Bios; Overview; Supported Acpi States; I 2 C (Inter-Integrated Circuit) - Dell PowerEdge T610 Technical Manual

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BIOS

9.1

Overview

The PowerEdge T610 BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core and supports the following features:
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Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) support
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Processor Turbo Mode 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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Direct Media Interface (DMI) support
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PXE and WOL support for on-board NICs
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Memory mirroring 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 Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) 2.1 support
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Power management support including DBS, Power Inventory and multiple power profiles
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Intel TXT (5600 processor series)
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Intel AESNI (5600 processor series)
The T610 BIOS does not support the following:
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BIOS language localization
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BIOS recovery after bad flash (can be recovered from iDRAC6 Express)
9.2

Supported ACPI States

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is a standard interface for enabling the operating
system to direct configuration and power management.
The Intel Xeon processor 5500 and 5600 series supports the following C-States: C0, C1, C1E, C3, and
C6. The T610 supports all of the available C-States.
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9.3 I C (Inter-Integrated Circuit)
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I C is a simple bi-directional two-wire bus for efficient inter-integrated circuit control. All I
compatible devices incorporate an on-chip interface which allows them to communicate directly with
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each other via the I C bus. This design concept solves the many interfacing problems encountered
when designing digital control circuits. These I
intelligent control devices (such as microcontrollers), general-purpose circuits (such as LCD drivers,
remote I/O ports, memories) and application-oriented circuits.
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C devices perform communication functions between
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C-bus
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