Dell
PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide
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9
BIOS
9.1
Overview
The
Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910
BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core, and supports the following features:
•
IA
‐
32 Intel Xeon 7510 chipset 4S
•
Simultaneous Multi
‐
Threading (SMT)
•
CPU Turbo Mode
•
PCI 2.3
•
Plug-and-play 1.0a
•
MP (Multiprocessor) 1.4
•
Boot from hard drive, optical drive, iSCSI drive, USB key, and SD card
•
ACPI
•
Direct Media Interface (DMI)
•
PXE and WOL support for on
‐
board NICs
•
Memory mirroring and sparing
•
SETUP access through <F2> key at end of POST
•
USB 2.0 (USB boot code is 1.1 compliant)
•
F1/F2 error logging in CMOS
•
Virtual KVM, CD
•
UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) 2.1 support
The PowerEdge M910 BIOS does
not
support the following:
•
Embedded Diagnostics
•
BIOS language localization
•
BIOS recovery after bad flash (but can be recovered from iDRAC6 Enterprise)
9.2
Supported ACPI States
The PowerEdge M910 supports the standard ACPI states. See
www.acpi.info
for more information.