Intel ISP1100 manual Hot Keys, Power-On Self-Test Post, Configuration Utilities

3 Configuration Software and Utilities

This chapter describes the Power-On Self-Test (POST) and server configuration utilities. The table below briefly describes the utilities.

Table 8.	Configuration Utilities
Utility		Description and brief procedure
BIOS Setup		The BIOS Setup program is for viewing and changing BIOS settings for the
		server.
BIOS Update		Use to update the BIOS or recover from a corrupted BIOS update.
Utility

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Hot Keys

Use the keyboard’s numeric pad to enter numbers and symbols.

Table 9. Hot Keys

To do this:

Clear memory and reload the operating system⎯this is a system reset.

Press these keys

<Ctrl+Alt+Del>

Power-On Self-Test (POST)

Each time you turn on the system, POST starts running. POST checks the server board, processor, memory, keyboard, and most installed peripheral devices. During the memory test, POST displays the amount of memory that it is able to access and test. The length of time needed to test memory depends on the amount of memory installed. POST is stored in flash memory.

1.Turn on your video monitor and server. After a few seconds, POST begins to run.

2.After the memory test, these screen prompts and messages appear:

Legacy	Keyboard	Detected
Legacy	Mouse	Detected

Press <F2> key if you want to run SETUP

3.If you do not press <F2> and do NOT have a device with an operating system loaded, the above message remains for a few seconds while the boot process continues, and the system beeps once. Then this message appears:

Missing Operating System

What appears on the screen after this depends on whether you have an operating system loaded and if so, which one.

If the system halts before POST completes running, it emits a beep code indicating a fatal system error that requires immediate attention. If POST can display a message on the video display screen, it causes the speaker to beep twice as the message appears.

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