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Product Description

1.11.1.1 RJ-45 LAN Connector with Integrated LEDs

Two LEDs are built into the RJ-45 LAN connector (shown in Figure 12 below).

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Green LED

Yellow LED

Figure 12. LAN Connector LED Locations

Table 8 describes the LED states when the board is powered up and the 10/100 Mbits/sec LAN
subsystem is operating.

Table 8.

LAN Connector LED States

LED Color

LED State

Condition

Off

LAN link is not established.

On

LAN link is established.

Green

Blinking

LAN activity is occurring.

Off

10 Mbits/sec data rate is selected.

Yellow

On

100 Mbits/sec data rate is selected.

1.11.2 Alert Standard Format (ASF) Support

The boards provide the following ASF support for PCI Express x1 bus add-in LAN cards and PCI
Conventional bus add-in LAN cards installed in PCI Conventional bus slot 2:
• Monitoring of system firmware progress events, including:

 BIOS present
 Primary processor initialization
 Memory initialization
 Video initialization
 PCI resource configuration
 Hard-disk initialization
 User authentication
 Starting operating system boot process

• Monitoring of system firmware error events, including:

 Memory missing
 Memory failure
 No video device
 Keyboard failure
 Hard-disk failure
 No boot media

• Boot options to boot from different types of boot devices
• Reset, shutdown, power cycle, and power up options

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