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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.00 – Congratulations!
You have purchased one of the most powerful AMD Opteron
TM
processor solutions, the
Tomcat K8SH S3850. The Tomcat K8SH S3850 features an integrated high bandwidth
memory controller for superior productivity. The solution also employs HyperTransport™
chipset technology to increase overall performance by removing or reducing I/O
bottlenecks. Designed around the use of low profile I/O ports with strategically placed
DIMM slots to allow maximum airflow across the motherboard for efficient system
cooling. The Tomcat K8SH S3850 also features an ATX form factor, Single or Dual
Gigabit Ethernet port, an onboard XGI XG20 VGA controllers, and an onboard Quad
channel Serial ATA, which provides a versatile solution for your server needs.
Remember to visit TYAN’s Website at http://www.tyan.com
. There you can find
information on all of TYAN’s products with FAQs, distributors list and BIOS setting
explanations.
1.01 – Hardware Specifications
Processor
- Single µPGA 939-pin socket
- Supports AMD Opteron
TM
100 series
single core & dual core processor
- Up to 800 MHz Hyper-Transport link
support
Chipset
- Broadcom HT1000
- NS PC87417 Super I/O chip
Memory
- 128-bit dual channel memory bus
- Four 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets
- Supports up to 8GB of unbuffered
DDRI 400/333
- Supports PC2100, PC2700 and PC3200
DDRI memory
Expansion Slots
- One 64-bit, 133MHz (3.3V) PCI-X slot
- Four 32-bit, 33MHz PCI v2.3 slots
- Tyan TARO™ SO-DIMM
- Total of five usable slots
Integrated LAN Controllers
- Two Intel i82541PI GbE LAN controllers
- Operating on PCI 32-bit/33MHz bus
- With ASF 2.0/WfM/Teaming support
Integrated I/O
- One floppy connector supports up to
two drives
- One IDE connectors for two IDE
devices
- Two USB 2.0 Headers (via cable, 2 x
4pin)
- 2 x 25 connector for Tyan IPMI
SMDC card (M3291)
- Four SATA ports
- One COM2 header
Back Panel I/O Ports
- One PS/2 Keyboard & Mouse ports
- Two RJ45 10/100/1000 Base-T port
w/ activity LED
- Two USB 2.0 ports
- One 9-pin UART Serial port
- One 15-pin VGA port
BIOS
- AMI BIOS® on 8Mbit LPC Flash
ROM
- Serial Console Redirect
- USB boot supported
- Supports ACPI
- PnP, DMI 2.0, WfM 2.0 Power
Management