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Re: Mixing processors on Server Board

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:59:30 GMT

This is not the answer I hoped for, but so it is!

Thanks,

François

Mixing processors on Server Board

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:40:46 GMT

I have a S5520SC workstation motherboard with a single X5570 Xeon processor. I wish to add a second processor and wondered if I can install a X5670 Xeon (hexa core instead of quad core)? Is it possible even if the processors are not exactly the same?

All help is appreciated.

Thanks,

François

Re: Fan Speed Control with Non-Intel Case

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:25:42 GMT

Good point. The same is also true for the Thermal Test Level for the S5520SC board. I did try to select the SC5600Base and SC5650WS case, but that did not solve my problem. At that point, I will just leave my fan controller in the case and forget about trying to get the board to control the fans.

Thanks for the information,

François

Re: Fan Speed Control with Non-Intel Case

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:05:41 GMT

I will try Intel tech support and see what comes out of this. I will post the outcome.

Thanks for trying to solve my problem,

François

Re: Fan Speed Control with Non-Intel Case

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:51:54 GMT

I've redone the exercise just in case, but with the same results.

The CPU fan was really installed in the CPU 1 FAN connector, which is located right beside DIMM C2 socket. And yes, I did answer "YES" to CPU 1 FAN. Now, I just don't know what to say !?

François

Re: Fan Speed Control with Non-Intel Case

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:50:25 GMT

Its the Intel fan model STS100C, the one recommended by Intel. I have temporarily plugged the fan in a fan controller and I do get a fan speed reading with the controller.

Re: Fan Speed Control with Non-Intel Case

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:49:01 GMT

Alex,

I don't know if it can be of any help, but temporarily I took a fan speed controller of another computer and installed it into my server to control the fans. It allows me to get them to turn at reasonable speed. The particular model I'm using is a NZXT Sentry LX which has its own temperature sensor independant from the motherboard, but other models might do just as well. Still I will try to find the real fix to the problem since I want to put back the controller in its original computer.

François

Re: Fan Speed Control with Non-Intel Case

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:42:30 GMT

Ok, I now got SELView to work in EFI.

What I've done is that I connected all my system fans to an external fan controller and only left the CPU1 fan connected to the board. I updated the FRU/SDR to reflect that configuration. I cleared the SEL log and restarted the computer. Upon startup, I went directly toSELVIew in the EFI shell, so I didn't leave time to the system to boot through Windows. When I got back in SELView, I've found 2 information event, 1 warning and 1 critical event regarding the processor 1 fan. Here's the output:

7 01/07/2010-22:16:16 Fan /Processor 1 Fan (#0x30) Informational event: Processor 1 Fan reports the sensor is no longer in a low non-critical state. Sensor reading: Unspecified. Threshold value: Unspecified. BMC - LUN #0 (Channel #00h)

8 01/07/2010-22:16:16 Fan /Processor 1 Fan (#0x30) Informational event: Processor 1 Fan reports the sensor is no longer in a critically low state. Sensor reading: Unspecified. Threshold value: Unspecified. BMC - LUN #0 (Channel #00h)

9 01/07/2010-22:16:20 Fan /Processor 1 Fan (#0x30) Warning event: Processor 1 Fan reports the sensor is in a low, but non-critical, and going lower state. Sensor reading: 0.00 RPM. Threshold value: 775.00 RPM. BMC - LUN #0 (Channel #00h)

10 01/07/2010-22:16:20 Fan /Processor 1 Fan (#0x30) CRITICAL event: Processor 1 Fan reports the sensor is in a low, critical, and going lower state. Sensor reading: 0.00 RPM. Threshold value: 682.00 RPM. BMC - LUN #0 (Channel #00h)

I see that the sensor believes the fan has stopped (0.00 RPM), but can confirm it never stopped. Would it be a fan speed sensor problem ?

François

Re: How do I control fan speeds on an Intel S5520SC mainboard?

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:04:44 GMT

Alex,

FYI, I moved my question to the following thread : http://communities.intel.com/message/79551#79551 as this one was already answered.

François

Re: Fan Speed Control with Non-Intel Case

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:57:38 GMT

Thanks for the link. I did try the program, but I don't know how to use it effectively. I did follow the instructions, but get the following error message : "*ERROR* Invalid invocation." I was trying to run the following command as administrator: "SELView log.sel -save". I made sure the IMBdriver was installed before and got "Installation Successful" message. I've noted that a "Pre-requisite to run SEL Viewer utility is uploading the FRUSDR package on the hardware successfully." What does that mean? Is it simply running the FRUSDR21.nsh from the EFI shell? If so, it was already done successfuly. Can you help?

Thanks,

François