Specifications

QSSC-S4R Technical Product Specification BIOS Initialization
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Table 102. Memory ECC Error Handling — Runtime, Non-Redundant Configuration
Error
Scenario
System Event
Log (SEL)
DIMM Fault
LED
System
Fault LED
IPMI Memory RAS
Behavior
System
Operation
Correctable
Errors
(CE) < Threshold
*
None No change No change None The system continues to operate normally.
CE = Threshold CE SEL
Message for
each of the
Faulty DDR-3
DIMM
†
LED turned
On for each of
the Failed
DDR-3 DIMM
only
A
mber/Blink None The system continues to operate normally,
but masks all correctable memory errors
from this point onwards.
A
ny subsequent “ CE threshold reached‘
event is ignored from this point forward.
CE > Threshold No action. No change No change None The operating system continues to operate
normally.
CE caught during
Patrol Scrub
None No change No change None The system continues to operate normally
CE = Threshold
caught during
Patrol Scrub
CE SEL event
for each of the
Faulty DDR3
DIMM
LED turned
On for each of
the Faulty
DDR3 DIMM
only
A
mber/Blink None The system continues to operate normally,
but masks all correctable memory errors
from this point forward.
CE > Threshold
caught during
Patrol Scrub
No action No change No change None The operating system continues to operate
normally.
Uncorrectable
Errors
(UE)
UE SEL event
identifying the
DDR3 DIMM
location
LED turned
On for each of
the failed
DDR-3 DIMM
only
A
mber/On None The system halts with a Machine
Check
Exception
3
UE during Patrol
Scrub
UE SEL
Message
identifying the
DDR3
DIMM, SMI
Link location
On for the
failed DDR-3
DIMM only
A
mber/On None This is called SW recoverable error in
Nehalem-EX. The operating systems that
have this support continues to operate
normally.
The operating systems don‘t support
Nehalem-EX SW recoverable error will halt
w
ith Machine Check Exception.
If configured to NMI instead, the system
halts with a NMI message.
*
The Correctable Error logging threshold is configurable and based on a setup question.
†
This SEL entry inherently implies that the correctable error logging threshold has been reached.
3
If configured to do so, the BIOS may generate an NMI instead