Intel S5500BCR User Manuals

Table of Contents

• Introduction

  1
• Server Board Use Disclaimer

  1
• Product Overview

  2
• Feature Set

  2
• Table 1: Feature Description

  2
• Server Board Layout

  4
• Server Board Connector and Component Layout

  4
• Figure 1. Intel® Server Board S5500BC Picture

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• Server Board Mechanical Drawing

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• Figure 3. Key Connector and LED Indicator Identification

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• Figure 5. Major Connector Pin-1 Locations

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• Figure 7. Intel® Server Board S5500BC Board Primary Side Card-Side Keepout Zone

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• Figure 9. Secondary Side Keepout - CPU Socket and Rubber Pad Keepout

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• Intel® Light-Guided Diagnostic LED Locations

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• Table 3. Intel® Light-Guided Diagnostic LED reference

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• External I/O Connector Locations

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• Figure 11. External I/O Layout

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• Functional Architecture

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• Processor Subsystem

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• Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (QPI)

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• Table 5. Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series Feature Set Overview

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• Processor Population Rules

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• Figure 13. Intel® IOH 5500 Chipset with Intel® QuickPath Interconnect Block Diagram

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• Multiple Processor Initialization

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• Turbo Mode

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• Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT)

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• Enhanced Intel® SpeedStep® Technology (EIST)

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• Core Multi-Processing

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• Independent Loading Mechanism (ILM) Back Plate Design Support

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• Memory Subsystem

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• Supported Memory

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• Table 7. Supported DDR3 Memory

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• Memory Modules

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• Low Voltage 1.35V Memory Modules

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• DIMM Population Requirements

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• Figure 15. DIMM Organization

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• Memory Upgrade Guidelines

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• Memory RAS Features

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• Channel Mirroring Mode

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• Demand and Patrol Scrub

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• Intel® I/O Hub (IOH) 5500 chipset

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• PCI Express* Gen 2

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• Enterprise South Bridge Interface (ESI) Features

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• Controller Link (M-Link)

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• Management Engine (ME)

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• Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (Intel® VT-d) (rev. 2)

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• Intel® 82801Jx I/O Controller Hub (ICH10R)

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• PCI and PCI Express* Interfaces

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• Serial ATA II Interface

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• Software RAID Support

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• Low Pin Count Interface (LPC)

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• Serial Bus (USB) Controller

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• Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)

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• General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO)

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• Enhanced Power Management

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• System Management Interface

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• Real Time Clock (RTC)

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• Manageability

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• Unsupported Intel® ICH10R Interfaces

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• Network Interface Controller (NIC)

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• Intel® 82574L GbE PCI-E Network Controller

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• Table 12. NIC Status LED

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• Intel® 82567 Gigabit Network Connection Physical Layer Transceiver (PHY)

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• MAC Address Definition

  38
• Integrated Baseboard Management Controller

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• Integrated BMC Embedded LAN Channel

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• Figure 17. Integrated BMC Block Diagram

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• Video Support

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• Video modes

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• Serial Ports

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• Floppy Disk Controller

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• Keyboard and Mouse Support

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• Wake-up Control

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• System Health Support

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• Platform Management

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• Feature Support

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• IPMI 2.0 Features

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• Non-IPMI Features

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• Advanced Management Feature Support

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• Enabling Advanced Management Features

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• Keyboard, Video, Mouse (KVM) Redirection

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• Media Redirection

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• Availability

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• Web Services for Management (WS-MAN)

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• Local Directory Authentication Protocol (LDAP)

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• Embedded Web server

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• Console Redirection

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• Serial Configuration Settings

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• SOL, EMP and Console Redirection Use Case Model

  50
• Node Manager

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• Overview

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• Command Bridging

  51
• External Communications Link

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• Alerting

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• System Information Passed to ME and POST Complete Notification

  52
• ACPI Mode Notification

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• Persistence Across Boots

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• Power Management Bus (PMBUS)

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• BIOS Setup Utility

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• Logo / Diagnostic Screen

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• BIOS Boot Popup Menu

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• BIOS Setup Utility

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• Operation

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• Table 14. BIOS Setup Page Layout

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• Server Platform Setup Utility Screens

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• Figure 19. Setup Utility — Main Screen Display

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• Table 16. Setup Utility — Main Screen Fields

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• Figure 21. Setup Utility — Processor Configuration Screen Display

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• Table 18. Setup Utility — Processor Configuration Screen Fields

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• Figure 23. Setup Utility — Configure RAS and Performance Screen Display

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• Table 20. Setup Utility — Configure RAS and Performance Screen Fields

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• Figure 25. Setup Utility — Serial Port Configuration Screen Display

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• Table 22. Setup Utility — Serial Ports Configuration Screen Fields

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• Figure 27. Setup Utility — PCI Configuration Screen Display

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• Table 24. Setup Utility — PCI Configuration Screen Fields

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• Figure 29. Setup Utility — Security Configuration Screen Display

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• Table 26. Setup Utility — Security Configuration Screen Fields

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• Figure 31. Setup Utility — Console Redirection Screen Display

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• Table 28. Setup Utility — Console Redirection Configuration Fields

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• Figure 32. Setup Utility — Server Management System Information Screen Display

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• Figure 33. Setup Utility — Boot Options Screen Display

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• Table 30. Setup Utility — Boot Options Screen Fields

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• Figure 34. Setup Utility — Add New Boot Option Screen Display

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• Figure 35. Setup Utility — Delete Boot Option Screen Display

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• Table 31. Setup Utility — Add New Boot Option Fields

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• Figure 36. Setup Utility — Hard Disk Order Screen Display

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• Figure 37. Setup Utility — CDROM Order Screen Display

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• Table 32. Setup Utility — Delete Boot Option Fields

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• Table 33. Setup Utility — Hard Disk Order Fields

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• Figure 38. Setup Utility — Floppy Order Screen Display

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• Table 34. Setup Utility — CDROM Order Fields

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• Table 35. Setup Utility — Floppy Order Fields

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• Figure 39. Setup Utility — Network Device Order Screen Display

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• Figure 40. Setup Utility — BEV Device Order Screen Display

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• Table 36. Setup Utility — Network Device Order Fields

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• Table 37. Setup Utility — BEV Device Order Fields

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• Figure 41. Setup Utility — Boot Manager Screen Display

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• Figure 42. Setup Utility — Error Manager Screen Display

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• Table 38. Setup Utility — Boot Manager Screen Fields

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• Table 39. Setup Utility — Error Manager Screen Fields

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• Figure 43. Setup Utility — Exit Screen Display

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• Table 40. Setup Utility — Exit Screen Fields

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• Loading BIOS Defaults

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• Connector / Header Locations and Pin-outs

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• Board Connectors

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• Table 41. Board Connector Matrix

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• Power Connectors

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• Table 42. EPS12V 2x12 Connector (J9B3)

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• Table 43. EPS12V 2x4 Connector (J7K1)

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• Riser Card Slot

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• Table 44. EPS12V 1x5 Connector (J9E1)

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• Table 45. Low-profile PCI Riser Card Pin-out (J3C1)

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• RMM3 Connector

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• Table 46. RMM3 Connector Pin-out (J3C1)

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• SSI Front Panel Connector

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• I/O Connector Pin-out Definition

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• VGA Connector

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• Table 47. Front Panel SSI Standard 24-pin Connector Pin-out (J9E2)

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• SATA II Connectors

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• Table 48. VGA Connector Pin-out (J7A1)

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• Table 49. SATA Connector Pin-out (J1B4, J1B3, J1A2, J1B1, J1B2, and J2B1)

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• Serial Port Connectors

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• USB and GigE Connector

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• Table 50. 9-pin External Serial A Port Header Pin-out (J8A1)

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• Table 51. Internal Serial B Port Header Pin-out (J9A1)

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• Table 52. External USB and GbE connector Pin-out (J5A1, J6A1)

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• Table 53. Internal USB Header Pin-out (J1A3, J2A2)

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• Fan Headers

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• Table 54. CPU and System Fan Connector Pin-out

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• SGPIO Header

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• Chassis Intrusion Header

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• SMB Hot-Swap Backplane (HSBP) Header

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• Table 55. SGPIO connector Pin-out (J1C1)

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• Table 56. Chassis Intrusion connector Pin-out (J8B3)

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• Table 57. SMB HSBP connector Pin-out (J9B1)

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• SATA RAID Key Header

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• IPMB Header

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• Table 58. SATA connector Pin-out (J7B1)

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• Table 59. IPMB Connector Pin-out (J8B1)

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• Jumper Block Settings

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• Figure 44. Jumper Blocks

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• Table 60. Jumper Block Matrix

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• Intel® Light-Guided Diagnostics

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• 5-Volt Standby LED

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• System ID and Status LED

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• DIMM Fault LEDs

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• Table 61. System Status LED Indicator States

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• Fan Fault LEDs

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• Post Code Diagnostic LEDs

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• Table 62. DIMM LEDs Indicator States

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• Table 63. Fan LED Indicator States

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• Power and Environmental Specifications

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• Intel® Server Board S5500BC Design Specifications

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• Baseboard Power Requirements

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• Table 64. Server Board Design Specifications

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• Figure 45. Power Distribution Block Diagram

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• Output Power / Currents

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• Power on loading

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• Grounding

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• Table 65. 400W Load Ratings

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• Table 66. Power on loading range

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• Standby Outputs

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• Remote Sense

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• Fan Operation in Standby Mode

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• Voltage Regulation

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• Dynamic Loading

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• Capacitive Loading

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• Closed-Loop Stability

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• Table 68. Transient Load Requirements

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• Common Mode Noise

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• Ripple / Noise

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• Soft Starting

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• Timing Requirements

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• Table 70. Ripple and Noise

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• Figure 46. Output Voltage Timing

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• Table 72. Turn On/Off Timing

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• Residual Voltage Immunity in Standby Mode

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• Figure 47. Turn On/Off Timing (Power Supply Signals)

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• Protection Circuits

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• Current Limit (OCP)

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• Over Voltage Protection (OVP)

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• Table 74. Over Voltage Protection (OVP) Limits

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• Over Temperature Protection (OTP)

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• Product Regulatory Compliance

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• Product Safety Compliance

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• Product EMC Compliance – Class A Compliance

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• Certifications / Registrations / Declarations

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• Product Ecology Requirements

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• Product Regulatory Compliance Markings

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• Electromagnetic Compatibility Notices

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• FCC Verification Statement (USA)

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• ICES-003 (Canada)

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• Europe (CE Declaration of Conformity)

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• VCCI (Japan)

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• BSMI (Taiwan)

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• RRL (Korea)

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• CNCA (CCC-China)

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• Appendix A: Integration and Usage Tips

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• Appendix B: Sensor Tables

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• Table 76. Integrated BMC Core Sensors

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• Appendix C: POST Error Messages and Handling

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• Table 78. POST Error Messages and Handling

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• Appendix D: POST Code Diagnostic LED Decoder

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• Figure 48. Diagnostic LED Placement Diagram

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• Table 80. POST Progress Code LED Example

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• Appendix E: Intel® Server System SR1630BC

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• Figure 49. 1U Intel® Server System SR1630BC Overview

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• SC5650BCDP

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• Figure 50. 5U Intel® Entry Server Chassis SC5650 Overview

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• Glossary

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• Reference Documents

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