Intel SC5650BCDP Documentation Update

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Monthly Specification Update
Intel® Server Board S5500BC
Intel® Server System SR1630BC
Intel® Server System SC5650BCDP
Revision 11.0
September, 2011
Enterprise Platforms and Services Division Marketing

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  • Page 1 Monthly Specification Update Intel® Server Board S5500BC Intel® Server System SR1630BC Intel® Server System SC5650BCDP Revision 11.0 September, 2011  Enterprise Platforms and Services Division Marketing...
  • Page 2: Revision History

    10, with Service Pack 2 x86. ®  Errata 14 – System hang may occur during FRU/SDR update process with the Intel Server System SR1630BC.  Errata 15 – System May Not Configure to CLTT Mode when using Unbuffered Memory September 2009 with Thermal Sensors.
  • Page 3 Intel disclaims any express or implied warranty, relating to sale and/or use of Intel products including liability or warranties relating to fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, or infringement of any patent, copyright or other intellectual property right.
  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Thermal Sensors ........................8 Clearing BIOS CMOS in BIOS Revision R0042 May Return an Invalid Date ..8 Intel® Active System Console (IASC) 3.5.1 and 3.5.2 may fail to detect status of memory voltage sensors ......................9 SuSE* SLES11 kernel may halt for 60~150seconds during installation with default BIOS setting ..........................
  • Page 5 Monthly Specification Update 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 ................11 System may go to EFi first instead of Hardware Raid configuration setup page ... 11 System may get blue screen on display during the installation of Windows Server 2008* R2 under UEFI mode ....................
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  • Page 7: Preface

    ® 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 processors. Items contained in the Intel Xeon...
  • Page 8: Summary Tables Of Changes

    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: Intel intends to update the appropriate documentation in a future revision.
  • Page 9 PCI Express link down error or bandwidth changed message may be logged in System Event Log Table 2. Documentation Changes Plans Document Name Description of Documentation Change ® Intel Server Board Updating information for usable/accessible memory for BMC S5500BC Technical video/graphic display functions for the onboard Server Engine* LLC Pilot II* video controller.
  • Page 10: Errata

    Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update Errata 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.
  • Page 11: The Pxe Boot Option Is Missing In Bios Setup

    Monthly Specification Update Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing 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. Implication There is no functional impact associated with this erratum.
  • Page 12: Bios Setup May Report An Incorrect Firmware Version

    Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update Status This issue was fixed with BMC 00.36. Workaround None 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.
  • Page 13: Serial Over Lan (Sol) Will Not Automatically Enable Console Redirection When Console Redirection Is Disabled In Bios Setup

    Monthly Specification Update 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.
  • Page 14: Excessive Logs Get Reported After System Reboot When Running Suse* Linux 10, With Service Pack 2 X86

    These errors occur during the ISA PNP scan. A workaround is to add "noisapnp" to the command line options during operating system installation or modify grub after installation. System hang may occur during FRU/SDR update process with the Intel® Server System SR1630BC Problem...
  • Page 15: Intel® Active System Console (Iasc) 3.5.1 And 3.5.2 May Fail To Detect Status Of Memory Voltage Sensors

    An additional reboot will reset the date format in BIOS setup. However, the user will have to set the date and time to the current local settings. Intel® Active System Console (IASC) 3.5.1 and 3.5.2 may fail to detect status of memory voltage sensors When using low voltage memory DIMM’s the FRUSDR enables the...
  • Page 16: Bios Setup May Report Inaccurate Hsc Fw Revision

    Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing 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.
  • Page 17: I/8I And Lsi* 20320-R Scsi Card Installed

    Monthly Specification Update 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.
  • Page 18 Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update Problem 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...
  • Page 19: Documentation Changes

    Will be fixed in next revision of the Technical Product Specification ® Workaround Intel S5500BC Server Board support Server Engine* LLC Pilot II* Controller with 64 MB DDR2 memory. 8MB is usable/accessible memory for iBMC video/graphic display functions. The graphics controller internally has access to larger memory for the internal operations.

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