Intel SE8500HW4 - Manual (Page 111)

Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4 BIOS User Interface
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Table 67. Configure System RAS and Performance Menu
Setup Item Option Default Help Text Comment
Hardware
Memory Test Enabled/
Disabled Enabled If enabled, memory will
be tested using
hardware based
engines on each board.
Patrol Scrub Enabled/
Disabled Enabled Enable hardware patrol
scrub to clean
correctable errors. Patrol Scrub
Retest All
System
Memory Enabled/
Disabled Disabled If enabled, retests all
memory in the system
(including disabled
DIMMs) and enables
memory which passes
the test. This option
resets to Disabled after
the test has run.
Sparing
Threshold 1-15 15 Set the number of
correctable errors that
can be logged in a
period before sparing
occurs. Period is 12 or
16 days depending on
DDR Technology.
RAID Upgrade
Gap Disabled,
512MB, 1024
MB, 1536MB,
2048MB,
2560MB,
3072MB,
3584MB,
4096MB Disabled Size of reserved gap on
each Memory Board for
RAID memory capacity
addition.
Desired
Memory
Configuration Max
Performance/
Max
Compatibility/
Mirror
RAID
Max
Performance Select a new memory
configuration, then
select View
Configuration Details to
see the configuration.
View
Configuration
Details N/A N/A Select this to view
Memory Configuration
Details page. Link to Setup
Utility\Memory\Configur
e System RAS and
Performance\View
Memory Configuration
Details
Set Memory
Hotplug in
SRAT table Yes/No Yes This will enable or
disable hot-pluggable
flag in Resource Affinity
Table for memory
region above 4GB.
Setting to No may
disable memory capcity
add or remove under
some OS.