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Dell™ PowerEdge™ T610 Technical Guidebook
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PCI Express Generation 2
PCI Express is a serial point‑to‑point interconnect for I/O devices. PCIe Gen2 doubles the signaling bit
rate of each lane from 2.5 Gb/s to 5 Gb/s. Each of the PCIe Gen2 ports are backwards‑compatible with
Gen1 transfer rates.
In the Intel 5520 Chipset, there are two x2 PCIe Gen2 ports (1Gb/s) and eight x4 PCIe Gen2 ports
(2 Gb/s). The x2 ports can be combined as a x4 link; however, this x4 link cannot be combined with any
of the other x4 ports. Two neighboring x4 ports can be combined as a x8 link, and both resulting x8
links can combine to form a x16 link.
Intel I/O Controller Hub 9 (ICH9)
ICH9 is a highly integrated I/O controller, supporting the following functions:
•Sixx1PCIeGen1ports,withthecapabilityofcombiningports1-4asax4link
•TheseportsareunusedonthePowerEdgeT610
•PCIBus32-bitInterfaceRev2.3runningat33MHz
•UptosixSerialATA(SATA)portswithtransferratesupto300MB/s
•ThePowerEdgeT610featurestwoSATAportsforoptionalinternalopticaldriveand/or
tape backup
•SixUHCIandtwoEHCI(High-Speed2.0)USBhostcontrollers,withuptotwelveUSBports
•ThePowerEdgeT610haseightexternalUSBportsandoneinternalUSBport.Referto
the Whoville Hardware/BIOS Specification for the USB assignments for each platform
•Powermanagementinterface(ACPI3.0bcompliant)
•PlatformEnvironmentalControlInterface(PECI)
•IntelDynamicPowerModeManager
•I/Ointerruptcontroller
•SMBus2.0controller
•LowPinCount(LPC)interfacetoSuperI/O,TrustedPlatformModule(TPM),andSuperVU
•SerialPeripheralInterface(SPI)supportforuptotwodevices
•ThePowerEdgeT610’sBIOSisconnectedtotheICHusingSPI
SECTION 9. BIOS
A. Overview / Description
The PowerEdge T610 BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core and supports the following features:
•IA-32Nehalem-EP2SSupport
•SimultaneousMulti-Threading(SMT)support
•CPUTurboModesupport
•PCI2.3compliant
•Plugn’Play1.0acompliant
•MP(Multiprocessor)1.4compliant
•Bootfromharddrive,opticaldrive,iSCSIdrive,USBkey,andSDcard
•ACPIsupport
•DirectMediaInterface(DMI)support
•PXEandWOLsupportforon-boardNICs
•Memorymirroring
•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,andoppysupport
•UniedServerConguratorsupport
•PowermanagementsupportincludingDBS,PowerInventoryandmultiplePowerProles