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Compaq ProLiant ML330 Setup and Installation Guide
Compaq Confidential – Need to Know Required
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Donna Hollas
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Compaq ProLiant ML330 Setup and Installation Guide
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The Advanced Menu
The Advanced menu is used to manually assign system resource assignments
and disable some devices in the system in order to free resources for other
devices in the system. The following is a list of selections found in this menu
with an explanation of each option:
Power
Power
Power
Power-On Self
-On Self
-On Self
-On Self-Test
-Test
-Test
-Test (POST)
(POST)
(POST)
(POST) allows you to set Quick Boot and POST
messages. Quick Boot is a feature that speeds the POST processes once the
system has been started correctly one time. POST messages can be disabled to
cancel text displayed during the POST process.
Embedded Devices
Embedded Devices
Embedded Devices
Embedded Devices allows you to view and manually assign resources to
embedded system devices, as well as to disable some embedded devices in
order to free system resources. Disable and enable the primary and secondary
IDE controller.
IMPORTANT:
Compaq recommends that you do not disable the embedded SCSI
controller. Doing so disables certain system management features.
PCI IRQ Configuration
PCI IRQ Configuration
PCI IRQ Configuration
PCI IRQ Configuration allows a manual interrupt request (IRQ) for a specific
PCI device. The system automatically assigns IRQ settings for all PCI devices
in the system.
Follow these guidelines when manually assigning IRQ for PCI devices in the
system:
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If sharing is required, share interrupts between similar devices. It is
generally safe to share IRQs between PCI devices. However, for certain
operating systems, it is best to prevent dissimilar PCI devices (for
instance, a storage controller and a network controller) from sharing the
same IRQ.
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Use all available IRQs. Sharing IRQs can cause performance
bottlenecks. To prevent these bottlenecks, assign PCI devices to unused
IRQs, following the rules already listed.
NOTE:
The latest operating systems from Microsoft, Novell, and SCO bypass the use of
IRQs and use an advanced interrupt controller called the APIC. The APIC has been
designed to address the issues associated with limited IRQs, multiprocessor systems, and
shared interrupts. If you are using the latest operating system, you can let the system
automatically configure interrupts for all devices in the system.