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Is intel celeron processor 900 good?

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:34:27 GMT

Hi, I have a intel celeron processor 900 in my toshiba L305-S5947 and I was wondering if it was good for gaming? If not, is there a way I can change it?

Ask An Expert - The Server Room

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SRCSAS18E Issues

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:42:03 GMT

purchased a new Intel SAS RAID controller and have tried to impliment some things with mixed results

Below are the details about the SAS HBA.

Issue:

1) Cent OS 5.3 Intel WebGUI won't see / Manage local HBA:

Kernel 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5PAE

java version "1.6.0"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b09)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 1.6.0-b09, mixed mode)

[root@medusa tmp]# rpm -ivh sas_snmp-3.17-1010.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
        package sas_snmp-3.17-1010.i386 is already installed
[root@medusa tmp]# rpm -ivh sas_ir_snmp-3.17-1007.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
        package sas_ir_snmp-3.17-1007.i386 is already installed
[root@medusa tmp]# rpm -ivh RAID_Web_Console_2-3.04-05.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
        package RAID_Web_Console_2-3.04-05.noarch is already installed
[root@medusa tmp]# rpm -ivh libstdc++34-3.4.0-1.i386.rpm
warning: libstdc++34-3.4.0-1.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
        file /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 from install of libstdc++34-3.4.0-1.i386 conflicts with file from package libstdc++-4.1.2-46.el5_4.1.i386
[root@medusa tmp]#

When I launch GUI it (by the way no path to the binary is very annoying)

cd /usr/local/RAID\ Web\ Console\ 2/

[root@medusa RAID Web Console 3]# sh startupui.sh
VENUS_FLAG true
Socket connection to 172.16.100.10 failed once..try again
Socket connection to 172.16.100.10 failed on retry
Fatal Error : Can not create SASKernel object !
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketFactoryImpl.createSocket(Unknown Source)
        at Framework.Network.CachedSSLSocketFactory.createSocket(Unknown Source)
        at KernelNetwork.RAIDSocket.processCommand(Unknown Source)
        at SASKernel.SASKernel.registerWithFramework(Unknown Source)
        at SASKernel.SASKernel.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at SASKernel.SASKernel.getInstance(Unknown Source)
        at GUI.VivaldiStartupDialog.discoverHosts(Unknown Source)
        at GUI.VivaldiStartupDialog.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at GUI.VivaldiStartupDialog.main(Unknown Source)

Terminating ....
Socket connection to 127.0.0.1 failed once..try again
Socket connection to 127.0.0.1 failed on retry
Fatal Error : Can not create SASKernel object !
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketFactoryImpl.createSocket(Unknown Source)
        at Framework.Network.CachedSSLSocketFactory.createSocket(Unknown Source)
        at KernelNetwork.RAIDSocket.processCommand(Unknown Source)
        at SASKernel.SASKernel.registerWithFramework(Unknown Source)
        at SASKernel.SASKernel.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at SASKernel.SASKernel.getInstance(Unknown Source)
        at GUI.VivaldiStartupDialog.discoverHosts(Unknown Source)
        at GUI.VivaldiStartupDialog.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at GUI.VivaldiStartupDialog.main(Unknown Source)
Terminating ....

GUI launches but has no hosts to connect to.

2) ESX. I was hoping to use this RAID controller nativly with ESX VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.0.0.Update01-208167.x86_64

It sees the 4.5 TB space but when you go to add the storage you it only displays "useable 554GB" and even from shell console, fdisk of the device shows it as 4.5TB but can only create a partition 554GB in size.

3) Documentation on RAID controller is a bit sparse in relation to a few details. Example: Getting notification of drive failure (predictive failure), is this reported throught the driver to the OS error system etc. and how to test this. Does the server install start a deamon / service /process ID that should be checked if you can't connect to web interface.

SAS HBA Details
RAID Condition: [root@medusa CmdTool2]# ./CmdTool2 -AdpAllInfo -Aall Adapter #0 ============================================================================== Versions ================ Product Name : Intel(R) RAID Controller SRCSAS18E Serial No : DF369897 FW Package Build: 5.0.1-0022 Mfg. Data ================ Mfg. Date : 04/22/06 Rework Date : 00/00/00 Revision No : 8 Battery FRU : N/A Image Versions in Flash: ================ Boot Block Version : R.2.3.1 BIOS Version : MT23 MPT Version : MPTFW-00.06.16.00-IT FW Version : 1.00.00-0074 WebBIOS Version : 1.01-019 Ctrl-R Version : 1.02-006 Pending Images in Flash ================ BTBLBIOSMPT1APP BCONCTLR PCI Info ================ Vendor Id : 1000 Device Id : 0411 SubVendorId : 8086 SubDeviceId : 1001 Host Interface : PCIE Number of Frontend Port: 0 Device Interface : PCIE Number of Backend Port: 8 Port : Address 0 1221000000000000 1 1221000001000000 2 1221000002000000 3 1221000003000000 4 1221000004000000 5 1221000005000000 6 0000000000000000 7 0000000000000000 HW Configuration ================ SAS Address : 500605b00009c2f0 BBU : Absent Alarm : Present NVRAM : Present Serial Debugger : Present Memory : Present Flash : Present Memory Size : 256MB TPM : Absent Settings ================ Current Time : 2:23:12 11/22, 2009 Predictive Fail Poll Interval : 300sec Interrupt Throttle Active Count : 16 Interrupt Throttle Completion : 50us Rebuild Rate : 30% PR Rate : 30% Resynch Rate : 30% Check Consistency Rate : 30% Reconstruction Rate : 30% Cache Flush Interval : 4s Max Drives to Spinup at One Time : 2 Delay Among Spinup Groups : 6s Physical Drive Coercion Mode : 1GB Cluster Mode : Disabled Alarm : Enabled Auto Rebuild : Enabled Battery Warning : Disabled Ecc Bucket Size : 15 Ecc Bucket Leak Rate : 1440 Minutes Restore HotSpare on Insertion : Enabled Expose Enclosure Devices : Enabled Maintain PD Fail History : Enabled Host Request Reordering : Enabled Auto Detect BackPlane Enabled : SGPIO/i2c SEP Load Balance Mode : Auto Use FDE Only : No Security Key Assigned : No Security Key Failed : No Security Key Not Backedup : No Any Offline VD Cache Preserved : No Capabilities ================ RAID Level Supported : RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID10, RAID50, SRL 3 supported Supported Drives : SAS, SATA Allowed Mixing: Mix in Enclosure Allowed Mix of SAS/SATA of HDD type in VD Allowed Status ================ ECC Bucket Count : 0 Limitations ================ Max Arms Per VD : 32 Max Spans Per VD : 8 Max Arrays : 128 Max Number of VDs : 64 Max Parallel Commands : 1008 Max SGE Count : 80 Max Data Transfer Size : 8192 sectors Max Strips PerIO : 84 Min Stripe Size : 8 KB Max Stripe Size : 128 KB Device Present ================ Virtual Drives : 1 Degraded : 0 Offline : 0 Physical Devices : 6 Disks : 6 Critical Disks : 0 Failed Disks : 0 Supported Adapter Operations ================ Rebuild Rate : Yes CC Rate : Yes BGI Rate : Yes Reconstruct Rate : Yes Patrol Read Rate : Yes Alarm Control : Yes Cluster Support : No BBU : Yes Spanning : Yes Dedicated Hot Spare : Yes Revertible Hot Spares : No Foreign Config Import : Yes Self Diagnostic : Yes Allow Mixed Redundancy on Array : No Global Hot Spares : Yes Deny SCSI Passthrough : No Deny SMP Passthrough : No Deny STP Passthrough : No Support Security : No Supported VD Operations ================ Read Policy : Yes Write Policy : Yes IO Policy : Yes Access Policy : Yes Disk Cache Policy : Yes Reconstruction : Yes Deny Locate : No Deny CC : No Allow Ctrl Encryption: No Supported PD Operations ================ Force Online : Yes Force Offline : Yes Force Rebuild : Yes Deny Force Failed : No Deny Force Good/Bad : No Deny Missing Replace : No Deny Clear : No Deny Locate : No Disable Copyback : No Enable Copyback on SMART : No Enable Copyback to SSD on SMART Error : No Enable SSD Patrol Read : No Error Counters ================ Memory Correctable Errors : 0 Memory Uncorrectable Errors : 0 Cluster Information ================ Cluster Permitted : No Cluster Active : No Default Settings ================ Phy Polarity : 0 Phy PolaritySplit : 0 Background Rate : 30 Stripe Size : 64kB Flush Time : 4 seconds Write Policy : WT Read Policy : None Cache When BBU Bad : Disabled Cached IO : No SMART Mode : Mode 6 Alarm Disable : Yes Coercion Mode : 1GB ZCR Config : Unknown Dirty LED Shows Drive Activity : No BIOS Continue on Error : No Spin Down Mode : None Allowed Device Type : SAS/SATA Mix Allow Mix in Enclosure : Yes Allow HDD SAS/SATA Mix in VD : Yes Allow SSD SAS/SATA Mix in VD : No Allow HDD/SSD Mix in VD : No Allow SATA in Cluster : No Max Chained Enclosures : 3 Disable Ctrl-R : Yes Enable Web BIOS : Yes Direct PD Mapping : Yes BIOS Enumerate VDs : Yes Restore Hot Spare on Insertion : Yes Expose Enclosure Devices : Yes Maintain PD Fail History : Yes Disable Puncturing : No Zero Based Enclosure Enumeration : No PreBoot CLI Enabled : Yes LED Show Drive Activity : No Cluster Disable : Yes SAS Disable : No Auto Detect BackPlane Enable : SGPIO/i2c SEP Use FDE Only : No Enable Led Header : No Delay during POST : 0 Exit Code: 0x00 [root@medusa CmdTool2]#

SAS HBA Details

RAID Condition:

[root@medusa CmdTool2]# ./CmdTool2 -AdpAllInfo -Aall

Adapter #0

==============================================================================

Versions

================

Product Name : Intel(R) RAID Controller SRCSAS18E

Serial No : DF369897

FW Package Build: 5.0.1-0022

Mfg. Data

================

Mfg. Date : 04/22/06

Rework Date : 00/00/00

Revision No : 8

Battery FRU : N/A

Image Versions in Flash:

================

Boot Block Version : R.2.3.1

BIOS Version : MT23

MPT Version : MPTFW-00.06.16.00-IT

FW Version : 1.00.00-0074

WebBIOS Version : 1.01-019

Ctrl-R Version : 1.02-006

Pending Images in Flash

================

BTBLBIOSMPT1APP BCONCTLR

PCI Info

================

Vendor Id : 1000

Device Id : 0411

SubVendorId : 8086

SubDeviceId : 1001

Host Interface : PCIE

Number of Frontend Port: 0

Device Interface : PCIE

Number of Backend Port: 8

Port : Address

0 1221000000000000

1 1221000001000000

2 1221000002000000

3 1221000003000000

4 1221000004000000

5 1221000005000000

6 0000000000000000

7 0000000000000000

HW Configuration

================

SAS Address : 500605b00009c2f0

BBU : Absent

Alarm : Present

NVRAM : Present

Serial Debugger : Present

Memory : Present

Flash : Present

Memory Size : 256MB

TPM : Absent

Settings

================

Current Time : 2:23:12 11/22, 2009

Predictive Fail Poll Interval : 300sec

Interrupt Throttle Active Count : 16

Interrupt Throttle Completion : 50us

Rebuild Rate : 30%

PR Rate : 30%

Resynch Rate : 30%

Check Consistency Rate : 30%

Reconstruction Rate : 30%

Cache Flush Interval : 4s

Max Drives to Spinup at One Time : 2

Delay Among Spinup Groups : 6s

Physical Drive Coercion Mode : 1GB

Cluster Mode : Disabled

Alarm : Enabled

Auto Rebuild : Enabled

Battery Warning : Disabled

Ecc Bucket Size : 15

Ecc Bucket Leak Rate : 1440 Minutes

Restore HotSpare on Insertion : Enabled

Expose Enclosure Devices : Enabled

Maintain PD Fail History : Enabled

Host Request Reordering : Enabled

Auto Detect BackPlane Enabled : SGPIO/i2c SEP

Load Balance Mode : Auto

Use FDE Only : No

Security Key Assigned : No

Security Key Failed : No

Security Key Not Backedup : No

Any Offline VD Cache Preserved : No

Capabilities

================

RAID Level Supported : RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID10, RAID50, SRL 3 supported

Supported Drives : SAS, SATA

Allowed Mixing:

Mix in Enclosure Allowed

Mix of SAS/SATA of HDD type in VD Allowed

Status

================

ECC Bucket Count : 0

Limitations

================

Max Arms Per VD : 32

Max Spans Per VD : 8

Max Arrays : 128

Max Number of VDs : 64

Max Parallel Commands : 1008

Max SGE Count : 80

Max Data Transfer Size : 8192 sectors

Max Strips PerIO : 84

Min Stripe Size : 8 KB

Max Stripe Size : 128 KB

Device Present

================

Virtual Drives : 1

Degraded : 0

Offline : 0

Physical Devices : 6

Disks : 6

Critical Disks : 0

Failed Disks : 0

Supported Adapter Operations

================

Rebuild Rate : Yes

CC Rate : Yes

BGI Rate : Yes

Reconstruct Rate : Yes

Patrol Read Rate : Yes

Alarm Control : Yes

Cluster Support : No

BBU : Yes

Spanning : Yes

Dedicated Hot Spare : Yes

Revertible Hot Spares : No

Foreign Config Import : Yes

Self Diagnostic : Yes

Allow Mixed Redundancy on Array : No

Global Hot Spares : Yes

Deny SCSI Passthrough : No

Deny SMP Passthrough : No

Deny STP Passthrough : No

Support Security : No

Supported VD Operations

================

Read Policy : Yes

Write Policy : Yes

IO Policy : Yes

Access Policy : Yes

Disk Cache Policy : Yes

Reconstruction : Yes

Deny Locate : No

Deny CC : No

Allow Ctrl Encryption: No

Supported PD Operations

================

Force Online : Yes

Force Offline : Yes

Force Rebuild : Yes

Deny Force Failed : No

Deny Force Good/Bad : No

Deny Missing Replace : No

Deny Clear : No

Deny Locate : No

Disable Copyback : No

Enable Copyback on SMART : No

Enable Copyback to SSD on SMART Error : No

Enable SSD Patrol Read : No

Error Counters

================

Memory Correctable Errors : 0

Memory Uncorrectable Errors : 0

Cluster Information

================

Cluster Permitted : No

Cluster Active : No

Default Settings

================

Phy Polarity : 0

Phy PolaritySplit : 0

Background Rate : 30

Stripe Size : 64kB

Flush Time : 4 seconds

Write Policy : WT

Read Policy : None

Cache When BBU Bad : Disabled

Cached IO : No

SMART Mode : Mode 6

Alarm Disable : Yes

Coercion Mode : 1GB

ZCR Config : Unknown

Dirty LED Shows Drive Activity : No

BIOS Continue on Error : No

Spin Down Mode : None

Allowed Device Type : SAS/SATA Mix

Allow Mix in Enclosure : Yes

Allow HDD SAS/SATA Mix in VD : Yes

Allow SSD SAS/SATA Mix in VD : No

Allow HDD/SSD Mix in VD : No

Allow SATA in Cluster : No

Max Chained Enclosures : 3

Disable Ctrl-R : Yes

Enable Web BIOS : Yes

Direct PD Mapping : Yes

BIOS Enumerate VDs : Yes

Restore Hot Spare on Insertion : Yes

Expose Enclosure Devices : Yes

Maintain PD Fail History : Yes

Disable Puncturing : No

Zero Based Enclosure Enumeration : No

PreBoot CLI Enabled : Yes

LED Show Drive Activity : No

Cluster Disable : Yes

SAS Disable : No

Auto Detect BackPlane Enable : SGPIO/i2c SEP

Use FDE Only : No

Enable Led Header : No

Delay during POST : 0

Exit Code: 0x00

[root@medusa CmdTool2]#

SE7520db2 - DDR1 - Boot problems

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:39:08 GMT

I rebooted my server with the original CD that came with the MB in the cd drive. I went back to the server room and saw it booted to the intel cd.

Steps i took.

I turned it off and removed the cd.
Booted back up
Now it no longer sees my SATA or SCSI during boot and also gives me a PXE04 and PXE05 error on post, i have reloaded the BIOS and this did nothing.
Loaded BIos Defaults set sata back to raid mode and still no post data for the contoller

Please help intel no longer supports this board. i called and they said maybe a bios recovery would work.

Any ideas this is gonna ruin my holiday!

command line interface

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:04:47 GMT

I have Installed the Intel Command Line Interface and cannot connect to the interface. the system is a S5000XVN board running Windows 7. I have configured the BMC 'Server Management Guide'. Running as, admin, telnet and 'dpccli.exe' both results in:

Server: localhost

Username:

Password: ****

Connection failed.

Server:

Using 192.168.1.10 gives the same results

Any suggestions as to how to connect will be appreciated. Additional details are below.

Regards

Michael

Details.....Running as admin:

#dpcproxy -d c:\

Error (1063) The service process could not connect to the service controller.

invoking service control dispatcher.

#dpcproxy -viewarg

BMC configuration is

C:\Intel\syscfg>syscfg -d lan 1

LAN Configuration Settings:

----------------------------

LAN Channel Selected: 1

LAN Alert Destination Index Selected: None. LAN Alert Configuration will not be

displayed.

IP Address Source: Static

BMC Host IP Address: 192.168.1.10

Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

Gateway IP Address: 0.0.0.0

Gateway MAC Address: 00-00-00-00-00-00

Backup Gateway IP Address: 0.0.0.0

Backup Gateway MAC Address: 00-00-00-00-00-00

Community String:

Gratuitous ARP Enable: Enabled

Gratuitous ARP Interval (milliseconds): 2000

BMC ARP Response Enable: Enabled

C:\Intel\syscfg>syscfg -d channel 1

Channel Configuration Settings

-------------------------------

Channel Selected: 1

Channel Type: LAN

Features Supported: Basic Lan & SMTP

Authentication Types:

----------------------

Callback: [Not Configured]

User: [Not Configured]

Operator: [Not Configured]

Administrator: [Not Configured]

Per Message Authentication: Enabled

User Level Authentication: Enabled

Access Mode: Always

Privilege Level: Admin

PEF status: Disabled

C:\Intel\syscfg>syscfg -d sol 1

SOL Configuration Settings:

----------------------------

Channel Number Selected: 1

SOL Enable: Enabled

Privilege Level Limit: Admin

Baud Rate (bits/second): 115200

Retry Count: 5

Retry Interval (ms): 60

C:\Intel\syscfg>

Can S5520SC Support Concurrent RAID 0 and RAID 5 Volumes?

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:58:51 GMT

Last week I was experimenting with a Dell Optiplex 960 making RAID configurations. On a 2-disk system I found it relatively easy to use Intel's Matrix Storage Manager in the BIOS to configure two volumes (virtual disks) on the array - one was RAID 0, the other was RAID 1.

Last Friday I was trying to set up my S5520SC system (with 5 disks), and had a really frustrating time. First off it's hard to get to the RAID setting in the BIOS, you have to diable quiet boot mode (which makes no sense). Then when I got into the RAID settings they were not the nice Intel Matrix Storage Manager I used on the Dell, they were a really crummy interface that was confusing to use. After many tries I was able to configure two volumes of RAID 0, or two volumes of RAID 5; but I could find no way to make one volume RAID 0 and the other volume RAID 5. Can anyone confirm whether it is possible to configure the S5520SC this way? This must be a BIOS limitation because both the S5520SC and Dell Optiplex 960 use the same ICH10R. Are there plans to fix the BIOS in a new update?

Is the reason for this difference in BIOS because the S5520SC is EFI and the Dell is not?

I also tried using the bootable CD with the GUI based setup utilities. The utilities are great if you want to update the BIOS, but they are even worse than the BIOS RAID setup. They are increadibly confusing and limited. Are there any plans to fix this in a new version? I was using version 3.1. In any case I had even less luck setting up a working RAID with these utilities.

Cheers, Eric

Xeon L3014 - Intel AT80588JH0563M

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:53:18 GMT

Hello,

on my search for a very efficient CPU I stumbled over the Intel Xeon L3014 , as I´m a bit unsure about its exact specifications, here are some questions:

Here you can see that it´s listed as "compatible" for the Intel 3210 Chipset: http://ark.intel.com/Platforms.aspx?platform=33251&mode=true

Also the 3210 Chipset is listed as "compatible" here: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=36892 (next to the 3200 and 5100 Chipset)

I found some contradictorily results: this source says "LGA775" http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/Intel-Low%20voltage%20Xeon%20L3014%20-%20AT80588JH0563M.html

this source says "LGA771" http://www.supplyframe.com/datasheet-pdf/component/intel/AT80588JH0563M-datasheet?id=1612364

Unfortunately I can´t find explicit informations about this CPU on the Intel Hompages.

In a nutshell: is the Xeon L3014 compatible with the 3210 Chipset and hence comes in LGA775 or is it a LGA771 CPU?

If it´s a LGA771 CPU, why one can see it as "compatible" with the 3210 Chipset?

Thank you.

Regards Michael

INTEL SS4200-E concerns

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:35:36 GMT

Guys i just purchased this network storage device, and i think i made the wrong choice. I would really need your help on answering some questions.

-Is it absolutely nesecary to implement raid on the drives installed? Cause i dont need RAID. I only care about utilizing 100% disk space of the drives, i dont want mirroring and backups and stuff.

-Does each drive need to be formatted upon insertion or can you have data on them. Cause 2 of the 4 Disks I intend to use,contain data and they're almost full. One of them has less than 8 GB disk space left.

-Are the drives reformatted on linux format? Does that meann i wasted 8 hours of my day formatting 2x1.5TB Seagate drives on NTFS format?

Please give me some hope, cause if what i fear is about to happen, that would be highly inconvenient.

intel SE7520BD2 (SATAD2) / SC5200 chassis with BIOS/Fan issue

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:38:57 GMT

Hi Guru's and trouble-shooters, we’ve had this server for some time now and it's been slowly tearing a hole in our eardrums. The fans, they won't slow down. I've searched the internets and this forum and tried every suggestion I’ve come across but still no cake.

What am I doing wrong?

AMIBIOS version: SE7520BD23.86B.P.03.00.0019

Build: 10/20/05

Server Details...

Intel SE7520BD2 (SATAD2), 2 xeon 2.8 with 2 gb RAM

ServerBoard: D10351-450

BMC Device ID: 20

BMC Firmware: 0240

BMC Device Revision: 01

FRUSDR Package Version: 6.6.G

Chassis: Intel SC5200 (4RU rack mount)

Nosey rear Fans: ASSY A96870-001 WW01-05

I have managed to load BIOS update (BIOS_P03.zip) with success.

I have also tried to install BIOS update (BIOS_P82.zip) but failed due to a RomID error.

I also attempted and failed at these fix's/update from searching the Intel website downloads for my server board.

(SE7520BD2_66GFRUSDR.zip) FRUSDR Configuration Utility

(P09BIOS.zip) Intel(R) Server Board SE7520BD2 BIOS Build 0075

I found the Intel server configuration wizard and ran that, but get a password mismatch error at the business end...

Output extract from 'Intel server configuration wizard version 2.1.6'

>Writing byte to BMC internal Flash...

>Please enter a value for password (Q to Quit)

Trouble is, there has never been a password set, and I have tried doing both password clear jumpers and BIOS clear jumper sequences, and i still get asked for the password in the configuration wizard.

I do not see anything to do with acoustic management or fan speed in the BIOS.

I am running Ubuntu Karmic Koala, lm-sensors can detect the pc87427 device, and display the following constantly.

>pc87427-isa-0700

>Adapter: ISA adapter

>fan1: 4313 RPM (min = 0 RPM)

>fan3: 5672 RPM (min = 0 RPM)

>fan4: 5555 RPM (min = 0 RPM)

>fan5: FAULT (min = 0 RPM)

>fan7: FAULT (min = 0 RPM)

>fan8: 5672 RPM (min = 0 RPM)

I believe this is a read only module as this chip is yet unsupported by Linux. So a software solution won't work.

It’s also worth mentioning, that not all fans in the system stay at 100% after power up.

I hear the internal system fans slow down, these are connected via a 6p/5c connecter.

The rear fans connected via 3p/3c connectors. All fans have two plugs (for compatibility I assume),

A 3p/3c and a 6p/5c. I could change the rear fans from SYSFAN5 & SYSFAN6 to CPUFAN1 & CPUFAN2, but the CPU fan sockets are a 4pin, not a 3 or 6 like the fans are. (No CPU fans are fitted, there is a duct to the rear two fans)

Any help would be muchly appreciated, and sorry for the large post, I just figured I’d cover what I had tried.

SSH access to NAS SS4200-E device

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:15:00 GMT

Hi folks,

I bought the SS4200-E NAS device and installed 4x 1TB WD EADS Caviar Green harddisks in RAID5.

I would like to have access to the device itself via SSH. Initially I had to update my firmware from

1.0.8.29352 to 1.1.11.32736 and succeeded when I used IE instead of Firefox. I installed also the
updated corresponding EMC Software respectively on my PC.

According to other threads I need to login to the NAS via http://nas_ip_address/support.html,

in order to enable SSH, but it does not work. I always come to the normal index site with the standard GUI.

I cannot find a SSH switch anywhere.

Has anybody expeirenced the same problem? Maybe I have to take the workaround via RS232 interface.

Thanks,

SinorRossi

Intel celeron processor

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:08:34 GMT

I am trying to locate a good laptop for my son entering college. Wal-mart had a HP laptop with intel celeron processor 900 for $298. Will this be ok for him or do I need something different? Not looking to spend alot of money but also don't want to have to buy another one in a year. Plese help

SS4200-E and JBOD using my disks

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:21:08 GMT

I own 2 HDDs that i used them on a NAS that is broken cause of power failure and now i want to buy a new one and I think the SS4200-E is the best solution for me but i have some questions...

1. Can i use SS4200-E in JBOD mode or i have to use it in RAID mode only?

2. If yes, can I create sheres on all disks or only the first one and others are public?

3. Are my disks compatible with this model? Cause in the compatibility list i found only max 1GB Seagate disk but in the store the specifications of the NAS are for 2GB disks... :S

my disk models are: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, ST31500341AS (1500GB) & Seagate Barracuda LP ST31500541AS (1500GB)

I want to use theese disks on the NAS to have 3TB to store and maybe soon i will add another one so the storage will be 4.5TB. Is this possible?

Thank you in advance

Sotiris Petropoulos

SE7520BD2 and FRU/SDR - no fan throttling

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:24:17 GMT

Hello,

i tried to flash the FRU/SDR on my SE7520BD2 (DDR2) a million times with various fan configurations but nothing seems to get down the CPU fan speed.

The chassis is a chenbro SR107. Two front fans are connected at FAN1 (3pin) and one rear fan (3pin) is connected at port 5. There are 2 Intel Boxed CPU-fans (4pin) installed. FAN1 + FAN5 i selected as "analog" fans in FRU/SDR update. For CPU1+2 fan i tried digital and analog fan - same result.

I know the chassis is validated and i've seen much Boards working fine with this chassis. So what can be the problem?

There is an IMM Advanced installed. I also flashed the latest BIOS and BMC using the latest update package. This worked fine.

PS: I also tried to flash with no chassis fans connected - just the both CPU fans, but that did not change anything.

Any ideas?

Those fans are really annoying ;-)

Thx in advance!

Trying to update Bios on SE7520BD2-DDR1

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:58:49 GMT

I have downloaded the version 9 bios for the se7520bd2 and in the readme is states

1. Extract Floppy.zip to a temporary folder.
2. Insert blank floppy diskette in drive A:
**NOTE** : All Data on floppy diskette will be destroyed!
3. Run "MAKEFLPY.bat" to create two BIOS Update floppy diskettes.

Except in the download there are only 3 files and no makeflpy.bat

afudos.exe

fbb.bat
sbd2a075.rom

other instructions say...

Extract BIOS.ZIP to a bootable storage such as USB DISK-ON-KEY.

How do i make this bootable USB key they call for

Windows 2008 on I7-860 (LGA1156) on a ASUS P7P55D motherboard

davevasquez@comcast.net — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:36:54 GMT

I needed a new Windows 2008 server in order to develop and test things like Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. I went to my local MicroCenter and they suggested an Intel I7-860 (LGA1156) on a ASUS P7P55D motherboard. Initially I tried the 64 install which gave many errors during installation. I then did the I386 install which worked better but it isn't perfect. Currently I am having problems loading the network driver that comes on the ASUS board. Am I barking up the wrong tree with this combination? Should this be a 64 bit installation? Is there another processor that you could suggest that would work on this board? Putting the equipment together was pretty simple. Once I started to install the software I encountered issues. I would generally just buy a server from Dell but I was really trying to save some bucks here.

S3200sh ipmi configuration

webadmin@intel.com — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:14:32 GMT

Has anyone configured ipmi lan interface on s3200sh. I was using http://osdir.com/ml/hardware.ipmitool.devel/2006-07/msg00019.html to configure s5000pal but this procedure doesn't apply to S3200sh.

Regards.

PS: I have posted this message a few minutes ago but i am not sure if have posted it or not so apalogize for double post if it happens

CPU for LGA775 Fileserver

webadmin@intel.com — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:56:05 GMT

Hello,

I try to repost my query which wasn´t much frequented in the Processor Section:

At the moment I´m building a Fileserver for approx. 5 users, so far the system looks like this:

Intel S3210SHLC

4x1GB DDR2 ECC Micron

main purpose is fileserving, backups and encryption via Truecrypt.

As Truecrypt multithreads very well I´m looking for a decent Quad-Core for enough troughput. I´m pondering now between the Intel Xeon X3330

(2,66 Ghz / 6MB / 1333FSB) and the X3350 / X3360 ( with 12MB L2 Cache)

Would the difference between 6 and 12MB L2 Cache be noticeable? The price premium for the 12MB L2 model would be around ~ 70€ , so it is a big difference (almost 50% more expensive than the 6MB model)

I appreciate any help.

Regards

IBM x3550 M2, x3650 M2, HS22, and dx360

mbrinkman@us.ibm.com — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:30:38 GMT

Wanted to know if anyone here has tried out one IBM's new servers. I was on the team that developed the new UEFI code stack for these servers and would like to get first impressions from the community. This was a large effort and will provide many avenues for innovation as we go forward. I would be also interested in any new functions that you would like to have in the pre-boot or systems management areas of your system.

Michael Brinkman

Mgr. UEFI Team.

Booting from USB pen

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:47:08 GMT

Hi there,

Is it possible to boot a windows server 2008 installation through a USB pen using an intel snowhill s3210sh board?

Thank you in advance for your help,

David.

S5000PSL / IRMM2 virtual DVD problem

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:09:45 GMT

Hi I am installing W2K8R2 on a system with a S5000PSL board.

I am using the IRMM2 virtual ISO mount option to mount the W2K8R2 DVD ISO image.

I have two problems:

1. The system will boot from the virtual DVD, but during the installation Windows will report an error that the CD/DVD driver cannot be loaded.

2. If I later want to read data from the mounted DVD, the mounted filesystem is not UDF, and all I see is the ISO9660 text file that tells me I need to look at the DVD using an OS that supports UDF.

I had to install W2K8R2 by copying the DVD contents to a USB key.

Are there any solutions to improving the virtual ISO mounting?

Regards

Intel SS4200-E: RAID 5 Parameters?

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:47:55 GMT

Hi there!

I'm trying to recover the data on my RAID 5 that was in my SS4200-E unit.

I plugged in the 3 working drives to a PC, and ran Runtime Software RAID Reconstructor on it.

However, I still cannot find the RAID 5 array, and is asking for some RAID 5 parameters:

Block Size: 4KB?

Parity Rotation: Foward/Backward/Backward(Dynamic Disk)??

Start Sectors to probe: (it auto-suggested 7,15)

Number of Sectors to probe: (it suggested 10000)

Or does anyone know of another utility that might be able to recover the data from the RAID5 disks?

Any help is greatly apprecaited!

S5000XVN not booting with 5400 (19a processor mismatch voltage)

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:44:07 GMT

I just upgraded my old processors for 2x5400, now the computer wont boot. It just jumps into the bios telling me that there is a processor mismatch voltage error. What is this? .. Its the exact same processors. Now im back to runnig my old 2 core processors.

Appriciate any help.

Intel Hot Swap Backplane Controller Firmware Update firmware update crashes with S3200SHC

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:06:59 GMT

Hardware AXX6DRV3GEXP F/W 2.02 , S3200SHC BIOS 47, BMC .31,HSC 2.02 & SDR 13., Adaptec 3405

I'm updating through the IPMB cable and can't get the AXX6DRV3GEXP firmware from 2.02 to 2.09. I've followed Aryan's instructions (http://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-3013) , downloaded the new ipmi.efi. Using the EFI shell, the new ipmi.efi file loads without issue, but as soon as I start the EFIRUN.NSH file it errors out immediately with," 'fwpiaupd' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file". In DOS, the update process starts but it always errors out, (see attached error logs). I've tried with drives in/out, sata cables connected/disconected, Raid card in/out etc.....

Any ideas would be appreciated.

WinSrv 2008 R2 and Intel Pro/1000 GT quad-port nic, slow iscsi format.

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:38:59 GMT

WinSrv 2008 R2 and Intel Pro/1000 GT quad-port nic, slow iscsi format.

We have two (2) Windows 2008 R2 Servers with the Intel Pro/1000 GT Quad Port server adapter. They are both connected to a SAN through iScsi connections, but when we format a 600gb drive on the lun, we get around 6-10 IO/sec. Total format time of the 600gb is around 7-8 minutes.

We have forced the 2008 Intel drivers to control the cards, as well as the “in box” Microsoft drivers for the cards, without any luck. All the drivers we have tested resulted in the same numbers for formatting.

On a side note, we hooked up a Windows 2008 Server to the same lun and formatted the 600gb partition in a matter of seconds, with the intel drivers installed.

Anyone else seen this with their cards, and have a fix ?

Thanks

Installing Active Console fails to recognise IIS

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:28:00 GMT

I have just installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit on a S5000xvn. While trying to install Active System Console, "System compatibility" passes on all but Internet Information Services. It shows "Waiting" until I press "Install Software" button when "Processing" and the FAIL is displayed. A Popup says "Installation of Pre-Requisites Complete" with an OK button. IIS is installed and functioning.

I have carefuly followed the instructions in attached PDF with no success.

How Do I install Active System Console?

Thanks

Michael

S5500HCV - Windows Server 2008 R2 - Freezes every 3-5 second

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:28:58 GMT

The desktop and mouse pointer get stuck or freezes every 3-5 second.

And if a install Windows Server 2008 (not R2) it works fine until a install the chipset software (ver:9.1.1.1019) the a get the same problem.

/toli

Raid Web Console 2 No Servers in list

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:55:39 GMT

Hi all,

I have just downloaded and installed the Raid Web Console 2, but when I run the app, there are no configurable servers in the list (main landing page). We have the SRCSATAWB card installed on the server we installed this in. H

Intel ICH7R/DH SATA RAID Controller

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:26:05 GMT

I have a system running the above RAID controller. We have replaced all Drives and they continue to go off-line. It's not the same drive each time. One time it will be Drive 1 then next time it will be Drive 3. Any help would be appreciated.

I am running Windows Server 2003 SP2 fully patched

Drive are ST35000320AS 500GB drives. They were purchased 4 months apart in pairs

S5000 VSA Board RAID 5 Activation Key Problem

afnk@yahoo.com — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:51:20 GMT

I have purchased AXXRAKSW5 RAID 5 Activation Key and want to configure 4 (1 Terra Byte) Hard Disk as RAID 5.

Ctrl E option of intel embedded RAID still showing that there is no activation key installed.

guys help me out in this issue.

Teaming NIC PRO 1000/MT in windows Server 2008 R2

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:46:33 GMT

The Intel PRO 1000/MT has (today ?) no "full support" in Windows Server 2008 R2 ; that is : each NIC est recognized by OS and functionnal, but we can't built a team, because Intel Advanced Network Software (ANS) is not available.

More, on my DELL PowerEdge 2850 (with 4 PRO 1000/MT), no PCI-express slot, then i can't install more recent NIC which has full support (like 1000/PT).

A server hardware with server software and with server NICs but no server teaming functionality ?

Does it means I have to replace all my Intel NIC with Broadcom NIC which has teaming support in 2008 R2 ?

Thanks for your help

S3200SHV/S3210SHLC RAID

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:56:11 GMT

I have a brand new S3210SHLC server board that I should like to use with a RAID 1 two-disk array and Linux (Debian) O/S.

The documentation refers to a BIOS configuration untility for RAID. It says that there should be a "ctrl-e" prompt to configure RAID. But there is no such prompt, and ctrl-e does nothing. On boot, prompts are [esc]-view diagnostics, [f2]-configure bios, [f12]-network boot.

Looking through the [f2]-bios configuration, there is: advanced->configure SATA, and I have set SATA-enabled, Configure SATA-as RAID, and set the intel matrix storage option. These options, together with the documentation provided on the CD might lead one to believe that Intel firmware RAID is included with this board, but I now suspect that in fact it is NOT included. And that I should move on to look at OS-dependant software RAID, rather than the pre-OS RAID mentioned in the documentation.

I have booted from the CD and updated to latest BIOS and so on.

Instalaltion media do not "see" a RAID array, only two separate disks.

If firmware RAID is NOT included with this board, then why would it be shown in the documentation for the board, and in BIOS configuration? For a server board, is this not significantly misleading?

If anyone can further enlighten me as to the true capabilities of the board, I would be much obliged.

regards to all, Tim Johnston.

Intel SE7520BD2

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:28:36 GMT

Hello to eveyone as this is my first post here. I have been fighting this issue for 3 days now and I am ready to quit.

One of our new servers, motherboard SE7520BD2, 2 xeon 2.8 with 1 gb RAM, chassis type SC5295WS, .

Chassis fan is running on full speed all the time. I have seen these servers run and they are only supposed to do this on start up (or in extreme heat cases).

I have tried a lot of things, intel server management software was run before install, FRUSDR utility was also run and all the right info was inputed.

Nothing seems to help, fan runs on high all the time and it is very annoying. BIOS has no options as far as the fan goes.

Thank you in advance for help.

ss4200-e firmware upgrade

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:36:41 GMT

Hi,

I recently bought the above NAS. Have installed the drives and it has created a RAID-5. Downloaded the latest firmware but when I choose the firmware file

EMCNTG-1.1.11.32736.tgz, the NAS tells me the file does not exist. I have tried moving it to the device itself and redownloading it but still the same result. The firmware currently is 1.0.8.29352. Could someone please help me with this. I hope I have supplied all the details needed - if not let me know

Dobberdog

s5000pal problem

webadmin@intel.com — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:31:50 GMT

Hi,

We are getting:

388 | 10/24/2009 | 13:13:23 | Voltage BB +1.5V ESB | Lower Non-critical going low | Reading 1.02 < Threshold 1.40 Volts
39c | 10/24/2009 | 13:13:23 | Voltage BB +1.5V ESB | Lower Critical going low | Reading 1.02 < Threshold 1.36 Volts
3b0 | 10/24/2009 | 13:13:24 | Voltage BB +1.5V ESB | Lower Non-critical going low | Reading 1.51 < Threshold 1.40 Volts
3c4 | 10/24/2009 | 13:13:24 | Voltage BB +1.5V ESB | Lower Critical going low | Reading 1.51 < Threshold 1.36 Volts
3d8 | 10/25/2009 | 20:46:00 | Processor Processor 1 Stat | Thermal Trip | Asserted
3ec | 10/28/2009 | 09:46:33 | Voltage BB +5V | Lower Non-critical going low | Reading 3.41 < Threshold 4.58 Volts
400 | 10/28/2009 | 09:46:33 | Voltage BB +5V | Lower Critical going low | Reading 3.41 < Threshold 4.45 Volts
414 | 10/28/2009 | 09:46:34 | Voltage BB +5V | Lower Non-critical going low | Reading 5.02 < Threshold 4.58 Volts
428 | 10/28/2009 | 09:46:34 | Voltage BB +5V | Lower Critical going low | Reading 5.02 < Threshold 4.45 Volts
43c | 11/05/2009 | 19:13:36 | Voltage BB +1.5V AUX | Upper Non-critical going high | Reading 1.94 > Threshold 1.62 Volts
450 | 11/05/2009 | 19:13:36 | Voltage BB +1.5V AUX | Upper Critical going high | Reading 1.94 > Threshold 1.67 Volts
464 | 11/05/2009 | 19:13:37 | Voltage BB +1.5V AUX | Upper Non-critical going high | Reading 1.47 > Threshold 1.62 Volts
478 | 11/05/2009 | 19:13:37 | Voltage BB +1.5V AUX | Upper Critical going high | Reading 1.47 > Threshold 1.67 Volts

can anyone tell me if that is a mother board problem or not ?

Bios version: S5000.86B.10.00.0094.101320081858

By the way is there a way to turn amber light to green on the server front panel? A command or a tool maybe?

Regards.

S5000PAL Not booting

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:56:28 GMT

I've got a S5000PAL sitting in an Antec Titan case with a 650Watt ATX PSU

The 20+4 connector and CPU power connections are seated correctly and everything seems to be installed correctly. When I turn power on, the Blue LED flashes briefly and two green LED's come on (one blinks Green/Amber for a while then settles to full green) and the front power switch is connected on the front panel pins correctly (I've re-checked this a number of times)

When I press the power button switch on the front though nothing happens. No system/CPU fan and no activity.

Can you give me any guidance? The board is brand new!

s3210sh cpu fan madness

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:53:28 GMT

After updating BMC on motherboard and seeing message "refreshing bmc" cpu fan goes mad- it starts spinning on maximum speed, really annoying. How to configure fan speed on that moterboard?

BMC rev 00.32

Intel 3210 Chipset - Max. TDP - MCH and ICH included?

webadmin@intel.com — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:01:50 GMT

Hello,

I have a question regarding to the following Intel 3210 Chipset: http://ark.intel.com/chipset.aspx?familyID=28041

Does the 21.3 Watts (Max TDP), according to the Link, include the MCH and the ICH or do I have to add the 4.3 Watts of the Intel® 82801IR I/O Controller on my respective Mainboard (Intel S3210SHLC with ICH9R) ?

Thank you in advance for your Input

Regards Michael

Help: Intel Shared LUN

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:08:24 GMT

Can anyone tell-me what Filesystem can i use to format and use the shared LUN disk, in order to be used in 2 Blades with Debian Lenny?

The ideia is to get 2 apache nodes, using the same storage.

Thanks

SS4200E - How to format hard drives?

webadmin@intel.com — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:20:38 GMT

I just purchased a ss4200e and I'm trying to install 4 TB drives which I previously had in a mac server. When I put the drives into the ss4200e all I get are blinking lights and I can't login thru the browser. If I take out the drives then I can login to the ss4200e.

What is the proper formating that the drives should have and what software could I use to accomplish this?

Couldn't find any info in the documentation.

Any help is appreciated!

Upgrade my processor

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:34:48 GMT

I have an hp pavilion dv5-1150us laptop and was wondering if i could upgrade my processor and if so how much would it cost to have it upgraded

Nocona Sl7pe Hyper-Threading : yes or no?

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:57:30 GMT

Hello,

I'm building a box based on a SE7520JR2:

I have installed two Xeon 3GHZ . as I let the bios on HT active. My OS reported 4 cores. Is it something wrong?

I have done few bench with Windows 7 (64 bits RC) and with Fedora 10 (64) and the four cores was present (and working:::)

With Boinc (64 bits) 4 tasks (work units) was crunching on the same time.

The Intel Proc Spec Finder doesn"t report HT feature neither EMT64.

Please let me know if I have to update the bios to solve this?

Will the SS4200-E EMC Lifeline software be upgraded to version 2?

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:59:17 GMT

I just purchased a SS4200-E and have seen that the last update to Lifeline that Intel has provided is version 1.11. Version 2 is out and being used with Iomega NAS products now. Will Intel be upgrading the firmware anymore? I noticed printer support was removed too, if there are further upgrades will they be stripped of printer support too? I'm very discouraged by the lack of updates and feature downgrade.

Do you know how the firmware is compressed? It doesn't seem to be a typical gzipped tarball.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.

SS4200-EHW Windows Home Server

webadmin@intel.com — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:54:04 GMT

I have bought an Intel entry level SS4200-EHW server. I have been trying to install Windows Home Server and it always fails with the message, "The system cannot find the path specified, error code 0x80070003."

I then check the log and it reports that it is unable to find qs.ini. All the notes I have been able to find about this problem indicates that you must leave the installation CD in the CD-ROM drive. I am doing that however what I have found is that the DVD drive no longer is able to read the DVD, it appears that there is nothing in the drive. I have tried other DVDs as well as CDs and it does not recognize any media. This is the same drive I have installed from up to this point at the very end.

If I click on the DVD drive it responds with, "I Drive is not accessible, Incorrect Function."

Raid Web Console 2 on Windows 2008 R2

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:46:08 GMT

Hi,

Did anyone succeed to install the Raid Web Console 2 on a Windows 2008 R2 Server ?

I just tried on 2 servers and the installer fails just after decompression with a generic 1603 error.

I dug deep and it seems to be a problem with the InstallShield Scripting Engine.

I tried the same package on different servers and it only fails on 2008 R2 Servers.

I also tried other LSI based packages (older Raid Web console, Megaraid Storage Manager etc. ) and they all fail in the same way.

Any idea on how to bypass that installshield incompatibility ?

TIA

Jean-Michel Digneffe

WSUS Catalog

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:52:34 GMT

Is there a WSUS catalog for Intel products? Where can it be downloaded from?

Expander Back plain

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:09:28 GMT

I’m running out of ideas I need some fresh thoughts on this issues.

This is a new server I’m building, when the system is powered on you get the following message after the boot process reaches the RAID card.

“All Disks From your Previous Configuration Are Gone. If This Is An unexpected Message, The Please Power Off Your System And Check Your Cables To Ensure All Disks Are Present.

Press Any key To Continue or ‘C’ To Load The Configuration Utility.”

If you hit the rest button at this point the server reboots and goes to the OS with no problems. Any thoughts on what might be causing this problem?

Hardware

2x BX80602E5520 Intel Quad-Core Xeon E5520 / 2.26 GHz
2x BXSTS100 Intel Thermal Solution Processor cooler
S5520HC Intel Server Board S5520HC – Motherboard
2x KVR133D3D8R9SK3/6GI RAM
AXX6DRV3GEXP Intel Drive Expander - Storage 6 bay adapter
AXX4DRV3GEXP Intel Drive Expander - Storage 4 bay adapter
SRCSASBB8I Intel RAID Storage controller
AXXRSBBU6 INTEL - Intel RAID Smart Battery
6x WD1002FBYS Western Digital RE3 Hard Drive
SC5600BRPNA SC5600 CHAS 6DR BAY 750W SAS/SATA 3FAN

Firmware
S5520HC - BIOS42, BMC45, ME1.11
SRCSASBB8I - 1.40.62-0665
AXX6DRV3GEXP – tested: 2.14, 2.12 and 2.09

Back Ground Information

When the drives are plugged directly in to the RAID card there are no problems.

Information Update on the Intel Storage SS4200-E

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:28:46 GMT

Greetings ...

I was trying to get some up2date information on the SS4200-E.

1) will there be an firmware upgrade to EMC Lifeline v2 available for the SS4200-E?
This question was also posted in Intel Community Forums months ago - still no answer.

2) Are Seagate Barracuda LP 5900.12 2000GB, SATA II (ST32000542AS) supported - to be more general: are new drives bigger then 1 TB supported? I again checked Intel Forums - no definite answer. There seem to be Issues with Western Digital GP Drives - but there were always some problems with these drives in certain configurations.

There are companies out selling the SS4200-E with 8TB (4x2TB Drives) - so are these valid configurations or not?

Maybe releasing a new Tested Hardware and Operating System List (THOL) would be good idea - the last version 1.3 is from January 2009.

3) Will an 6TB Raid5 work created from 4x 2TB Drives?
There are posts stating the Raid5 could be filled up to 4096GB - after the reboot, the raid went offline and all data was lost. To me that seems like a serious issue - also no helpful reply here.

4) After reading the release notes of the latest available LifeLine Release, there is an issue mentioned, that Media Streaming of Files bigger then 2GB is not supported. Will this issue be fixed?

Thank you,

AndyB

PLEASE HELP WITH "A problem has been detected and windows has been shutdown to prevent damage to your computer"

gossa@eltosan.rs — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:53:27 GMT

We just buy brand new Intel Server SR2500 with MB S5520UR with two CPU E5502 , 4Gb RAM and 6 pcs SATA II 1 TB HDD and AXXRAKSW5 Intel RAID activation Key, If I try to install Windows 2003 R2 SP2 Ent on one Non RAID HDD everything works perfeclty, if I try to switch to RAID mode and try to install again Win 2003 I receive during instalation BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH with message "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer"

I update BIOS to latest version , I try with latest SATA RAID driver Intel® ESRT-2 SATA & SAS Software RAID driver for Windows v 13.06... i try with and without Intel® Deployment Assistant 3.0,I try to use just RAID 1 same thing . BOS . I try Win 2008 with same drivers for 2003 and I cannot see any drive . When I do not use RAID I can install any version of windows, even XP, but with any RAID i coul't do any thing

Please give me any IDEA what to try

X25-E SSD ... new "trim" ata command ?

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:07:18 GMT

I know that for the MLC version, the X25-M, Intel has come out with a firmware update to support the new proposed ATA "trim" command, but what about the SLC drive, the X25-E ?

In some ways one could say there's less of a need for the "trim" command on the X25-E, because it is so fast, faster than the X25-M, but I'm in no rush to make a purchase. And I'd hate to buy something that will be obsolete a few months later... replaced by something a bit better.

So, are there any plans to offer a firmware update for the X25-E ? Or will there soon be an updated version of the X25-E product, that supports the "trim" command ? that is to say, command ATA8-ACS2.

Ask a "Nehalem" Expert

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:46:14 GMT

Do you have a question about the new XEON 5500-series processor, code-named "Nehalem'?

Join the discussion w/ Nehalem product/technology experts.

If you have other Server Platform related questions, you can join the conversation here: Ask an Expert

NAS SS4200-E and defrag utility

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:40:14 GMT

Hello all,

I've bought a NAS SS4200-E a month ago. I've hard used it with copy/move/delete files and directories. Right now I've 4 HD 1.5TB in RAID 5 and most of the whole space (~3TB) is used with my DVD rip collection.

Now I found it a little slower than the beginning... There's a way to defragment it? There's a defrag tool provided with the software (EMC)? or exists a software which can defragment it remotely?

thank you a lot.

Nick

Updating AXX6DRV3GEXP and AXX4DRV3GEXP

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:31:27 GMT

Hi community!

I have big problems to bring the firmware of my backplanes up to the actual version. What components do i have?

- S5000PSL in SC5400BRP with AXX6DRV3GEXP and AXX4DRV3GEXP

- S3210SHLC in SC5299-DP with AXX6DRV3GEXP

Because both servers are loosing there disks from time to time if searched a lot in the web and found out that the firmware of the backplanes have well known problems with sata disks on old versions. I have only sata disks and firmware 2.02 on the backplanes so i think i would be the best to update them to the latest version 2.12 but i don´t no how to do it.

As written in the readme i removed the raid controllers and just attached an single disc with ms dos and the update files on it. Than i try tried to use the batch files to update them but on the S5000 the actual firmware revision is shown but the update fails, on the S3210 it looks like the the backplane isn´t found.

When i try to use the EFI update it also doesn´t work, also a manual load of the ipmi.efi doesn´t want to work.

Whats the correct way to update my backplanes so the disks won´t be lost any longer? It´s not a big problem to connect the backplane from my S3210 temporarily to the S5000, so some tips how to realize it on the S5000 would be enough and extremly useful.

Best regards from rainy germany

Norbert

Are there any special chasis requirenments for assembling a server?

arissler@comcast.net — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:43:22 GMT

I am building a new server to and have a simple question about hardware. Will I need a special case for a server motherboard? The motherboards I am currently looking is an Intel S5520HC. I understand I will need a case that accommodates E-ATX boards, but are there any other requirements? I was sure it would work, but then I saw that Intel's site only names a couple cases that are compatible with their board. Will a case such as a Zalman GS1000-SE work for this board? Also, will a standard ATX power supply work (with adequate power and an extra 8-pin CPU adapter of course).

S5520SC3rd Dimm Problem

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:46:24 GMT

Hi there,

I am using 3 of my S5520SC diims with Approved Kingston 4GB modules and I am having a very odd problem. Whenever I put a DIMM in teh 3rd slot it comes up with an error - the board beeps 3 times when teh system boots and the orange LED is visible, but I can see 12GB in the sytem. I have swapped around the DIMMs but they all do the same thing in the 3rd slot.

I am running teh lates BIOS and this is very frustrating - all help appreciated.

which is faster: (DQ45CB+Q9650) or (Xeon E5400)

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:29:40 GMT

I am confused. Alfter a lot of researcha and findings, i found that the price in which i am purchasing my (DQ45CB+Q9650) system, I can also purchase a Xeon. The cost of Q9650 and Xeon E5420 is same here in my city.

I need the machine to use it just for testing purpose for installing Hyper-V. Any suggestions whcih will be better, Q9650 or E5420?
Also, second hurdle is a Motherboard for Xeon E5420. My vendor here says that the S5400xv SATA motherboard will go with the processor but Intel site doesnt show it in compatible list. D5400XS is very expensinve and is unavailable. What to do?

Please suggest

ss4200-e turn on remotely

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:50:29 GMT

Is it possibel to turn the power on remotely with the EMC software.

Thanks

Installing SBS2003STD on S3420GP - getting bluescreen?

webadmin@intel.com — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:10:52 GMT

I have a S3420GP system aquired at the recient TST. I am trying to install SBS2003 Standard Ed. (not R2) on a SATA Raid Mirror drive, but when it gets to the part of the install that is installing drivers it goes to the blue screen of death. The most current bios updates are installed. Should I turn off some of the advanced features in the bios?

Any advice would be appriciated.

What happens on a L2 Prefetch Rqst hit on the core 2 duo?

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:28:25 GMT

The core 2 duo has HW performance counters that measure L2_Rqsts_Self_Prefetch_MES and L2_Rqsts_Self_Prefetch_I. My understanding is that L2_Rqsts_Self_Prefetch_I measures the following event: a HW prefetch request has been issued for a line that is not in L2 and hence needs to be brought in from memory (an L2 miss). Is this correct? If this is correct, then I assume, L2_Rqsts_Self_Prefetch_MES measures HW prefetch requests that hit in L2. So, now my question is, is there a cost for HW prefetch requests that hit in L2? And if so how much? It seems to me that any HW prefetch request that hits in L2 is redundant (because the subsequent access to the line would be a hit, regardless). So, we could probably save a few cycles if we can detect this situation. The savings would be really big if there were situations where the requested line is brought in from memory even if it is an L2 hit (i.e., if the L2 check is done after the prefetch reqeust has been sent to memory). Does that ever happen?

- Apan

NIC Teaming Windows 2008 Core

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:01:57 GMT

How do you configure NIC teaming with Server Core 2008?

ConfigMgr OSD catalog

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:54:48 GMT

Is there a ConfigMgr OSD catalog for Intel drivers? Where can it be download from?

S5000XVN Windows 7 support

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:22:28 GMT

While not specifically mentioned on the tested operating systems list for this board. Am I likely to have any trouble upgrading from XP 64bit to Windows 7 64 bit?

If so, does Intel plan to offer support for Win7 64bit with the S5000XVN in the near future?

Ryan

Problem with Intel PRO/1000PM integrated NIC

ivopereira@logitools.pt — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:55:30 GMT

Hello, everyone.

I am having a very strange problem with an Intel PRO/1000 PM integrated NIC in a Supermicro X7SBE motherboard. The NIC does not report its MAC address to Windows, leaving it to full zeros (00-00-00-00-00) and keeping the operating system without even DHCP or basic networking.

If I boot the server with a Linux CentOS or other LiveCD, the NICs work fine and that OS can read the NICs MAC address as usual, so this must be a software incompatibility issue.

How can I solve this? I read the MAC address and used the "Locally Administred Address" option to sucessfully set it and get networking back up, but this is of course not a valid option for someone with several of these servers..

I have also posted this question with Supermicro support, still no answer... The version of the OS is "Windows 2003 Standard Edition SP2 R2 OEM", no updates or patches installed.

Thanks in advance,

Ivo Pereira

IT Consultant

Portugal

MCSE / CCNA

Pentium III vs Pentium Core?

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:30:30 GMT

I need to purchase a new computer for a piece of equipment. I have a minimum requirement specifications of Pentium III, 400/450 MHz, w/ 128-256 MB of RAM. I also have a requirement to buy an HP computer. When I look on the HP website, the lowest end processor I see is the pentium core. Does this processors meet my minimum requirement?

S5000PAL hard disk upgrade

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:07:43 GMT

I have a server that I need to get some idea of pricing for upgrading its disk subsystem. It is an S5000PAL, in the SR2500 chassis. I am not that familiar with Intel stuff that hasnt been OEM`d by HP or Dell to be honest.

I can get physical access to the server, and open it up, but it obviously needs to be off, and its the companies Line of Business VM server, so not that easy to organise.

So, it has 5 drives currently (with 2 x RAID1`s and a spare disk), and I would like to add in a sixth, and having taken off the blanking plate, I can see nothing behind it, now without downing the box and taking a good root around, can you tell me if there is a way to work out if it has the hot swap midplane, and I need to add the sixth drive interface card, or what the other options are?

Sorry for the vague question, obviously if it is a case of "turn it off, open it up and dont be so lazy" then just say it!

Apologies if this has been double posted, it was not my intention, but my other post seems to have disappeared.

Firewire for S5000XVNSASR

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:24:13 GMT

I want to add a FireWire 400 adapter to a S5000XVNSASR can anyone recommend a particular adapter? preferably with a Texas instruments chipset.

I have the following slots free :

Slot a: PCI-X* 64-bit, 100-MHz full-length/ full-height
slot B: PCI-X 64-bit, 133-/100-MHz fulllength/ full-height
slot c: PCI Express* x4 half-length / fullheight

Can I rath a standard 32bit PCI card in the PCI-X slots?

Ryan

SS-4200e causes XP network connection to crash

webadmin@intel.com — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:47:48 GMT

I recently bought the SS-4200e storage device. The following problem occurs with 3 different computers running Windows XP Professional: After an indeterminable time of transferring data to or from the storage using either ftp or windows share (Samba) the network connection of the client XP computer hangs. That is, there is no possibility of transferring any data via this network interface. Trying to ping the storage device or any ip address on command line results in a "host unreachable" message. Trying to renew the client's ip address results in freezing of this attempt. Trying to deactivate and activate the network connection results in freezing of this action too. The only solution is to reboot this client XP computer. However, the storage device remains accessible from other client computers (XP) until they also hang. I tried different network setups including different switches (100/1000) and cabling. The 3 client XP computers all run XP Professional but with differing firewall and anti-virus products which I also deactivated.The SS-4200e has a static ip address and everything is within the same workgroup.

Using Linux there is no problem at all, there i can transfer hundreds of GBs of data without any problems. But Linux is not my primary OS. Does anyone know a solution to this strange problem?

Can I access BMC through NIC 2 in a S5520UR?

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:42:47 GMT

Hi. I'm trying to access the BMC through NIC 2 on a S5520UR.

I tried syscfg and ipmitool for setting up the BMC LAN configuratioin, but both says that BMC channel 2 is not a LAN channel. Only channels 1 and 3 are available. Channel 1 is associated with NIC1 and Channel 3 is for RMMI AFAIK.

The specifications says:

"The Integrated BMC hardware includes two dedicated 10/100 network interfaces.

These interfaces are not shared with the host system.

At any time, only one dedicated interface may be enabled for management traffic.

The default active interface is the NIC 1 port"

what suggests me that the NIC 2 can be used.

However on the MAC address definition it says:

"Each Intel® Server Board S5520UR has the following four MAC addresses assigned to it at the Intel factory.

NIC 1 MAC address

NIC 2 MAC address – Assigned the NIC 1 MAC address +1

Integrated BMC LAN Channel MAC address – Assigned the NIC 1 MAC address +2

Intel® Remote Management Module 3 (Intel® RMM3) MAC address – Assigned the NIC 1 MAC address +3"

That just talks about one LAN channel.

Intel Deployment Assistant Release Notes says:

"Boot Side Features Details:

...

Configure System Management (Baseboard Management Controller Communication/Users)

- Enable access to the BMC through NIC 1 and/or NIC 2 and/or Serial Port"

But booting it just let me configure LAN channel 1 associated to onboard NIC 1. So I'm a bit confused.

The question is if it is possible to set NIC 2 as a port to access the BMC and how can that be done?

Thanks.

Santiago.

SS4200-EHW 4x WD15EADS 1.5TB Drives Only 3.9TB reported on RAID 5

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:19:35 GMT

Finding this a bit odd...

I have installed 4x WD15EADS 1.5TB Drives on the SS4200-EHW NAS, and only 3.9TB reported available on RAID 5.

Is there something wrong? Shouldn't I be getting some where around 4.5 TB (with the other 1.5TB for parity ? I'm loosing 600GB of space. I see that it reports 3.9TB FREE, Used 707MB, Backup 8 KB... So what's the deal? Any ideas?

Thanks,

Thierry

Connect 2 Intel Modular Server together by an external SAS connexion

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:25:14 GMT

Hello,

I have found a specification explaining how to connect one MFSYS25 (IMS) with an external to a Promise* VTrak E610s.

This not exactly what i want.

What i want to do is to connect one MFSYS25 to another MFSYS25 (by interconnecting the SAS external port of each MFSYS25).

You have understood, i would like scalability.

In such configuration :

- the first MFSYS25 (say MFSYS25-1) would host the 6 blades + the SAN

- the second MFSYS25 (say MFSYS25-2) would host 6 more blades (these 6 blades use the remote SAN offered by MFSYS25-1)

For MFSYS25-2 point of view, MFSYS25-1 would then appear as a pure external SAN.

Is it technically feasible ? (this depends of SAS zoning capabilities of your system, I guess)

For info ;

I am currently working with IBM to do the same thing between one HS21 (in a Blade Center-E) and one HS21 (in a Blade Center-S - hosting the SAN).

I have the two guys in lab, but for the moment, we did not succeed to make the HS21 (in the BC-E) access to its lun located on the BC-S.

If you have a solution to my requirement , then i will choose Intel IMS.

/Ronan GUILLOU

former Intel employee (at Intel France)

Test & Integration Director at CENTILE (www.centile.com)

RAID-1 rebuild, wizard unable to start the rebuild process

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:45:01 GMT

Dell Optiplex 755 with Intel Matrix Storage Controller ICH8R/ICH9R, Matrix Storage Console v7.8.0.1013. Two 250GB drives, WD2500AAJS on Port 0 and Port 1. Drive on Port 1 failed and was replaced with an identical drive. Using Matrix Storage Console Advanced mode, ARRAY, operating in degraded mode, showed Port 0 with the good drive and the second drive missing. Under Non-RAID drives showed Port 1 and the new drive. All as expected. When I right-click on the new drive (Non-RAID) on Port 1 and select Rebuild RAID array to this drive (paraphrasing), the wizard starts. I confirm the drive selection in the wizard and click finish and then get the message, "the wizard was unable to start the rebuild process." Dell support has suggested that I select Create RAID Volume from Existing Hard Drive from the Action menu. I am hesitant to do this since I already have a RAID array of which the good drive is the only member. I am seeking a second opinion. Thank you.

W3503 @ 130W TDP vs Pentium D 920 @ 95W

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:05:01 GMT

I currently have a Non-ECC Dual Channel DDR2 computer with a single Pentium D 920 @ 95W TDP.

I would like to upgrade to an ECC Tri Channel DDR3 computer with a single W3503 Xeon @ 130W TDP computer.

Unfortunately, I am concerned that the server grade W3503 with a TDP of 130W is thermally inferior to the consumer grade Peintum D 920 @ 95W TDP.

If I subject both processors to a 100% load torture test, which processor do you think will:

1) die first?

2) start slow down throttling first?

3) perform incorrect computations first?

Intel studio audio and 5.1 speakers, not all speakers work

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:33:26 GMT

hi, i have one problem with Intel studio audio and speaker 5.1, all speker work, becouse i have tested it, al sound output work, but if i chack with intel studio audio (mixer) works only front speakers, central+subwoofer don't work, and rear speakers have realy low sound, but i have in mixer sound level at max...

Can someone help me?

Sorry for my english.

Thanks

Intel Xeon X5400 vs X5500 processors

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:02:49 GMT

Comparison between Intel Xeon X5400 and X5500 processors, installed in an HP Blade BL460c. Any location where I can get more info.

Will S3200SHV support WIndows 2003 Server 64-bit Standard Edition

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:46:14 GMT

Hello,

I recently purchased a S3200SHV motherboard and would like to install a 64-bit operating system. I currently own a copy of WIndows 2003 Server 64-bit Standard Edition. The specs on the web site only refer to Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition. Does this include the capabilites of Standard Edition by default? Or is Enterprise specifically the only 64-bit version of Windows 2003 supported?

Thanks in advance,

Tom G

5000VSA - Intel-VT

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:25:47 GMT

Hello Experts,

I use an Intel Server Board S5000VSASATAR with Intel Xeon L5410 processor. I am searching for the option to activate Intel-VT in BIOS but I cannot find it.

I have read another posting telling me to change the setting under Processor information. But there is no option there at my BIOS.

I have installed BIOS version 88.

I would be very thankful for any kind of assistance in this matter.

Thanks!

Stefan

S5000PSL - Fans too slow - server too hot

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:53:58 GMT

Hello,

I have a problem with my S5000PSL.

It is build in a Chenbro RM21706 case (other case) (example picture: http://www.chenbro.eu/assets/2008/08/13/product0802093571.jpg) with two

Dynatron H6EG (http://www.dynatron-corp.com/en/product_detail_1.aspx?cv=1-4-205&id=30&in=0) CPU fans.

The airflow of the cpu fans should also cool down the fb-dimms.

With full load, the fb-dimms gets up to 110°C, but the CPU fans dont speed up.

Is there a way to setup the CPU fans to have full speed the whole time? Or speed up on any high temperature?

Kind Regards,

Marco Balle

I want to Intel T5670 or T5870 Processor

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:24:27 GMT

Dear All,

I want to know about in Core 2 Duo T5670 or T5870 is VT processor or not.

Intel SE7520BD23 W/SRCS16 RAID - Performance Issues

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:02:00 GMT

Hi All,

Im new to the communities so bare with me.

My server has this board and RAID controller card in it. I have an 80GB RAID 1 for the OS and a 1TB 4 drive RAID 5 for the Data array. Read/Write performance is Brutally slow!!! I can read and write data to a USB device faster than i can to the RAID arrays.

- The Raid controller card has a battery on it which is showing as healthy and i recently enabled "Adaptive Read Ahead" as well as "Write Caching" on both arrays but the performance has not changed.

-both logical drives are in good shape with no errors found when chkdsk is run and both drives are notheavily fragmented...

Does anyone have any insight into what can be done about this?

Xeon 5500 Nehalm vs. Itanium - Oracle Database

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:41:45 GMT

I am trying to find benchmarks for these two processors. Can anyone offer insight in how does Xeon 5500 Nehalm stand against Itanium processor when it comes to databases?

Replacement Options for S875WP1LX Entry Server Board

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:52:23 GMT

I am looking for a replacement for the S875WP1LX Entry Server Board. Need to maintain the same architecture so that it can be replaced in the existing case. Nothing fancy, entry level will suffice, needs to have 2 LAN ports and support RAID and SATA drives. What are the available options to replace this board?

Theoretical vs measured memory bandwidth of Nehalem

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:00 GMT

Hi,

What is the reason why the theoretical memory bandwidth of a Nehalem CPU (1333 * 3 channels * 64 bits / (8bits/byte) = 32GB/s per socket) is not similar to the measured bandwidth using the STREAM benchmark which is around 17GB/s per socket, or 37GB/s or so for a two-socket motherboard? I thought STREAM should give pretty close to the maximum throughput possible.

How can you calculate the memory bandwidth so it's closer to the observed result? I.e. what am I not taking into account.

Thanks,

Milos

Problems installing MPIO Drivers on SBS 2008

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:55:41 GMT

I have a new SBS 2008 install on a Modular Server System MFSYS25 we have dual SCM Controllers installed. Every time i try to install the MPIO Drivers on SBS 2008 I get a failed to install. I look in the Add/Remove programs and its there is also a MPIO item in the control panel but the drivers are not appearing to take and I’m still seeing all the drives twice. I also get an error when I try to uninstall.

Is there any special thing that needs to happen to install on SBS 2008? Our other Standard 2008 system on this same unit are not having any problem. only SBS

Thanks

Chris

SROMBSASMR BIOS RAID error on cold boot

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:44:11 GMT

SROMBSASMR BIOS RAID error on cold boot (i.e., after power has been removed for 30+sec):

Number of devices exceeded the maximum limit of devices per quad

Please remove the extra drives and reboot system to avoid losing data

System has halted due to unsupported configuration

With the system thusly halted, I can then hit the Reset and the system will boot correctly, with the SROMBSASMR bios correctly recognizing the physical drives and logical units.

But every cold start causes the RAID bios error to recur.

I have wiped the configuration and re-created, but the same error recurs.

Help!

Configuration:

SC5650DPNA chassis

AXX6DRV3GEXP 6-bay HS cage

S5520HC mainboard

SROMBSASMR add-on RAID controller (FW ver: 1.40.62-0665)

(6) Seagate ST31000340NS 1TB drives (set for 3GB/s SATA)

Logical unit config:

2x drives in a RAID1

4x drives in a RAID 10 (comprised of two spans of two drives each)

S5000XVN BMC will not update after failure

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:30:26 GMT

PLEASE HELP!

Used the latest BIOS package [S5000PSL_DOS_update_BIOS98_BMC65_FRUSDR48.zip 8/23/09] and the BMC65 failed. Now the board shows the BMC has a version of 0 that is ZERO and nothing will allow me to update the BMC even the force BMC update jumper is not working always with ERROR 17. Needless to say now the systems fans are running at full speed and the power button does not work. How can I recover this? I have tried bootable USB error above and the deployment CD errors with can't communicate with BMC. Is there anyway to fix this? THANKS!!

Pro/1000 MT network card forces slow speed

paul@flecktech.com — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:22:23 GMT

I have a Dell 400SC with a Pro/1000 MT network card running XP Pro on a home network. All computers run fine accept this one. I swapped cables with other machines. This one has slow Internet access. When I run diagnostics on the connections it states: “This adapter is configured to force the speed to a low speed.” Any suggestions?

Intel adapter teaming issue

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:08:57 GMT

So I went to configure adapter teaming and had nothing but problems. The wizard would start the process, create the Intel Advanced Network Services Virtual Adapter, then hang and not complete any other parts of the process. I found out that I was using the wrong version of the software for my adapters (which are Pro/1000 MT Dual Port), installed an older version, and all was good to go... except for the 4 Virtual adapters that were created previously by failed attempts of the wizard. How do I remove these unused virtual adapters from the server? Simply trying to uninstall them via the device manager doesn't work. Neither did removing the teaming software, rebooting the server, or simply trying to delete the network connection.

ss4200-e jumbo frames

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:27:22 GMT

Is it possible to get the EMC software to support jumbo frames or is it a hardware issue.

Thanks

SR1630BC/S5500BC and VMWare ESXi 4.0

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:21:32 GMT

Hello All!

I am using one of these servers to act as a smaller VMWare ESXi server.

I am having small difficulties using the onboard RAID to set up a RAID-1 Configuration:

SR1630BC

2x 5504

12GB RAM

2x imation SSD 64GB drives

The VMImages are stored on an external NFS share, so I just need small and fast to get booted to the VMWare environment.

I went through the Intel Setup CD first, updated all the bios/firmware etc... then enabled hyperthreading (oops.. not supported on these CPU's... it's OK for testing/DR purposes - I'll know better on the next machine), and set up the drives to be RAID-1.

On reboot, it seemed to come up, but when I went to do the install, there's the choice for Disk-0 and Disk-1 and the destination.... hmmm...

Anyone run into this? Anything I missed in setting up the base RAID? Any suggestions on how to properly set these up to be RAID-1 (I don't see any options in BIOS -- only from the boot CD).

Thanks!

SS4200-E Hangs in WinXP

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:51:31 GMT

I'm using the SS4200-E with my Windows XP system and the system seems to "hang" a lot. That is, all data stops going to/from the device. After several minutes it comes back, but this hanging is very frustrating.

I've updated the firmware -- it's running the latest. Seen some solutions for Vista users, but I don't have Vista.

I've also swapped network switches and cables to isolate it the problem to the SS4200. Is there anything I can do to get this to work with Windows XP short of replacing the guts with a nano system running Linux?

SS4200-E INTEL ENTRY STORAGE SYSTEM

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:21:08 GMT

Dear friends,

I've recently bought an Intel SS4200-E. Problem is I wanted to install 2 Western Digital 750Gb Sata Disks and strip them (Raid 0) so to receive a almost full 1.5 Terra.

The 2 disks were pre-owned so I bought this NAS to use them with no extra disk cost.

Thing is that the software does not give me the opportunity to build a RAID 0, instead I only heve one optio: RAID 1 (Mirror).

Since I want to strip these 2 disks, and since RAID 0 is to be created with 2 or more disks, I can not see a reason why INTEL does not allow me to do so.

Please do be kind enough to show me a solution, cause I am very dissapointed. I bought this NAS to get the stripped 1.5 TB and INTEL with no particular reason "orders" me to create a RAID not wanted.

Thank You in advance,

waiting for an answer soon.

John Dimitriades

Athens, Greece

S3200SHV Operating Systems

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:34:22 GMT

Hello,

Please forgive the ignorance implied by this question, but I'm confused about the stated operating systems supported by this motherboard. I purchased the MB along with a quad core x3350 Xeon 2.66GHz processor and I'd like to install Windows 2003 Server 64-bit. The version I have is the WIndows 2003 Server R2 Standard Edition, but the operating systems stated as being supported only mention Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition.

Also, I see in the drivers list that there are two sections for W2K3 -- one just labels Windows 2003 drivers, the other labeled Windows 2003 Enterprise EM64 64-bit drivers.

Does this imply that Standard Edition is NOT supported? Or is it assumed that the capabilities of Standard Edition are incorporated within Enterprise Edition?

Thanks in advance for the replies.

Tom

SS4200-EHW WD15EADS 1.5TB Drive Compatible?

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:22:43 GMT

Has anyone proved that 1.5TB drives can be installed on the SS4200-EHW?

I just bought the unit, and have 2 WD WD15EADS already on hand.. I'm about to start preping the system... Can anyone give heads up if this drive will/won't work in this unit. I would think that the Compatibility list hasn't been updated in a while, and yes, those drives don't appear on there. Yes, I have set these drives to their RAID TLER setting of Enabled (7s / 0s). So I hope I'm good to go...

Thanks,

s5000svn bad performance

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:58:45 GMT

Hello,

I am experiencing horrible performance form an S5000xvn board with 12 GB of RAM and a single Xeon 5060 processor. The application used is Autodesk Inventor 2009.

The performance is so bad it is being beaten by a laptop by almost twice the speed for the same task.

Jeff Loucks

fan speed on S5000VSA server

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:06:46 GMT

The fans on my board are going full-blast and the fault light is amber under Windows 2003. I had this same problem on another system and I installed a software package for enviromental control that fixed it but I don't see anything similar for this motherboard. Does one exist?

I tried a BIOS setting for the fans but that doesn't make a difference. Lastly I tried to update the BIOS with the deployment CD but the update hangs. I tried using the Internet update and also with the zip file on a USB stick but both attempts hang the utility.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Diego

SR1630BC/S5500BC and VMWare ESXi 4.0

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:33:51 GMT

I was trying to use the native SATA RAID-1 configuration for this unit.

After configuring the SW-RAID in BIOS and then with the Intel Server Config utility, VMWare still sees two physical drives (shouldn't it only see one?)

Did I miss something? Is there something else I need to enable to set up the RAID for VMWare ESXi ?

CPU Fan at full speed

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:48:24 GMT

I have a system with a S5500BC Motherboard and a single Xeon 5520 processor with a Codegen 4U-600 chassis. Irrespective of what the system is doing, the CPU fan runs at full speed. I've tried upgrading the BIOS, setting to 'Acoustics', and several other tricks with no luck. The chassis has two uncontrolled system fans (two-wire, not connected to the motherboard). I believe the motherboard believes there's no system fan and as a protection measure turns the CPU fan at full speed. When I upgraded the BIOS with the Intel Deployment Assistant I indicated that it was not an Intel Chassis. But the BIOS still thinks it is. What should I do?

Does the AXX6DRV3G work with just power and SATA connected?

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:19:49 GMT

For a little hobby project at home, I am hoping to use the AXX6DRV3G passive drive cage, but I was wondering if it would work at all without the management busses connected. I don't see why anything except power & SATA connections would be mandatory, but it could be designed that way.

Server Board S5000PSL problem

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:11:05 GMT

I have this S5000PSL Board, and I get this message

01234Divide by Zero (86AC:1438)

ROM-DOS Fatal Error! Internal Error! (3.461)! System Halted

can anyone help?

SR1680MV Server Memory

kareemabdallah@hotmail.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:39:35 GMT

hi, how are you? Please i want to know what is the supported Memory for the Server SR1680MV and if you know brands or where i can order that memory.

SASUC8I - Mixing sas and sata same enclosure - Why not ??

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:26:21 GMT

If you read recommendations regarding mixing sas and sata drives in the same enclosure it´s not recommended, can anyone tell me why not? It´s supported on the controller, but if you read best practice you shouldn’t.

In my case a world like to have one rade1 with two sas drives and then one sata drive as a single drive for miner backups on the same controller, what problem can a get if a do this.

//toli

Server 2008 R2

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:44:53 GMT

Hi I have just migrated to R2 and I am having an issue with my Team.

I can create a team and set a static IP address and all goes well.

I issue is when I restart my DC which is where this team is configured DNS does service does not start.

I get the following error in the event log.

The DNS Server service terminated with the following error:
The network is not present or not started.

Now I assume this is because the team is not initalized when the service attempts to start.

This Did function correctly using server 2008.

I am using a S5000VSA server board with the latest bios version 98.

I have had a mental breakdown trying to resolve this so your help will be appreciated.

Chris

Intel AMT ???

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:52:33 GMT

I'm new at this techie stuff and would like some advice please. I just built my first computer and installed Vista on it and for the first couple of days everything was just fine, BUT after a while I started getting a pop up on boot-up that reads “Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT) status: Disabled. To enable or disable Intel AMT, contact your authorized system administrator.” What does this mean? Do I need to enable it? If so how? And how do get rid of the icon on my task bar?

SS4200-EHW

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:11:33 GMT

I have ordered and received a SS4200-EHW rather than the SS4200-E. Can I add the DOM module to this unit and use it like the 4200-E. Also does anyone know if an OS other than Windows Home is supported.

Xeon server board SE7520BD2V

peter.lincoln@openreach.co.uk — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:15:22 GMT

This has an on board graphics ATI RAGE 8MB, IT HAS VARIOUS PCI, PCI EXPRESS SLOTS, I am not too clever with these, what I want to do was to increase the graphics memory by adding a new card?

Will the board allow this?

Can someone point me in the right direction and naming some cards that will fit these slots, looking at 128mb upwards of memory????

Thanks Pete

Windows Home Server - I need a good compromise in a basic 'Small Office' server mthrbrd/prssr/mem combo

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:48:47 GMT

I'm setting up a 'MS Windows Home Server' for a SOHO client. The server will have 2 tb of storage that I'd like to set up in a 'mirrored' raid configuration with very good performance as a server. Client runs Cad applications and needs to access large files with minimum degradation in network access speeds, but, only two users at any given time, so mass access not an issue. Because this is a home office server, my priorities are redundant/safe storage with ability to support future multimedia streaming capabilites (as are built into Windows Home Server).

My obvious question is, what mthrbrd, memory, processor combo for price/performance?

Thanks,

Dee White, Soho Computers

S5000vsa - only 4 SATA ports available

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:23:40 GMT

I have the intel S5000vsa motherboard (the SATA version - 6 black SATA ports).

I am trying to hookup 6 drives to this board but i only can see 4 SATA ports (SATA0, SATA1, SATA2, SATA3).

Do I need some kind of firmware or setting upgrade to enable SATA4 and SATA5?

Please help

how to troubleshoot warning light on SE7520BD2

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:05:00 GMT

I have an Intel server SE7520BD2 and there is a warning light on the front of the server. The server boots up into Windows 2003 with no problems (I haven't been in front of the server to see if there are any messages at boot up) and functions normal. I am worried that it could escalate if I don't find what the warning means

Does anyone have any advice on how to find what is causing the light to appear.

prefetch disable via MSRs on Nehalem?

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:47:22 GMT

Hi,

For the Core 2 Architecture ther had been the bits 9 and 19 on msr 0x1a0 which could be set to disable the hardware and the adjacent cache line prefetcher. This feature is described in the "Software Developer’s Manual Volume 3B: System Programming Guide, Part 2" pp B46-B47.

For Nehalem/Core i7 this functionality is not documented. Is this information confidential and only part of a "BIOS Developer Guide"?

Intel Xeon 5320

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:11:18 GMT

Hi i have a Dell Server (PE 1900) which has an intel Xeon Quad Core 5320 processor installed. We recently installed some extra memory to this Server to bring the total amount of memory to 10GB however the operating system only seems to register 4GB. I believe this is to do with the 32 bit operating system and the question is now can i install a 64 bit version of SBS 2003 to allow the other memory to be utilised, what else do i need to consider.

My questions:

1. Is this processor 64 Bit capable?

2. If the processor is 64 bit capable does this mean the motherboard, memory etc is 64 bit also or is it not as simple as that? how can i check for 64 bit capability?

Apreciate any help given

mfsys25 modular server pbloblem

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:40:10 GMT

we are having intel modular server mf sys25 with module mf5000s1.we are facing trouble while loading win2k3 32bit sp2 on module 1,we used lsi c1064e sas driver ver1.27.03.module is giving dump error when set up is restarting .win2008 is getting installed.

please help us for solving this problem

i have penium 4 3ghz but my pc is very slow

syedzome@yahoo.com — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:24:49 GMT

i have pentium 4 processor 3.0 ghz with 1mb cache,intel d865PERL motherboard,512 mb ram and 7200 rpm hard disk but my computer is too slow...tell me solution how can it will faster

SE7520BD2V Xeon Server

peter.lincoln@openreach.co.uk — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:35:53 GMT

I wish to upgrade the graphics capeability but I am unsure which type of graphics cards I can use, anything from 128mb upwards which type, which slot???????????????????????????

Thanks Pete

Need Recomendation on MotherBoard/CPUs for Lab Virtulization Server

hhinman@awebdomain.com — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:17:30 GMT

I would like to build a server to host Windows Server 2008 (64 Bit) and Hyper-V in a lab environment for staging testing and learning of multiple Microsot technologies (including both 32 bit Windows and 64 bit Windows VMs). This would not be a production server and trying to keep a blanace on cost but also ensure functionality. Seems that I need Dual Quad Core CPUs and as much RAM as possible. The only Dual CPU Intel Motherboard I see that can take 64 Gig of RAM is the S5400SF. Looks like it has 16 banks of Ram that can hold up to 4 gig each.

What is the best CPU to place 2 of in this board from a price performance standpoint? Also curious if any other boards might be recomended for this task? I am not concerned about the footprint - happy to mount in a desktop or tower server case.

I might consider one of the 32 gig max RAM boards as well. Any recomendations?

Thanks,

-Howard

SS4200-E Printer support

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:23:29 GMT

As stated in the release notes the printer support was removed. With Firmware 1.0.8 printer support worked. If you connect the printer under 1.0.8, then update to 1.1.11 printer support is still there. But if you already have 1.1.11 and connect a printer nothing happens...

Why was printer support removed?

Booting fails on an SCB2 board... reports PXE-E61

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:25:50 GMT

The support site http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/se7500cw2/sb/cs-006894.htm says "You need to configure the single device as a master device on the Promise* RAID IDE controller to successfully load the OS drivers" but I am pretty sure I have the drive jumpered as a Master... but I can't find any info on how to configure the Promise* RAID IDE controller. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

SC5400base, S5000PSLSAS and AXX6DRV3GEXP questions

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:05:46 GMT

I have a server with:

SC5400base chassis

S5000PSLSAS Motherboard

4 drive extender hot swap cage AXX4DRV3GEXP

4 seagate cheetah SAS drives

RAID10 using the Embedded Server RAID Technology II

I read in the ESRT II user's guide that there is a maximum of 8 drives and 1 extender. I need to add drives, so I purchased an AXX6DRV3GEXP 6 drive HS cage.

Question: Can I disconnect the 4 drive cage, connect the 6 drive cage and moved the HDD without data loss?

Thanks,

Fred

SS4200-EHW Disk On Module

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:36:09 GMT

is is possible to use a 4gb DOM to boot the OS, then allow the RAID5 array handle only data?

best mobile processor?

tkrudresh@gmail.com — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:16:15 GMT

Hi. i hv show lots of mobile processor in market ,Pentium family, Celeron, Centrino 2, core 2 duo, core duo.. and AMD processor. out of which one is best peformance

in terms of speed, mobililty and power rating .Thanks in advance

EFI Shell will not execute fwpiaupd.efi.

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:57:47 GMT

I've been trying to do a firmware update via the EFI Shell. (DOS is failing too) I can not get the EFI Shell to execute "fwpiaupd.efi". The message is "fwpiaupd is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file". .

For excruciating details see (In the Server Room), "Intel Hot Swap Backplane Controller Firmware Update firmware update crashes with S3200SHC"

Current hardware:

S3200/3210SHC BIOS 47, BMC .31,HSC 2.02 & SDR 13.

Motherboard P/N D86139-204

Bios (American Megatrends) Version 1.17.10.57

EFI Shell Version 1.10 [8192.1] "Current running mode 1.1.2"

Bios has is is set to defaults. Re-loaded BIOS, BMC, SDR.

4GB mem

Xeon 3075 @ 2,66GHz

DVD on Sata Port 5

Floppy.

AXX6DRV3GEXP F/W 2.02

IPMB cable connected to the backplane and to the motherboard's only HSBP Port

2 Power Cables attached to the Backplane

Regards,

Doug

x5540 with 1333Mhz memory

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:29:01 GMT

OK, so we've received some new Workstations that use the x5540 processor and our purchase included 1333Mhz memory. However, after some research it turns out that the 5540 only supports the 10300 memory speeds. Is it possible for us to use the 1333 memory? We will plan on upgrading the processors in the future and were hoping that we could make use of the faster memory speed once the proc. were upgraded. Any thoughts on the possibility of using the 1333 memory with the x5540 processor?

Did you hear about the Cisco UCS extended memory technology ?

drombaut@cisco.com — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:00:43 GMT

Check the 2 pages document attached, and if you have the opportunity to be at the IDF 2009 show in San Francisco, please stop by at our booth (#401) We will be more than happy to show you the Unifided Computing System and answer all your question

S5520SC motherboard is not compatible win7 and win2008r2

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:01:25 GMT

Motherboard: intel_S5520SC * 1
CPU: Xeon E5520 * 2
Memory: South DDR3-1333 2GB ecc-reg * 6
Graphics: Sapphire HD4830 * 1

Install Windows 7 RTM 7600.16385 Ultimate x64, there is a very serious pause, listening to music seemed to have a mixed sound card issued by electric noise.
Motherboard BIOS to the latest S5500.86B.01.00.0038.06012009, open the dual-channel.

1, the default drive, there is a very serious pause (card), pause (card), the issue seemed to have a sound card to listen to music, mixed electrical noise.

2, install the drivers
Graphics 9.9 simplified Chinese version of For Win7/Win7-64 with other low-edition
Version 2.33 sound card For Win7/Win7-64 with other low-edition
Chipset intel_chipset_v9.1.1.1012 and other low-edition

Problems still remain.

3, the installation win2008r2 with win7 Enterprise Edition is the same.

4, for NVIDIA FX580 graphics problems still remain.

Not just what reason?

Estimate may be the reason for multi-core or a motherboard driver problem?
Have been tested, alone is the same cpu, turn off Hyper-Threading, the problem remains.

Eventually, a decision would be the motherboard bios surface larger.

I would like to know if Intel Desktop Board D915GAV is compatible with Dual Core 2.6ghz processor? Plz lemme know!!

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:32:17 GMT

I have D915GAV motherboard and took a dual core 2.6 ghz processor, i wanted to know if its compatible!

Need help with I/O throughput for XEON and 5520 chipset

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:45:26 GMT

Hi everyone,

This is my first post so please take it easy on me!

I am investigating a server purchase for my company which will be used in a simulation environment - the basic requirement is to shift approx 1GB/s from storage to two PCIe (V1) cards. Currently I am looking at a HP ML370 - probably with two X5570 processors, 16GB RAM and a RAID array. My primary concern is whether a single server will have enough CPU umph and IO throughput to handle the job.

I've looked at lots of technical specs for PCIe, QPI etc but can't find any real-world examples which would give me a warm feeling before I start spending the companys money.

Any ideas ?

srombsasfc raid controller raid 5 drive group. why do I show free space?

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:15:53 GMT

I have a raid controller configuration consisting of 5 drives:

drive group 0-Raid1:

virtual drive size 135.973 GB consisting of 2 147GB drives

drive group 1-Raid5:

virtual drive size 135.973 GB consisting of 3 147GB drives

135.973 GB free space

drive group 2-Raid1:

virtual drive size135.973 GB consisting of 2 147GB drives

.... my question is, while i don't know how the drive group 1 is only using 136GB drive space, how can I get that virtual drive in the drive group to use it?

attached is a screenshot in raid web console

S5500BC Fan speed

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:13:53 GMT

I have a new S5500BC in a new SC5650DP chassis.

I am running Win 2008 Server R2.

No matter what, the fans run at full speed.

How do I control the fan speeds?

SS4200-E HD REPLACEMENT PROBLEM

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:20:20 GMT

Hi,

I have replaced a faulty hd in the ss4200 with a new one exactly the same. I got some questions about overwriting the new hd and at the end I have all the leds of the good hds off and one led of the new hd steady amber. I dont know if something is going on and how much do I have to wait for the rebuilding knowing that the size of the disks is 4X750 Gigs and the data used about 400 Gigs. The problem is that at this time the data are unavailable and I dont know if the rebuilding is going on or not. There is not a clear situation about what is going on on the data. Here is a screenshot

I have allready authorized the overwriting and pressed yes on the next screen and ok on the next also and then I returned on this screen. Is this normal?

Is the rebuilding taking place ?

Thank you for your help

Server motherboard and desktop CPU i7 - 920

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:28:42 GMT

Hello,

how about compatability dual CPU server board (e.g. INTEL S5500BC Bluff Creek) and desktop processor i7-920 (http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=37147)?

Same socket but official compatability is only Xeon CPU (it is strange for me)

Thanks a lot, I need build low cost server and this could be the right way

Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection problem

wtersad@yahoo.com — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:04:10 GMT

i was using xp and Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection drivers and also hardware was working great but ... after i installed windows 7 ultimate 32 bit version .. i m not able to use my wireless anymore i installed many drivers from intel's driver support. no any sollution it always gives code 32 eror and it has a yellow exclamation mark on Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection in devices. last driver wich i installed is ICS_s32 and exe too. plss help i need driver wich works in windows 7 ....

SS4200-E external usb disk - cannot write

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:38:46 GMT

We have a SS4200-E machine. I connect an external 1,5TB disk to it (Seagate freeagent) and the ss4200 recognizes it and gives it a folder name (USB_Seagate_FreeAgent). Problem is whatever I try, I cannot write to the external disk, ony read from it, even if a set it (from the admin page) as Not Secured.

I have tried

* setting the folder as Not Secured, still I cannot write to it (it still shows the lock icon even if I set it as Not secured)

* setting it as Secured write and/or Secured read/write with full read/write permissions for any user, still all users are set to Read only. Even the admin.

* creating a new User and giving it write access- still cannot write (i select Read/Write for the user, click Apply but still it says it is set only to "Read")

Any suggestions? What am I doing wrong?

W3570 or W5580

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:34:32 GMT

I have a question about the new processor W3570. I only need a one processor system (1 socket). Now I am not sure if the W5580 has any advantage in comparison to the W3570?

Thanks for your help

Help with FANs in SR1550 Chassis with S5000PAL

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:02:53 GMT

Hello Server Experts!

I have this new system. SR1550 with S5000PAL server board.

I have a SASmidplane with RAID activation key, RAM, and battery.

My problems i that my FANs are running weird. FAN 1 - 4 is running normal But FAN 5 is going at full speed!

Is my FRU flashed wrong or what do i need to fix this?

How can i tell if i have the right versions?

BTW. Is there some kind of tool to check for system updates inside of windows? Right now im using Intel Deployment assisant cd. It says i have the latest firmware. but does this update the RAID on the Midplane?

Thanks!

4-Lane PCI Express slot in S5520SC?

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:53:56 GMT

I have an Intel S5520SC motherboard which has a 4-lane PCI-Express slot. Mechanically it will support an 8-lane PCI-Express card.

If you put an 8-lane card in this slot will the card work? More specifically, will the PCI-Express interface be able to figure out that there are only 4-lanes electrically and just operate at half the throughput of an 8-lane interface?

Presumally Intel put an 8-lane socket there just for this situation, but I wanted to check first before purchasing an 8-lane product and trying it.

Cheers, Eric

Where can I find the Master.cfg file (FRUSDR) for an S5520SC?

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:36:08 GMT

Hello,

I would like to disconnect front FAN in the chassis SC5650WS to reduce noise as I only installed 1 HardDisk and no PCe cards.

Unfortunatly, if I don't connect all FAN on proper motherboard FAN connectors (please, Mr Intel, provides your chassis with FAN with the good connector color. It takes one day to find that the motherboard needs one FAN connected to the blue FAN connector and the otherone to the white FAN connector?!?!?) then all FAN run at full speed.

So, now it is OK; FAN are running a low speed but still too busy for a WorkStation.

If I understand well, BMC need to be reconfigured if we want to change the FAN setup.

I found the frusdr.efi utility but I'm not able to find the master.cfg file to reconfigurate the SDR for the S5520SC motherboard.

Is someone have this file or could tell me how I can do to be able to remove some FAN?

Thanks for your help,

Bertrand

xeon 5410 and s5000vsa motherboard assembly problem

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:25:16 GMT

I just purchased a xeon 5410 processor and a S5000VSA motherboard. When trying to assemble both components I found a problem trying to secure the fan assembly that comes in the 5410 box with the motherboard bracket. The screws on the fan assy do not match the bracket holes! what do I have to do to properly secure the fan assy to the mobo, besides getting some nuts somewhere else to fit the screws? The mobo box does not have any attachment components that can be used.

w5580 vs x5570

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:19:00 GMT

Dear Everyone,

could someone clarify the differences between the two cpu (Intel Xeon W5580 and X5570)? I see that 5570 is a 2.93 GHz cpu and W5580 is a 3.2 GHz, and W5580 has TDP of 130W. But why don't main brand manufacturers include the higher cpu in their systems? I have read in many sites that W5580 is a workstation cpu while 5570 belongs to the server line, but why? What makes a difference?

We're planning to buy a new database server and hesitating between a brand server (with 5570 cpu) and a S*micro assembled server (with 5580 cpu). Would the 5580 server (workstation) better investment or shall we stay at the "official" server line with the lower cpu?

Thanks in advance!

vpro

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:37:45 GMT

Dear all i want to purchase a vpro enable board and processor. please configuration which is easily available in market.

About memory configuration with Xeon 5506

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:17:04 GMT

We are system builders from Santiago Chile, Intel channel member Business ID:#10461610 and recently some clients are asking us about workstations. We`re buying two XEON 5506 along with the board Asus Z8NA-D6C and PNY NVIDIA QUADRO FX 4800

The purpose of this workstation is for rendering and modelling with MAYA and 3DMAX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117186
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131378
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133252

My question is about memory configuration, Its true this processors works with DDR3 800mhz memory modules, but we can not find those frequecies here in the market, only DDR3 1066 and 1333

Can we use this memory pack with the above configuration?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609459

and set the frequency to 800mhz?

What is the best configuration?

Would you be so kind and help me a bit with this dilema?
I would be much appreciated

*
Thank you
Rodrigo Bayer Bachler
Director
mybox.cl
+569 90430230
ventas@mybox.cl

Re: TXT and VT both required for Measured Launch?

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:27:07 GMT

Below is a thread I posted to the VPro forum and have reposted it here, along with Javed's response. My next question is posted beloiw his response.

Thanks,

Noob

>>My Intial Post

Hi Folks,

Excuse my ignorance, but as my username says, I am a somewhat a "noob" to the whole TxT/VT world. Anyway, what I am trying to figure out is, if you just want to have measured launch of a PC do you have to have both TxT and VT-d (Yes, assume the TPM is there)? Or is the VT only needed if you're doing virtualization? Of course, haveing VT-d makes sense if you're doing Virtualization, but I guess my real question is whether or not TxT requires the VT technology no matter your scenario. Say, for instance, an organization only wants to perform remote attestation (using SRTM/DRTM) of a host and doesn't use virtualization at all. I hope that all makes sense. Also, what other chip makers out there are currently supporting Measured Launch? I think AMD's version of VT-d is called IOMMU. Just trying to see who else does this and if there is a standard as well.

Thanks!

Noob :-0

>>Response from Javed:

Hi!

We all were once a noob but then one learns with time :-)

Anyway, coming to your query, first let me brief you a bit on VT-d.

VT-d:

While you are doing Virtualization, the guest OS uses the hardware resources of the server/desktop to run through virtualization. An input/output memory management unit (IOMMU) enables guest virtual machines to directly use peripheral devices, such as ethernet and accelerated graphics cards, through DMA and interrupt remapping. Both AMD and Intel have released specifications. The AMD specification labels this technology "IOMMU" (an acronym for the common name of this form of virtualization) while Intel has called their implementation "Intel's Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O" (VT-d).

Now as for VT-d and TXT relationship:

The TXT is commercially distributed with another technology VT-d. The VT-d provides hardware remote security, protecting hardware, storage and communications, adding another security level against software attacks.

VT-d is an environment model that shares hardware resources using I/O virtualization. This can then allow control over each process's access to resources without using reprobative exclusive access methods.

Then for that matter, is TXT required for Virtualization too?

NO! If TXT is being used with VT-d, it does not mean that TXT is necessarily required for Virtualization cause basically TXT (Trusted Execution Technology) is commonly advertised by Intel as a security technology. TXT is intended to provide users and organizations with a higher level of trust while accessing, modifying or creating sensitive data and code and of course, TPM is required for that matter. This technology could be coupled with VT-d (Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O) designed to backup the TXT outside of the chip, and even outside the Computer itself.

So what do we conclude?

So from the look of it and what I have worked on so far, I surmise that for a measured launch, you would need to enable them both as VT-d works in conjunction with TXT because VT-d would provide hardware remote security adding another level of security against the software attacks unless you opt out otherwise.

Any reference for that matter?

However if you experience something new, please update us on that as well. I would also encourage you to brush through the PDF document at the URL below and for further details, do look into the references provided at the end of that document:

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2382371/Analysis-of-a-Measured-Launch

I have a few documents on this that can actually give you further information on this however respecting the confidentiality of those documents, can not share them but always help you in this regard to resolve any problem or answer any query that you may have

Get back to us if need be

Hope this helps however if you further questions especially regarding this, be sure to post it in our server room section and we'd be glad to help.

Thank you, have a great day!

Warm Regards,

Javed Lodhi

Intel Go Green, Save The Environment!

Thanks Javed!

Ok, so what you're saying is that VT-d does more than just provide protected support for virtualization, and that it provides more security when paired with TxT, correct? In other words, if I am not using virtualization software at all, VT-d is still useful with TxT for a measured launch? Last one: If that is correct, then is that to say that you Can't have a measured launch if you only use TxT?

I also actually have that document you referenced, but did not see the answer I was looking for specifically, which is why I decided to post here. I'll give it another look though.

Thanks again,

Disk off-line on an SSR212MC2R - Problem!

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:00:20 GMT

Dear all,

I'm working on an Intel SSR212MC2R storage system mounting 12 x 2TB WD disks.

Everything seems to work fine but it happens, at least one time a day, that one disk goes off-line. I just put it again on-line and all continues to work fine.

Looking in the logs I've seen that at same moment I've the problem i get this error:

Controller ID: 0 Unexpected sense: PD= Ports 4-7:1:11, CDB = 0x2e 0x00 0xe8 0xe0 0x67 0xcb 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x00 , Sense = 0xf0 0x00 0x03 0xe8 0xe0 0x67 0xcb 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x11 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 .

Another strange thing is that the problem happens during the night, low work level, and it never happens during the working day.

I made all the upgrades.

Thanks in advance.

Christian

S3210SHLC and VMWare Esxi 4?

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:21:46 GMT

Hi,

Has anybody tried the S3210SHLC motherboard with VMware ESXi4. It seems that the 82566DM network card is not supported. But there is contracdictory information about the 82541PI. The VMWare System HCL does not mention it, just the the 82566DM does not work. Yet the IO comapatibility list does not state this controllery (the 82541PI) works with ESXi 4.

So I was curious if anybody has tried it?

Thanks,

Ward.

Atom processor for server solutions?

webadmin@intel.com — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:17:27 GMT

Is the Intel Atom processor suitable for a computer running on windows server 2003? We are running an educational institution and would like to move the existing server pc to a new one which contains Atom processor. And it is told that the computing power of Atom processor is much smaller that it can be compared only to a 1GHz Pentium III processor. Is it true?

HP Ultrium 1760 on Intel Modular Server MFSYS25

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:37:01 GMT

Hello,

We have Symantec BackupExec 12.5 installed on Intel Modular Server MFSYS25 (F/W Ver. 3.0). The operating system is Windows Server 2003 64-bit. The tape drive that we use for backup is "HP StorageWorks Ultrium 1760" and it is connected via SAS port. The tape drives have Symantec Drivers installed. We have all the latest patches and service packs installed for Symantec BackupExec.

We are intermittently getting error while taking backup using Symantec BackupExec. The OS generates Event ID 11 and backup fails. The error source is "LSI_SAS" and the description says "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\RaidPort0".

Does anybody know of this error? Is there any known issue with this?

Thanks in Advance.

Regards,
Denis

Changing RAID on S5000VSA

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:13:10 GMT

I have a S5000VSA mobo that currently has a 250GB SATA drive set at RAID 0 (it's hooked up to the port labeled "RAID 0" on mobo) I would like to add a second 250GB SATA drive to the second RAID connector and start doing RAID 1 for both drives, with my current drive being the primary. Do I have to format the drives and start over or can this be done without changing anything and loosing data? If I can do it, point me to the way please? RAID BIOS or Windows UI?

alternative chassis' than the SC5299-E

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:02:51 GMT

I was wondering if anybody had had any experience of using an alternative to the SC5299-E server chassis? If so, what.

I have a S5000VSA m/b to use and have been looking for suitable chassis'. Intel talk about other third party alternatives but (understandably) give no real info about minimum specs required.

Anybody?

Jaba

s5520sc in a sc5300 chassis?

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:15:45 GMT

I have an extra sc5300 chassis and want to know if it will work with a s5520sc. What would be the limitations. Would the sata drive cage function correctly?

RAID5 AXXRAK18E Key Server Problem

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:27:02 GMT

Hello , we recently boutgh SR2500ALLXR the server. Problem manifested

that our dealer supplieds us with RAID5 AXXRAK18E key only with out

memory MINI-DIMM AXXMINIDIMM module . Is AXXMINIDIMM module

requirment for RAID5 to function propelry on SR2500ALLXR?

The Error that we get is on start up of server LSI Logic controler error on adress 01DH.

Loading MS office when no CD drive

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:24:17 GMT

Dear Intel team

I have bought an Advent 4211, mini notebooks with Intel Aton, 1.6GHz, 80 GB. this has no CD / DVD drive. MS works was included, not sufficient for my needs. Can I load MS office or Office Pro ( presently have 2003 ver). and should I use an external CD drive, or could I copy MS office to a 4GB flash drive and then copy to the Advent. Also I have bought Norton 360 on CD, can I use the flash drive method to copy before using on the internet. Shall be grateful for your advice. Regards. MKaru, London

ICH10R - RAID 5 - Reboot during migration forced a recover?

webadmin@intel.com — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:22:25 GMT

Configured a raid5 of 3x1 TB drives and using it on a Window Server 2008 configured as file server. I copied a total of 1 TB of data on the RAID. Then added a 4th TB driver and modified the RAID at the Storage manager. The storage manager then started a migration (I estimated the migration would take 10 hrs). (tray icon alert).

The server needed to move to a new location so i shut it down (relying on the advanced algorithms allowing for a interruption of the migration) and on power up the volume was invalid and the first 3 drives marked as failed? The context menu allowed me to mark them as normal which i did and then "Recover" became available in the volume context menu. Picked recover and it is now recovering for another 34 hrs. .. sigh ...

I have a couple of questions:

1. Can I expect all my data back in 34 hrs?

2. Why didnt the storage manager just continued the migration?

3. What can I approve in the procedure to prevent this from happening again?

Raid problems on the SR2400

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:45:33 GMT

I have an intel chassi the SR2400 it has the motherboard SE7520JR2

i have connected 2 HDDs 73GB SCSI hotswap to it and configured the hard disks as RAID 1 using the onboard raid controller

the server was working fine for almost 3 years

now one of the hard disks was degraded i replaced the hard disk and waited for it to syncronize

it took a long time and when it was done the hard disk was degraded again

I broke the mirror connected the hard disk to a different bay and configured the mirror again but after the syncronisation the hard disk was degraded again

can anyone please help me with this problem

PS:all the firmware have been updated

Regards

J0hnny

L5520/E5520

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:47:47 GMT

Can anyone tell me wether or not it's possible to mix a L5520 with an E5520 on a single motherboard in a dual-proc server (ML350G6)

We accidentallyordered the wrong kit.

Two years of trouble with S5000PSL

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:48:38 GMT

Two years of trouble with S5000PSL

Problems:

Occasional Crashes: BSOD, hangs, or restarts: most of the time after crash/restart one or more Drive Cages is missing. Need to pull the power-cables. Wait a few minutes. Connect cables, boot and drives are back.

Most of the time No crash information in Windows.

Restart in OS: often one or more Drive Cages are missing (after restart NOT A CRASH). Need to pull the power-cables. Wait a few minutes. Connect cables, boot and drives are back.

RMM2: no remote console posible (Vista/MacOS/XP, can login to RMM2)

RMM2: first page of SEL log not visible

Intel Management: software interferes with windows OS: unable to install and use Intel Management

OS:

Windows Small Business Server 2008 SP1 (64 bit)

Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 SP2 (32 bit) (replaced by SBS 2008)

Hardware (Intel):

Chassis: SC5400LX

Motherboard: S5000PSL

RMM: RMM2

Drive cages: AXX4DRV3GEXP and AXX6DRV3GEXP

Firmware/Drivers:

all components have latest versions

Intel Support:

Dozens of emails: problem still exists

So far I tried:

- Replaced all Harddisks (found several problems with Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA II Disk Drives)

- Replaced Drive Cages's EXP4 and EXP6

- Replaced RAID controller (Intel SRCSAS18E -> Adaptec 5805) (both crash in the same way)

- Replaced OS (new clean installations): before SBS 2003 -> now SBS 2008 (both crash in the same way)

- Replaced RAM

Please help,

Fulco

OS on an SSR212MC2R storage

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:13:04 GMT

Hello, which OS do you suggest to put on an SSR212MC2R storage mounting 12 X 2 TB WD Caviar RE4-GP disks?

Thanks in Advance

Christian

S5500BC won't boot after firmware update

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:44:26 GMT

S5500BC with 2 E5520 Xeons in Intel SC5650BRP chassis. 32 Gbytes memory. SRCSASLS4I RAID. I have 9 of these. After I updated the firmware on the last one to BIOS38, BMC40, ME111, and FRU16 using EFI and a flashdisk, the machine won't boot. It hangs after 5-10 seconds with error code 0&ECh on the board LEDs. User guide doesn't show this error code.

No CPU error lights, no DIMM error lights, power supplies show OK, fans running.

BIOS recovery didn't. Clearing CMOS had no effect.

No video. No keyboard response. Ideas ?????

Machine has been running for 8 weeks prior to the updates. Same updates from same flashdrive running fine on 8 machines.

Solid State upgrades: Is it risky bussiness?

kamalanathan.natesan@intel.com — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:17:09 GMT

http://weblog.infoworld.com/storageadviser/archives/2008/05/ssds_can_be_a_r.html

Link Speed dropped to 10Mbit/s

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:12:34 GMT

I have two S3200 Series boards running windows 2008 X64,

one with two On board NICs one with a single on Board and a Pro/1000 GT Desktop Adapter in it

"Recently" - weeks or a month, the Link speed on all 4 has dropped to 10Mbits/s instead of 1 Gbit/s

other devices (workstations running win7) on the same Hub are working at 1Gb and transfer machine to machine at 4Mb/sec plus
transfer rate server to server and server to workstation maxes out at 1.2Mbytes/sec
Link Speed Settings make no difference
All settings set to defaults
roll back driver makes no difference
Disconnecting the cable brings speed up to 1Gb - on Task Manager and Details pane

I am uncertain if this happend after latest MB chipset update, or what, but that seems to fit timeline.

I am about to install V14.4 drivers

i have mother board no.BTSN60602033 AA C96906-404 CAN U TELL ME ABOUT THE WARRANTY PERIOD

vivekchinna1984@gmail.com — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:41:25 GMT

i have mother board no.BTSN60602033 AA C96906-404 CAN U TELL ME ABOUT THE WARRANTY PERIOD

TSR Caption This 4

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:19:23 GMT

Test your wit by captioning this photo. Every week we will pick the top caption, and the winner will be presented on the Open Port home page!

s3200shv motherboard issues

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:52:50 GMT

Hi,

Recently I purchased the above mentioned motherboard. This is now running in a test environment. I am using the machine to run VMware off of it. I am picking up very strange issues where the network connectivity drops and connects irratically.

I try to remote console on to the servers and it just drops the connections. I go to the server and look at the issues and fo no reason what so ever I see that my domain has dropped off. In the loggs I find that there are connectivity issues orruring check the network cable. My Nortel Switches are running normal and have no comms errors and network is stable.

The Operating system on the server is Windows 2003 Sp2. Running VMware 1.6.2 with one VM Machine on the server. ( Not using any resources) I have noticed that I can not load balance the machine as well.

Event error numbers are:

Applications:

1053 ( Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. (The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted. ). Group Policy processing aborted. )
1030 (Windows cannot query for the list of Group Policy objects. Check the event log for possible messages previously logged by the policy engine that describes the reason for this.)

System:

8021 (The browser service was unable to retrieve a list of servers from the browser master \\IMAINDC on the network \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{DEED3884-19E4-47C7-9990-30A61C670FE7}.

Browser master: \\MAINDC
Network: \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{DEED3884-19E4-47C7-9990-30A61C670FE7}
This event may be caused by a temporary loss of network connectivity. If this message appears again, verify that the server is still connected to the network. The return code is in the Data text box.

8032 (The browser service has failed to retrieve the backup list too many times on transport \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{DEED3884-19E4-47C7-9990-30A61C670FE7}. The backup browser is stopping.)
40960 (The Security System detected an authentication error for the server cifs/<domain Controller.domain name> The failure code from authentication protocol Kerberos was "There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request. (0xc000005e)")
11197 (The system failed to update and remove host (A) resource records (RRs) for network adapter
with settings:
Adapter Name : {DEED3884-19E4-47C7-9990-30A61C670FE7}
Host Name : <machine name>
Primary Domain Suffix : <domain name>
DNS server list :
<DNS1>, <DNS2>
Sent update to server : <?>
IP Address(es) :
<local IP Address> (this is a static address.)
The reason the update request failed was because of a system problem. For specific error code, see the record data displayed below.

The DNS Servers for the rest of the domain have no errors on them and can see the rest of the domain. All other servers are running normally. Can some one shed some light on this for me please.

M/Brd upgrade, Need to do RAID1 without data & OS loss from old drive

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:24:52 GMT

I have recently upgraded a server with the Intel S3200SH motherboard with the X3220 CPU and 4GB memory, I added a Netcomm NIC for the internet connection, the embedded NIC is the LAN. It runs SBS 2003 SP2. I had to back off the drivers in order to take the hard drives across so I could run the system without a re-install. I had to do this as there are many programs that would take over a week or more to have reinstalled by the vendors due to security issues and poor support from those organisations. The customer can not be down for that long. It basically worked but I didn't go to RAID1 as it meant it would delete everything when initialising. The old M/B was an old Intel with embedded Adaptec RAID controller running RAID1. I want to set it up as RAID1 again but do not know how to do this without destroying everything and doing a fresh install of everything.

Can anyone help? The 3 hard drives are all identical WD 250GB, the 3rd is for imaging backups. I can provide more info if required. I have removed many of the ghost drivers now so Adaptec is gone etc. This is generally urgent but it is running Ok for now as a single drive system. Raid1 has already proven its worth when a previous drive failed so I want it back ASAP. Anyone?

regards

Barry

Matrix Storage Manager Log?

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:31:31 GMT

I'm trying to correlate some events that took place on a client's server. One of the events is that one of the drives in their RAID 1 array died. I'd like to know when that actually took place, but I cannot seem to find anything about it in the Windows Event Logs. Is there some other log I might check? Using IMSC 8.6.

FYI, what I'm trying to correlate is whether the failure coincided with the server abruptly powering off, which may explain why there's nothing in the Event Logs.

Thanks,

David

How do I add power suppy sensors to S5520UR SDR?

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:24:04 GMT

I have a system based on S5520UR board with Delta power supplies. The system is not recognized as an Intel chassis when I do frusdr update and when system is running, IPMI does show any PS sensors. I have manuals for Delta PS with all registers listed, how do I make fdrsdr utility add PS sensors so I can use IPMI system to monitor it?

System Health: Degraded - Intel Entry Storage System SS4200-E

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:09:09 GMT

After initial install the system was running and was operational for a week or so. We transferred about 3GB of data on 4 disk array that are installed in our Storage System SS4200-E.

However, after that amber lights started to flash. I went to the Storage manager and wizard poped up, saying that the System cannot be found. I folowed the steps, setting up IP, username and other prefs just like the first time when I installed the system. From there on it went rebuilding the array.

My first question: I didn't react at the time, but looking back I believe that these steps mean that all my data is lost?

The System never really finished rebuilding. At some point it dropped back to 0% and started from scratch. Now, every time a log in Storage manager there is a warning in the Dashboard that System Health is Degraded:

"Data will be unavailable until the file system has been prepared. The file system preparation is 0% complete."

My second question is, what can I do to get my data back? Should I wait for the System to eventually finish rebuilding, should I pull out the discs and try some recovery methods in a PC or something else?

Some info on the current state:

I can ping and access the device in Web Admin only (Storage manager) - I use Intel Entry Storage System on Mac
I haven't pulled out the disc so far
I didn't have any scheduled jobs on the device at any time
I don't have configuration backup
The system is connected to router only, no USB devices attached
This is my first inquiry about the matter to Inter support
Current status of LEDs: 4 lit amber non flashing / at boot there are 4 blue but they turn to amber right away

I realize that my type of discs were not tested by the Intel, but since they are standard 1GB discs I didn't pay attention about that at the time. (taken from ss4200e_thol_14.pdf)

Disk	Size
Disk 1 (ST31000528AS)	931 GB
Disk 2 (ST31000528AS)	931 GB
Disk 3 (ST31000528AS)	931 GB
Disk 4 (ST31000528AS)	931 GB

Data Protection: Parity External Disks: None Connected, Write Caching:Always on

Descriptive Name: EMC Storage Storage Device

Model Name: Intel X86

Serial Number: 00151731E999

Software Version: 1.0.8.29352

Thanks for the answer!

SS-4200-E

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:40:18 GMT

I have a new SS-4200-E that will not boot. I attached 2 new Seagate 1.5 GB sata drives and all I ever got was a flashing power light. After exploring the discussion groups and the web, I have tried the reset button on the unit (the procedure doesn't work as stated, ie flashing lights in unison) and it didn't help the situation. I tried a new single Seagate 500 GB drive, still no luck. When I try the reset button while powering on the unit never flashes power button and HD Leds in unison and the power button stays amber.

Just got back from purchasing a Lacie Big disk network at retail so we can do the project this weekend. No profift this time.

Why Intel xeon 5500 is ideal for cloud computing foundation

kamalanathan.natesan@intel.com — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:52:18 GMT

http://ipip.intel.com/go/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/why-intel-xeon-5500-is-the-ideal-foundation-for-cloud-computing.pdf

Here is the paper that says why intel xeon 5500 is ideal for cloud computing foundation.

Missing Advanced Tab

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:15:36 GMT

I recently purchased an Intel Pro/1000 MT server NIC and installed it on an Intel DG31PR motherboard running Windows Home Server. I went to Intel's website and downloaded and installed the latest drives for the NIC, however no matter what I do I cannot get the advanced TAB to show under the properties for the adapter. Am I missing something or does this card not have any advanced properties?

TSR Caption This 2 (Nov 19 - 26)

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:43:32 GMT

Test your wit by captioning this photo. Every week we will pick the top caption, and the winner will be presented on the Open Port home page!

When will Intel Pro/1000 MT drivers be available for W2k8 Server x64 R2?

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:57:46 GMT

Building several new servers with Windows Server 2008 R2 x64. When will the drivers be available for download?

any help would be appreciated.

thks.

Raid - Media Errors problem

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:57:57 GMT

I have a S5000VSA server running 4HDDs in a RAID 10 configuration;

SATA Slot 0 & 1 are for Span 0

and

SATA Slots 2 & 3 are for Span 1

I noticed the properties of the physical Disks 0 & 1 were showing media errors (and a consistency check shows the same)

There are a 11 in total here is a sample of the events being recorded;

ID = 33
SEQUENCE NUMBER = 36
TIME = 18-09-2009 15:48:06
LOCALIZED MESSAGE = Controller ID: 0 Consistency Check detected uncorrectable multiple medium errors: ( PD 0:1 Location 0x2ef9c5 VD 0)

ID = 32
SEQUENCE NUMBER = 35
TIME = 18-09-2009 15:48:06
LOCALIZED MESSAGE = Controller ID: 0 Consistency Check detected uncorrectable multiple medium errors: ( PD 0 Location 0x2ef9c5 VD 0)

I removed the Slot 0 & 1 drives, replacing them with new ones and let them rebuild. However I am still seeing exactly the same errors on these new ones;

ID = 154
SEQUENCE NUMBER = 182
TIME = 19-09-2009 22:35:11
LOCALIZED MESSAGE = Controller ID: 0 Consistency Check detected uncorrectable multiple medium errors: ( PD 0:1 Location 0x2ef9c5 VD 0)

ID = 153
SEQUENCE NUMBER = 181
TIME = 19-09-2009 22:35:11
LOCALIZED MESSAGE = Controller ID: 0 Consistency Check detected uncorrectable multiple medium errors: ( PD 0 Location 0x2ef9c5 VD 0)

Any ideas what I can do next to correct this?

Thanks for any help

S5000vxn, 2 X E5320 1066 fsb

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:35:02 GMT

I have a S5000xvn board, with 2 E5320 and 8gb FBDIMMS, that will not post, if i use the processors individually the board posts, i have a 1000w coolermaster psu and connected the 24pin,8pin and 4 pin power connectors, do i have a faulty second socket? or am i missing something with the s5000xvn board.

Both chips work fine in my S5000VSA board, together, with the 1000watts psu.

Thanks.

Who has a Facebook account?

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:23:04 GMT

If you do, become a fan of The Server Room.

It's open to all.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Server-Room/8814274474

Which brings up a good question. What do you do on Facebook?

ss4200e boot problem

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:44:00 GMT

I have set up my ss4200e with the latest firmware. It has created a raid 5 and I have copied files to it without problem. However, if I reboot or turn off the ss4200, it never boots up again (I get the flashing power light). I have to press the reset button while also pressing the power button to get it to boot properly (I have read that this makes the ss4200 boot from the DOM and not the sata drives. However, once it is set up with the raid 5, surely it should boot from the DOM anyway). Hope someone can throw some light on this.

Thanking you

Dobberdog

SE7520BD2 and VT

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:28:39 GMT

Hello!

I would like to use a old server with the SE7520BD2 motherboard and run Windows 2008 Server with Hyper-V.

I have downloaded the latest bios (v. 9) but I cannot seem to find the option to enable Intel VT.

Will there be an update for this or is it impossible. I have CPU's in the machine that support Intel VT.

Regards

Mats Eriksson

Intel S5000 VSA with BIOS-Problem

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:16:08 GMT

Hi,

i bought on the free market an Intel Server-Board S5000 VSA and by the fact that the CPU´s of the 5000, 5100, 5200, 5300 and 5400-Seriens

are working with that board i also bought the E5310 Quad-Core-CPU and DDR2-RAM (4 x 1 GB, fully buffered, HYS72t128420EFD-3S-B2 from Quimonda).

As Power Suppy i use the 550 W from Be Quiet.

On the first run the components were completed on the board, but not in a chassis.

The board starts, but the CPU was not known correcty. This fact is a result of an older BIOS-Version of the board (before 66B). So i need to update the

BIOS-version of the board. The IDA-Program will run with that hardware-combination but with indifferent time the board crashes.

So i take a INTEL DUAL-Core E5140 CPU to flash the BIOS to a newer version. Thats the point of my Problem. When i install the "new" CPU i made a

CMOS-Reset to identify the CPU by the board. After that CMOS-Reset i have no possibility to get into the BIOS-Setup by using "F2". The board identifies

no PATA-CD-ROM and no USB-Stick for the boot-process so that the board wants to start with BOOT-ROM.

I talked with different distributors of INTEL and the CMOS is very often resetted, but the problem that i can´t get into BIOS-Setup is not solved.

INTEL himself will not help me directly because of the fact that i´m a private person and the distributors have no ideas.

What can i do??

Server board SE7501BR2 and 320GB IDE HD

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:30:11 GMT

I have a Server board SE7501BR2

Is it possible to install windows server 2003 in a 320GB IDE Maxtor HD

I want to use the server but I have not been able to make the disk to be recognized
the buss only see the CD ROM, when I connect the HD both dissapear. I have also put the HD
in the Secondary IDE bus but the board does not recognize it.

Any help will be apreciated.

What's these pins used for?

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:17:06 GMT

Of the new Tylersburg IOH, there are some pins called QPI{0/1}VRMVREF, QPI{0/1}RXBG[1:0], QPI{0/1}TXBG[1:0]. I cannot find detail description about them in EDS of Tylersburg. Is there anyone who can explain for me? Thank you!

I purchased a compaq 7500 computer from a garage sale and want to install audio however I am told I need to know the com BIOS. I have no way of getting this info. Is there a way to bypass this or to reset the password?

webadmin@intel.com — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:33:18 GMT

I need to find out how to do this because I can't afford to purchase items to do this for me. My computer already has the audio sound card in it. It did when I got it, I had a tech. work on my puter to remove last persons info and he wiped the harddrive clean. He tells me that I can't use the audio card because we can't figure out the password.

EFI OS installation in GPT partition

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Hi all,

I created a GPT partition in the server, however the installation of the OS is not working (Windows 2008 X64 Enterprise).

I could create the three different volumes required for the installation, as well I can get into the EFI Shell but when I browse to the EFI folder of my Windows disk it does not run the BOOTX64.EFI, it gives an error "Command is not recognized".

The only problem I had when creating the partitions was when using the diskpart.efi because the 64 bits version did not work, I do not know if it might be related but that is about it.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Regards.

Innovating the thermal management of high density servers

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:33:37 GMT

See Blog entry http://communities.intel.com/openport/blogs/datacenter/2008/09/22/innovating-the-thermal-management-of-high-density-servers

My S5520SC is a brick - again!

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:38:02 GMT

Can someone please tell me what to check next.

I've had my S5520SC system working, on and off, for a week now. Today it turned into a brick again.

I was running the Intel RAID Web Console 2 application, and it was merrily initializing one of the volumes I created. After about 40 minutes I came back to check on things; the display was blank, and the fan on the graphics card was on full (something it's never done before). I turned off the system and when I turn it on the POST LEDs do not even light up, and the graphics card fan stays on high.

During a normal POST the graphics card fan goes to high for a second, then switches to low. I cannot tell if this is a graphics card problem or something on the S5520SC, but the fact that the POST LEDs do not even light up indicates it is something very serious.

Could someone please tell me what I can do next?

Cheers, Eric

Cannot Find Server or DNS Error

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:20:08 GMT

I am look for some help with an error I am getting on my Dell Laptop with Intel Core2 Duo. I use my computer from home connecting to a wireless connection without trouble, then yesterday and today I have not had any luck. I get the "Cannot Find Server or DNS Error and can't fifure out why. I have checked my connections, they all show "connected" I am getting frustrated. Any help you can provide will be appreciated.

Management software for single server based on S3200SH?

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:14:34 GMT

Software included with board is ISM ver 2. Would like to install the simplest software set to monitor this server's hardware. Install CD points toward instaling Microsoft System Center Essentials, which appears to me to be overkill(?).

Is there a new version that would give me just the local agent and a console to see the monitored items? Thank you!

HI

rajathulasi@gmail.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:25:38 GMT

I have a S5000VSA Mb with 3 sata 500gb HDD, I want to configure this 3 hdd as a RAID, Please give the steps to configure and installation steps for fedora

S3210SHLC Won't power

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:40:13 GMT

This my 2nd board and I still am not able to get the board to power on. I'm using an S3210SHLC board with an X3330 CPU and Crucial CT2KIT25664AA667 RAM. I've tried 2 power supplies with no difference.The board lights up but does not power on at all and never has. Reseated everything and all the typical troubleshooting steps.

Does anyone have some suggestion on what to try next?

SRCSATAWB Drive change and Web console Problems

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:57:36 GMT

Hi People,

I am running the SRCSATAWB card on the snow hill platform with 3 drives configured as Raid 5.

First of all, I've installed Web console 2 version 3.04.0500 (win2k8 x64 running), and it is generating event logs and if something goes wrong I get the messageboxes popping up on the screen, but when I load up web console, I just don't see any "servers" in the list... it's like it's not picking up... I've uninstalled and reinstalled 2 times, but still same problem... any ideas what I can do?

Second, We had a drive failure yesterday (all 3 drives are 750GB sata), when we bought a new drive, they didn't have any 750, so we had to go 1TB. So I removed the old drive which was faulty, and replaced with the 1TB. so the old one's status said "missing", so in the raid bios the new drive showed "UNCONF BAD" ... so I set it to "UNCONF GOOD" and then "REBUILD" ... then it started rebuilding but after a while (probably 15 minutes and before it even got to 1%) it almost seems like it resets, cause it just shows that the previous drive is missing again, it's like it lost the config or any sense that there's a new drive in. Then when I select "Scan devices" then it shows up again as "UNCONF BAD"

any Idea how I can resolve this?

W3570 and 1333 DIMM

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:44:33 GMT

The W3570 processor has 3 memory channels. As understand the documentation, for optimal performance I should only use one dimm per channel to run it with 1333 Mhz. If I would use two dimms, the frequency would be reduced to 1067 Mhz. In other words, if more than three dimms will be used, it is cheaper to buy the slower 1067 Mhz dimms?

Thanks for your help

Intel Modular Server shows all drives twice

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:23:49 GMT

Hi there

Just installed our first IMS, and activated the shared LUN add-on. I've created some 40GB partitions for the OS and the remainig 1.6TB I want shared between all servers.

When I look in disk manager though, it shows 2 40GB drives and 2 1.6TB drives. If I look at the properties of the disks they are all called "Intel Multi-Flux SCSI drive" but they have the same name Bus Number and Target ID, but two LUNs, ie.e

Bus Number 0, Taget ID 10, LUN 0

Bus Number 0, Taget ID 10, LUN 1

Not sure why that is happening, but it also shows the doubled drives during the build of the OS when you chose where to install to.

Any ideas what I've done wrong?

Cheers

Capable of the Procesor E5430 for Virtualization with Hyper V

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:22:31 GMT

E5430

45 nm

12MB

2.66 GHz

1333 MHz

80W

We adquire a Machine with Processor E5430, and we need install in that machine with the followings features: Windows Server 2008 in 64 bits and install Virtualization with Hyper V, to manage a Virtual Server in Windows 2003 in 32 bits.

Question

This processor have de capabilty to manage Virtualization Hyper V or we need other reference?

Thanks

Jaime O Pardo

Intel adapter teaming Config problem with WMI

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:17:06 GMT

Hello,

I have a problem with teaming configurationn of Intel Pro/1000 PT QUad port LP server adapter.
I am able to create the teaming using the script under the C:\Program Files\Intel\NCS2\Scripts\
However,Each time After the system idle for about 10min,
The script no longer able to query the teaming information and i need to reboot the server to make it work again.
I am wondering it is the WMI provider problem
Is there any idea on how to resolve this problem?

I am using the installer PROEM64T.exe v 4.0.100.1124

Regards
Alan Jim

Need help to choose a right hardware for lab

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:52:20 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to build an entry level server system at lower cost to host my VMWare based labs. What I need is two processors support and memory support upto 32GB. The motherboard should be capable of supporting Intel VT. I dont want to invest more in it so I am wondering if someone of you can walk me through right choice for a virtual lab environment. Particulary, to reduce cost I am looking for a board which should not require ECC memory compulsorily. Any walk through or a recommended configuration would be greatly appreciated. I am open for a workstation configuration as well.

Thanks in advance.

Intel S5000XVN board - how to populate memory slots optimally

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:46:00 GMT

Hello. I have an Intel S5000XVN board with 4 DIMMs of 1GB of memory and I want to replace these DIMMs with 4 DIMMs of 4GB or 8 DIMMs of 2GB so I can have 16GB of memory. I want to know how to best populate the memory slots so as to get the best performance. Is it better to get 8 DIMMs of 2GB or 4 DIMMs of 4GB? Does this make a difference in performance?

Thank you.

Setting up SCS with a Certificate for Remote Configuration

gibbowork@gmail.com — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:18:50 GMT

Hi,

Was wondering if anybody has gone through the process of obtaining a certificate, for Remote configuration.

The machines that I have have the following AMT certificates

Verisign Class 3 Primary CA-C1

742C-3192-E607-E424-EB45-4954-2BE1-BBC5-3E61-74E2

Verisign Class 3 Primary CA-G3

132D-0D45-534B-6997-CDB2-D5C3-39E2-5576-609B-5CC6

Go Daddy Class 2 CA

2796-BAE6-3F18-01E2-7726-1BA0-D777-7002-82F20-EEE4

StarField Class 2 CA

AD7E-1C28-B064-EF8F-6003-4020-14C3-D0E3-370E-B58A

After looking at the costs, I thought that I would try and use a GoDaddy Certificate as they are lot less than the verisign certificates.

But I can't see how to go about it.. Anybody got any experiences or ideas?

Many thanks

Gibbo

Nehalem vs memory set up: speed or capacity?

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:39:18 GMT

Nehalem has 3 channels and I'm sure by now, most people would know the following facts about QPI performance:

a.6.4GT/s (DDR3-1333Mhz) for 1 DIMM per channel

b.5.86GT/s (DDR3-1066Mhz) for 2 DIMMs per channel

c.4.8GT/s (DDR3-800Mhz) for 3 DIMMs per channel

8GB DDR3-1333Mhz DIMM is extremely rare and so much more expensive than 4GB DDR3 at the moment.

So which one would give better performance? Let's cap the capacity at 24GB:

1x W3570 3.2Ghz 6.4GT/s + 6x4GB DDR3-1066Mhz (2 DIMMs per channel)

2x X5550 2.66Ghz 6.4GT/s + 6x4GB DDR3-1333Mhz (1 DIMM per channel x 2 processors)

2x X5540 2.53Ghz 5.86GT/s + 12x2GB DDR-1066Mhz (2 DIMMs per channel x 2 processors)

or some other 3 DIMMs per channel with slower processors combination.

Among processor speed, QPI speed & memory capacity, which is the most important factor? Under similar cost comparison?

Would getting bigger capacity DIMM, adding more DIMM modules or upgrading to faster CPU/RAM more cost effective to achieve better performance in the future upgrade within a server?

Submit your favorite tech blog

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:29:47 GMT

Know of a good technology blog? Let us know and we’ll create an ongoing list of relevant and interesting blogs.

S3000AH LSI Raid controller model - firmware

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:06:20 GMT

Hi there,

Does anybody know which LSI Embedded chip model sits on this Motherboard? I tried everywhere.

I'm wondering about this link:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?ProductID=2305&DwnldID=15521&lang=eng

From release notes:

Supported LSI® add-in SAS adapters:
- LSISAS3041e-R, LSISAS3041x-R, LSISAS3081e-R, LSISAS3442e-R, LSISAS3442x-R, LSISAS3081e-R, LSISAS3081x-R
These images/updates are provided so these adapters can be easily updated on EPSD systems using efi with the same revisions supported for EPSD onboard components. However, the latest/tested FW/OpROM images are available from http://www.lsi.com.

It makes me wonder if can I try lsi.com, but I dont have a clue about which on is, like LSISASXXXXXX.

Thanks for any help

Norenberg

64 bit OS support of rIntel Xeon 3.066/533 Mhz

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:08:16 GMT

Good day. I have a Dell 2650 with two Intel Xeon 3.066/533 Mhz processors.

Just wanted to know if these processors support 64 bit operating systems?

Thank you very much.

Trying to get s3210shlc Intel RAID running under W2003R2 (SP2) latest drivers

metcalfc@mogroup.com — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:36:59 GMT

Could not get W2003R2 OS installed using F6 with Intel supplied drivers for MB using Intel RAID 1 setup with two SATA drives. Finally got a file called "iastore.sys" from Vendor tech support dated October 2007 for Intel Matrix storage manager and it installed fine and OS installed fine using this driver for the RAID array. When attempting to update this driver set with the latest Intel drivers for this server board contained in the download file: ESRT2_Windows_v.13.10.0708.2009.zip, the system will not boot after update following update after installed OS procedure in file. F8 and restore last version worked I am back up again.This board runs fine under W2008 but Problem :I use this server board quite often to build entry level W2K3/W2008 servers and would like to run the latest drivers with system tray icon, etc. to be able to check array(s) without reboot on W2003 server.

Any help would be appreciated.

technical specification of SR5299

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:31:38 GMT

hello,
I,m looking for technical specification of SR5299 server

Our 1st Beijing IDF 2009 video

allyson.klein@intel.com — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:43:04 GMT

As I mentioned in my first post on IDF, I'll be sharing some video of the event highlights over the next few weeks. This first video captures an overview of the event and I think does an excellent job showcasing both the energy of the event and the vitality of China's computing industry. For those of you who don't think about China often, just consider Craig Barrett's comment that by 2011 or 2012 China is forecasted to be the largest computing market in the world and you get a sense of the opportunity repsented in focused innovation coming out of this geography. Take a look.

LGA775: Xeon and C2D - differences?

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:40:11 GMT

hi guys,

i´m referring to the following CPUs: Intel Xeon E3110 and Intel C2D E8400 for instance, both LGA775 CPUs

Xeon E3110 don´t have "Intel Trusted Execution Technology" and "Intel Stable Image Platform" as the E8400, are there any other

differences between those CPUs?

i´m looking for a new CPU for my home fileserver, running 24/7 so i´m wondering if they´re running equally stable?

thanks a lot for your help

reinstalling audio drivers

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:21:53 GMT

hi.

ever since i reformated my comp .. have been experience problem with the audio. i have to keep re installing the audio drivers .. but works for fine for some time .. but again the problem occurs.. how do i fix it

thanks .

Management software for single server based on S3200SH?

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:48:56 GMT

Sorry to duplicate this question I posted in another discussion area; I did not see this section before posting there.

Is there a new version that would give me just the local agent and a console to see the monitored items? Thank you!

2 hopefully simple S5520SC questions.

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:17:30 GMT

So i will say this firstly. This is my first intel server and im using it as a desktop in my home.

My first question is how do i moniter the temps? Intel active system console wants a login and password. What i set during the install of the program doesnt work and i havent set any other login or password. Is there a default setup i must use?

Also my second question is beep codes. The first 2 days i got 4 beeps at post. Updated from bios v32 to v38. Now i get a beep beep beep boop. Still giving a code 4 with no pauses but the 4th of the beeps is low pitched.

Hopefully you guys can help me out pretty quick. Ive pulled the large turbo fans and replaced with more quiet 75cfm 120mm fans because the case fans wouldnt automaticly spin down in speed. Only the cpu fans.

Has anyone tried SUCCESSFULLY to add the SS4200-E into a SBS2008 AD?

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:53:07 GMT

According with the official docs SBS2008 is not supported as an AD Domain Controller and when I try it just get an error that I cannot join the domain

Throw out the old servers, in your datacenter to buy new ones? … Why? …not?

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:34:46 GMT

Here is Werner Schueler, Germany, focusing on the enterprise market since about 15 years as an IT project manager for a large car manufacturer in Stuttgart and now for Intel. - I'd like to get your opinion on why and when I should replace servers in the datacenter, or better why shouldn't I?

The following aspects might play a role, and are definitely worth a consideration:

Space - About 66% of the UK datacenters Symantec study are bound to run out of space between now and the next 2 years. Why not build a new datacenter?
Power - Do new servers generally consume less power, or do I run out of power before running out of space?
Age of system - Does that really matter? If the Old server does the job?
Age of software - Maybe that's more relevant, as new releases provide more functionality and also more protection.
Costs - There is the price of the new server, but is that all which has to be taken into account?

Essentially Total Costs of Ownership or TCO is all it boils down to, where not only Capital Expenditures (Cost of hardware) but also operational expenditure (including the monthly power bill) have to be taken into account. So let's look at some of the factors. And evaluate them.

Does Virtualization bring a reason by itself to drive a datacenter refresh as VMware suggests? Using virtualization in combination of server consolidation with the utilization of more performing hardware, using the same or a smaller power envelope is generally the key to drive the costs of operations down.

Let's look at space constraints in the datacenter. Symantec suggest to use better the existing space in the datacenter, e.g. fill up half empty racks. At the end of the day, this will postpone the problem. And often space goes hand in hand with cooling capacities, which might be reached earlier. So what do I do if I run out of space in the datacenter?

ARGH SC5299WS and S3200SHV Issue

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:02:08 GMT

First, I know they are incompatible. I did not know that when I ordered them. I figured that all BRP cases were the same.

Is there any way I can trick the fans into thinking it is the correct case? When I run the FRU, no matter which case I pick the fans still run full blast. If I choose "other" case and specify the fans I have installed, they still run on high.

Has anyone ever got a server board and incompatible motherboard to work at normal fan speed?

AXX6DRV3GEXP Firmware V2.12 reports 1.5Gb/s

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:31:11 GMT

I posted earlier regarding the AXX6DRV3GEXP asking if supported 3Gb/s transfer rates. I finally found documentation states the AXX6DRV3GEXP and the AXX6DRV3G support both 1.5Gb/s and 3Gb/s transfer rates

I recently updated the firmware on AXX6DRV3GEXP from v2.09 to v2.12. Before v2.12, the AXX6DRV3GEXP reported back to the Adaptec 3405 3Gb/s, now it reports 1.5Gb/s. I don't know if this is a false read since I don't have any previous transfer rate performance test. If possible, I don't want to roll back firmware on a production server to do transfer rate tests. The current config is a 4 drive raid 10.

Problems booting from EFI

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:25:50 GMT

Hello, I have a Intel S5000PSL server board. It has a onboard RAID running volume of 3TB. I want to install Windows Enterprise 2008. To get this installation started and from all the doco I have read, I need to start the Windows install via the EFI shell.

The system boots into EFI and it can see the DVD (which is a Windows 2008 x64 Enterprise installation DVD from the Microsoft Heroes Happen function in 2008)

I run the following commands:

cd EFI

cd BOOT

BOOTX64.EFI

after about 20 seconds, I get:

BOOTX64.EFI is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

A directory listing shows the bootx64.efi file has a size of 345, 008

the ver command returns the following:

EFI Spec... :1.10

EFI Vendor :INTEL

EFI Revision: 8192.1

BIOS is at 96

BMC is at 64

FRUSDR is at 46

Why won't this system read the bootx64.efi file? Am I doing something fundementally wrong?

Rackable System CEO Blog: "A Solid State of the Union"

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:53:43 GMT

Check out this interesting blog from Mark Barrenechea, President and CEO of Rackable Systems: http://ceoblog.rackable.com/

What are your thoughts on SSD in the Enterprise Datacenter?

server board & processor

m.a.rajkumar2008@gmail.com — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:22:13 GMT

i want to assemble my personal system what ill b d good combination in server category can u suggest me.

e5410a & s5000vsa

SRCSAS18E Raid Controller and ESXi

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:50:06 GMT

Hi,

I have to run an SRCSAS18E raid controller at a VMWare ESXi box. I updated the firmware some days ago to mt33 (1.12.170-0471). Which was the last on the intel website. There is a RAID5 array assigned with four 300GB SAS Seagate harddrives. Now i have to add an additional RAID1 mirror with two 1TB SATA Seagate harddrives.

How to implement that in a proper way? Actualy, I can't choose the array in the BIOS. Also I don't know a way to install Intels Web Raid Consolle2 inside an ESXi box. I would appreciate some help.

thank you and regards

Mirko from Germany

S5000PAL Memory Configuration

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:22:59 GMT

Hi all,

We have got the S5000PAL in one of our servers. When we bought it, we populated it with 4x 1GB Dimms, which of course gave us 4GB of total system memory. We have now decided on upgrading this server gradually by starting out buying 4x 2GB modules, which should give us 12GB, and then replacing the 4x 1GB modules with 2GB modules as well, which in the end will give us 16.

Now the current config is as follows:

Module A1: 1GB Module

Module B1: 1GB Module

Module A2: 1GB Module

Module B2: 1GB Module

Module C1: 2GB Module

Module D1: 2GB Module

Module C2: 2GB Module

Module D2: 2GB Module

so, this population looks correct to me... but the server is only reporting 8GB, not 12... it's like it's disregarding the 1GB modules. All the modules are same speed, same size etc (1GB module group same, 2GB module group same)....

Any idea what I am missing?

Thanks alot for your help in advance.

I/O Bandwidth Capacity?

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:50:29 GMT

How do I determine the I/O bandwidth capacity of a configuration like the one Bhaskar described in his demo for 1 million IOPS? Using 4K blocks, it looks like he achieved 4GB/sec or about 50% PCe 2.0 1x16 would give 16*500MB/sec or 8GB theoretical. Ignoring the OS impact, am I correct in believing that his config is limited to 8GB/sec?

Thanks,

Dave

X7400 series or X5400 series CPU for SQL Server

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:32:31 GMT

Herveello, we will buy a new low cost database server for our web based application system. The database is MS SQL 2008 Server Standard Edition. From which configuration should i wait better performance results?

HP DL380 G5 server with 2 pcs of X5470 processors (3,33 GHz, 4 cores, 1333 MHz / 12 MByte cache) or from

HP DL580 G5 server with 2 pcs of X7460 processors (2,66 GHz, 6 cores, 1066 MHz / 16 MByte cache)

(please note i can't buy G6 servers. The Amount of the RAMs will be same (32 GByte).

I can't decide. The first configuration is cheaper, but the second gives me the possibility to add later additional cpu-s to the two free sockets.

Thanks the help in advance.

Erik

CAN I USE W3520 ON AN S5520HC?

ordenata@ordenata.com — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:30:43 GMT

CAN I USE W3520 ON AN S5520HC?

Blinking amber LED on a s5520sc

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:12:47 GMT

I have a new build s5520sc mb in an intel chassis runining xp x64 sp2. The system status led blinks amber very early in the boot sequence, before windows begins to load. How can I determine the cause? Everything seems to work ok. I have substituted the standard chassis fans for noctura low noise ones; otherwise, everything is standard.

What's the closest thing to a Skulltrail II?

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:51:53 GMT

So ever since the Xeon 5500's were announced I've been waiting to see if there will be an "enthusiast" class 5500 board - aka Skulltrail II

I've hear various rumors that there is a Skulltrail II in the works, and other rumors that Intel claims there will not be a Skulltrail II, so I don't know what to believe. I've been looking at all the various 5500 boards, in particular the "workstation" class boards, but nothing really seems to fit what I'm looking for.

The Intel S5520SC comes close to what I want, and I'm wondering if that's the closest to a Skulltrail II we're going to see? In particular the BIOS does not seem to have any capability for overclocking. It may also be that the board itself is not suitable for overclocking. Some questions:

Can this board be overclocked? If not in the BIOS, via an OS application?
The board is an EEB SSI form factor. Will it fit in a standard EATX case? Are the holes for the standoffs compatible? Are there any issues with the power connectors? Are there any other issues to worry about?

Can anyone recommend any other motherboards suitable for a 5500 dual processor configuration and enthusiast class usage?

The case I'm thinking of using is http://www.coolitsystems.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=5

Cheers, Eric

TSR Caption This 1

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:19:15 GMT

Test your wit by captioning this photo. Every week we will pick the top five and then let you, the Intel community, choose the winner. Winning caption will be presented on the Open Port front page!

Good luck!

Parallels has finally released its own hypervisor "PARALLELS SERVER 1.0"

kamalanathan.natesan@intel.com — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:20:06 GMT

Parallels, formerly known as SWsoft, has finally released its own hypervisor.

Parallels Server 1.0 is the first server virtualization platform able to officially support Apple machines (both Xserve and Mac Pro) as bare-metal hardware and Mac OS X 10.5 Server as guest operating system.

The product, which requires Intel VT and AMD-V CPU enhancements, features:

 support for 32bit and 64bit VMs

 support for up to 4 virtual CPUs per VM

 support for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X (only on Apple hardware) guest operating systems

 support for up to 32GB of physical RAM

 a management console and CLI which can be scripted and extended through Python

This version is priced $999 for an unlimited number of cores.

Source: http://www.virtualization.info/2008/06/release-parallels-server-10.html