Precision T5810 Workstation and INTEL SSD Series 750

I’m trying to spec out a Precision T5810 Workstation and install a INTEL SSD Series 750 drive in it. According to the top rated review at http://www.amazon.co.uk/INTEL-Series-400GB-Full-Height/dp/B00VPK0NSI There are two types of NVM-e Express Drives Type 1 is a 2.5″ Form Factor utilizing a special M.2 adapter card and cable (included with drive). Type 2 … Read more

Dell R410 and X5690 wont boot

I have an R410 that we opened up to upgrade from 2 x E5520 to 2 x X5690. However after the upgrade network didnt work and we could not even get a monitor output. We tried swapping CPU positions and eventually pulled the processor out. We since discovered we were running 1.2 bios and dell … Read more

Kvm poor cpu performance

I have running some Minecraft Servers in a Qemu VM over Libvirt, and the performance is only half good than on real hardware. Libvirt started the vm over: /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc-1.1 -cpu SandyBridge,+osxsave,+pdcm,+xtpr,+tm2,+est,+smx,+vmx,+ds_cpl,+monitor,+dtes64,+pbe,+tm,+ht,+ss,+acpi,+ds,+vme -enable-kvm -m 28672 -smp 6,sockets=6,cores=1,threads=1 -name Minecraft -uuid ed7e6bda-2e9f-3895-2ff8-c52c54db588f -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/Minecraft.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive … Read more

Hard disk is not detecting in Intel® Server Board S2600CP

I am trying to install Debian Squeeze 64 bit OS in the “Intel® Server Board S2600CP” server. But while installing the OS , hard disk is not detecting to do the partition. When we search in internet , We found that red hat has been using megasr module to detect raid controller. This raid controller … Read more

How to configure expander card RES2SV240 in an Intel Server Board S2600WT?

So, I’m trying to configure this expander card into my server. I have an Intel Server Board S2600WT in a R2312WTTYS case, which means I have a backplane in the front with 12 slots, and another backplane in the back holding 2 disks. Front backplane has 10 disks: slots 0 and 1 holding a SSD, … Read more

Intel® Server Board S1200SPL – Xeon with IGP Required?

According to the Intel ARK page, it indicates that this board has integrated graphics: http://ark.intel.com/products/88263 Does this mean I can put an Intel Xeon processor in it that doesn’t come processor graphics built in? Answer If the motherboard has integrated graphics support, then you can use either processors with or without integrated graphics. See the … Read more

Oops in syslog and freeze the server with docker

I’ve got following exceptions after my server freezes and reboot for 2 times I cannot tell the relevant with docker, but it happends every time I started some containers and I cannot find any useful from the syslog: Nov 24 15:21:30 shisoft-idc kernel: [25671.700452] Oops: 0000 [#2] SMP Nov 24 15:21:30 shisoft-idc kernel: [25671.713472] Modules … Read more

Intel 82599EB Not Working on Linux

I have just received my new X310 + Intel 82599EB. I cannot ping the device. If I connect the X310 to the 1Gb ethernet port of my host then everything works fine; If I connect the X310 to the 10Gb 82599EB with the supplied cable, I cannot ping the device. I have the latest versions … Read more

weird windows 7 update Intel Display

I have this weird update in windows update on windows 7. Full details from windows update: Intel Corporation – Display – 12/14/2017 12:00:00 AM – 10.18.14.4889 Download size: 86.7 MB You may need to restart your computer for this update to take effect. Update type: Important Intel Corporation Display driver update released in December 2017 … Read more

Server Board S2600WT2R unable to set clock speed to 2400 MHz

I have an Intel® Server Board S2600WT2R I have set the Memory Operating Speed in the bios to 2400, but dmidecode reports that “Configured Clock Speed: 2134 MHz”. If I set the clock speed in the bios below 2133, the clock speed changes appropriately. I have been through the BIOS manual and I believe I’ve … Read more