Intel BB5000XALR Specification Update - Page 20
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Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing Monthly Specification Update 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. 14
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