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1.	I plug in 4GB of memory into my P8SAA board but Windows XP only shows 3GB of memory. Everything works fine but why does Windows shows only 3GB of memory?
2.	Windows requires a floppy disk to load the driver with the F6 key. My server does not have a regular floppy so I tried to use a USB floppy. Now the Windows load is stopping after formatting the hard drive partition and asking for the driver file, but it can not read it from the floppy. What can I do?
3.	I can’t find the Windows Server 2008 32/64bit driver for X7DBE+ on your website. Where are the RAID and other drivers located?
4.	What is the difference between SuperDoctor III and IPMI?
5.	I have a X7DCA-3 board and I cannot install VMWare because it does not recognize my SAS hard drives. What is the issue?
6.	I just got my SuperServer 7043P-8R. I have completed installing the processors, memory and hard drives. When the Power is applied, the system BIOS displays and everything on it looks good but there is very loud alarm buzzer ON and I thought the power supply had gone bad. But all the LED’s on power supply are lit green which I believe means the Power Supply is good. Any suggestion on what may be causing the alarm trigger ON and how I can turn OFF the alarm?
7.	Does the SATA RAID in the P4SCI, P4SCT, P4SCT+, P4SCT+II support the Linux operating system?
8.	What are the other differences between Nehalem-EP and Bloomfield cores?
9.	Someone else installed SD III and left the company. I don't have the Admin ID & password to use it. Is there a way to retrieve it or should I just remove and reinstall?
10.	I have installed 4GB of memory on my E7505 board, but in Windows under "My Computer" and the in the task manager I only see 3GB?

Latest FAQs

1.	I recently purchased a Super Micro X7SPA-HF motherboard, and was excited to try out the IP-KVM feature. I installed IPMIview software on my Mac Mini with Lion and logged fine into the app interface. When launching the KVM console, applet failed with an error no. iKVM64 in java.library.path. (02/06/2012)
2.	I have one mainboard, X8DTU-Ln4F+, and trying to configure IPMI to dedicated LAN mode only. However, I had many systems in hands and looking for any tool with raw command to do this modification. Is it possible? (02/06/2012)
3.	I am using the X8DTH-6F motherboard in SC825TQ-R720LPB chassis. The hard drive bays are connected to the onboard LSI 2008 SAS controller. I installed 8 drives in it, and I can see all 8 drives in RAID BIOS. However, the slot ID of two different hard drives is duplicated. That happens in every other drive. This prevents me from creating the RAID array using all 8 drives. How can I fix it? (02/06/2012)
4.	I upgraded the firmware in AOC-USAS2LP-H8iR to the latest firmware posted in your FTP site. The upgrade was a success, however, after the reboot, the firmware can’t be initialized. I tried to re-flash the firmware again, but it complaints that no compatible device was found. I read an online article talking about the firmware recovery may help. What’s the procedure of the firmware recovery? (02/06/2012)
5.	One of our 1U server's power supply seems to be about to die. The server has an X5 SCSI board with 3 hot-swap drive bays. The PWS-0036 in it is an EOL. Can I use the PWS-0037, instead? It’s listed with 2U form factor. (02/06/2012)
6.	When I was flashing the IPMI firmware for X8DTT-IBXF from a remote server outside the data center, I got an error message “Cannot create IPMI session” or something similar. The command I used is: ./Yafuflash -full -force-boot -nw -ip -u -p .ima Is there any TCP/IP port still needs to be opened? (02/06/2012)
7.	I installed AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 on C7P67 slot 4, and the HDD on SAS2LP-MV8 would disappear every time I copy files from onboard SATA2 HDD to MV8 HDD in Windows 7. Do you have solution for this? (02/05/2012)
8.	Will X9SCV-Q motherboard support i3-330M processor? The i3-330M socket is PGA988. (02/03/2012)
9.	Is there a way to configure to 'always power on' after power failure, with the PTJBOD-CB1? (02/03/2012)
10.	Does the X7SPA-HF support booting from the PCI-E slot (for example an OCZ RevoDrive)? (02/03/2012)

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