chapter Five Operating System Installation (6) The driver of hard disk controller is installed. 9. In the disk partition operation interface, select option <Drive Options> and perform the following operation: ⊙ It can delete the existing partitions by selecting the existing partitions and then clicking <Delete>.
Page 44 14. Install Chipset patch (1) Insert Inspur driver CD into CD-ROM, click the blue dolphin icon under the installation or operation procedure item in the automatically playing interface popped out after the disk’s running, and input the navigation No. on the driver CD set in the navigation No.
Page 45: Manually Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2
● Installation CD of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (ﬁ ve pieces of CD or one piece of DVD, here taking example of DVD for 64bit operating system) ● Inspur driver CD 5.4.2 Installation Steps 1. Power up to start the system and put the installation CD into the CD-ROM (here...
Page 46 Chapter Five Operating System Installation to boot from the CD. 2. When the screen displays boot: please press [Enter] to continue; the system begins to load ﬁ le and continues to install. In onboard SATA AHCI Mode, please input “linux nodmraid” after boot:, then press [Enter] to continue installation.
Page 47 Chapter Five Operating System Installation “Swap” in File system Type and input the size (MB) of the swap partition in Size (MB) (set according to the size of memory, if the memory is smaller than 512MB, set as twice of it. If the memory exceeds 512MB, you can set it as 2GB), and then click <OK> to ﬁ...
Page 48 <Finish> to ﬁ nish the installation. 28. Log in system. 5.4.3 Install Network Card Driver 1. Insert Inspur driver CD into CD-ROM, click Terminal menu in Applications→ Accessories, and input the following in the windows: #cd / #mount /dev/cdrom /mnt...
Page 49 Chapter Five Operating System Installation shall prevail.) 2. Log in the system after the restart, and click Network in System→Administration. 3. Enter the interface of Network Configuration, select the network card to be activated and click “Activate” to activate the network card. (Please ensure that network cable has been connected when activating.)
Page 50: Chapter Six Common Problems And Trouble-Shooting
Chapter Six Common Problems and Trouble-shooting Chapter Six Common Problems and Trouble-shooting This chapter focuses on the common problems and Trouble-shooting of the server. If you are not sure about the cause of a failure and its removal method, please contact our customer service center for solution.
Page 51 ● If you are using the system CD to boot and install the operating system directly, the hard disk drive is generally added through the ﬂ oppy driver or Inspur driver U disk. When using USB ﬂ oppy driver to add the drive, please set the BIOS ﬁ rst and close the...
Page 52 ● Please check whether the driver having been made is correct or not (the drive for external RAID card should be made directly from the attached RAID card driver CD) and whether there is fault in the ﬂ oppy disk or Inspur driver U disk. 6.2.4 Instruction of Onboard SATA Controller If it is conﬁ...
Page 53: Machine Alarm
3. After having collected the basic information, please feedback the detailed alarm information to Inspur technical support personnel in a timely manner. We will make further analysis and judgment and help you solve the problem as soon as possible.
Page 54: Technical Support Information
Inspur: http://www.inspur.com/support/Channel_Home/support_sv.asp 6.5 Technical Support Information If you have any doubt or unsolved problems in using Inspur server, please take the following measures: 1. If you have doubt in product configuration and specification details, please contact your supplier.

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