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26.
Failures seen installing to a SATA drive when SATA is set to "Legacy" in
the BIOS setup
Problem
If a user has SATA set to "Legacy" in the BIOS setup and tries to install an
operating system, the installation may fail.
Implication
Users who require SATA to be configured in legacy mode may not be able to
get their operating system to install properly.
Status
This erratum is fixed in BIOS release R0057 and later releases.
Workaround
If possible, leave SATA in enhanced mode. No workaround exists for the
legacy mode issue.
27.
System hangs after disabling on-board video in the BIOS setup
Problem
After disabling on-board video in the BIOS setup, the system hangs during
POST.
Implication
Users cannot disable on-board video via the BIOS setup.
Status
This erratum is fixed in BIOS release R0057 and later releases.
Workaround
Adding in a video controller automatically disables the onboard video. It is not
necessary to manually disable the video controller via the BIOS setup. No
workaround exists for configurations that do not include video controller support.
28.
The SMBIOS entry point may not be visible under certain hardware
configurations
Problem
The server BIOS maintains an area in memory to act as an entry point to locate
the SMBIOS area. This entry point includes the anchor string "_SM_", memory
pointers and information about the SMBIOS area as required by the SMBIOS
specification. This information is dynamically created by the BIOS during POST
and is placed in a required memory range between 000F0000h-000FFFFFh.
Hardware configurations that require large amounts of memory at POST
(option ROM space or I/O configuration space) could fill up this memory range
and the SMBIOS entry point cannot be created correctly.
Implication
This problem shows an inability for software to locate the SMBIOS records.
This can affect management software and also some Intel provided update
utilities, including: BIOS update utilities and FRUSDR update utilities. An error
may also appear in the BIOS error manager. Intel update utilities generate an
error and abort before performing an update.
Status
This erratum is fixed in BIOS release R0060 and later releases.
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