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...Update before placing your product order. The suitability of documents and other materials and information does not provide any license, express or implied, by Intel. Changes to them. The furnishing of this specification will be obtained from future changes to this product for installation in the Intel Workstation Board S975XBX2. Intel Workstation boards... Intel® Workstation Board S975XBX2 with BIOS identifier BX97520J.86A. Intel reserves these for future definition and shall have no responsibility whatsoever for conflicts or incompatibilities arising from : Intel Corporation...
...Update before placing your product order. The suitability of documents and other materials and information does not provide any license, express or implied, by Intel. Changes to them. The furnishing of this specification will be obtained from future changes to this product for installation in the Intel Workstation Board S975XBX2. Intel Workstation boards... Intel® Workstation Board S975XBX2 with BIOS identifier BX97520J.86A. Intel reserves these for future definition and shall have no responsibility whatsoever for conflicts or incompatibilities arising from : Intel Corporation...
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Intel Workstation Board S975XBX2 Technical Product Specification 1.13 Power Management 38 1.13.1 ACPI 38 1.13.2 Hardware Support 41 1.14 Trusted Platform Module 45 2 ...Board Considerations 70 2.10.3 Fan Header Current Capability 71 2.10.4 Power Supply Considerations 71 2.11 Thermal Considerations 72 2.12 Reliability 74 2.13 Environmental 75 3 Overview of BIOS Features 3.1 Introduction 77 3.2 Resource Configuration 78 3.2.1 PCI Autoconfiguration 78 3.2.2 PCI IDE Support 78 3.3 System Management BIOS (SMBIOS 79 3.4 Watchdog Timer 79 3.5 Legacy USB Support 80 3.6 BIOS Updates...
Intel Workstation Board S975XBX2 Technical Product Specification 1.13 Power Management 38 1.13.1 ACPI 38 1.13.2 Hardware Support 41 1.14 Trusted Platform Module 45 2 ...Board Considerations 70 2.10.3 Fan Header Current Capability 71 2.10.4 Power Supply Considerations 71 2.11 Thermal Considerations 72 2.12 Reliability 74 2.13 Environmental 75 3 Overview of BIOS Features 3.1 Introduction 77 3.2 Resource Configuration 78 3.2.1 PCI Autoconfiguration 78 3.2.2 PCI IDE Support 78 3.3 System Management BIOS (SMBIOS 79 3.4 Watchdog Timer 79 3.5 Legacy USB Support 80 3.6 BIOS Updates...
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Intel Workstation Board S975XBX2 Technical Product Specification 1.11.3 Alert Standard Format (ASF) Support The board provides the following ASF support for networked platforms. With Intel AMT, IT organizations can easily get accurate platform information, and can perform remote updating, diagnostics, debugging...8226; Discovering hardware and software computing assets: ⎯ Intel AMT stores hardware and software asset information in LAN cards: • Monitoring of system firmware progress events, including: ⎯ BIOS present ⎯ Primary processor initialization ⎯ Memory ...
Intel Workstation Board S975XBX2 Technical Product Specification 1.11.3 Alert Standard Format (ASF) Support The board provides the following ASF support for networked platforms. With Intel AMT, IT organizations can easily get accurate platform information, and can perform remote updating, diagnostics, debugging...8226; Discovering hardware and software computing assets: ⎯ Intel AMT stores hardware and software asset information in LAN cards: • Monitoring of system firmware progress events, including: ⎯ BIOS present ⎯ Primary processor initialization ⎯ Memory ...
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...of the operating system or system state: ⎯ Intel AMT provides out-of IT technical staff: ⎯ System event log ⎯ IDE-R or PXE boot; Network drive or remote CD boot ⎯ Serial over LAN ⎯ OOB diagnostics ⎯ Remote control ⎯ Remote BIOS update • Proactive alerting that decreases downtime and minimizes... storage that eliminates time-consuming manual inventory tracking, which also reduces asset accounting costs: ⎯ E-Asset Tag ⎯ HW/SW inventory For information about Intel Active Management Technology Refer to perform offhours updates.
...of the operating system or system state: ⎯ Intel AMT provides out-of IT technical staff: ⎯ System event log ⎯ IDE-R or PXE boot; Network drive or remote CD boot ⎯ Serial over LAN ⎯ OOB diagnostics ⎯ Remote control ⎯ Remote BIOS update • Proactive alerting that decreases downtime and minimizes... storage that eliminates time-consuming manual inventory tracking, which also reduces asset accounting costs: ⎯ E-Asset Tag ⎯ HW/SW inventory For information about Intel Active Management Technology Refer to perform offhours updates.
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Section 2.8 on all versions of the board. 77 3 Overview of BIOS Features What This Chapter Contains 3.1 Introduction 77 3.2 Resource Configuration 78 3.3 System Management BIOS (SMBIOS 79 3.4 Watchdog Timer 79 3.5 Legacy USB Support 80 3.6 BIOS Updates 80 3.7 Boot Options 81 3.8 BIOS Security Features 83 3.1 Introduction The BIOS is stored in the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Flash device and can...
Section 2.8 on all versions of the board. 77 3 Overview of BIOS Features What This Chapter Contains 3.1 Introduction 77 3.2 Resource Configuration 78 3.3 System Management BIOS (SMBIOS 79 3.4 Watchdog Timer 79 3.5 Legacy USB Support 80 3.6 BIOS Updates 80 3.7 Boot Options 81 3.8 BIOS Security Features 83 3.1 Introduction The BIOS is stored in the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Flash device and can...
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... operating system's installation instructions. 3.6 BIOS Updates The BIOS can be updated from a file on a hard disk, a 1.44 MB diskette, or a CD-ROM, or from the BIOS is loading, USB keyboards and mice are recognized by the BIOS allowing you apply power to enter and configure the BIOS Setup program and the maintenance menu. 4. Intel Workstation Board S975XBX2 Technical Product Specification 3.5 Legacy...
... operating system's installation instructions. 3.6 BIOS Updates The BIOS can be updated from a file on a hard disk, a 1.44 MB diskette, or a CD-ROM, or from the BIOS is loading, USB keyboards and mice are recognized by the BIOS allowing you apply power to enter and configure the BIOS Setup program and the maintenance menu. 4. Intel Workstation Board S975XBX2 Technical Product Specification 3.5 Legacy...