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9 BIOS
9.1 Overview
A flash resides on the SPI bus for BIOS and configuration storage. A 32 Mbit device is used for this function. This permits the BIOS to be upgraded in the field via a bootable device rather than by physically removing an EEPROM. The System BIOS, Video BIOS, server management, and PCI configuration are housed in this flash.
The following table clarifies what is and is not supported by the PowerEdge R510 BIOS code.
| Table 14. | BIOS Support | |
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| Not Supported |
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| System BIOS |
| EISA |
| System Setup |
| AGP |
| Onboard PCI video BIOS support |
| Storage clustering |
| SATA enabled for CDROM and HDD |
| BIOS Recovery |
| PCI FW3.0 compliant |
| ESCD |
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| SCSI BIOS unit testing | |
| Plug and Play BIOS 1.0a compliant |
| SCSI software such as OS driver |
| MP 1.4 |
| ESM II, ESM3, ESM4 or Hydrogen (ESM5) |
| SMBIOS 2.6+ |
| DRAC III or DRAC IV |
| USB 1.1 with legacy USB support |
| ERA/O Remote Access Card |
| USB 2.0 support in BIOS during |
| IDE Hard drive support. |
| Dell Server Assistant 7.0 support |
| Any embedded diagnostics |
| System Service (Utility Partition) support |
| SMART support |
| iDRAC supported |
| Owner Tag support |
| Error logging via ESM and IPMI |
| First Contact support |
| ACPI 2.0 support (S0, |
| RCU support; resource locking feature not available in the |
| I2O v1.5 ready |
| system with new system setup |
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| Selectable Boot support based on BIOS Boot Specification |
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| v1.01 |
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| Remote BIOS Update support |
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| Remote Configuration Interface (RCI) support |
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| Console redirection via COM1 or COM2 |
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| PXE support based on Preboot Execution Environment |
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| Specification v2.1 |
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| ePPID support in flash |
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| Memory remapping support |
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| Redundant Memory support |
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| Memory mirroring |
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| DDR3 RDIMM and UDIMM memory support |
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| UEFI shell Support |
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| iDRAC6 support |
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| IOAT |
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