Reference Guide

January 2017
Statement of Volatility Dell Latitude 7280/7480
CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the
problem.
The Dell Latitude 7280/7480 contains both volatile and non-volatile (NV) components. Volatile components lose their
data immediately after power is removed from the component. Non-volatile (NV) components continue to retain their
data even after power is removed from the component. The following NV components are present on the Latitude
7280/7480 system board.
Table 1. List of Non-Volatile Components on System Board
Description
Reference
Designator
Volatility Description
User
Accessible for
external data
Remedial Action (Action
necessary to prevent loss of
data)
SSD
drive(s)
M.2 - 2280
Non Volatile magnetic media, various
sizes in GB. SSD (solid state flash
drive).
No Low level format
System
BIOS
UC5
Non Volatile memory, 128Mbit (16MB),
System BIOS
and Video BIOS for basic
boot operation, PSA (on board diags),
PXE diags.,
Intel ME firmware for
system configuration, security and
protection and ISH firmware.
No
NA
Embedded
Flash in
embedded
controller
MEC5105
UE1
64K byte of embedded boot ROM for
embedded controller boot code which
loads an executable code image into
SRAM.
No
NA
Alpine
Ridge NVM
Flash
UT2
Non Volatile memory
for Intel Alpine
Ridge NVM flash
No
NA
USB-Type
C PD
UT6
Non Volatile memory for USB type-C PD
F/W
No
NA
LCD Panel
EEDID
EEPROM
Part of panel
assembly
Non Volatile memory, Stores panel
manufacturing information, display
configuration data
No
NA
System
Memory
DDR4
memory
One
SODIMM
connector:
JDIMM1
Volatile memory in OFF state (see state
definitions later in text)
One module must be populated.
System memory size will depend on
SODIMM module and must be
between 4 GB and 16 GB.
Yes
Power off system
RTC CMOS
UC1 (PCH)
Non Volatile memory 256 bytes
Stores CMOS information
No NA
Video
memory
frame
buffer
For UMA
platform:
Using
system
memory
Volatile memory in off state.
UMA uses main system memory size
allocated out of main memory.
No
Power off system

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