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4. A message appears, reminding you to insert the installation media containing the driver of the RAID controller driver. If you have only one optical drive installed in your system, eject the Windows OS installation disc and replace with the motherboard Support DVD into the optical drive. Click Browse to continue. 5. Locate the driver in the corresponding folder of the Support DVD, and then click OK to continue. 6. Select the RAID controller driver you need from the list and click Next. 7. When the system finishes loading the RAID driver, replace the motherboard Support DVD with the Windows Server installation disc. Select the drive to install Windows and click Next. 8. Setup then proceeds with the OS installation. Follow screen instructions to continue. ASUS TS300-E8-RS4-C 7-5

Section	Page
1.7 LED information	20
1.7.1 Front panel LEDs	20
1.7.2 Rear panel LEDs	21
Chapter 2: Hardware setup	23
2.1 Chassis cover	24
2.1.1 Removing the side cover	24
2.1.2 Reinstalling the side cover	25
2.2 Central Processing Unit (CPU)	26
2.2.1 Installing the CPU	26
2.3.2 Installing the CPU heatsink	29
2.2.3 Uninstalling the CPU heatsink and fan	30
2.3 System memory	31
2.3.1 Overview	31
2.3.2 Memory Configurations	31
2.3.3 Installing a DIMM on a single clip DIMM socket	32
2.4 Front panel assembly	33
2.4.1 Removing the front panel assembly	33
2.4.2 Reinstalling the front panel assembly	33
2.5 5.25-inch drives	34
2.6 SATA/SAS hard disk drives	35
2.6.1 Installing the HDD module cage	35
2.6.2 (Optional) Installing the second HDD module cage	37
2.6.3 Removing the HDD module cage	39
2.6.4 Installing a hot-swap SATA/SAS hard disk drive	39
2.6.5 Removing and reinstalling the backplane	41
2.7 Expansion cards	42
2.7.1 Installing an expansion card	42
2.7.2 Installing ASUS PIKE RAID card	44
2.7.3 Installing ASMB7 management board	45
2.7.4 Configuring an expansion card	46
2.8 Cable connections	47
2.8.1 Motherboard connections	47
2.8.2 SATA/SAS backplane connections	48
2.9 Removable components	50
2.9.1 System fan	50
2.9.2 Chassis footpads	51
2.9.3 Redundant power supply module	52
Chapter 3: Installation options	53
3.1 Preparing the system for rack mounting	54
3.2 Attaching the inner rail to the server	54
3.3 Attaching the rails to the rack	55
3.4 Mounting the server to the rack	56
Chapter 4: Motherboard Info	57
4.1 Motherboard overview	58
4.1.1 Placement direction	58
4.1.2 Screw holes	58
4.1.3 Motherboard layout	59
4.1.4 Layout contents	60
4.2 Expansion slots	62
4.2.1 PCI Express x16 slot (x16 link)	62
4.2.2 PCI Express x8 slot (x8 link)	62
4.2.3 PCI Express x1 slot (x1 link)	62
4.2.5 PCI slot	62
4.2.6 PIKE slot	63
4.3 Onboard LEDs	64
4.4 Jumpers	67
4.5 Connectors	72
4.5.1 Rear panel connectors	72
4.5.2 Internal connectors	73
Chapter 5: BIOS setup	83
5.1 Managing and updating your BIOS	84
5.1.1 ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 utility	84
5.1.2 ASUS EzFlash Utility\b	85
5.1.3 BUPDATER utility	86
5.2 BIOS setup program	88
5.2.1 BIOS menu screen	89
5.2.2 Menu bar	89
5.2.3 Menu items	90
5.2.4 Submenu items	90
5.2.5 Navigation keys	90
5.2.6 General help	90
5.2.7 Configuration fields	90
5.2.8 Pop-up window	90
5.2.9 Scroll bar	90
5.3 Main menu	91
5.3.1 System Date	91
5.3.2 System Time	91
5.4 Advanced menu	92
5.4.1 CPU Configuration	93
5.4.2 PCH-IO Configuration	96
5.4.3 SATA Configuration	97
5.4.4 System Agent (SA) Configuration	98
5.4.5 PCI Subsystem Settings	100
5.4.6 USB Configuration	102
5.4.7 TPM	103
5.4.8 ACPI Settings	103
5.4.9 WHEA Support	104
5.4.10 NCT6779D Super IO Configuration	104
5.4.11 Intel Server Platform Services	105
5.4.12 Onboard LAN Configuration	106
5.4.13 MIO Card Configuration	106
5.4.14 Serial Port Console Redirection	107
5.4.15 Runtime Error Logging Support	109
5.4.16 APM	109
5.4.17 Network Stack	110
5.4.18 Intel RC Drivers Version Detail	110
5.5 Event Logs menu	111
5.6 Boot menu	112
5.7 Monitor menu	115
5.8 Security	116
5.9 Tool menu	119
5.10 Exit menu	119
Chapter 6: RAID configuration	121
6.1 Setting up RAID	122
6.1.1 RAID definitions	122
6.1.2 Installing hard disk drives	123
6.1.3 Setting Jumpers	123
6.1.4 Setting the RAID mode in BIOS	123
6.1.5 RAID configuration utilities	123
6.2 Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise SATA Option ROM Utility	124
6.2.1 Creating a RAID set	125
6.2.2 Deleting a RAID set	127
6.2.3 Resetting disks to Non-RAID	128
6.2.4 Exiting the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise SATA Option ROM utility	129
6.2.5 Rebuilding the RAID	129
6.2.6 Setting the Boot array in the BIOS Setup Utility	131
6.3 Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise (Windows)	132
6.3.1 Creating a RAID set	133
6.3.2 Changing a Volume Type	135
6.3.3 Deleting a volume	136
6.3.4 Preferences	137
Chapter 7: Driver installation	139
7.1 RAID driver installation	140
7.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk	140
7.1.2 Installing the RAID controller driver	142
7.2 Management applications and utilities installation	144
7.3 Running the Support DVD	144
7.4 Installing the LAN driver	152
7.5 Installing the VGA driver	157
7.6 Installing the Intel® C22x MEI NULL HECI driver	160
7.7 Installing the Intel® I210 Gigabit Adapter driver	162

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A message appears, reminding you to insert the installation media containing the driver

of the RAID controller driver. If you have only one optical drive installed in your system,

eject the Windows OS installation disc and replace with the motherboard Support DVD

into the optical drive. Click

Browse

to continue.

Locate the driver in the corresponding folder of the Support DVD, and then click

continue.

Select the RAID controller driver you need from the list and click

When the system ﬁnishes loading the RAID driver, replace the motherboard Support

DVD with the Windows Server installation disc. Select the drive to install Windows and

click

Setup then proceeds with the OS installation. Follow screen instructions to continue.