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System Limitations With an Optional PCIe Riser The PCIe riser expands the number of PCIe expansion slots available in the system to 10. Due to the limitation of 64 KB I/O address space on the Intel® IA32 architecture and the I/O granularity of 4 KB set by the PCI bridge specification, you can exceed the I/O resources if you populate the slots with adapters which require more than 4 KB of I/O address space. The system does not complete POST if 64 KB I/O address space is exceeded. For more information on supported adapters, see the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R910 Hardware Owner's Manual at support.dell.com/manuals. Dell Update Package Information During the Dell Update Package (DUP) installation process, you may see messages related to the following: • Request for system reboot before the DUP installation is complete • Windows hardware detection • Windows hardware configuration problem • Re-enumeration of VFlash and momentary drive letter changes in Windows CAUTION: Ensure that you do not perform write operations during DUP installation on VFlash. It is recommended that you disable the OS Watchdog Timer in the system BIOS when running the BIOS DUP. The system may reboot in the middle of an update and results in corrupted flash if: • The OS Watchdog Timer in the system BIOS is enabled • The timer expires (if set too short) NIC Teaming The system has Broadcom embedded NICs that can be teamed with other vendors such as Intel. It is recommended that you use Broadcom teaming driver. Information Update 5

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Information Update
5
System Limitations With an Optional PCIe Riser
The PCIe riser expands the number of PCIe expansion slots available in the
system to 10. Due to the limitation of 64 KB I/O address space on the Intel
®
IA32 architecture and the I/O granularity of 4 KB set by the PCI bridge
specification, you can exceed the I/O resources if you populate the slots with
adapters which require more than 4 KB of I/O address space. The system does
not complete POST if 64 KB I/O address space is exceeded. For more
information on supported adapters, see the
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R910
Hardware Owner's Manual
at
support.dell.com/manuals
.
Dell Update Package Information
During the Dell Update Package (DUP) installation process, you may see
messages related to the following:
•
Request for system reboot before the DUP installation is complete
•
Windows hardware detection
•
Windows hardware configuration problem
•
Re-enumeration of VFlash and momentary drive letter changes in
Windows
CAUTION:
Ensure that you do not perform write operations during DUP
installation on VFlash.
It is recommended that you disable the OS Watchdog Timer in the system
BIOS when running the BIOS DUP. The system may reboot in the middle of
an update and results in corrupted flash if:
•
The
OS Watchdog Timer
in the system BIOS is enabled
•
The timer expires (if set too short)
NIC Teaming
The system has Broadcom embedded NICs that can be teamed with other
vendors such as Intel. It is recommended that you use Broadcom teaming
driver.