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Alienware X2 motherboard User’s Manual

2.1 Board overview 2.1.1 The board 10

2.1.2 MB diagram 11

2.1.3 Ports and connectors 2.1.4 Onboard LED The onboard LED’s are located on the area highlighted in the image shown. The RED light indicates t

2. Unplug the power cable on the back of the computer 3. Remove the CMOS battery 4. Move CMOS jumper so that it covers pins 2 and 3 (see image below)

FSB jumper [JP3, JP3A] These jumpers define the type of memory that the system will be using. In order to support 800MHz DDR2, the jumpers JP3 and JP3

To enable to front panel audio, these connectors need to be plugged into the pin headers as follows: Front panel connector 15

2.2 Hardware information 2.2.1 Supported processors The X2 motherboard has two Intel ® 604 sockets. Each of these sockets can support an Intel ® Xeon

Chapter 3: BIOS setup 17

This motherboard comes installed with an American Megatrends Inc. BIOS. This utility will allow modification and monitoring of hardware settings on th

3.2.1 CPU Configuration Max CPUID Value Limit Legacy operating systems do not support CPUs with extended CPUID functions. In order for these opera

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3.2.2 IDE Configuration IDE Configuration This setting allows the configuration of ATA devices and the two SATA ports controlled by the 6300 ESB So

S-ATA Ports Definition The third and fourth IDE Master that are displayed under the IDE configuration screen represent the two SATA ports SATA1 and SA

3.2.4 SuperI/O Configuration Onboard Floppy Controller Enables or disables the floppy controller. [Options are: ‘Enabled’ and ‘Disabled’] Serial P

Parallel Port Mode Selects which mode the parallel mode will function. [Options are: ‘Normal’, ‘Bi-Directional’, ‘EPP’, and ‘ECP’] EPP Version This s

3.2.5 Hardware Health Configuration This screen shows real-time information collected from the temperature, fan speed and voltage sensors on the mo

3.2.6.1 General ACPI Configuration Suspend mode Selects the ACPI state that is used when the system goes to sleep. [Options are: ‘S1 (POS) only’ a

ACPI APIC support Include the ACPI APIC table pointer to the RSDT pointer list. [Options are: ‘Enabled’ and ‘Disabled’] AMI OEMB table Include IEMB t

MPS Revision Selects the MPS revision. [Options are: ‘1.4’ and ‘1.1’] 3.2.8 PCI Express Configuration Active State Power-Management Activates or d

3.2.9 Remote Access Configuration Remote Access Selects remote Access type. When enabled, parameters appear for configuration. [Options are: ‘Enabl

VT-UTF8 Combo Key Support Only shows up when the terminal type is ANSI or VT-100. It will enable VT-UTF8 combination key support for ANSI and VT-100 t

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Hotplug USB FDD Support Creates a dummy FDD device at bootup that will be associated with a FDD that is hot-plugged later. When set to Auto, the dummy

3.2.12 Performance Setting DDR2 Working Voltage Selects the value for the voltage applied on DDR2 modules. [Options are: ‘1.80V’, ‘1.85V’, ‘1.90V’,

3.3 PCIPnP Plug & Play O/S When set to yes, a Plug and Play OS can configure PnP devices not required for boot up. When set to no, the BIOS will

PCI IDE BusMaster When enabled the BIOS uses PCI busmastering foreading/writing to IDE devices. This setting increases performance when running DOS pr

3.4.1 Boot Settings Configuration Quick Boot When enabled, the BIOS will skip some tests so that the computer boots up faster. [Options are: ‘Enab

Interrupt 19 Capture Allows for option ROMs to trap the Interrupt 19 [Options are: ‘Enabled’ and ‘Disabled’] 3.4.2 Boot Device Priority The boot d

3.4.3 Hard Disk Drives Shows list of detected hard drives. The first one on the list will be considered for the boot device priority list. 3.4.4 R

3.4.5 CD/DVD Drives Shows list of detected optical drives. The first one on the list will be considered for the boot device priority list. 3.5 Sec

User Access Level This option is only enabled when the supervisor password is installed. Defines access of users to the BIOS utility as follows: No

3.6.1 NorthBridge Configuration Memory Remap Feature Allows for the remapping of overlapped PCI memory above the total physical memory. [Options ar

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3.7 Power Power Management/APM Enables or disables the Advanced Power Management. When enabled, configuration settings become available on this same

Throttle Slow Clock Ratio Selects the Duty Cycle in Throttle mode. Only available when Power Management/APM is enabled [Options are: ‘12.5%’, ‘25%’,

Resume On PME#/LAN Enables or disables PME to generate a wake event. [Options are: ‘Enabled’ and ‘Disabled’] Resume On RTC Alarm Enables or disables

Load Failsafe Defaults This option will load the failsafe default values for all options. This can also be performed by pressing F8. 43

Chapter 4: Silicon Image RAID Utility 44

4.1 Introduction The Silicon Image RAID controller supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and spare drive configuration. Some other functions that can perfo

4.3 Create RAID 0 1. Select the Create RAID set option and choose the type RAID 0. 2. Select the number of drives that will be part of the RAID.

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4. Press Y at the prompt “Are you sure (Y/N)?” 5. Once the RAID has been created, it will show up on the bottom right corner of the screen. 4

4.4 Create RAID 1 When a RAID 1 is configured, two identical hard drives need to be installed in the system. The Silicon Image RAID utility can crea

1.1 Specifications summary CPU Support for Dual Intel ® Xeon processor on 604 Socket 800 MHz System Bus Supports Intel ® EMT64 Technology S

Manual configuration allows the possibility of choosing either creating a new blank RAID or mirroring a new drive from an already existing one. 3

4. Once the RAID has been created, it will show up on the bottom right corner of the screen. 4.5 Delete RAID 1. Select the Delete RAID set option

3. Press Y to confirm when prompted. 4.6 Low Level Format 1. Select the Low Level Format option 2. Select the drive that will be formated. 3

Chapter 5: Adaptec RAID Utility 53

5.1 Introduction The Adaptec RAID utility manages the drives plugged into SATA_1 and SATA_2. To enter the Adaptec RAID utility, it has to be enabled o

Once inside the utility, navigation is performed with Up and Down keys on the menus, ENTER to select, ESC for previous menu, TAB to go to next option

4. Select the RAID type. Options are RAID 0 (Stripe) and RAID 1(Mirror). 5. Choose a label for the RAID. This is the name that will identify the

6. Select the strip size. Options are 16KB, 32KB and 64KB. The last one is recommended. 7. Select way in which RAID will be created. There are

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8. Enter to create RAID 5.3 Delete RAID 1. Enter the Array Configuration Utility 2. Select the Manage Arrays option from the menu. This will li

IEEE-1394 TI TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394 controller Two internal pin headers for front panel IEEE-1394 ports One external IEEE-1394 port at the back

3. Once the array that will be erased is highlighted, press DEL to delete it. 4. Use arrow keys to highlight the Delete option and press Enter. 5

5.4 Format a disk 1. Select disk utilities 2. Select the drive that will be formatted 61

3. Select format drive option 4. Highlight option Yes and press enter to confirm the format process. 62

5.5 Verify Disk integrity 1. Select disk utilities 2. Select the drive that needs to be checked 63

3. Select the Verify Disk Media option 4. Highlight option Yes and press Enter to confirm verification 64

Chapter 6: SoundMAX Control Panel 65

6.1 Starting up The Alienware X2 motherboard features onboard Intel Audio with support for 5.1 speaker configuration. This speaker configuration and

6.2 Sound configuration 6.2.1 Speaker Setup The speaker setup can be configured under the Listening Environment tab as shown below: 67

As can be seen in the image above, there are four speaker settings: Stereo headphones: Only left and right channels are used. Stereo speakers: Us

Hallway, Stone corridor, Alley, Forest, City, Mountains, Quarry, Plain, Parking lot, Sewer pipe, and Underwater. 6.2.4 Virtual Ear This feature will

1.2 Motherboard features Intel ® Xeon Dual processor platform The Intel ® Xeon processors are built on 90 nm manufacturing process. These processors s

The test noise refers to a static noise that will come through the specified speaker. The test music loop is a prerecorded sound file that outputs thr

6.2.6 SPDIF When clicking on the SPDIF setup button located on the center bottom of the window, the Advanced Controls for Volume Control window is ope

6.4 DLS loader DLS stands for DownLoadable Sounds. This feature allows downloading custom sound sets in to the SoundMAX synthesizer and playing thes

S/PDIF This motherboard facilitates connectivity to the most advanced stereo components through the S/PDIF port, giving high quality audio. 8

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