Bios; Overview; Supported Acpi States - Dell PowerEdge R715 Technical Manual

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8 BIOS

8.1 Overview

The PowerEdge R715 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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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 keyboard, video, mouse (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 R715 BIOS does not support the following:
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Embedded Diagnostics (embedded in Life Cycle Controller)
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BIOS language localization
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BIOS recovery after bad flash (but can be recovered from iDRAC6 Express)

8.2 Supported ACPI States

Supported system ACPI states: S0, S4 (OS), and S5
Supported CPU ACPI states: C1E
Processor power states: P0 (highest – runtime) to P4 (lowest)
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