Update Report
Name PE1750-BIOSA12 - BIOS Update for Dell PowerEdge 1750
Type BIOS
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Version
A12
Release Date
11/20/2006
Summary
BIOS update A12
Details
Dell recommends applying this update during your next scheduled update cycle. The update contains feature enhancements or changes that will help keep your system software current and compatible with other system modules (firmware, BIOS, drivers and software).

Important Information
In a rare case, a PE1750 with 533 MHz FSB (Front Side Bus) may encounter data integrity issue on any volume created on a controller in PCI Slot 2. This may happen only in the following configuration:
Only if I/O is running on both PCI (not PCI-X) add-in cards and DMA on these two PCI devices are accessing the same memory region, specifically same 64-byte cache line in memory.


NOTE: Systems with 400MHz FSB are not affected by this issue.

For more information on this issue, search for Dell document on support.dell.com: PE2650/PV775/PE1750 with 533 MHz FSB (Front Side Bus) may exhibit data integrity under certain conditions.
 
 Compatibility
 Systems Operating systems
 PowerEdge 1750
 Not Applicable
 
 
 
 Fixes and Enhancements
* Added a workaround to prevent a potential data integrity
issue caused by Serverworks chipset in a specific system
configuration scenario.
 

Notes