Detailed descriptions 17.6 BIOS setup

17.6.2Starting BIOS Setup

Starting BIOS Setup

Start the setup program as follows: Reset the device (warm or cold restart).

In the figures shown, the default settings differ based on the device versions. With the default setting of your device, the display shown below appears following power-on, for example:

Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Release 6.0

Copyright 1985 - 2002 Phoenix Technologies Ltd.

All Rights Reserved

SIMATIC Box PC 840 V2 Profibus/MPI

CPU = Intel ® Pentium 4 CPU X.X GHz

639 K System RAM Passed

xxxxxxM Extended RAM Passed (xx depending on memory expansion) 512 K Cache SRAM Passed

ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM : xx CD-ROM

On completion of the POST, the BIOS gives you the opportunity of starting the SETUP program. The following message appears on the screen:

Press < F2 > to enter SETUP or <ESC> to show boot menu

Press the F2 key as long as the BIOS prompt appears on the screen.

SIMATIC Panel PC 877

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