Intel S5000PAL and S5000PALR Motherboards

In this article you will find detailed information about the Intel S5000PAL and S5000PALR Motherboards.

Motherboard Data

Intel S5000PAL Motherboard (supports only 65nm Xeon 51xx/53xx CPUs)

Intel S5000PALR Motherboard (supports 65nm Xeon 51xx/53xx CPUs und 45nm Xeon 52xx/54xx CPUs (see SR2500 45nm CPUs require S5000PALR Motherboard))

• Manufacturer: Intel
• Motherboard: S5000PAL and S5000PALR (additional information at Intel ARK)
• Manual: manual S5000PAL and S5000PALR
• FAQs: FAQs for 'S5000PAL' bei Intel
• Downloads: SR2500

Features

• Differences between the Motherboard variants:
  • S5000PAL: supports only 65nm Xeon 51xx/53xx CPUs
  • S5000PALR: supports 65nm Xeon 51xx/53xx CPUs und 45nm Xeon 52xx/54xx CPUs (see SR2500 45nm CPUs require S5000PALR Motherboard)
• Motherboard form factor: SSI TEB 2.1 12" x 13" (305mm x 330mm)
• CPU socket: LGA-771 (Dual CPU)
• RAM:
  • Number of DIMM slots: 8
  • Memory type: ECC Fully Buffered DDR2
  • Possible sizes of Memory Modules: 1GiB, 2GiB, 4GiB
  • Maximum Memory Capacity: 32GB
• SATA chip: ESB-2 SATA
  • 6 Ports
  • Das Chassis and the specific configuration of your server will determine the number of disks that can be connected to the board.
• Expansion slots:
  • Depends on the Riser Card (1U or 2U Chassis)
• Graphics chip: ATI ES1000 with 16 MB DDR SDRAM

• IPMI chip: IPMI Chip onboard

Hardware Revisions

• S5000PALR (SR2500 45nm CPUs require S5000PALR Motherboard)
• S5000PAL

BIOS

BIOS Versions

Recommendation: After a BIOS update load the default settings of the BIOS, and adjust the configuration as suggested below at BIOS Configuration.

• BIOS 101, BMC 68, FRU 48
• BIOS 99, BMC 68, FRU 48
• BIOS 98, BMC 65, FRU 48
• BIOS 85, BMC 62, FRU 47

BIOS Settings

At Thomas Krenn, after loading the default settings the following BIOS configuration adjustments are applied before a server with this motherboard gets its test installation and gets shipped:

"Quiet Boot" -> "Disabled"

IPMI

IPMI Versions

• See BMC versions in the BIOS versions

Servers with Intel S5000PAL und S5000PALR

• 2U Intel Dual-CPU SR2500 Server (Server was sold off)

 

Author: Werner Fischer Werner Fischer, working in the Knowledge Transfer team at Thomas-Krenn, completed his studies of Computer and Media Security at FH Hagenberg in Austria. He is a regular speaker at many conferences like LinuxTag, OSMC, OSDC, LinuxCon, and author for various IT magazines. In his spare time he enjoys playing the piano and training for a good result at the annual Linz marathon relay.