Clearing and resetting the CMOS ......................................................................................................................... 73
Using the CMOS button to reset CMOS .............................................................................................. 73
Using Computer Setup (F10) Utility to reset CMOS ........................................................................... 74
Appendix A  Linux technical notes ....................................................................................................................  75
System RAM .........................................................................................................................................................  75
Audio ....................................................................................................................................................................  75
Network cards ...................................................................................................................................................... 76
Hyper-Threading Technology ..............................................................................................................................  76
NVIDIA Graphics Workstations ............................................................................................................................. 77
Appendix B  Conguring RAID devices ...............................................................................................................  78
RAID hard drive maximum and associated storage controller options ..............................................................  79
Supported RAID congurations ........................................................................................................................... 79
Conguring Intel SATA RAID ................................................................................................................................. 80
Conguring the system BIOS to enable embedded SATA RAID functionality ................................... 80
Conguring RAID volumes in Option ROM ......................................................................................... 81
Conguring SATA RAID in Windows .....................................................................................................................  81
Software RAID solution ........................................................................................................................................ 81
Software RAID considerations ..........................................................................................................  82
Performance considerations ............................................................................................................. 82
Conguring software RAID ................................................................................................................  82
Appendix C  System board designators .............................................................................................................  83
Main system board ..............................................................................................................................................  83
Rear I/O board ......................................................................................................................................................  84
Side I/O board ......................................................................................................................................................  85
Thunderbolt 2 module board ..............................................................................................................................  85
Index .............................................................................................................................................................  86
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