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Statement of Volatility – Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 and R740XD
The Statement of Volatility provides you the information related to volatile and non-volatile components of different configurations of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers. Volatile
components lose their data when power cord is removed from the system, whereas, non-volatile components continue to retain their data when the power has been removed from the
component.
The following table provides information of different configurations of the PowerEdge R740 and R740XD servers.
Item
Non-
Volatile or
Volatile
Quantity
Reference
Designator
Size of
memory
Type of
memory
(e.g. Flash
PROM,
EEPROM)
What is the
Purpose?
(e.g. boot
code)
How is data
written to
this
memory?
How is
memory write
protected?
How is memory
cleared?
Planar
PCH Internal
CMOS RAM
Non-Volatile
1
U_PCH
256 Bytes
Battery-
backed
CMOS RAM
Real-time clock
and BIOS
configuration
settings
BIOS
N/A – BIOS only
control
Perform the following
steps:
1) Set NVRAM_CLR
jumper to clear BIOS
configuration settings at
boot and reboot system;
2) AC power off system,
remove coin cell battery
for 30 seconds, replace
battery and power back
on; 3) restore default
configuration in F2
system setup menu.

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