Intel® Server Board S2600WF Product Family Technical Product Specification
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Appendix A.
Integration and Usage Tips
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When adding or removing components or peripherals from the server board, power cords must be
disconnected from the server. With power applied to the server, standby voltages are still present
even though the server board is powered off.
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This server board supports the Intel® Xeon® processor Scalable family with a Thermal Design Power
(TDP) of up to and including 205 Watts. Previous generations of the Intel® Xeon® processors are not
supported. Server systems using this server board may or may not meet the TDP design limits of the
server board. Validate the TDP limits of the server system before selecting a processor.
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Processors must be installed in order. CPU 1 must be populated for the server board to operate.
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The 2U 3-slot riser card and Riser Card Slots #2 and #3 on the server board can only be used in dual
processor configurations.
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The riser card slots are specifically designed to support riser cards only. Attempting to install a PCIe*
add-in card directly into a riser card slot on the server board may damage the server board, the add-
in card, or both.
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For the best performance, the number of DDR4 DIMMs installed should be balanced across both
processor sockets and memory channels.
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On the back edge of the server board are eight diagnostic LEDs that display a sequence of amber
POST codes during the boot process. If the server board hangs during POST, the LEDs display the last
POST event run before the hang.
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The system status LED is set to a steady amber color for all fatal errors that are detected during
processor initialization. A steady amber system status LED indicates that an unrecoverable system
failure condition has occurred.
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RAID partitions created using either Intel® RSTe or Intel® ESRT2 cannot span across the two
embedded SATA controllers. Only drives attached to a common SATA controller can be included in a
RAID partition.
