Clearing and resetting the CMOS ......................................................................................................................... 73
Using the CMOS button to reset CMOS .............................................................................................. 73
Using Computer Setup (F10) Utility to reset CMOS ........................................................................... 74
Appendix A Linux technical notes .................................................................................................................... 75
System RAM ......................................................................................................................................................... 75
Audio .................................................................................................................................................................... 75
Network cards ...................................................................................................................................................... 76
Hyper-Threading Technology .............................................................................................................................. 76
NVIDIA Graphics Workstations ............................................................................................................................. 77
Appendix B Configuring RAID devices ............................................................................................................... 78
RAID hard drive maximum and associated storage controller options .............................................................. 79
Supported RAID configurations ........................................................................................................................... 79
Configuring Intel SATA RAID ................................................................................................................................. 80
Configuring the system BIOS to enable embedded SATA RAID functionality ................................... 80
Configuring RAID volumes in Option ROM ......................................................................................... 81
Configuring SATA RAID in Windows ..................................................................................................................... 81
Software RAID solution ........................................................................................................................................ 81
Software RAID considerations .......................................................................................................... 82
Performance considerations ............................................................................................................. 82
Configuring software RAID ................................................................................................................ 82
Appendix C System board designators ............................................................................................................. 83
Main system board .............................................................................................................................................. 83
Rear I/O board ...................................................................................................................................................... 84
Side I/O board ...................................................................................................................................................... 85
Thunderbolt 2 module board .............................................................................................................................. 85
Index ............................................................................................................................................................. 86
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