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Affected products:Dell EMC 14th Generation PowerEdge servers with PCIe adapters (such as NVIDIA GPU) and Windows server 2012R2, 2016 and 2019 operations systems with X2APIC enabled in system BIOS.Summary:Dell EMC 14th Generation PowerEdge servers with PCIe add-in cards (such as NVIDIA GPU) may encounter a BSOD when installing standalone chipset driver or when performing Lifecycle Controller based OS deployment with X2APIC enabled in system BIOS.Details:Dell EMC 14th Generation PowerEdge servers with PCIe add-in cards (such as NVIDIA GPU) may encounter a BSOD when installing standalone chipset driver or when performing Lifecycle Controller based OS deployment with X2APIC enabled in system BIOS. The following BSOD types are encountered: Windows Server 2012 R2 - IRQLWindows Server 2016 - WHEAWindows Server 2019 - IRQL Both Intel and AMD processor types are impacted Resolution:To recover and successfully update the Chipset Driver perform one of the following options: Option 1: Temporarily disable X2APIC, install the chipset driver and then re-enable X2APIC Disable X2APIC in System BIOS as shown below. Update the PCIe card drivers to the latest Dell/Vendor versions.Update the Chipset drivers from the Dell support site.Enable X2APIC. Option 2: Extract the chipset drivers and install through the Command Prompt Right click on the chipset driver installer and select Run As Administrator. Select Extract in the GUI as shown below. Create temp folder named chipset in desktop to extract the drivers. For Example: "C:\Users\User_Name\Desktop\Driver\ " Once extraction successfully completes, the Dell Update Package will indicate success and extracted directory should contain following contents: Note: Windows Server 2019 Chipset drivers will be located in "…\DriverFiles\production\Windows10-x64". Open a Command Prompt window (Run as administrator) and run PnPUtil command For Servers running Windows Server 2019: pnputil.exe /Add-Driver C:\Users\User_Name\Desktop\Chipset\DriverFiles\production\Windows10-x64 For Windows Server 2016 Chipset drivers will be located in "…\DriverFiles\production\W2K16-x64" and command is: For WS2012R2 Chipset drivers will be located in "…\DriverFiles\production\W2K12R2-x64" and command is: It takes few minutes to load the chipset drivers and receive a success message. Once chipset drivers loaded successfully, restart the host machine and boot into Operating System. Windows Plug and Play Manager will install all the chipset drivers and clear any yellow bangs from Device Manager after login.

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