Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4

BIOS User Interface

Table 67. Configure System RAS and Performance Menu

Setup Item

Option

Default

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Comment

Hardware

Enabled/

Enabled

If enabled, memory will

 

Memory Test

Disabled

 

be tested using

 

 

 

 

hardware based

 

 

 

 

engines on each board.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Patrol Scrub

Enabled/

Enabled

Enable hardware patrol

Patrol Scrub

 

Disabled

 

scrub to clean

 

 

 

 

correctable errors.

 

Retest All

Enabled/

Disabled

If enabled, retests all

 

System

Disabled

 

memory in the system

 

Memory

 

 

(including disabled

 

 

 

 

DIMMs) and enables

 

 

 

 

memory which passes

 

 

 

 

the test. This option

 

 

 

 

resets to Disabled after

 

 

 

 

the test has run.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sparing

1-15

15

Set the number of

 

Threshold

 

 

correctable errors that

 

 

 

 

can be logged in a

 

 

 

 

period before sparing

 

 

 

 

occurs. Period is 12 or

 

 

 

 

16 days depending on

 

 

 

 

DDR Technology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

RAID Upgrade

Disabled,

Disabled

Size of reserved gap on

 

Gap

512MB, 1024

 

each Memory Board for

 

 

MB, 1536MB,

 

RAID memory capacity

 

 

2048MB,

 

addition.

 

 

2560MB,

 

 

 

 

3072MB,

 

 

 

 

3584MB,

 

 

 

 

4096MB

 

 

 

Desired

Max

Max

Select a new memory

 

Memory

Performance/

Performance

configuration, then

 

Configuration

Max

 

select View

 

 

 

Configuration Details to

 

 

Compatibility/

 

 

 

 

see the configuration.

 

 

Mirror

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RAID

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View

N/A

N/A

Select this to view

Link to Setup

Configuration

 

 

Memory Configuration

Utility\Memory\Configur

Details

 

 

Details page.

e System RAS and

 

 

 

 

Performance\View

 

 

 

 

Memory Configuration

 

 

 

 

Details

 

 

 

 

 

Set Memory

Yes/No

Yes

This will enable or

 

Hotplug in

 

 

disable hot-pluggable

 

SRAT table

 

 

flag in Resource Affinity

 

 

 

 

Table for memory

 

 

 

 

region above 4GB.

 

 

 

 

Setting to No may

 

 

 

 

disable memory capcity

 

 

 

 

add or remove under

 

 

 

 

some OS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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