Preface
About This Manual
This manual is written for system integrators, PC technicians and
knowledgeable PC users. It provides information for the installation and use of
the
motherboard. The PDSBA-Q+/PDSBA+/PDSBA/PDSBE supports a
single Intel Quad-core/Dual-core Core2 Duo/E6000/E4000/Xeon 3000/Pentium
®
D/
Pentium
®
4/Celeron Processor with a system bus speed of 1066/800/533 MHz. The
Intel Core2 Duo, Xeon, Pentium
®
D, Pentium
®
4 and Celeron Processors, housed
in a Flip-Chip Land Grid Array, support the 775-Land Grid Array Package that inter-
faces with the motherboard via an LGA775 socket. The PDSBA-Q+/PDSBA+/PDS-
BA/PDSBE supports up to 4MB of L2 Cache, Intel Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
(Note), EM64T, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep (EIST), Intel Virtualization Technology
(VT), Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2), Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSE3),
and Execute Disable (XD) Bit. Please refer to the motherboard specifi cations pages
on our website (http://www.supermicro.com/Product/motherboard) for updates on
processor support. This product is intended to be professionally installed.
Manual Organization
Chapter 1 describes the features, specifi cations and performance of the mainboard
and provides detailed information about the 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 the video, the memory and the system setup stored
in CMOS.
Chapter 4 includes an introduction to BIOS and provides detailed information on
running the CMOS Setup utility.
Appendix A lists BIOS POST Error Codes.
Appendix B and Appendix C list Windows OS and Software Installation Instruc-
tions.
Note: TPM support is available for the PDSBA-Q+/PDSBA+/PDSBA only.
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