Supermicro B11SRE-CPU-TF User manual

Brand: Supermicro

Model: B11SRE-CPU-TF

Category: Server/workstation motherboards

Type: User manual

USER’S MANUAL

Revision 1.0

B11SRE-CPU-TF

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Preface

About This Manual

This manual is written for system integrators, IT technicians, and knowledgeable end users.

It provides information for the installation and use of the B11SRE-CPU-TF motherboard.

About This Motherboard

The B11SRE-CPU-TF motherboard supports an Intel® Xeon W in an LGA2066 socket. This

motherboard provides maximum performance, supports up to 512GB DDR4 LRDIMM and

256GB DDR4 RDIMM DDR4 memory with speeds of up to 2666MHz, NVMe, two SAS drives,

and is optimized for data centers and cloud computing Please note that this motherboard

is intended to be installed and serviced by professional technicians only. For processor and

memory updates, please refer to our website at http://www.supermicro.com/products/.

Manual Organization

Chapter 1 describes the features, specications and performance of the motherboard, and

provides detailed information on the C422 chipset.

Chapter 2 provides hardware installation instructions. Read this chapter when installing the

processor, memory modules, and other hardware components into the system.

If you encounter any problems, see Chapter 3, which describes troubleshooting procedures

for video, memory, and system setup stored in the CMOS.

Chapter 4 includes an introduction to the BIOS, and provides detailed information on running

the CMOS Setup utility.

Appendix A provides BIOS Error Beep Codes.

Appendix B lists software program installation instructions.

Appendix C lists standardized warning statements in various languages.

Appendix D provides UEFI BIOS Recovery instructions.

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Address: Super Micro Computer, Inc.

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San Jose, CA 95131 U.S.A.

Tel: +1 (408) 503-8000

Fax: +1 (408) 503-8008

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Email: [email protected]

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Checklist ...............................................................................................................................8

Quick Reference Table ...................................................................................................... 11

Motherboard Features .......................................................................................................12

1.2 Processor and Chipset Overview .......................................................................................15

1.3 Special Features ................................................................................................................15

Recovery from AC Power Loss .........................................................................................15

1.4 System Health Monitoring ..................................................................................................15

Onboard Voltage Monitors ................................................................................................15

Fan Status Monitor with Firmware Control .......................................................................16

Environmental Temperature Control .................................................................................16

System Resource Alert......................................................................................................16

1.5 ACPI Features ....................................................................................................................16

Chapter 2 Installation

2.1 Static-Sensitive Devices .....................................................................................................17

Precautions .......................................................................................................................17

Unpacking .........................................................................................................................17

2.2 Processor and Heatsink Installation ...................................................................................18

Installing a CPU ...............................................................................................................18

Installing a Passive CPU Heatsink ...................................................................................21

Removing the Heatsink .....................................................................................................22

2.3 Memory Support and Installation .......................................................................................23

Memory Support ................................................................................................................23

General Guidelines for Optimizing Memory Performance ................................................24

DIMM Installation ..............................................................................................................25

DIMM Removal .................................................................................................................25

2.4 Motherboard Installation .....................................................................................................26

Tools Needed ....................................................................................................................26

Location of Mounting Holes ..............................................................................................26

Installing the Motherboard into the Mounting Tray ...........................................................27

Installing the Motherboard into the Superblade Chassis ..................................................28

2.5 Connectors .........................................................................................................................29

Table of Contents

2.8 Jumper Settings .................................................................................................................34

How Jumpers Work ...........................................................................................................34

2.9 LED Indicators ....................................................................................................................39

Chapter 3 Troubleshooting

3.1 Troubleshooting Procedures ..............................................................................................40

Before Power On ..............................................................................................................40

No Power ..........................................................................................................................40

No Video ...........................................................................................................................41

System Boot Failure ..........................................................................................................41

Memory Errors ..................................................................................................................41

Losing the System's Setup Conguration .........................................................................42

When the System Becomes Unstable ..............................................................................42

3.2 Technical Support Procedures ...........................................................................................44

3.3 Frequently Asked Questions ..............................................................................................45

3.4 Battery Removal and Installation .......................................................................................46

Battery Removal ................................................................................................................46

Proper Battery Disposal ....................................................................................................46

Battery Installation .............................................................................................................46

3.5 Returning Merchandise for Service ....................................................................................47

Chapter 4 BIOS

4.1 Introduction .........................................................................................................................48

Starting the Setup Utility ...................................................................................................48

4.2 Main Setup .........................................................................................................................49

4.3 Advanced ............................................................................................................................51

4.4 Event Logs .........................................................................................................................76

4.5 IPMI ....................................................................................................................................78

4.6 Security ...............................................................................................................................82

4.7 Boot ....................................................................................................................................86

4.8 Save & Exit .........................................................................................................................88

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Appendix A BIOS Codes

A.1 BIOS Error POST (Beep) Codes .......................................................................................90

Appendix B Software Installation

B.1 Installing Software Programs .............................................................................................92

B.2 SuperDoctor

5 ...................................................................................................................93

Appendix C Standardized Warning Statements

Appendix D UEFI BIOS Recovery

D.1 Overview .............................................................................................................................97

D.2 Recovering the UEFI BIOS Image .....................................................................................97

D.3 Recovering the BIOS Block with a USB Device ................................................................97

Table of Contents

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Main Parts List (included in the retail box)

Description Part Number Quantity

Supermicro motherboard MBD-B11SRE-CPU-TF 1

Chapter 1

Introduction

Congratulations on purchasing your computer motherboard from an acknowledged leader in

the industry. Supermicro boards are designed with the utmost attention to detail to provide

you with the highest standards in quality and performance.

Please check that the following items have all been included with your motherboard. If

anything listed here is damaged or missing, contact your retailer. The following items are

included in the retail box:

1.1 Checklist

Important Links

For your system to work properly, please follow the links below to download all necessary

drivers/utilities and the user’s manual for your server.

• Supermicro product manuals: http://www.supermicro.com/support/manuals/

• Product drivers and utilities: https://www.supermicro.com/wftp/driver/

• Product safety info: http://www.supermicro.com/about/policies/safety_information.cfm

• If you have any questions, please contact our support team at: [email protected]m

This manual may be periodically updated without notice. Please check the Supermicro website

for possible updates to the manual revision level.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Figure 1-1. Motherboard Image

Note: All graphics shown in this manual were based upon the latest PCB revision

available at the time of publication of the manual. The motherboard you received may

or may not look exactly the same as the graphics shown in this manual.

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SAN CODE

B11SRE-CPU-TF

REV:1.00

MAC CODE

BIOS

LICENSE

IPMI CODE

BAR CODE

PRESS FIT

DESIGNED IN USA

I-SATA3

BMC_HB_LED1

JSD1

JBT1

BT1

JRK1

JTPM1

JKVM1

JWD1

JBR1

JPME2

JPG1

JP1

JP2

PWR1

JTAG1

JSIOM1

DIMMB2

DIMMB1

DIMMA2

DIMMA1

CPU

DIMMC1

DIMMC2

DIMMD2

DIMMD1

Figure 1-2. Motherboard Layout

(not drawn to scale)

Notes:

• See Chapter 2 for detailed information on jumpers, and I/O ports. Jumpers/components/

LED indicators not indicated are used for internal testing only.

• " " indicates the location of Pin 1.

• Use only the correct type of onboard CMOS battery as specied by the manufacturer. Do

not install the onboard battery upside down to avoid possible explosion.

JTPM1

DIMMA1

DIMMB1

DIMMB2

DIMMA2

JPME2

JBT1

BMC_HB_LED1

JBR1

JWD1

JSD1

BT1

PWR1

JPG1

JP1

JKVM1

JRK1

DIMMD2

DIMMC2

DIMMC1

DIMMD1

JP2

I-SATA3

JSIOM1

Chapter 1: Introduction

Quick Reference Table

Jumper Description Default Setting

JBR1 BIOS Recovery Pins 1-2 (Enable)

JBT1 CMOS Clear Open (Normal)

JPG1 VGA Enable/Disable Pins 1-2 (Enabled)

JPME2 Manufacturing Mode Pins 1-2 (Normal)

JWD1 Watch Dog Timer Pins 1-2 (Reset)

Connector Description

BT1 Onboard Battery

I-SATA3 SATA 3.0 Port

J3 VRM Debug Jumper (Manufacturing Use Only)

J4 PCI-E x16 Slot for I/O Expandability

JKVM1 VGA/USB Module Connector

JP1 PLD Header (Manufacturing Use Only)

JP2 PLD Header (Manufacturing Use Only)

JRK1 Intel RAID Key Header

JSD1 SATA DOM Power Header

JTPM1 Trusted Platform Module (TPM)/Port 80 Header

PWR1 Power Receptacle to Chassis Backplane

LED Description Status

BMC_HB_LED1 BMC Heartbeat Blinking Green: BMC Normal

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Motherboard Features

CPU

• Supports an Intel Xeon W family processor in an LGA2066 socket.

Memory

• Supports up to 512GB LRDIMM/256GB RDIMM DDR4 memory with speeds of up to 2666MHz in eight slots.

DIMM Size

• 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB

Note 1: Refer to the motherboard product page for the list of supported memory.

Chipset

• Intel C422

Network Controller

• Intel Dual X710 10GbE via Blade Backplane

Baseboard Management Controller

• Aspeed AST2500

Graphics

• Graphics controller via ASpeed AST2500

I/O Devices

• SATA 3.0

• AOM-BPNIO-SCE (connected via J4)

• AOM-BPNIO-SNE (connected via J4)

• One SATA 3.0 port

• 2x 2.5" NVMe + 1x SAS3/SATA3 or 3x SAS3/SATA3

• 3x 2.5" NVMe or 3x SATA3

Peripheral Devices

• Two (2) USB 2.0 ports via JKVM1 header (debug only)

BIOS

• 256Mb SPI AMI BIOS

SM Flash UEFI BIOS

• ACPI 6.2, SMBIOS 2.8/3.2, UEFI 2.7 specication, PCI F/W 3.1, Plug and Play (PnP), RTC wake up

Motherboard Features

Note: The table above is continued on the next page.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Motherboard Features

Power Management

• Power button override mechanism

• Management Engine (ME)

• Power-on mode for AC recovery

System Health Monitoring

• Onboard voltage monitoring for +1.8V, +3.3V, +3.3V Stdby, +5V, +5V Stdby, +12V, VBAT, HT, Memory

• 6+2 CPU switching phase voltage regulator

• CPU Thermal Trip support

System Management

• Trusted Platform Module (TPM) support

• PECI (Platform Environment Control Interface) 2.0 support

• IPMI 2.0

• Watch Dog, NMI

LED Indicators

• CPU/System Overheat LED

• Power/Suspend State Indicator LED

• Fan Fail LED

• UID/Remote LED

• LAN Activity LED

Dimensions

• 9.36" (W) x 11.61" (L) (237.74 mm x 294.89 mm)

Note 1: The CPU maximum thermal design power (TDP) is subject to chassis and

heatsink cooling restrictions. For proper thermal management, check the chassis and

heatsink specications for proper CPU TDP sizing.

Note 2: For IPMI conguration instructions, please refer to the Embedded IPMI Con-

guration User's Guide available at http://www.supermicro.com/support/manuals/.

Note 3: If you purchase a Supermicro Out of Band (OOB) software license key

(Supermicro P/N: SFT-OOB-LIC), please DO NOT change the IPMI MAC address.

Once the Mac address has been changed, the OOB license key will be invalid.

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Note: This is a general block diagram and may not exactly represent the features on

your motherboard. See the previous pages for the actual specications of your moth-

erboard.

Figure 1-3.

B11SRE-CPU-TF System Block Diagram

Xeon-W

R4 LGA2066

IMC0

Channel A

1DPC/2666 MHz

IMC1

DIMMA2

DIMMA1

DIMMB1

DIMMB2

Channel B

Channel C

Channel D

DIMMC2

DIMMC1

DIMMD2

DIMMD1

DMI

8.0 GT/s

DMI 3.0 x4

PCH-H

C422

PCIe 3.0 x16

8.0 GT/s

PCIe 3.0 x16

8.0 GT/s

PCIe 3.0 x8

AST2500

50 MHz

480 Mbps

1 x USB 2.0

5 GT/s

PCIe 2.0 x1

ESPI

PEG PEG PEG

Intel X710-BM2

UART

RGB

2 x USB 2.0

480 Mbps

JKVM1

SATA 3.0

SATA

DOM

6.0 Gbps

SPI

32MB BIOS

FLASH

1 x USB 3.0

5.0 Gbps

Intel DCI

Console

Raiser I/O

I/O Board

64MB F/W

Flash

DDR4

512MB

DDR4

SPI

125 MHz

RTL8211FS

RGMII

1Gbps

1000BASE-X

BPN

CONNECTOR

10Gbps

2 x 10GBASE-KR

3 x SATA 3.0

6.0 Gbps

2DPC/2400 MHz

1DPC/2666 MHz

2DPC/2400 MHz

1DPC/2666 MHz

2DPC/2400 MHz

1DPC/2666 MHz

2DPC/2400 MHz

x8/x4/x4

x16

x8/x4

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.2 Processor and Chipset Overview

The Supermicro B11SRE-CPU-TF motherboard, using the C422 chipset, supports Intel Xeon

W processors and provides superb performance, efcient power management, all the while

providing a rich feature set based on cutting edge technology to address today's needs in

advanced computing, engineering simulation, automation, etc.

The Intel Xeon W processor and the C422 chipset support the following features:

• Intel Hyper-Threading, Intel VT-D, VT-x

• Intel Turbo Boost Technology

• Intel Rapid Storage Technology

• 64GB DDR4 Load Reduced RDIMM memory support with speeds of up to 2666MHz

• ACPI Power Management

1.3 Special Features

This section describes the health monitoring features of the B11SRE-CPU-TF motherboard.

The motherboard has an onboard System Hardware Monitor chip that supports system health

monitoring.

Recovery from AC Power Loss

The Basic I/O System (BIOS) provides a setting that determines how the system will respond

when AC power is lost and then restored to the system. You can choose for the system to

remain powered off (in which case you must press the power switch to turn it back on), or

for it to automatically return to the power-on state. See the Advanced BIOS Setup section

for this setting. The default setting is Last State.

1.4 System Health Monitoring

Onboard Voltage Monitors

The onboard voltage monitor will continuously scan crucial voltage levels. Once a voltage

becomes unstable, it will give a warning or send an error message to the screen. The user

can adjust the voltage thresholds to dene the sensitivity of the voltage monitor. Real time

readings of these voltage levels are all displayed in BIOS.

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Fan Status Monitor with Firmware Control

The system health monitor chip can check the RPM status of a cooling fan. The CPU and

chassis fans are controlled by the BIOS Thermal Management.

Environmental Temperature Control

The thermal control sensor monitors the CPU temperature in real time and will turn on the

thermal control fan whenever the CPU temperature exceeds a user-dened threshold. The

overheat circuitry runs independently from the CPU. Once the thermal sensor detects that

the CPU temperature is too high, it will automatically turn on the thermal fans to prevent the

CPU from overheating. The onboard chassis thermal circuitry can monitor the overall system

temperature and alert the user when the chassis temperature is too high.

Note: To avoid possible system overheating, please provide adequate airow to your

system.

System Resource Alert

This feature is available when used with SuperDoctor 5

in the Windows

operating system or

in the Linux environment. SuperDoctor 5 is used to notify the user of certain system events.

For example, you can congure SuperDoctor 5 to provide you with warnings when the system

temperature, CPU temperatures, voltages and fan speeds go beyond a predened range.

1.5 ACPI Features

ACPI stands for Advanced Conguration and Power Interface. The ACPI specication denes

a exible and abstract hardware interface that provides a standard way to integrate power

management features throughout a computer system including its hardware, operating

system, and application software. This enables the system to automatically turn on and off

peripherals such as network cards, hard disk drives, and printers.

In addition to enabling operating system-directed power management, ACPI also provides a

generic system event mechanism for Plug and Play and an operating system-independent

interface for conguration control. ACPI leverages the Plug and Play BIOS data structures

while providing a processor architecture-independent implementation that is compatible with

Windows

10 operating system.

Chapter 2: Installation

Chapter 2

Installation

2.1 Static-Sensitive Devices

Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) can damage electronic com ponents. To avoid damaging

your motherboard and your system, it is important to handle it very carefully. The following

measures are generally sufcient to protect your equipment from ESD.

Precautions

• Use a grounded wrist strap designed to prevent static discharge.

• Touch a grounded metal object before removing the board from the antistatic bag.

• Handle the board by its edges only; do not touch its components, peripheral chips, memory

modules or gold contacts.

• When handling chips or modules, avoid touching their pins.

• Put the motherboard and peripherals back into their antistatic bags when not in use.

• For grounding purposes, make sure that your chassis provides excellent conductivity be-

tween the power supply, the case, the mounting fasteners and the motherboard.

• Use only the correct type of CMOS onboard battery as specied by the manufacturer. Do

not install the CMOS battery upside down, which may result in a possible explosion.

Unpacking

The motherboard is shipped in antistatic packaging to avoid static damage. When unpacking

the motherboard, make sure that the person handling it is static protected.

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2.2 Processor and Heatsink Installation

Warning: When handling the processor package, avoid placing direct pressure on the label

area of the fan.

Important:

• Always connect the power cord last, and always remove it before adding, removing or

changing any hardware components. Make sure that you install the processor into the

CPU socket before you install the CPU heatsink.

• If you buy a CPU separately, make sure that you use an Intel-certied multi-directional

heatsink only.

• Make sure to install the motherboard into the chassis before you install the CPU heatsink.

• When receiving a motherboard without a processor pre-installed, make sure that the plastic

CPU socket cap is in place and none of the socket pins are bent; otherwise, contact your

retailer immediately.

• Refer to the Supermicro website for updates on CPU support.

Press down on

load lever labeled

"Open 1st"

OPEN 1st

Installing a CPU

1. There are two load levers on the LGA 2066 socket. To open the socket cover, press and

release the load lever labeled "Open 1st".

Chapter 2: Installation

2. Press the second load lever labeled "Close 1st" to release the load plate that covers the

CPU socket from its locking position.

OPEN 1st

Press down on

load lever

"Close 1st"

Pull lever away from

socket

OPEN 1st

3. With the "Close 1st" lever fully retracted, gently push down on the "Open 1st" lever to

open the load plate. Lift the load plate to open it completely.

OPEN 1st

Gently push down

to pop the load

plate open

4. Use your thumb and index nger to hold the CPU by its edges. Align the CPU keys,

which are semi-circle cutouts, against the socket keys.

Socket Keys

CPU Keys

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5. Once they are aligned, carefully lower the CPU straight down into the socket. To avoid

damaging the CPU or socket, do not drop the CPU onto the socket, move it horizontally

or vertically, or rub it against the socket pins. Note that you can only install the CPU

inside the socket in one direction.

6. With the CPU inside the socket, inspect the four corners of the CPU to make sure that it

is properly installed.

7. Close the load plate with the CPU inside the socket. Lock the "Close 1st" lever rst,

then lock the "Open 1st" lever second. Gently push the load levers down to the lever

locks.

Push down and lock the

lever labeled "Close 1st"

Gently close

the load plate

OPEN 1st

Lever Lock

Push down and

lock the lever

labeled "Open

1st"

OPEN 1st

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