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 Advanced Features
DellPrecision™Workstation390User'sGuide
LegacySelect Technology Control
Manageability
Security
Password Protection
System Setup
Clearing Forgotten Passwords
Clearing CMOS Settings
Power Management
Hyper-Threading
IEEE 1394
About RAID Configurations
LegacySelect Technology Control
LegacySelect technology control offers legacy-full, legacy-reduced, or legacy-free solutions based on common platforms, hard-drive images, and help desk
procedures.Controlisprovidedtotheadministratorthroughsystemsetup,DellOpenManage™ITAssistant,orDell™customfactoryintegration.
LegacySelect allows administrators to electronically activate or deactivate connectors and media devices that include serial and USB connectors, a parallel
connector, a floppy drive, PCI slots, and a PS/2 mouse. Connectors and media devices that are deactivated make resources available. You must restart the
computer to effect the changes.
Manageability
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Alert Standard Format
ASF is a DMTF management standard that specifies "pre-operating system" or "operating system-absent" alerting techniques. The standard is designed to
generate an alert on potential security and fault conditions when the operating system is in a sleep state or the system is powered down. ASF is designed to
supersede previous operating system-absent alerting technologies.
Your computer supports the following ASF alerts:
For more information about Dell's ASF implementation, see the ASF User's Guide and the ASF Administrator's Guide, which are available on the Dell Support
website at support.dell.com.
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DellOpenManage™ITAssistant
IT Assistant configures, manages, and monitors computers and other devices on a corporate network. IT Assistant manages assets, configurations, events
(alerts), and security for computers equipped with industry-standard management software. It supports instrumentation that conforms to SNMP and CIM
industry standards.
Dell OpenManage Client instrumentation, which is based on CIM, is available for your computer. For information on IT Assistant, see the Dell OpenManage IT
Assistant User's Guide available on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.
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Alert
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Description
BIOS: Corrupt BIOS/Corrupt BIOS Cleared
The BIOS has been corrupted or the BIOS corruption has been resolved.
Boot: No Boot Device
No bootable devices were found when attempting to boot
Boot: Failure to Boot to BIOS
The BIOS did not complete loading upon initiation.
Password: System Password Violation
The system password is invalid (alert occurs after three failed attempts).
Chassis: Chassis Intrusion
A chassis intrusion has been detected
CPU: CPU DOA Alert/CPU DOA Alert Cleared
The microprocessor is not functioning.
Heartbeats: Entity Presence
Periodic heartbeats have been transmitted to verify system presence.
Temperature: Generic Critical Temperature Problem/Generic Critical
Temperature Problem Cleared
The computer temperature is out of limits or the computer temperature
problem has been resolved.
Cooling Device: Generic Critical Fan Failure/Generic Critical Fan
Failure Cleared
The fan speed (rpm) is out of limits or the fan speed (rpm) problem has
been resolved.
Connectivity: Ethernet Connectivity Enabled/
Ethernet Connectivity Disabled
The ethernet connectivity is enabled or the ethernet connectivity is
disabled.