Advanced Setup, Memory Settings, CPU Options

If you enable the boot fail count, the BIOS default settings will be restored after three consecutive failures to find a boot record.

You can enable a virus-detection test that checks for changes in the boot record when the blade server starts.

This choice is on the full Configuration/Setup menu only.

•Advanced Setup

Select this choice to change settings for advanced hardware features.

Important: The blade server might malfunction if these options are incorrectly configured. Follow the instructions on the screen carefully.

—Memory Settings

Select this choice to manually enable a pair of memory DIMMs.

If a memory error is detected during POST or during memory configuration, the blade server automatically disables the failing pair of memory connectors and continues operating with reduced memory. After the problem is corrected, you must enable the memory connectors. Use the arrow keys to highlight the rows representing the pair that you want to enable; then use the arrow keys to select Enable.

To maintain optimum system operation in the event of a memory failure, you can set the Memory Configuration for memory Mirroring or Sparing. Memory mirroring stores duplicate data on two DIMMs to prevent data loss if a DIMM fails. Memory sparing removes the failed memory from the system configuration and activtes a Hot Spare Memory pair of DIMMs to replace the failed pair of DIMMs. Before you can enable memory mirroring or sparing, at least two pairs of DIMMs must be installed in the blade server. These pairs must adhere to the special requirements described in “Installing memory modules” on page 23.

—CPU Options

Select this choice to disable the processor cache or to set the processor cache to use the write-back or the write-through method. Write-back caching generally provides better system performance

You can also select this choice to enable or disable hyper-threading and adjust the processor performance settings. If enabled, hyper-threading will only be active if it is supported by the operating system.

—PCI Bus Control

Select this choice to view and set interrupts for PCI devices and to configure the master latency timer value for the blade server.

—Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) Settings

Select this choice to enable or disable the Reboot on System NMI option on the menu. If you enable this option, the blade server will automatically restart 60 seconds after the service processor issues a nonmaskable interrupt (NMI) to the blade server. You can also select this choice to enable or disable and set the time-outs for the POST and OS loader watchdog timers and view BMC version information.

–BMC Network Configuration

Select this choice to set the network addresses of the BMC.

–BMC System Event Log

Select this choice to view and clear BMC event log entries.