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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 27
9 BIOS
9.1 Overview
The PowerEdge M910 BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core, and supports the following features:
• IA‐32 Intel Xeon 7500 chipset 4S
• Simultaneous Multi‐Threading (SMT)
• CPU Turbo Mode
• PCI 2.3
• Plug n’ 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 http://www.acpi.info/for more
information.