SOFTPAQ NUMBER: SP30876 PART NUMBER: N/A FILE NAME: SP30876.EXE TITLE: Systems ROMPaq Firmware Upgrade Diskette for HP ProLiant ML570 G3 Servers. VERSION: 4.02A LANGUAGE: English CATEGORY: ROMPaqs DIVISIONS: Systems PRODUCTS AFFECTED: HP ProLiant ML570 G3 OPERATING SYSTEM: ALL SYSTEM CONFIGURATION: N/A PREREQUISITE: N/A EFFECTIVE DATE: July 15, 2005 ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED: Yes SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION: 2.X SUPERSEDES: SP30412 DESCRIPTION: This release provides updated system ROM images for the latest maintenance releases of HP ProLiant ML570 G3 Servers. New Features - HP ProLiant ML570 G3 ROM P37 (06/03/2005) ============================================ 1) 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. 2) Added support for HP's One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR) solution with HP's new USB tape drives, including the StorageWorks DAT 40 and StorageWorks DAT 72 USB tape drives. This support can be enabled when a USB Tape Drive is manually placed in OBDR mode or the user selects OBDR support during POST by pressing F8 when prompted. Problems Fixed - HP ProLiant ML570 G3 ROM P37 (06/03/2005) ============================================ 1) 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. 2) 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. 3) 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. 4) Updated to address issue where the Broadcom PXE Option ROM did not use the proper Universal Unique ID. This will not result in any issues unless a specific UUID is required. If the PXE server is configured to only download images to servers with specific UUIDs, then the PXE installation will not work properly if the UUID the PXE Option ROM is using does not match the one configured on the PXE server. 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 SP30876.EXE. 3. From that drive and directory, execute the SoftPaq file: SP30876 [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 SP30876.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