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ASROCK C226 WS+ User Manual

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C226 WS+

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Version 1.0
Published September 2013
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  • Page 1: User Manual

    C226 WS+ User Manual Version 1.0 Published September 2013 Copyright©2013 ASRock INC. All rights reserved.

  • Page 2: Copyright Notice

    (including damages for loss of profits, loss of business, loss of data, interruption of business and the like), even if ASRock has been advised of the possibility of such damages arising from any defect or error in the documentation or product.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents 1 Introduction ............5 1.1 Package Contents ............5 1.2 Specifications ..............6 1.3 Unique Features ............9 1.4 Motherboard Layout ............10 1.5 I/O Panel ..............12 1.6 Block Diagram ............. 13 2 Installation ............14 2.1 Screw Holes ..............14 2.2 Pre-installation Precautions .........
  • Page 4 3.8 Security Screen ............. 58 3.9 Event Logs ..............59 3.10 Exit Screen ..............60 4 Software Support ..........61 4.1 Install Operating System ..........61 4.2 Support CD Information ..........61 4.2.1 Running Support CD ..........61 4.2.2 Drivers Menu ............61 4.2.3 Utilities Menu............

  • Page 5: Introduction

    In case any modifications of this manual occur, the updated version will be available on ASRock website without further notice. You may find the latest VGA cards and CPU support lists on ASRock website as well. ASRock website http://www.asrock.com If you require technical support related to this motherboard, please visit our website for specific information about the model you are using.

  • Page 6: Specifications

    Status ® Supports Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v3 series & Haswell i3 processors *Haswell i5/i7 processor support is an extended advantage provided by ASRock Rack. It is out of warranty, user's discretion is required. Processor System Supports Hyper-Threading Technology ®...
  • Page 7 USB 2.0 Port USB 3.0 Port eSATA Port 1 2 x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports LAN Port LAN Ports with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED) SPDIF 1394 5 Jacks (Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line Audio in / Front Speaker / Microphone) COM Port 1 (COM1)
  • Page 8 ® Support OS Microsoft Windows 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit Unique Feature ASRock Instant Flash Features Environ- Operation temperature: 10ºC ~ 35ºC / Non Temperature ment operation temperature: -40ºC ~ 70ºC 1. This motherboard supports Wake from on Board LAN. To use this function, please make sure that the “Wake on Magic Packet from power off state”...

  • Page 9: Unique Features

    1.3 Unique Features ASRock Instant Flash ASRock Instant Flash is a BIOS flash utility embedded in Flash ROM. This convenient BIOS update tool allows you to update system BIOS without entering operating systems first like MS- ® DOS or Windows .

  • Page 10: Motherboard Layout

    1.4 Motherboard Layout 24.4cm (9.6 in) PWR_FAN1 CPU_FAN2 CPU_FAN1 ATX12V1 USB 3.0 T: USB3 B: USB4 USB 2.0 T: USB1 B: USB2 CHA_FAN3 8747 USB3_5_6 PCIE1 C226 WS+ PCIE3 Intel RoHS C226 PCIE5 CMOS Battery 64Mb BIOS Debug SPEAKER1 PCIE7 PLED1 USB_7 SLI/XFIRE_PWR1...
  • Page 11 No. Description Power Fan Connector (PWR_FAN1) ATX 12V Power Connector (ATX12V1) CPU Fan Connector (CPU_FAN1) CPU Fan Connector (CPU_FAN2) 2 x 240-pin DDR3 DIMM Slots (DDR3_A1, DDR3_B1) 2 x 240-pin DDR3 DIMM Slots (DDR3_A2, DDR3_B2) ATX Power Connector (ATXPWR1) USB 3.0 Header (USB3_5_6) TPM Header (TPMS1) Chassis Fan Connector (CHA_FAN1) Chassis Fan Connector (CHA_FAN2)

  • Page 12: I/O Panel

    1.5 I/O Panel No. Description No. Description PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse Port Microphone (Pink) D-Sub Port Optical SPDIF Out Port USB 3.0 Ports (USB3_3_4) LAN RJ-45 Port (LAN1) USB 2.0 Ports (USB1_2) IEEE 1394 Port LAN RJ-45 Port (LAN2) eSATA Connector Central / Bass (Orange) HDMI Port Rear Speaker (Black) DVI-I Port...

  • Page 13: Block Diagram

    1.6 Block Diagram 33MHz 33MHz...

  • Page 14: Installation

    Chapter 2: Installation This is an ATX form factor (12.0" x 9.6", 30.5 x 24.4 cm) motherboard. Before you install the motherboard, study the configuration of your chassis to ensure that the motherboard fits into it. Make sure to unplug the power cord before installing or removing the motherboard.

  • Page 15: Cpu Installation

    2.3 Installing the CPU 1. Before you insert the 1150-Pin CPU into the socket, please check if the PnP cap is on the socket, if the CPU surface is unclean, or if there are any bent pins in the socket. Do not force to insert the CPU into the socket if above situation is found.
  • Page 17 Please save and replace the cover if the processor is removed. The cover must be placed if you wish to return the motherboard for after service.

  • Page 18: Installation Of Heatsink And Cpu Fan

    2.4 Installing the CPU Fan and Heatsink...

  • Page 19: Installation Of Memory Modules (Dimm)

    2.5 Installation of Memory Modules (DIMM) This motherboard provides four 240-pin DDR3 (Double Data Rate 3) DIMM slots, and supports Dual Channel Memory Technology. For dual channel configuration, you always need to install identical (the same brand, speed, size and chip-type) DDR3 DIMM pairs. It is unable to activate Dual Channel Memory Technology with only one or three memory module installed.

  • Page 21: Expansion Slot (Pci Express Slot)

    2.6 Expansion Slots (PCI Express Slots) There are 4 PCI Express slots on this motherboard. PCIE slots: PCIE1/PCIE3/PCIE5/PCIE7 (PCIE 3.0 x16 slot) is used for PCI Express x16 lane width graphics cards. PCIE Slot Configurations PCIE1 PCIE3 PCIE5 PCIE7 Single Graphics Card Two Graphics Cards in CrossFireX Mode...

  • Page 22: Installing An Expansion Card

    Installing an expansion card Step 1. Before installing an expansion card, please make sure that the power supply is switched off or the power cord is unplugged. Please read the documentation of the expansion card and make necessary hardware settings for the card before you start the installation. Step 2.

  • Page 23: 4-Way Crossfirex

    2.7 CrossFireX , 3-Way CrossFireX , 4-Way CrossFireX and Quad CrossFireX Operation Guide This motherboard supports CrossFireX , 3-way CrossFireX , 4-way CrossFireX and Quad CrossFireX that allows you to install up to four identical PCI Express x16 graphics cards. Currently CrossFireX , 3-way CrossFireX , 4-way CrossFireX...
  • Page 24 Step 3 Connect a VGA cable or a DVI cable to the monitor connector or the DVI connector of the graphics card that is inserted to PCIE1 slot. 2.7.2 Installing Three CrossFireX -Ready Graphics Cards Step 1 Insert one graphics card into PCIE1 slot, another graphics card to PCIE3 slot, and the other graphics card to PCIE5 slot.
  • Page 25 2.7.3 Installing Four CrossFireX -Ready Graphics Cards Step 1 Insert one graphics card into PCIE1 slot, another graphics card into PCIE3 slot, the third graphics card into PCIE5 slot and the last graphics card into PCIE7 slot. Make sure that the cards are properly seated on the slots.

  • Page 26: Driver Installation And Setup

    2.7.4 Driver Installation and Setup Step 1 Power on your computer and boot into OS. Step 2 Remove the AMD drivers if you have any VGA drivers installed in your system. The Catalyst Uninstaller is an optional download. We recommend using this utility to uninstall any previously installed Catalyst drivers prior to installation.

  • Page 27: Jumpers Setup

    2.8 Jumpers Setup The illustration shows how jumpers are setup. When the jumper cap is placed on pins, the jumper is “Short”. If no jumper cap is placed on pins, the jumper is “Open”. The illustration shows a 3-pin jumper whose pin1 and pin2 are “Short”...

  • Page 28: Onboard Headers And Connectors

    2.9 Onboard Headers and Connectors Onboard headers and connectors are NOT jumpers. Do NOT place jumper caps over these headers and connectors. Placing jumper caps over the headers and connectors will cause permanent damage of the motherboard! Serial ATA3 Connectors These ten Serial ATA3 (SATA3) connectors support SATA data (SATA_0_1: see p.10, No.

  • Page 29: Tpm Header

    USB 3.0 Header Besides four default USB 3.0 Vbus Vbus ports on the I/O panel, there is (19-pin USB3_5_6) Vbus IntA_PB_SSRX- IntA_PA_SSRX- IntA_PB_SSRX+ one USB 3.0 header on this (see p.10, No. 8) IntA_PA_SSRX+ IntA_PB_SSTX- motherboard. This USB 3.0 IntA_PA_SSTX- IntA_PB_SSTX+ IntA_PA_SSTX+ header can support two USB 3.0...
  • Page 30 System Panel Header This header accommodates several system front panel (9-pin PANEL1) functions. (see p.10, No. 19) Connect the power switch, reset switch and system status indicator on the chassis to this header according to the pin assignments below. Note the positive and negative pins before connecting the cables.
  • Page 31 A. Front panel SMBus connecting pin (6-1 pin FPSMB) This header allows you to connect SMBus (System Management Bus) equipment. It can be used for communication between peripheral equipment in the system, which has slower transmission rates, and power management equipment. B.
  • Page 32 Chassis and Power Fan Connectors Please connect the fan cables to the fan connectors and match (4-pin CHA_FAN1) +12V the black wire to the ground pin. (see p.10, No. 10) CHA_FAN_SPEED FAN_SPEED_CONTROL (3-pin CHA_FAN2) +12V (see p.10, No. 11) CHA_FAN_SPEED (3-pin CHA_FAN3) (see p.10, No.

  • Page 33: Teaming Function Operation Guide

    ATX 12V Power Connector Please connect an ATX 12V power supply to this connector. (8-pin ATX12V1) (see p.10, No. 2) Though this motherboard provides 8-pin ATX 12V power connector, it can still work if you adopt a traditional 4-pin ATX 12V power supply. To use the 4-pin ATX power supply, please plug your power supply along with Pin 1 and Pin 5.

  • Page 34: Dr. Debug

    2.10 Dr. Debug Dr. Debug is used to provide code information, which makes troubleshooting even easier. Please see the diagrams below for reading the Dr. Debug codes. Status Code Description Please check if CPU is installed correctly and then clear CMOS. Problem related to memory, VGA card and other devices.

  • Page 35: Driver Installation Guide

    2.11 Driver Installation Guide To install the drivers to your system, please insert the support CD to your optical drive first. Then, the drivers compatible to your system can be auto-detected and listed on the support CD driver page. Please follow the order from top to bottom to install those required drivers.

  • Page 36: Dual Lan And Teaming Operation Guide

    2.12 Dual LAN and Teaming Operation Guide Dual LAN with Teaming enabled on this motherboard allows two single connections to act as one single connection for twice the transmission bandwidth, making data transmission more effective and improving the quality of transmission of distant images. Fault tolerance on the dual LAN network prevents network downtime by transferring the workload from a failed port to a working port.

  • Page 37: Uefi Setup Utility

    Chapter 3: UEFI SETUP UTILITY 3.1 Introduction This section explains how to use the UEFI SETUP UTILITY to configure your system. The UEFI chip on the motherboard stores the UEFI SETUP UTILITY. You may run the UEFI SETUP UTILITY when you start up the computer. Please press <F2>...

  • Page 38: Navigation Keys

    3.1.2 Navigation Keys Please check the following table for the function description of each navigation key. Navigation Key(s) Function Description Moves cursor left or right to select Screens Moves cursor up or down to select items + / - To change option for the selected items <Tab>...

  • Page 39: Oc Tweaker Screen

    3.3 OC Tweaker Screen In the OC Tweaker screen, you can set up overclocking features. Non-Z OC Use this option to overclock K-Series CPU. The performance of every CPU differs, we cannot guarantee every CPU’s overclocking ability. Applying too much voltage to the CPU may cause damages to both the CPU and the motherboard, please select an appropriate voltage for your CPU.
  • Page 40 Long Duration Power Limit Use this item to configure long duration power limit in watts. The default value is [Auto]. Long Duration Maintained Use this item to configure time window which the long duration power is maintained. The default value is [Auto]. Short Duration Power Limit Use this item to configure short duration power limit in watts.
  • Page 41 Vcore Override Voltage Configure the voltage added to the CPU when the system is under heavy load. Vcore voltage additional offset Configure the dynamic CPU voltage added to the Vcore. CPU Cache Voltage Mode This option appears only when you adopt K-Series CPU. [Auto] - For optimized settings.

  • Page 42: Advanced Screen

    3.4 Advanced Screen In this section, you may set the configurations for the following items: CPU Configu- ration, Chipset Configuration, Storage Configuration, Super IO Configuration, ACPI Configuration, USB Configuration, Trusted Computing and Serial Port Console Re- direction. Setting wrong values in this section may cause the system to malfunction.

  • Page 43: Cpu Configuration

    3.4.1 CPU Configuration Intel TXT(LT) Support Use this to enable or disable Intel Trusted Execution Technology . Intel Hyper Threading Technology Intel Hyper Threading Technology allows multiple threads to run on each core, so that the overall performance on threaded software is improved. Active Processor Cores Select the number of cores to enable in each processor package.
  • Page 44 Intel Virtualization Technology Intel Virtualization Technology allows a platform to run multiple operating systems and applications in independent partitions, so that one computer system can function as multiple virtual systems. Hardware Prefetcher Automatically prefetch data and code for the processor. Enable for better performance.

  • Page 45: Chipset Configuration

    3.4.2 Chipset Configuration Primary Graphics Adapter This allows you to select [Onboard] or [PCI Express] as the boot graphic adapter priority. The default value is [PCI Express]. VT-d ® ® Use this to enable or disable Intel VT-d technology (Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O).
  • Page 46 Onboard HD Audio Select [Auto], [Enabled] or [Disabled] for the onboard HD Audio feature. If you select [Auto], the onboard HD Audio will be disabled when PCI Sound Card is plugged. Front Panel Select [Auto] or [Disabled] for the onboard HD Audio Front Panel. Onboard HDMI HD Audio This allows you to enable or disable the Onboard HDMI HD Audio feature.

  • Page 47: Storage Configuration

    3.4.3 Storage Configuration SATA Controller(s) Use this item to enable or disable the SATA Controller feature. SATA Mode Selection This item is for SATA_0 to SATA_5 ports. Use this to select SATA mode. Configuration options: [IDE Mode], [AHCI Mode] and [RAID Mode]. The default value is [AHCI Mode].
  • Page 48 ® We recommend to use Intel C226 SATA ports (SATA_0 to SATA_5 ports) for your bootable devices. This will minimum your boot time and get the best performance. But if you still want to boot from Marvell SATA3 controller, you can still enable this in UEFI.

  • Page 49: Super Io Configuration

    3.4.4 Super IO Configuration Serial Port Use this item to enable or disable the onboard serial port. Serial Port Address Use this item to set the address for the onboard serial port. Configuration options: [3F8h / IRQ4] and [3E8h / IRQ4].

  • Page 50: Acpi Configuration

    3.4.5 ACPI Configuration Suspend to RAM Use this item to select whether to auto-detect or disable the Suspend-to- RAM feature. Selecting [Auto] will enable this feature if the OS supports it. Check Ready Bit Use this item to enable or disable the feature Check Ready Bit. ACPI HPET Table Use this item to enable or disable ACPI HPET Table.

  • Page 51: Usb Configuration

    3.4.6 USB Configuration USB Controller Use this item to enable or disable the use of USB controller. Intel USB 3.0 Mode Use this item to enable or disable the use of Intel USB 3.0 mode. Legacy USB Support Use this option to select legacy support for USB devices. There are four configuration options: [Enabled], [Auto], [Disabled] and [UEFI Setup Only].

  • Page 52: Trusted Computing

    3.4.7 Trusted Computing Security Device Support Enable to activate Trusted Platform Module (TPM) security for your hard disk drives.

  • Page 53: Serial Port Console Redirection

    3.4.8 Serial Port Console Redirection...

  • Page 54: Tool

    3.5 Tool UEFI Update Utility Instant Flash Instant Flash is a UEFI flash utility embedded in Flash ROM. This conve- nient UEFI update tool allows you to update system UEFI without enter- ® ing operating systems first like MS-DOS or Windows .

  • Page 55: Hardware Health Event Monitoring Screen

    3.6 Hardware Health Event Monitoring Screen In this section, it allows you to monitor the status of the hardware on your system, including the parameters of the CPU temperature, motherboard temperature, CPU fan speed, chassis fan speed, and the critical voltage. CPU Fan 1 &...

  • Page 56: Boot Screen

    3.7 Boot Screen In this section, it will display the available devices on your system for you to config- ure the boot settings and the boot priority. Fast Boot Fast Boot minimizes your computer’s boot time. There are three con- figuration options: [Disabled], [Fast] and [Ultra Fast].
  • Page 57 Full Screen Logo Use this item to enable or disable OEM Logo. The default value is [En- abled]. AddOn ROM Display Use this option to adjust AddOn ROM Display. If you enable the option “Full Screen Logo” but you want to see the AddOn ROM information when the system boots, please select [Enabled].

  • Page 58: Security Screen

    3.8 Security Screen In this section, you may set or change the supervisor/user password for the system. For the user password, you may also clear it. Secure Boot Use this to enable or disable Secure Boot. The default value is [Disabled].

  • Page 59: Event Logs

    3.9 Event Logs Change Smbios Event Log Settings This allows you to configure the Smbios Event Log Settings. View Smbois Event Log This allows you to view the Smbios Event Log.

  • Page 60: Exit Screen

    3.10 Exit Screen Save Changes and Exit When you select this option, the following message “Save configuration changes and exit setup?” will pop-out. Select [Yes] to save the changes and exit the UEFI SETUP UTILITY. Discard Changes and Exit When you select this option, the following message “Discard changes and exit setup?”...

  • Page 61: Software Support

    Click on a specific item then follow the installation wizard to install it. 4.2.4 Contact Information If you need to contact ASRock or want to know more about ASRock, welcome to visit ASRock’s website at http://www.asrock.com; or you may contact your...

  • Page 62: Trouble Shooting

    Chapter 5: Troubleshooting 5.1 Troubleshooting Procedures Follow the procedures below to troubleshoot your system. Always unplug the power cord before adding, removing or changing any hardware components. Failure to do so may cause physical injuries to you and damages to motherboard components. 1.
  • Page 63 Other problems... 1. Try searching keywords related to your problem on ASRock’s FAQ page: http://www.asrock.com/support/faq.asp 2. Try downloading and updating the latest UEFI on ASRock’s website: http://www.asrock.com/support/download.asp...

  • Page 64: Technical Support Procedures

    5.2 Technical Support Procedures If you have tried the troubleshooting procedures mentioned above and the problems are still unsolved, please contact ASRock’s technical support with the following information: 1. Your contact information 2. Model name, BIOS version and problem type.

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