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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.	Customer saw below error messages. AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT device=21:00.0 domain=0x001e address=0x00000000f2489000 flags=0x0000] AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT device=21:00.0 domain=0x001e address=0x00000000fbbcb000 flags=0x0000] (04/20/2025)
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3.	Do you guys provide trial licenses so we can test out the BMC features before fully purchasing a license? (04/18/2025)
4.	We are looking to use SSG-620P-E1CR24H servers for Ceph cluster. The current hardware spec has 2 NVMe disks configured on a RAID 1 using the Avago 3408 controller (this will be used for the OS installation / RHEL 9) ; the remaining SAS SSD's are on a Broadcom 3408 controller are going to be used in a JBOD configuration. Can you direct us on what the latest firmware is for both the Avago 3408 and the Broadcom 3908? Can you direct us on best practices for configuration of these for the OS and as JBOD's for support of Ceph storage? (04/18/2025)
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6.	We are configuring 30 Supermicro SYS-221H-TN24R servers with ESXi 8.x. We noted the absence of a custom ISO or OEM addons on the Broadcom site. While Supermicro confirms support for ESXi 8.0U1 on these servers, we are inquiring if a custom ISO or OEM addons/drivers are available for the SYS-221H-TN24R. (04/18/2025)
7.	When we ran SAA command with the following parameters on our SYS-821GE-TNR, it returns error saa -I 192.168.41.4 -u ADMIN -p ADMIN -c GetCurrentBiosCfg --file SYS-821GE_Bios.xml Parsing error. AttributeName: COMMN093#0034 is not in the attribute map. How do we resolve this issue? (04/18/2025)
8.	LLDP does not seem to be working on our SYS-A22GA-NBRT system. The NIC card was confirmed to support LLDP. (04/18/2025)
9.	we have AS-2124US-TNRP server. The concern is that we noticed there is physical contact between AOC-SLG4-4E4T NVMe adapter and AOM-TPM-9655V module. Is there any workaround to avoid this? (04/18/2025)
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