Specification Update

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25. Serial ATA (SATA) HDDs may be marked offline when populated behind a second

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) expander based drive enclosure ................................................ 16

26. Failures seen installing to a SATA drive when SATA is set to Legacy in BIOS

setup 16

27. System Hangs after disabling Onboard Video in BIOS setup ................................ 16

28. The SMBIOS entry point may not be visible under certain hardware configurations17

29. Fans occasionally running too fast after BIOS reset .............................................. 17

30. SAS SW RAID option is erroneously available in BIOS setup after loading optimal

default settings on the S5000PSLROMB server board ........................................................... 18

31. RAID Web Console 2 Utility Displays “Unexpected Sensor” Warning Message in

Microsoft Windows* Operating System ................................................................................... 18

32. PS/2 keyboards and mice may stop functioning after Red Hat* Enterprise Linux is

installed 19

33. HSC and LCP updates may take a long time ........................................................ 19

34. SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server may not install successfully with Intel® Embedded

Server RAID Technology II enabled ........................................................................................ 19

35. Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4 and BIOS setup display a different L2 cache size for

the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5300 Series ................................................................................ 20

36. Change Logo Utility causes BIOS corruption ........................................................ 20

37. Microsoft Windows System Event Viewer* may record ID 11 Error Event ............ 20

38. POST screen may generate “NMI has been received – System Halted” message

after the system reboots .......................................................................................................... 21

39. S5000PSLSAS software RAID 5 cannot be configured ......................................... 21

40. SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server unable to boot after basic installation .................. 21

41. Red Hat* Enterprise Linux may report the wrong processor speed ....................... 22

42. A kernel panic is likely to be observed with Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4 or SuSE*

Linux Enterprise Server 9 when SpeedStep is disabled in BIOS menu .................................. 22

43. SAS software RAID 5 activation key may NOT be detected .................................. 22

44. Microsoft Windows* operating systems without service pack will exhibit blue

screen with BIOS 79 and 81 ....................................................................................................

45. Fails PXE boot from on-board NIC 2 and neither on-board NIC works under DOS

with BIOS R0079 and R0081 ................................................................................................... 24

46. Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology II SAS RAID 5 consistence check fails

in BIOS console only if hard drives are docked in expander HSBP ........................................ 24

47. Sluggish system performance may be experienced with BMC60 .......................... 24

48. Microsoft Windows Server 2003* R2 SP2 may exhibit a blue screen during an

operating system boot or shutdown with a specific version of I/OAT driver ............................ 25

49. Recent Intel® Server RAID Adapters fail to activate RAID BIOS Console by Ctrl+G

in S5000PSL and/or S5000XVN PCI slot 4 ............................................................................. 25