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Product Specification - Page 2
...absence or characteristics of any features or instructions marked "reserved" or "undefined." Intel reserves these for future definition and shall have no responsibility whatsoever for conflicts or incompatibilities arising from future changes to them.
The Intel® Server Board SE7320EP2 / Intel® Server Board SE7525RP2 may contain design defects or errors known as errata which may cause the...
Product Specification - Page 4
... IRQ Support 38
5.5
PCI Error Handling 40
6. BIOS...41
6.1
BIOS Architecture 41
6.1.1 BIOS Identification String 41
6.2
System Initialization 42
6.2.1 Processors...42
6.2.2 Memory Subsystem 45
6.2.3 PCI...51
6.2.4 PCI Express...52
6.2.5 Keyboard/Mouse...53
6.2.6 Universal Serial Bus (USB 53
6.2.7 IDE...53
6.2.8 Removable Media Drives 53
6.2.9 Flash ROM...54
6.3
BIOS POST...
Product Specification - Page 5
...SMI Handler...88
9.2.1 PCI Bus Error...88
9.2.2 Processor Bus Error 89
9.2.3 Memory Bus Error 89
9.2.4 Logging Format Conventions 89
9.3
Single-bit ECC Error Throttling Prevention 89
9.4
Error Messages and Error Codes 89
9.4.1 POST Progress Codes and Messages 89
9.4.2 BIOS Messages...95
9.4.3 POST Error Messages and Handling 100
9.4.4 Boot Block Error Beep Codes 102
9.4.5 POST...
Product Specification - Page 6
... Error Pause" option 103
10. Server Board SE7320EP2 and SE7525RP2 Connectors 104
10.1
Main Power Connector 104
10.2
Memory Module Connector 105
10.3
Processor Socket 107
10.4
I2C Header ...110
10.5
PCI Slot Connector 111
10.6
Front Panel Connector 114
10.7
VGA Connector...115
10.8
NIC Connector ...115
10.9
IDE Connector ...116
10.10 SATA Connector 116
10.11 USB...
Product Specification - Page 7
... Block Diagram 28 Figure 6. Intel® Server Boards SE7320EP2 and SE7525RP2 Clock Distribution Diagram ....... 30 Figure 7. Video Controller PCI Bus Interface 35 Figure 8. Interrupt Routing Diagram 38 Figure 9. Interrupt Routing Diagram 39 Figure 10. BIOS Identification String 41 Figure 11. Fan Speed Control Block Diagram 82 Figure 12. System Recovery and Update Jumpers (J17 120 Figure 13...
Product Specification - Page 10
List of Tables
Intel® Server Board SE7320EP2 / Intel® Server Board SE7525RP2
Table 68. Power Connector Pin-out (J12 104 Table 69. Auxiliary Signal Connector (J5 104 Table 70. Auxiliary CPU Power Connector Pin-out (J22 105 Table 71. DIMM Connectors (J16,J18,J20,J21 105 Table 72. Socket 604 Processor Socket Pin-out (J36, J37 107 Table 73...
Product Specification - Page 11
...; Server Board SE7525RP2 TPS Introduction
1. Introduction
The Intel® Server Board SE7320EP2 / SE7525RP2 Technical Product Specification provides technical details for the server board's functional architecture and feature set. It also provides a high-level detail of some of the board's functional sub-systems.
This document is intended to be the technical reference for this board. Updates to...
Product Specification - Page 41
...; Server Board SE7525RP2 TPS BIOS
6. BIOS
6.1 BIOS Architecture
The Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) is implemented as firmware that resides in the Flash ROM. It provides hardware-specific initialization algorithms and standard PC-compatible basic input/output (I/O) services, and standard Intel® Server Board features. The Flash ROM also contains firmware for certain embedded devices. These...
Product Specification - Page 43
... value works for all installed processors, all processors not capable of speeds supported by the BSP are disabled and an error is displayed.
6.2.1.7
Microcode
IA-32 processors have the capability of correcting specific errata through the loading of an Intelsupplied data block (i.e., microcode update). The BIOS is responsible for storing the update in non-volatile memory and loading it into each...
Product Specification - Page 50
... all populated DRAM space under software control. Once internal configuration has been updated to reflect the types and sizes of populated DIMM devices, the MCH will traverse the populated address space initializing all locations with good ECC. This not only speeds up the mandatory memory initialization step, but also frees the processor to pursue other machine initialization...
Product Specification - Page 55
... message ƒ BIOS ID ƒ Current processor configuration ƒ Installed physical memory size
6.3.3
Quiet Boot / OEM Splash Screen
The BIOS implements Quiet Boot to fulfill the Microsoft* Hardware Design Guide 3.0 requirement that the BIOS provide minimal startup display during BIOS POST. System start-up must only draw the end user's attention in the event of errors or when there...
Product Specification - Page 78
... these areas; application software cannot access the data directly.
6.6.1
Flash Update Utility
Server platforms support a DOS-based firmware update utility. This utility loads a fresh copy of the BIOS into the flash ROM.
The BIOS update may affect the following items:
ƒ The system BIOS, including the recovery code, setup utility and strings ƒ Embedded device option ROMs ƒ OEM...
Product Specification - Page 79
Intel® Server Board SE7320EP2 / Intel® Server Board SE7525RP2 TPS BIOS
6.6.1.1.1
Updating the BIOS from DOS
1. Make sure that the flash bootable disk contains both the ROM image and the afudos update utility.
2. Boot to DOS.
3. Run the afudos utility as follows:
AFUDOS /i [/n][/p[b][c]]
6.6.1.1.2
Updating the BIOS from Microsoft* Windows* 2000/2003/XP
1. Make sure that the flash...
Product Specification - Page 80
... following devices: a standard 1.44 or 2.88 MB floppy drive, a USB Disk-On-Key, an ATAPI CD-ROM/DVD, an ATAPI ZIP drive, or a LS-120/LS-240 removable drive.
The recovery mode procedure is as follows:
1. Insert or plug-in the recovery medium that includes the file AMIBOOT.ROM BIOS image file.
2. Power on the server. When progress code E9 is displayed on port...
Product Specification - Page 81
...® Server Board SE7320EP2 / Intel® Server Board SE7525RP2 TPS BIOS
6.6.2.2
Changing the OEM Logo for Microsoft* Windows* 2000 / 2003 / XP
1. Boot to Microsoft Windows 2000 / 2003 / XP.
2. Download OEMLOGO.exe, Rombuild.exe, RomFile, and NewOEMlogoImage to the hard drive.
3. Run the command:
OEMLogo [/F or /FN or /N] or
OEMLogo [/D]
Where
ƒ /F forces replacement of the OEM...
Product Specification - Page 84
... non-volatile memory and is preserved through power cycles. The VPD contains information such as the product serial number, model number, and manufacturer identification.
The VPD is programmed during manufacturing. A user can update certain user-specific VPD information by using the Flash Update utility. The BIOS uses this data and displays it in SMBIOS structures and in BIOS Setup.
Utilities...
Product Specification - Page 86
Intel® Server Board SE7320EP2 / Intel® Server Board SE7525RP2 TPS Sleep Support
While entering the S4 state, the operating system saves the context to the disk and most of the system is powered off. The system can wake on a power button press, or a signal received from a wake-on-LAN compliant LAN card (or onboard LAN), modem ring, PCI power management interrupt, or RTC alarm. The BIOS ...
Product Specification - Page 90
... video adapter installed in the system that have optional ROMs. Initializes all the output devices. Allocate memory for ADM module and uncompress it. Give control to ADM module for initialization. Initialize language and font modules for ADM. Activate ADM module. Initializes the silent boot module. Set the window for displaying text information. Displaying sign-on message, CPU information, setup...
Product Specification - Page 91
... of chipset registers. Detect different devices (Parallel ports, serial ports, and coprocessor in CPU, ... etc.) successfully installed in the system and update the BDA, EBDA...etc. Programming the memory hole or any kind of implementation that needs an adjustment in system RAM size if needed. Updates CMOS memory size from memory found in memory test. Allocates memory for Extended BIOS Data...
Product Specification - Page 98
... or EPROM).
BIOS could not find or load the CPU Microcode Update to the CPU. This message only applies to INTEL CPUs. The message is most likely to appear when a brand new CPU is installed in a motherboard with an outdated BIOS. In this case, the BIOS must be updated to include the Microcode Update for the new CPU.
There was an error in while validating...