Monthly Specification Update
Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update
IV
Contents
Preface ....................................................................................................................................... 1
1. Nomenclature ......................................................................................................... 1
2. Product Scope ....................................................................................................... 2
Summary Tables of Changes ................................................................................................... 3
Errata ......................................................................................................................................... 5
1. Errors are reported during the installation of SuSE* SLES 10 EM64T .................... 5
2. Hyper Threading cannot be disabled in BIOS setup ............................................... 5
3. A critical interrupt is logged in the System Event Log (SEL) when installing SuSE*
SLES 10 32 bit ......................................................................................................................... 5
4. Wake on LAN does not work on 1 GB I/O modules................................................ 6
5. In SATA compatibility mode the operating system may take more than four hours
to install 6
6. Serial Console mode may display extra text or intermingled text ............................ 6
7. The PXE boot option is missing in BIOS Setup ...................................................... 7
8. Fans may boost temporarily when BMC is under load ............................................ 7
9. Extra events may be seen in the SEL during system reset ..................................... 7
10. BIOS setup may report an incorrect firmware versions .......................................... 8
11. Hard drive status LED for blank drive slots may blink amber when system is in
AHCI mode .............................................................................................................................. 8
12. If the Server Board battery is missing, firmware will detect it as present and good 8
13. Server Board can’t detect a 10Gb IO Module or a QDR IB IO Module without a
PCI Riser installed ................................................................................................................... 9
14. Cannot update DVD Drive FW when 6 DIMMs are installed ................................... 9
15. Closed Loop Thermal Throttling (CLTT) is not automatically detected and set
when using unbuffered memory (UDIMMs) .............................................................................. 9
16. Intel Deployment Assistant (IDA) cannot be used to perform unattended Windows
OS installs 10
17. DCMI Capabilities test failure: Temperature Sensor Discovery ............................ 10
18. DCMI Capabilities test failure: VLAN Support test ................................................ 10
19. DCMI conformance test failure: LAN configuration ARP control ........................... 11
20. System Hangs when AXX4SASMOD I/O Module set to ESRTII ........................... 11
21. Dual Display Not Working In SuSE* 10 32-bit ...................................................... 11
22. Excessive Time to Enter or Exit EFI Shell When AHCI is Enabled in BIOS
Revision R0037 ..................................................................................................................... 12