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Dell PowerEdge R610 Motherboard Overview
Dell PowerEdge R610 Server Motherboard planar incorporates the Intel Xeon 5500 processor series chipset for I/O and processor interfacing. The Dell R610 Server Motherboard chipset is designed to support the Intel Xeon 5500 and 5600 processor series family, QuickPath Interconnect, DDR3 memory technology, and PCI Express Generation 2. The chipset consists of the Intel 5500 chipset I/O Hub (IOH) and ICH9.
The R610 BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core and supports the following features:
- Intel Xeon 5500 and 5600 processor series 2S support
- Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) support
- Processor Turbo Mode support
- PCI 2.3 compliant
- Plug and Play 1.0a compliant
- MP (Multiprocessor) 1.4 compliant
- Ability to 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 support
- 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 floppy support
- UEFI 2.1 support
- Power management support, including DBS, Power Inventory, and multiple power profiles
- Intel TXT (5600 series)
- Intel AESNI (5600 series)
- The R610 BIOS does not support the following:
- BIOS language localization
- BIOS recovery after bad flash (can be recovered from iDRAC6 Express)
Embedded NICs/LAN on Dell PowerEdge R610 Motherboard (LOM)
The PowerEdge R610 has embedded Gigabit Ethernet Controllers with TCP Offload Engine (TOE) support. Two embedded Broadcom 5709C dual-port LAN controllers are on the R610 planar as independent Gigabit Ethernet interface devices. The following information details the features of the LAN devices:
- x4 PCI Express Gen2 capable interface (controller operated at Gen1 speed)
- Integrated MAC and PHY 3072×18 Byte context memory
- 64 KB receive buffer
- TOE (TCP Offload Engine)
- iSCSI controller (enabled through an optional hardware key)
- RDMA controller (RNIC) (enabled post-RTS through an optional hardware key)
- NC-SI (Network Controller-Sideband Interface) connection for manageability
- Wake-On-LAN (WOL)
- PXE 2.0 remote boot
- iSCSI boot
- IPv4 and IPv6 support
- Bare metal deployment support
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