SOFTPAQ NUMBER: SP30847 PART NUMBER: N/A FILE NAME: SP30847.EXE TITLE: Systems ROMPaq Firmware Upgrade Diskette for HP ProLiant DL380 G4 Servers. VERSION: 4.04A LANGUAGE: English CATEGORY: ROMPaqs DIVISIONS: Systems PRODUCTS AFFECTED: HP ProLiant DL380 G4 OPERATING SYSTEM: ALL SYSTEM CONFIGURATION: N/A PREREQUISITE: N/A EFFECTIVE DATE: July 13, 2005 ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED: Yes SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION: 2.X SUPERSEDES: SP30418 DESCRIPTION: This release provides updated system ROM images for the latest maintenance releases of HP ProLiant DL380 G4 Servers. New Features - ProLiant DL380 G4 ROM P51 (06/02/2005) ============================================ 1) Updated the ROM-Based Virtual Install Disk driver for the Smart Array P600 Controller. This driver allows installations of Microsoft Windows 2003 32-bit and Windows 2003 64-bit x86 without requiring the customer to provide a driver via a floppy disk or other means. This new driver for the Smart Array P600 Controller includes a fix for the following issue: Systems running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with a Smart Array P600 Controller and loading the Storport miniport driver HpCISSs2.SYS may generate the following STOP code message during periods of intensive I/O operations or when running Microsoft Cluster Server software: STOP 0xA: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL This System ROM includes the following versions of the Smart Array P600 Controller drivers: HpCISSs2.SYS Version 5.0.2.32 for 32-bit x86 editions of Microsoft Windows Server 2003. HPCISSs2.SYS Version 5.0.2.64 for 64-bit x86 editions of Microsoft Windows Server 2003. 2) Added support for monitoring processor power states via HP's Integrated Lights Out (iLO) functionality when a system is configured for Power Regulator HP Dynamic Power Savings Mode. This allows a customer using iLO and Power Regulator to monitor processor power usage. This feature requires upgrading iLO Firmware to version 1.80 or later. 3) Added support for HP's One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR) solution with USB tape drives. This support can be enabled when a USB Tape Drive is placed in OBDR mode and the user selects OBDR support during POST by pressing F8 when prompted. Problems Fixed - ProLiant DL380 G4 ROM P51 (06/02/2005) ============================================ 1) Updated to resolve an issue with some memory (dual ranked DIMMs) that caused the System ROM to display the incorrect amount of memory installed when first booting the server after resetting the system configuration. 2) Added RBSU option to address issues with certain PCI-Express cards which may result in an NMI or Windows blue screen in inappropriate instances. The issue arises over the interpretation of the specification governing PCI-Express. Different PCI-Express cards interpret certain error functionality differently. The specification governing PCI-Express will be clarified in a future revision. Legacy PCI SERR is enabled by default. If the installation of a PCI-Express card results in an unexpected NMI or blue screen, modifying this option may address the issue if there are no issues with the PCI-Express card. 3) Updated to improve performance for certain PCI-33 and PCI-66 expansion cards. This ROM will improve performance for PCI expansion cards that perform burst memory reads from system memory. This does not affect performance of PCI-X or PCI-Express expansion cards. The modifications to this System ROM version are known to improve performance for PCI expansion cards utilizing the Intel i960 RD chipset, the AMCC PCI MatchMaker chipset, and the PLX PCI9656-BA66BI Chipset. 4) Updated to work-around issue with PCI and PCI-X cards that do not retry delayed transactions within the appropriate amount of time. This condition was resulting in an NMI and bluescreen under Microsoft Windows operating systems. This issue was seen with the Stratis MPEG-2 Decoder PCI Card. The issue would occur with any PCI card utilizing the Phillips SAA7146AH PCI-PCI Bridge. HOW TO USE: 1. Obtain a formatted 1.44 MB diskette. 2. Download the SoftPaq to a directory on your hard drive and change to that directory. The file that is downloaded is SP30847.EXE. 3. From that drive and directory, execute the SoftPaq file: SP30847 [ENTER] You will be prompted to place the formatted 1.44 MB diskette into a diskette drive to create diskette. 4. After the diskette is created, you may delete the downloaded file SP30847.EXE if you wish. Copyright 2005, Hewlett-Packard Company. All rights reserved. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies