Why is performance degraded on the Dell Precision T3500/5500/7500 Workstations with BIOS version A03 onward?

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Issue

Performance on the Dell Precision T3500/T5500/T7500 Workstations is very poor when running BIOS version A03 onward.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 up to 5.5

  • Dell Precision T3500 Workstation.

  • Dell Precision T5500 Workstation.

  • Dell Precision T7500 Workstation.

  • BIOS version A03 or greater.

  • 4GB of memory or more.


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