Specification Update

Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update

Implication Users are not able to check the MAC address of Dual Port Intel® X540 10GbE

I/O Module(AXX10GBTWLIOM and AXX10GBTWLHW) in BIOS.

Status This issue may be fixed in a future BIOS release.

Workaround None.

30.

BMC will generate flood event log and send PEF continuously

Problem 1. Use IPMI tool to set a PEF (6 commands)

ipmitool –H xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx –U xxx –P xxxxxx raw 0x04 0x12 0x01 0x01

ipmitool –H xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx –U xxx –P xxxxxx raw 0x04 0x12 0x02 0x01

ipmitool –H xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx –U xxx –P xxxxxx raw 0x04 0x12 0x9 0x14 0xa8

0x1f 0x0

ipmitool –H xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx –U xxx –P xxxxxx raw 0x04 0x12 0x6 0x14 0x80

0x1 0xa 0x10 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0

0x0

ipmitool –H xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx –U xxx –P xxxxxx raw 0x0c 0x01 0x1 0x12 0xf

0x80 0x5 0x7

ipmitool –H xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx –U xxx –P xxxxxx raw 0x0c 0x01 0x1 0x13 0xf

0x0 0x0 0xa 0x24 0x71 0x7b 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0

2. Go to BMC web console and go to configurations=>alert, check all alert and

must set destination IP to remote concole =>Save

3. Try to generate an event (unplug power), you can see there are a lot of

event in event log and make event log full.

4. Even when restore the PSU, the SEL is continuing to grow w/o PSU

redundancy regain.

Implication The flood even log will fulfill the SEL in several minutes

Status The issue may be fix in future BMC release

Workaround Restore the system and uncheck all alerts in BMC web console.

31.

System BIOS may report POST error code 0x146 with the Intel® Xeon

Phi™ Coprocessor installed

Problem System BIOS may report POST error code 0x146 “PCI out of resource error”

when one or more Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessors are installed with the BIOS

default setting.

Implication The Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor might not be recognized using the default

BIOS setting as it requires more PCI space..

Status This issue may be fixed in a future BIOS release.

Workaround Press F2 to enter BIOS Setup, change Advanced -> PCI Configuration ->

Memory Mapped I/O Size to 256G or larger. The value also depends on your

system PCI configuration