DELL INC.
BIOS RELEASE NOTES

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System:         OEM Ready R610
Version:        1.1.4
Release Date:   05/15/2009

* Added Hardware Prefetch to the Processor Settings menu of System Setup.
* Corrected a rare issue, wherein system errors do not get logged.
* Corrected few issues while booting to Windows 2008 in UEFI mode
* Enhanced performance in non-fully-multithreaded workloads with Advanced Power Control enabled.
* Changed to properly preserve ESI in E820
* Updated MRC to improve performance
* Added 9600 bps baud rate support for console redirection
* Added support for 2 Memory DIMMs Per channel when Memory Bus speed is at 1333MHz
* Added support for 16GB Memory DIMMs
* Fixed issue where Coherent Serial over LAN with iDRAC6 was unreliable during POST, sometimes displaying unknown characters.
* Fixed issue where some PCIe Gen1 cards failed to train properly.
* Fixed issue where certain benckmarks were resulting in lower performance in Max Performance mode.

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System:         OEM Ready R610
Version:        1.0.4
Release Date:   03/12/2009

This release is the first customer release.
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by an emulator of an EFI implementation.