User Manual R01

Chapter 5 | BIOS Setup Access
BIOS Introduction
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BIOS Introduction
The American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) BIOS software handles all basic
communications between the CPUs and peripherals, as well as including code that
supports advanced server system features. You can configure the BIOS settings
through its menu-driven interface and then save the configuration into memory.
Note: You can access the system BIOS and configure settings with or without an
operating system installed on the server.
This chapter describes how to access the BIOS setup menus and the following
chapter, “BIOS Settings” on page 36, describes the configuration settings.
Note that the majority of configuration settings are preconfigured as BIOS default
values, whereas others are automatically detected during the boot-up process and
configured without requiring any actions.
Accessing the BIOS Setup Menu
The server’s BIOS settings can be accessed through the console port.
1. Connect a computer running VT-100 terminal emulator software to the console
port following the procedure in the section “Connecting to the Console Port”
on page 27.
Figure 16: Access to BIOS Settings
2. Power-on the server.
1. Console port
1