NEC Express5800/120Ed Release Notes

Brand: NEC

Model: Express5800/120Ed

Type: Release Notes

NEC Express5800/120Ed is a high-performance server that offers a range of features and capabilities to meet the demands of today's business environment. It is ideal for small- and medium-sized businesses seeking a reliable and scalable server for their mission-critical applications.

The Express5800/120Ed is powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, providing exceptional processing power and speed. It supports up to two processors, allowing for increased performance and scalability as your business needs grow. With support for up to 16GB of ECC memory, the Express5800/120Ed can handle even the most demanding memory-intensive applications.

System Release Notes

Express5800/120Ed

System Release Notes

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Express5800/120Ed

System Release Notes

The Express5800/120Ed System Release Notes provide up-to-date information

on your system. These notes also provide additional valuable information about

your system that was not included in the user’s guide.

Please read these notes in their entirety.

CONTENTS

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................3

General Comments .................................................................................................................................3

Advisories...............................................................................................................................................3

EXPRESSBUILDER .........................................................................................................................3

SCO....................................................................................................................................................4

System Hardware...............................................................................................................................4

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Introduction

These System Release Notes cover the following topics:

General Comments

Advisories

General Comments

The following general comments apply to this server.

Versions of the Network Operating Systems tested and recommended are:



Windows 2000



Windows NT

4.0 Server with Service Pack 6



Novell

NetWare

5.1



SCO OpenServer

™

5.05 with Maintenance Supplement 505A.



UNIXWare

7.1.1

Advisories

This section contains advisories on the EXPRESSBUILDER, Documentation,

Network Operating Systems, and SCO.

EXPRESSBUILDER

After installation, the Windows 2000 Device Manager may show an NEC

GEM SCSI Processor Device and/or an Unknown Device under Other

Devices. The Unknown Device is referenced on the baseboard management

controller. Both of these conditions can be cleared by installing the

ESMPRO Agent.

If you already have an operating system installed when creating a

maintenance partition, EXPRESSBUILDER will warn you of the existing

partition. If you want to preserve the installed operating system, do not

create the maintenance partition or the existing operating system will be

overlaid by the maintenance partition.

EXPRESSBUILDER EasySetup always configures the Windows 2000

TCP/IP Protocol IP settings to "Obtain an IP address automatically"

(DHCP), regardless of the IP address setting specified in EasySetup. If static

TCP/IP addressing is required, TCP/IP must be reconfigured. Refer to

Windows documentation for instructions.

The Administrator Menu in the System Information Management segment

of the Offline Maintenance Utility is accessible only by NEC authorized

service representatives.

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EXPRESSBUILDER operates in floppy emulation mode. The emulated

floppy drive portion of your system CD-ROM is designated Drive A and the

remaining portion(s) of the CD-ROM is designated Drive Q. Your system

diskette drive is Drive B. After creating the Off-line Maintenance Utility

diskette, EXPRESSBUILDER prompts you to remove the diskette from

Drive B. At this prompt, remove the diskette from your diskette drive.

SCO

The following advisory applies when using SCO 5.05:

During the installation of SCO or any time thereafter when booting SCO a

warning message may appear as follows:

WARNING: Cannot connect to APM, error 0x0036 System loaded, press

<Return> to start:

To prevent the WARNING message from appearing, boot the system to

single-user Mode. Edit the /etc/default/boot file. Add "apm.check=no" to the

end of the line indicated by the "DEFBOOTSTR=" entry.

System Hardware

The following advisory applies to the USB ports on your server's external device

connectors.

The factory standard default value of the USB ports on your server is

"Disabled". To enable them, the USB Controller feature in the Peripheral

Configuration Submenu of the BIOS Setup Utility "BIOS Setup

Configuration Settings" must be changed to "Enabled". Refer to

Chapter 3 of your User’s Guide. Your User’s Guide is included on

EXPRESSBUILDER.

The following advisory applies to the Plug and Play feature of your server's I/O

expansion boards.

The Windows 2000 Operating System requires that your server’s PnP O/S

feature be enabled. Before installing the Windows 2000 Operating System,

run the BIOS Setup Utility as described in Chapter 3 of your User’s Guide,

to verify the PnP O/S feature is enabled. Your User’s Guide is included on

EXPRESSBUILDER.

NEC Express5800/120Ed Release Notes

NEC Express5800/120Ed Release Notes

NEC Express5800/120Ed Release Notes

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