Intel SBX44 - Server Compute Blade, Installation And User Manual

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Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44: Installation and User’s Guide
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Flashing slowly - The blade server has AC power but is not turned on.
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Lit continuously - The blade server has AC power and is turned on.
Keyboard/mouse/video select button (G): Press this button to associate the keyboard port, mouse
port, and video port with this blade server. The LED on this button flashes while the request is being
processed, then is steady when the ownership of the keyboard, mouse, and video has been
transferred to this blade server.
You can also press keyboard keys in the following sequence to switch KVM control between blade
servers:
NumLock NumLock <blade server number> Enter
Where <blade server number> is the two-digit number for the blade bay in which the blade server is
installed.
Notes:
1. The operating system in the blade server must provide USB support for the blade server to
recognize and use the keyboard, mouse, CD-ROM drive, and diskette drive. The system chassis
uses USB for internal communication with these devices.
2. It can take approximately 20 seconds to switch the keyboard, video, and mouse or the CD-ROM
drive, diskette drive, and USB port to the blade server.
3. Although the keyboard attached to the system chassis is a PS/2-style keyboard, communication
with it is through a USB bus. When you are running an operating system that does not have USB
drivers, such as in the following instances, the keyboard responds very slowly.
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Running the blade server integrated diagnostics
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Running a BIOS update diskette on a blade server
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Updating the diagnostics on a blade server
4. If you install Microsoft* Windows* 2000 on the blade server while it is not the current owner of
the keyboard, video, and mouse, a delay of up to one minute occurs the first time you switch the
keyboard, video, and mouse to the blade server. During this one-time-only delay, the blade
server Device Manager enumerates the keyboard, video, and mouse and loads the device drivers.
All subsequent switching takes place in the normal keyboard-video-mouse switching time
frame.
5. The blade-error LED, information LED, and location LED can be turned off through the chassis
management-module Web interface.