Monthly Specification Update Intel®Server Board S5500BC Intel®Server System SR1630BC Intel®Server System SC5650BCDP Revision 11.
Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update Revision History Date Modifications April 2009 Initial release. May 2009 Errata 9 – Excessive Time to Enter or Exit EFI Shell When AHCI is enabled in BIOS Revision R0037.Document update 1 – Updating information for usable/accessible memory for BMC video/graphic display functions for the onboard Server Engine* LLC Pilot II* video controller.
Monthly Specification Update Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Disclaimers The Intel Products specified may contain design defects or errors known as errata that may cause the products to deviate from the published specifications. Current characterized errata are documented in this Specification Update. Information in this document is provided in connection with Intel products.
Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update Contents Preface ....................................................................................................................................... 1 Summary Tables of Changes ................................................................................................... 2 Errata ......................................................................................................................................... 4 1.
Monthly Specification Update Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing 22. System may not enter LSI* 9260-4i/8i RAID card webBIOS when both LSI*92604i/8i and LSI* 20320-R SCSI card installed............................................................................ 11 23. System may go to EFi first instead of Hardware Raid configuration setup page... 11 24. System may get blue screen on display during the installation of Windows Server 2008* R2 under UEFI mode.........................................
Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update
Monthly Specification Update Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Preface This document communicates product Errata and Documentation Changes and Corrections for the following Intel Server Products: Intel® Server Board S5500BC Intel® Server System SR1630BC Intel® Server System SC5650BCDP ® ® ® Refer to the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series and Intel Processor 5600 Series Specification Updates for specification updates concerning the Intel® Xeon® Process 5500 series and 5600 series processo
Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update Summary Tables of Changes The following tables provide an overview of known errata and known document changes that apply to the specified Intel Server Products. The tables use the following notations: Doc Intel intends to update the appropriate documentation in a future revision. Fix Intel intends to correct this erratum. Fixed This erratum has been corrected. NoFix There are no plans to correct this erratum.
Monthly Specification Update No. Plans Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Description of Errata 21. Fix System with BIOS Revision R0054 may hang when Adaptec* 5405 or 5805 RAID card installed. 22. Fix System may not enter LSI* 9260-4i/8i RAID card web BIOS when both LSI*9260-4i/8i RAID card and LSI* 20320-R SCSI card are installed. 23. NoFix System may go to EFI first instead of Hardware RAID configuration setup page. 24.
Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update Errata 1. Errors are reported during the installation of SuSE SLES 10 EM64T Problem When installing SuSE* SLES 10 EM64T with Advanced Error Reporting (AER) capabilites enabled, an AER error is logged in the operating system event log. Implication AER uses an optional ACPI requirement, -OCS, that is not available in the S5500 BIOS revisions. There is no functional impact.
Monthly Specification Update Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Implication 1. The user may see the numeral 10 displayed at the top right corner of the screen or, 2. The RAID controller information may be intermingled with the platform information displayed by BIOS. There is no functional impact associated with this erratum. Status This issue was fixed in BIOS release R0038. Workaround None. 5.
Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Status This issue was fixed with BMC 00.36. Workaround None 8. Monthly Specification Update BIOS setup may report an incorrect firmware version Problem The BIOS setup screens to display the versions of SDR and ME firmware version may report an incorrect version. The version displayed may be of the previously installed versions. Implication After firmware update, the BIOS screens may not show the correct version until the system is AC cycled.
Monthly Specification Update 11. Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Serial Over LAN (SOL) Will not Automatically Enable Console Redirection When Console Redirection Is Disabled In BIOS Setup Problem If console redirection is disabled in BIOS setup SOL will no longer automatically detect this condition and then enable console redirection. Implication Console redirection must be enabled in BIOS setup prior to utilizing SOL.
Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing 13. Monthly Specification Update Excessive logs get reported after system reboot when running SuSE* Linux 10, with Service Pack 2 x86 Problem During system reboot excessive logs are getting reported in the system SEL. Implication During a system reboot the user will see excessive logs being reported into the system SEL. Status This issue may be fixed in a future OS release. Workaround 14. These errors occur during the ISA PNP scan.
Monthly Specification Update Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Problem If the user clears the BIOS CMOS settings via jumper or using the Sysconfig /bldfs switch, the date in BIOS setup may be corrupted and read 09XX. Implication An invalid date stamp, 09XX, may be displayed in BIOS setup after clearing BIOS CMOS settings using the jumper or the Syscfg utility resulting in the user having to perform an extra reboot of the system to recover the date in the proper format.
Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing 19. Monthly Specification Update BIOS setup may report inaccurate HSC FW revision Problem With Baseboard BIOS version R0050 and BMC version 53, the HSC FW revision may be inaccurately shown as 123.415 instead of 0.00 if there is no backplane connected to the board or system.
Monthly Specification Update 22. Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing System may not enter LSI* 9260-4i/8i RAID card webBIOS when both LSI*9260-4i/8i and LSI* 20320-R SCSI card installed Problem System may not enter LSI* 9260-4i/8i RAID card webBIOS with both LSI* 9260-4i/8i card and LSI* 20320-R SCSI card installed Implication User may find not able to go into LSI* 9260-4i/8i RAID card webBIOS even Ctrl+H was pressed. Status This issue may be fixed in a future BIOS revision.
Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Problem Monthly Specification Update With Intel network card E1G44ET or E1G44ET2 installed, below message may be loged in System Event Log(SEL): Critical Interrupt /PCIe Fat Sensor (#0x04) CRITICAL event: PCIe Fat Sensor reports a fatal PCI Express Surprise Link Down error. SMI Handler (Channel #00h) Critical Interrupt /PCIe Cor Sensor Informational event: PCIe Cor Sensor reports a correctable PCI Express Link Bandwidth Changed error.
Monthly Specification Update Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Documentation Changes 1.
