Specification Update

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Contents
Preface ....................................................................................................................................... 1
Summary Tables of Changes ................................................................................................... 2
Errata ......................................................................................................................................... 5
1. System will hang while accessing RAID BIOS setup screen with RAID Midplane in
hardware mode installed .......................................................................................................... 5
2. Mixed PCI Express* (PCIe*) devices installed on the ASR26XXFHLPR riser full-
height slots 1 and 2 may cause a system hang ....................................................................... 5
3. Cannot boot to SATA CD-ROM device with SATA SW RAID enabled in
conjunction with a 1064e backplane installed .......................................................................... 5
4. Changing console redirection settings in BIOS setup may result in loss of
information in the Boot Manager page of BIOS setup .............................................................. 6
5. BIOS recovery is not available using the on-board USB DVD/CD-ROM optical
drive 6
6. System may hang during POST if console redirection is set to 9600 Baud ............ 7
7. POST messages do not correctly display when using console redirection or Serial
Over LAN (SOL) ...................................................................................................................... 7
8. False NMI being reported with certain versions of Linux operating system
installations .............................................................................................................................. 7
9. Errors are reported during the installation of SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10
EM64T 8
10. Hyper-Threading cannot be disabled in the BIOS setup ......................................... 8
11. A critical interrupt is logged in the System Event Log (SEL) when installing SuSE*
Linux Enterprise Server 10 32-bit ............................................................................................. 8
12. Wake on LAN (WOL) does not work on 1 GB I/O modules .................................... 9
13. The operating system may take more than four hours to install in SATA
compatibility mode ................................................................................................................... 9
14. Serial Console mode may display extra text or intermingled text ............................ 9
15. The PXE boot option is missing in the BIOS Setup .............................................. 10
16. Fans may boost temporarily when BMC is under load .......................................... 10
17. Extra events may be seen in the SEL during system reset ................................... 11
18. BIOS setup may report an incorrect firmware version .......................................... 11
19. Hard drive status LED for blank drive slots may blink amber when system is in
AHCI mode ............................................................................................................................ 11
20. Yellow Bang may be seen in Microsoft Windows Server 2008* Device manager
when using ASR26XXFHLPR Riser ....................................................................................... 12