User Guide

• Front Panel
o In DP systems, the platform supports a power button, a reset button, and an
NMI button on the control panel.
• The BIOS supports the front control panel power button. Pressing the
power button initiates a request that the BMC forwards to the ACPI
power state machines in the chipset. It is monitored by the BMC and
does not directly control power on the power supply.
• Pressing the platform reset button initiates a request that is forwarded
by the BMC to the chipset. The BIOS does not affect the behavior of
the reset button.
• The BIOS supports the front control panel NMI button. The NMI button
may not be provided on all front panel designs. Pressing the NMI
button initiates a request that causes the BMC to generate an NMI
(non-maskable interrupt). The NMI is captured by the BIOS during
boot services time, and by the operating system during Runtime.
During boot services time, the BIOS halts the system upon detection
of the NMI.
o In UP systems, the platform supports a power button and a reset button.
• The BIOS supports a front control panel power button. Pressing the
power button initiates a request to the chipset.
• The platform supports a front control panel reset button. Pressing the
reset button initiates a request to the chipset.
• Console Redirection
o BIOS supports redirection of both video and keyboard via a serial link (serial
port). When console redirection is enabled, the keyboard input and console
output are passed to the remote console through the serial link.
o To use console redirection the user has to configure the Console redirection
parameters such as Baud Rate, Flow control, Terminal Type and the port
number. This can be done through the Intel SysCfg utility.
o The Intel Rapid Boot BIOS will not support redirection of Legacy Consoles.
What’s not in the BIOS?
The Intel Rapid Boot BIOS speeds-up the boot time and frees-up space in the BIOS flash by
cutting down on features that do not add value in the HPC environment.
The features that the Intel Rapid Boot BIOS does not support include:
• Processor RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability)
o Intel Rapid Boot BIOS will not report an error if mixed processor families,
mixed FSB speeds or mixed processor cache sizes are used. The system
behavior is unpredictable under such circumstances.
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