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Contents
Preface ....................................................................................................................................... 1
Summary Tables of Changes ................................................................................................... 3
Errata ......................................................................................................................................... 5
1. Enabling AHCI mode in BIOS setup will cause Microsoft Windows 2008* to hang
during installation ..................................................................................................................... 5
2. System will hang entering the ACPI S1 sleep state ................................................ 5
3. USB devices limited to a total of twelve .................................................................. 5
4. Excessive Temperature does not trigger a Thermal Trip event ............................... 6
5. Hyper Threading cannot be disabled in BIOS setup ............................................... 6
6. A critical interrupt is logged in the System Event Log (SEL) when installing SuSE*
SLES 10 SP2 32 bit ................................................................................................................. 6
7. Errors are reported during the installation of SuSE* SLES 10 SP2 EM64T ............ 7
8. In SATA compatibility mode the operating system may take more than four hours
to install 7
9. Serial Console mode may display extra text or intermingled text ............................ 7
10. The PXE boot option is missing in BIOS Setup ...................................................... 8
11. Fans may boost temporarily when BMC is under load ............................................ 8
12. Extra events may be seen in the SEL during system reset ..................................... 8
13. BIOS setup may report incorrect firmware versions ................................................ 9
14. Onboard SATA controller SW RAID mode is not available when Intel® SAS Entry
RAID Module AXX4SASMOD is set to Intel
®
ESRTII mode ..................................................... 9
15. When battery is missing, firmware will think it is there .......................................... 10
16. SES connection is not enabled in Intel® SAS Entry RAID Module AXX4SASMOD
firmware v2009.03.24 ............................................................................................................ 10
17. Closed Loop Thermal Throttling (CLTT) is not automatically detected and set when
using unbuffered memory (UDIMM) ....................................................................................... 10
18. SASflash for EFI may not run when EFI Optimized Boot BIOS option is enabled . 11
19. Stopped Intel® Server Chassis SC5600LX power supply fans may cause
continuous reboots ................................................................................................................ 11
20. Excessive Time to Enter or Exit EFI Shell When AHCI is Enabled in BIOS Revision
R0037 12
21. Serial Over LAN (SOL) Will not Automatically Enable Console Redirection When
Console Redirection Is Disabled In BIOS Setup..................................................................... 12
22. Windows Server 2003* may hang when log in to Intel® Raid Web Console2
version 3.04-05 with Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology II (ESRTII) Raid enabled ...
13
23. Cannot boot from SATA CD/DVD ROM using a “bootable Microsoft DOS* CD/DVD
when RAID (or AHCI) is Enabled in the BIOS setup .............................................................. 13
24. High CPU utilization may occur when installing or running Microsoft Windows
Server 2008 R2* or Microsoft Windows 7* with default NIC driver.......................................... 14
25. Clearing BIOS CMOS in BIOS Revision R0042 may return an invalid Date ......... 14