Appendix A - Integration And Usage Tips - Penguin Computing Relion 1900e Technical Manual

Appendix A – Integration and Usage Tips
When adding or removing components or peripherals from the server board, power cords must be
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disconnected from the server. With power applied to the server, standby voltages are still present
even though the server board is powered off.
This server board supports the Intel
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Design Power (TDP) of up to and including 145 Watts. Previous generations of the Intel
processors are not supported. Server systems using this server board may or may not meet the TDP
design limits of the server board. Validate the TDP limits of the server system before selecting a
processor.
Processors must be installed in order. CPU 1 must be populated for the server board to operate
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The bottom add-in card slot of the 2U 3-slot riser card and Riser Card Slots #2 and #3 on the server
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board can only be used in dual processor configurations
The riser card slots are specifically designed to support riser cards only. Attempting to install a
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PCIe* add-in card directly into a riser card slot on the server board may damage the server board, the
add-in card, or both.
This server board only supports DDR4 ECC RDIMM – Registered (Buffered) DIMMS and DDR4 ECC
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LRDIMM – Load Reduced DIMMs
For the best performance, the number of DDR4 DIMMs installed should be balanced across both
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processor sockets and memory channels
On the back edge of the server board are eight diagnostic LEDs that display a sequence of amber
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POST codes during the boot process. If the server board hangs during POST, the LEDs display the
last POST event run before the hang.
The System Status LED will be set to a steady Amber color for all Fatal Errors that are detected
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during processor initialization. A steady Amber System Status LED indicates that an unrecoverable
system failure condition has occurred
RAID partitions created using either RSTe or ESRT2 cannot span across the two embedded SATA
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controllers. Only drives attached to a common SATA controller can be included in a RAID partition
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