Owners Manual

January 2021
Statement of Volatility – Dell Precision 3560
CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem.
The Dell Precision 3560 contains both volatile and non-volatile components. Volatile components lose their
data immediately after power is removed from the component. Non-volatile components continue to retain
their data even after power is removed from the component. The following Non-volatile components are
present on the Precision 3560 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)
For UMA platform:
SSD1: M.2 2280
SSD2: M.2 2280
For discrete platform:
SSD1: M.2 2280
Non-Volatile magnetic media, various
sizes in GB. SSD (solid state flash drive).
No
Low level format
System
BIOS/EC
U2502 (32 MB)
Non-Volatile memory, Video BIOS for
basic boot operation, PSA (on board
diags),
PXE diags.
No
NA
Thunderbolt
EEPROM
U7103
Non-Volatile memory, 8 Mbit (1 MB)
(Thunderbolt FW)
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
Two DIMM on board
DDR4 memory:
DM1/DM2
Volatile memory in OFF state (see state
definitions later in text)
Yes
Power off system
RTC CMOS
CPU1 (PCH)
Non-Volatile memory 256 bytes
Stores CMOS information
No
NA
Video memory
– frame buffer
For UMA platform:
Using system memory
For discrete platform:
NVIDIA QN20-M1
Volatile memory in off state.
UMA uses main system memory size
allocated out of main memory.
DSC QN20-M1: frame buffer 80 GB/s
No
Power off system
Intel ME
Firmware
Combine on BIOS ROM
Non-Volatile memory
No
N/A
Security
Controller
Serial Flash
Memory
Combine on BIOS ROM
Non-Volatile memory
No
N/A
TPM
Controller
U9101
Non-Volatile memory, 192K bits (24K
bytes) ROM
No
N/A