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1.	Which key is to be pressed to enter Bios when the machine is connected via serial console (Board X9SCL-F)? We already tried "DEL", "F4", "F11"... but no go.
2.	I have a supermicro server, that stops at boot, with the msg SYSTEM INITIALIZING with BA code at the right.
3.	When I enable secure boot in X10DRC-LN4+, it shows message "WARNING: CSM is Loaded! Disable the CSM in Setup. Repeat operation after Reboot to ensure UEFI Video (GOP) driver is operational.".
4.	How do I enable Turbo mode to get the maximum Turbo mode speed on my X10DRi motherboard?
5.	I have a storage Chassis SC846BA-R1K28 and Mainboard X9DR7-LN4F did not start up anymore. Then I unplugged and replugged some SAS cables, and tried to locate which Disk slots are served by which cable. After pushing the power button it showed "supermicro"-screen with "System Initializing..." on the bottom and then did not do anything further. IPMI shows the message "System initializing... B7". Removing the Bios battery for some time did not solve the problem. I did not find an answer on the internet yet - could you please tell us what this means and how I can recover from this?
6.	I plug in 4GB of memory into my P8SAA board but Windows XP only shows 3GB of memory. Everything works fine but why does Windows shows only 3GB of memory?
7.	I noticed X8 DP series motherboard showing "ERST: Failed to get Error Log Address Range" message during the RHEL/CentOS 6.2,6.3 version while booting. What is this problem related to?
8.	I am using 4x K20 in 7047GR-TPRF (X9DRG-QF) but gets the error: !!!!PCI Resource ERROR!!!! PCI OUT OF RESOURCES CONDITION: Error: Insufficient PCI Resources Detected!!! System is running with Insufficient PCI Resources! In order to display this message some PCI devices were set to disabled state! It is strongly recommended to Power Off the system and remove some PCI/PCI Express cards from the system! To continue booting, proceed to Menu Option and select Boot Device or . WARNING: If you choose to continue booting some Operating Systems might not be able to complete boot correctly!
9.	Inquire about X10SAE BIOS options - What is ASPM mode L0/L0s/L1/L0sL1
10.	How do I create a bootable USB stick?

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1.	How can you manage the power of the GPU settings using SAA? (06/06/2025)
2.	I have an AOC-S3916L-16iR in my SSG-640SP-E1CR60H server. In the controller's storcli termlog, I am seeing the following messages.The raids on the controller are optimized and healthy. Are the message above something that I should concern or they are not harmful? 06/03/25 21:33:42.061: C0:Command ID allocation failed :MR_RESUME cmdID ff, applicationMsgTag:2 06/03/25 21:33:42.061: C0:##### Dumping All OOB CmdId States##### 06/03/25 21:33:42.061: C0:CmdId 0 is Free, appMsgtag: ff 06/03/25 21:33:42.061: C0:OOBasDCMD 0 byteOffSet 0 cmdStatus 0 cmdType 0 cmdType OOBCmdDataLen 0 dir 0 mctpMsgTag ff 06/03/25 21:33:42.062: C0:OOB_mf.hdr.length 0 06/03/25 21:33:42.062: C0:nextPackExpected 1 06/03/25 21:33:42.062: C0:CmdId 1 is Free, appMsgtag: ff 06/03/25 21:33:42.062: C0:OOBasDCMD 0 byteOffSet 0 cmdStatus 0 cmdType 0 cmdType OOBCmdDataLen 0 dir 0 mctpMsgTag ff 06/03/25 21:33:42.062: C0:OOB_mf.hdr.length 0 06/03/25 21:33:42.062: C0:nextPackExpected 1 06/03/25 21:33:42.062: C0:CmdId 2 is Free, appMsgtag: ff 06/03/25 21:33:42.062: C0:OOBasDCMD 0 byteOffSet 0 cmdStatus 0 cmdType 0 cmdType OOBCmdDataLen 0 dir 0 mctpMsgTag ff 06/03/25 21:33:42.062: C0:OOB_mf.hdr.length 0 06/03/25 21:33:42.062: C0:nextPackExpected 1 06/03/25 21:33:42.062: C0:##### END ##### (06/06/2025)
3.	We have a SSG-121E-NE316R that we would like to boot the system via iSCSI via the on-board X550 interfaces. However the iSCSI boot option does not appear for them in the BIOS boot manager options. Is the system capable of this feature, or do we need a special NVM for the X550 interfaces to enable it? (06/06/2025)
4.	We have a SSG-640P-E1CR36H storage server. We added new drives on the server (on enclosure 1 at back of chassis). The new hard disks are getting detected in the IPMI as unconfigured good drive but not showing in the windows storage pool. Windows Server 2022 is installed on the server and windows storage pool is configured. (06/06/2025)
5.	We are using chassis# 216BE1C-R920LPB , we are looking for NVMe backplane to replace the original backplane # BPN-SAS3-216EL1, do you have any NVMe backplane for this chassis ? (06/06/2025)
6.	We have system SYS-F610P2-RTN and we want to populate the node with 6 NVMe drives, please what cable or parts we should use to connect the drives ? (06/06/2025)
7.	X11DPU; Problem! Corrected MAC address on my motherboard through ipmicfg "-a" option in OS and found my current connection to server dropped. Could not connect back to it. (06/06/2025)
8.	I have an X8DTT motherboard. What TPM 2.0 module is compatible with this? (06/06/2025)
9.	SYS-421GE-TNRT3; GPU’s are failed in slots 5,6, and 7,8. PCI-e slots 7,8 were where the bad card was in, swapped to 5,6 and still showed same behavior. I would have to open server to get tag information of cables, but since it’s a production server I was not able to provide that info. I tried swapping positions of GPU but would Freeze up system within 5 min of uptime so removed bad GPU card. (06/06/2025)
10.	we have SYS-420GP-TNR2 system and trying to install a NIC card on PCIe board. Which PCIe slot do you recommend to install? (06/06/2025)