Dell 2950 manual Getting Started With Your System

The system board includes the following features:

•One of the following left riser card options:

–A left riser card that has one full-length PCIe x8 lane slot and one full-length PCIe x4 lane slot.

OR

–A left riser card that has two full-length PCI-X 3.3-V, 64-bit,133-MHz slots on separate PCI-X buses (capable of throttling back to support legacy PCI add-in cards).

•A center riser card that has one half-length PCIe x8 lane slot.

•Dedicated slot for an integrated SAS host bus adapter or an optional RAID controller card with

256 MB of cache memory and a RAID battery. The internal channel supports up to eight 2.5-inch SAS or six 3.5-inch SATA hard drives.

NOTE: System boot is not supported from an external device attached to a SAS or SCSI adapter, including SAS 5/E, PERC 5/E, or PERC 4e/DC. See support.dell.com for the latest support information about booting from external devices.

•Two integrated Gigabit Ethernet NICs, capable of supporting 10-Mbps, 100-Mbps, and 1000-Mbps data rates.

•Four USB 2.0-compliant connectors (two on the front and two on the back) capable of supporting a diskette drive, a CD-ROM drive, a keyboard, a mouse, or a USB flash drive.

•Optional remote access controller (RAC) for remote systems management.

•An integrated VGA-compatible video subsystem with an ATI ES1000, 33-MHz PCI video controller. This video subsystem contains 16 MB of DDR SDRAM video memory (nonupgradable). Maximum resolution is 1600 x 1200 with 64 K colors; true-color graphics are supported in the following resolutions: 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1152 x 864, and 1280 x 1024. When the optional RAC is installed, the video resolution is 1280 X 1024.

•Systems management circuitry that monitors operation of the system fans as well as critical system voltages and temperatures. The systems management circuitry works in conjunction with the systems management software.

•Standard baseboard management controller with serial access.

•Back-panel connectors include one serial, one video, two USB, and two NIC connectors.

•Front-panel connectors include a video and two USB connectors.

•Front-panel 1x5 LCD for system ID and error messaging.

•System ID button on the front and back panels.

For more information about specific features, see "Technical Specifications" on page 10.

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