Dell Precision Tower 3420 Owner's Manual page 30

Option
Advanced Boot Options
Date/Time
Table 4. System configuration
Option
Integrated NIC
Serial Port
SATA Operation
Drives
SMART Reporting
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Description
• UEFI
Allows you to Enable Legacy Option ROMs
• Enable Legacy Option ROMs (Default: not enabled)
Allows you to set the date and time. The changes to the system date and
time takes effect immediately.
Description
Allows you to configure the integrated network controller. The options are:
• Enable UEFI Network Stack
• Disabled
NOTE: You can use the Disabled option, only if Active Management
Technology (AMT) option is disabled.
• Enabled
• Enabled w/PXE (Default)
• Enabled w/Cloud Desktop
Identifies and defines the serial port settings. You can set the serial port to:
• Disabled
• COM1 (Default)
• COM2
• COM3
• COM4
NOTE: The operating system may allocate resources even if the
setting is disabled.
Allows you to configure the internal SATA hard-drive controller. The
options are:
• Disabled
• AHCI
• RAID On (Default)
Allows you to configure the SATA drives on board. The options are:
• SATA-0
• SATA-1
• SATA-2
• M.2 PCIe SSD-0
Default Setting: All drives are enabled.
This field controls if the hard drive errors for the integrated drives are
reported during system startup. This technology is part of the SMART (Self
Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) specification.
• Enable SMART Reporting - This option is disabled by default.