Bios; Overview; Supported Acpi States - Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Manual

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BIOS

9.1 Overview

The M915 BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core, and supports the following features:
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G34 support
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Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) support
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PCI 2.3 compliant
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Plug-and-play 1.0a compliant
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MP (Multiprocessor) 1.4 compliant
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Ability to boot from hard drive, optical drive, iSCSI drive, USB key, and SD card
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ACPI support
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PXE and WOL support for on-board NICs
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Memory sparing support
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SETUP access through <F2> key at end of POST
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USB 2.0 (USB boot code is 1.1 compliant)
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F1/F2 error logging in CMOS
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Virtual KVM, CD, and floppy support
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Unified Server Configurator (UEFI 2.1) support
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Power management support, including DBS, Power Inventory and multiple Power Profiles
The PowerEdge M915 BIOS does not support the following:
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BIOS language localization
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BIOS recovery after bad flash

9.2 Supported ACPI States

Supported ACPI system states include S0, S4 (OS), and S5. The M915 supports the standard ACPI
states (see ACPI.info).
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