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Monthly Specification Update Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Intel® Server Board S5000XAL Intel® Server System SR1500AL Intel® Server System SR1550AL Intel® Server System SR2500AL Intel Order Number D65289-036 October 2011 Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing
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Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update Date June 2006 Intel sales office or your distributor to obtain the latest specifications and before placing your product order. Intel, Itanium, Pentium, and Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation.
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Monthly Specification Update Copyright © Intel Corporation 2006-2011. Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing iii
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supported 10 18. Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology II option is not enabled in initial BIOS release 10 19. HSC and BMC versions intermittently not seen in BIOS setup 10 20. Intel® Server Boards S5000PAL/S5000XAL and Intel® Server System SR1500AL show a "Changes in Hardware or Drivers
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BIOS setup display a different L2 cache size for the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 Series 16 32. Change Logo Utility causes BIOS corruption the Intel® Server Board S5000PAL with video driver ati_drv.o 6.5.6 23 51. Microsoft Windows* operating systems installed without a service pack
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Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update 53. Downgrading the firmware of the Integrated RAID (ROMB), Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology II, or SAS may cause system damage 25 54. In the Intel version of Intel I/OAT driver 26 56 91 on Intel® Server Board S5000PAL/S5000XAL...28 60
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Intel® Server Board S5000XAL • Intel® Server Chassis SR1500 • Intel® Server Chassis SR1550 • Intel® Server Chassis SR2500 • Intel® Server System SR1500AL • Intel® Server System SR1550AL • Intel® Server System SR2500AL Refer to the Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor describe a supported feature or
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BIOS release. 19. Fixed HSC and BMC versions intermittently not seen in BIOS setup 20. Fixed Intel® Server Boards S5000PAL/S5000XAL and Intel® Server System SR1500AL show a "Changes in Hardware or Drivers Detected" error message during WHQL ACPI stress testing. 21. Fixed POST LEDs do not turn off
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BIOS setup display a different L2 cache size for the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 Series. 32. Fixed Change Logo Utility causes BIOS on the Intel® Server Board S5000PAL with video driver ati_drv.o 6.5.6. 51. Fixed Microsoft Windows* operating system installed without a service pack will
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Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update 61. No Fix PCI IBIST Error with BIOS84. 62. Fix System may hang during login or Shutdown. 63. Fixed Hard Disks are Difficult to Install in Intel® Server System SR2500AL and Intel Rev 1.1 of the Intel® Server Board S5000PAL/S5000XAL TPS does not
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Monthly Specification Update Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Errata 1. IPMI over serial direct connect not supported Problem Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5000 sequence-based server boards list support for IPMI access via serial direct connect. Serial access to the BMC is not
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Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update Problem Implication Status Workaround The RPM after the BMC is updated Problem Implication After a BMC update, fan 5 may not return an accurate reading until AC power is cycled. Intel® System Management Software and other
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Specification Update Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing 7. Fans may take a long time to slow down after fan boosting Problem System fans that "boost" due to an increased processor temperature may not return to normal speed immediately after the processor temperature returns to normal
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Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update Problem Implication Status Workaround Some their normal speeds. 11. System fault LED may report incorrect status for some events Problem The system fault LED may report incorrect status for some events. The proper LED
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Services Marketing 13. Power supply redundancy state is misleading when only one power supply is installed Problem If a single power supply is installed in a chassis that supports ) updates may take a long time Problem The Hot Swap Controller (HSC) and Intel Local Control Panel (LCP) updates
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Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update 16. Serial Over LAN (SOL) unable to redirect DOS output Problem Workaround None. 17. Password on boot not supported Problem If an admin or user password is defined in are readily available and supported by Intel® Server Boards. Consult the
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Monthly Specification Update Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Implication Status Workaround HSC and BMC Intel® Server Boards S5000PAL/S5000XAL and Intel® Server System SR1500AL show a "Changes in Hardware or Drivers Detected" error message during WHQL ACPI stress testing Problem
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which includes the latest processor microcode releases. They cannot use this utility to add a microcode patch to the existing BIOS. 23. Intel® RAID Controller SRCSAS144E causes systems to reset multiple times before completing POST Problem With the Intel® RAID Controller SRCSAS144E installed
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Monthly Specification Update Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing 24. Change Logo Utility does not save modified BIOS capsule files with correct extension Problem When using the Change Logo Utility to modify a BIOS capsule file and replace the Intel Splash Screen logo with a new one, it
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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
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Server may not install successfully with Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology II enabled Problem If SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server is being installed with Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology II enabled, the RAID array may not be detected after the driver is loaded, which results in an
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Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update 31. Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4 and BIOS setup display a different L2 cache size for the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 Series Problem In Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4, the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 Series
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versions (before v.89) could not support any communication to the Storage Enclosure Processor (SEP) on backplanes. The firmware was modified to support SEP devices, but the backplanes used in the Intel® Server Chassis SR1500, Intel® Server Chassis SR1550, and Intel® Server Chassis SR2500 do not
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board. Use the cabling method documented at: http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/CS-025698.htm Workaround Not Applicable. 37. Intel recommends enterprise-class hard drives for use with Intel® Server Systems Problem Some desktop-class hard disk drives show performance loss and
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Update Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Workaround If the module is not reset, you can force it to reset by removing and replacing AC power to the system. 39. SAS drive in a ROMB RAID 5 may drop offline during a reboot in the Intel® Server System SR2500PALLX Problem When five or six
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.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/CS-025446.htm describes this issue and its workaround. 42. Drives may not be detected or may go offline in the Intel® Server System SR2500ALBRP when operating at SATA 3GB/s data rate Problem In the Intel® Server System SR2500ALBRP with a passive midplane, hard
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processor, and system fans). Workaround No. 44. Intel® Server System SR2500ALLX may operate louder than expected Problem The Intel ignore it. Status Ignore the processor speed in Red Hat* Enterprise Linux. Workaround None. 46. The SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10 driver for SAS HW RAID causes
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and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update Problem Implication Status Workaround The SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10 driver for SAS GTL2007 chip has an interaction issue with the BMC, and startup times with the processor at power on can cause false CPU IERRs. You can ignore the false
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Problem If only an USB keyboard and mouse are used, and no PS/2 devices are connected, the following message may be displayed in the pop-up dialog box: At least one service or driver not display when booting off the Intel® Deployment Assistant CD and running the Intel® RAID Web Console from the CD
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Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update Problem Implication Status Workaround When running certain Red Hat* Enterprise Linux on the Intel® Server Board S5000PAL with video driver ati_drv.o 6.5.6, the System Event Log (SEL) may report an IERR event. Additionally,
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Services Marketing 52. Sluggish system performance may be experienced with BMC 60 Problem memory throttling rather than fan boosts being used to cool the memory breakdown. Intel does not officially support firmware during SAS controller scanning Problem In the Intel® Server Systems SR2500ALLX and
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Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update Implication In either SAS blue screen during an operating system boot or shutdown with a specific version of Intel I/OAT driver Problem Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 SP2* may display blue screen during an operating system boot
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Windows Server 2008* Problem If you are use any Intel® Xeon® Processor of the 5300 or the 5400 series in the Intel® S5000PAL Server Board ) in the ACPI space for these processors. Basically, this default PSS object indicates no PState is supported. However, Microsoft Windows Vista* and Microsoft
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fails with BIOS 89/91 on Intel® Server Board S5000PAL/S5000XAL Problem Customer may experience problems when they run PCT on Intel® Server Board S5000PSL, Intel® Server Board S5000PAL, Intel® Server Board S5000VSA, Intel® Server Board S5000VCL, and Intel® Workstation Board S5000XVN. There are two
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Monthly Specification Update Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Status Workaround This erratum will be clear as an effective workaround. 62. System May Hang during Login or Shutdown Problem Installing the Intel® PRO/1000 PT Quad Port Low Profile Server Adapter (Model # EXPI9404PTL)
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Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update Bending angle 64. System May not Boot After Multiple DC power Cycles with BIOS Revision R0098 Problem If console redirection and Legacy OS redirection are both enabled in BIOS setup, the system may hang early in POST after
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Services Marketing Workaround None. 66. Please use AXXMINIDIMM512 as the replacement solution for AXXMINIDIMM which is EOLed Problem support all post change and pre change boards and server systems. Implication Products Affected/Intel Ordering Codes: Pre Change Product Code BB5000PALR BB5000XALR
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Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update Pre Change Product Code SR1500ALSASRNA displays the Adaptec® 5805 RAID Configuration Utility incorrectly Problem With Console redirection enabled in S5000PAL/S5000XAL BIOS, the connected remote serial console client gets
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Update Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Documentation Changes 1. The SMBUS block diagram (Figure #16) provided in Rev. 1.1 of the Intel® Server Board S5000PAL/S5000XAL TPS requires changes to accurately reflect production hardware design Problem: The current diagram does
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Specification. 2. The power block diagram (Figure #25) as provided in Rev. 1.1 of the Intel® Server Board S5000PAL/S5000XAL TPS does not reflect the final, production-level baseboard design Problem: Current diagram does not reflect changes incorporated into the final production-level server board
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Monthly Specification Update Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing 3. SAS/SAS RAID midplane board (Figure #22) as provided in Rev.1.0 of the Intel® Server System SR2500AL TPS should swap the descriptions of items A and K Problem: The current diagram swaps the descriptions of items A and K:
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Corrections will be incorporated into the next version of the Intel® Server System SR2500AL Technical Product Specification. 4. Front panel pin-out in the Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Quick Reference Label is incorrect Problem: The current diagram incorrectly lists a cooling status pin, does not

Section	Page
Preface	7
Summary Tables of Changes	8
Errata	11
1. IPMI over serial direct connect not supported	11
2. Serial over LAN and IPMI over LAN connections may terminate unexpectedly under certain conditions	11
3. Intermittent beep code 1-5-2-1 when booting with two processors	11
4. Power supply population errors may not display in the SEL	11
5. Fan 5 may report a reading of 0 RPM after the BMC is updated	12
6. The BMC may not respond to the IPMI command, Send Message sent via LAN	12
7. Fans may take a long time to slow down after fan boosting	13
8. System requires ~35 seconds after AC power is applied before the power button responds	13
9. SEL events for Hot-swap Controller (HSC) may appear after a DC cycle	13
10. Fans may run faster than expected after exiting BIOS setup	13
11. System fault LED may report incorrect status for some events	14
12. Fan removal does not generate a SEL event	14
13. Power supply redundancy state is misleading when only one power supply is installed	15
14. Hot-swap Controller (HSC) and Local Control Panel (LCP) updates may take a long time	15
15. Console Redirection Baud Rate Setting auto changing to 19.2K with Serial Over LAN (SOL) active	15
16. Serial Over LAN (SOL) unable to redirect DOS output	16
17. Password on boot not supported	16
18. Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology II option is not enabled in initial BIOS release	16
19. HSC and BMC versions intermittently not seen in BIOS setup	16
20. Intel® Server Boards S5000PAL/S5000XAL and Intel® Server System SR1500AL show a “Changes in Hardware or Drivers Detected” error message during WHQL ACPI stress testing	17
21. POST LEDs do not turn off after operating system loads	17
22. Checkup7.exe (microcode update utility) is not storing microcode in BIOS	18
23. Intel® RAID Controller SRCSAS144E causes systems to reset multiple times before completing POST	18
24. Change Logo Utility does not save modified BIOS capsule files with correct extension	19
25. PS/2 keyboards and mice may stop functioning after Red Hat* Enterprise Linux is installed	19
26. Failures seen installing to a SATA drive when SATA is set to “Legacy” in the BIOS setup	20
27. System hangs after disabling on-board video in the BIOS setup	20
28. The SMBIOS entry point may not be visible under certain hardware configurations	20
29. Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology II and I/O module IRQ routing conflict	21
30. SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server may not install successfully with Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology II enabled	21
31. Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4 and BIOS setup display a different L2 cache size for the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 Series	22
32. Change Logo Utility causes BIOS corruption	22
33. Microsoft Windows System Event Viewer* may record Error Event with ID 11	22
34. After the system reboots, the POST screen may generate \	23
35. Intel® RAID Web Console 2 utility displays “Unexpected Sensor” warning message in Microsoft Windows* operating system	23
36. Random drives may go offline when a sixth drive is installed and Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology II is enabled in the Intel® Server System SR2500ALBRP	24
37. Intel recommends enterprise-class hard drives for use with Intel® Server Systems	24
38. Dual Gigabit Expansion Module may not properly reset	24
39. SAS drive in a ROMB RAID 5 may drop offline during a reboot in the Intel® Server System SR2500PALLX	25
40. Intel® Server System SR2500ALLX sixth hard drive filler panel is difficult to remove	25
41. SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server unable to boot after basic installation	26
42. Drives may not be detected or may go offline in the Intel® Server System SR2500ALBRP when operating at SATA 3GB/s data rate	26
43. New versions of BMC firmware with previous versions of BIOS cause system POST failure	27
44. Intel® Server System SR2500ALLX may operate louder than expected	27
45. Red Hat* Enterprise Linux may report the wrong processor speed	27
46. The SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10 driver for SAS HW RAID causes unwanted error logs during installation	27
47. IERR or thermal trip event reported in System Event Log (SEL) after system power on	28
48. USB device generates “The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: i8042prt\	29
49. Microsoft Windows* and Intel® RAID Web Console II report an error when the ASR2500SATAPE kit is used	29
50. System may log IERRs when running certain Red Hat* Enterprise Linux versions on the Intel® Server Board S5000PAL with video driver ati_drv.o 6.5.6	29
51. Microsoft Windows* operating systems installed without a service pack will display blue screen with BIOS 79 and 81	30
52. Sluggish system performance may be experienced with BMC 60	31
53. Downgrading the firmware of the Integrated RAID (ROMB), Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology II, or SAS may cause system damage	31
54. In the Intel® Server Systems SR2500ALLX and SR1550ALSAS, flashing of SAS firmware 1.22 and SAS BIOS 06.16.00 makes hard drive #1 (upper left drive tray) undetected during SAS controller scanning	31
55. Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 SP2* may display blue screen during an operating system boot or shutdown with a specific version of Intel( I/OAT driver	32
56. Server System Event Log (SEL) time may be one day later than BIOS time after entering year 2008.	33
57. Performance Power Management Error in Microsoft Windows Server 2008*	33
58. Midplane2 hardware RAID produces unexpected beep sounds during system POST	34
59. Platform Confidence Test (PCT) fails with BIOS 89/91 on Intel® Server Board S5000PAL/S5000XAL	34
60. USB mouse may hang in BIOS 94 RAID Console	34
61. PCI IBIST Error with BIOS 84	35
62. System May Hang during Login or Shutdown	35
63. Hard Disks Are Difficult to Install in Intel® Server System SR2500AL and Intel® Server Chassis SR2500	35
64. System May not Boot After Multiple DC power Cycles with BIOS Revision R0098	36
65. System will not skip CD/DVD drive with BIOS Revision R0098 when RMM2 installed	36
66. Please use AXXMINIDIMM512 as the replacement solution for AXXMINIDIMM which is EOLed	37
67. Minus “year” number to go past “2000” at BIOS “system date” set up interface will cause the server system to hang	37
68. Please do not downgrade BIOS from factory shipped BIOS 101 to any previous version	37
69. The Serial Port Console Redirection displays the Adaptec® 5805 RAID Configuration Utility incorrectly	38
Documentation Changes	39
1. The SMBUS block diagram (Figure #16) provided in Rev. 1.1 of the Intel® Server Board S5000PAL/S5000XAL TPS requires changes to accurately reflect production hardware design	39
2. The power block diagram (Figure #25) as provided in Rev. 1.1 of the Intel® Server Board S5000PAL/S5000XAL TPS does not reflect the final, production-level baseboard design	40
3. SAS/SAS RAID midplane board (Figure #22) as provided in Rev.1.0 of the Intel® Server System SR2500AL TPS should swap the descriptions of items A and K	41