Service Guide

BIOS Setup Utilities
Intel
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Server System P4000IP and Intel
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Workstation System P4000CR Service Guide 101
3 BIOS Setup Utilities
The BIOS Setup utility is a text-based utility that allows the user to configure the system and view
current settings and environment information for the platform devices. The Setup utility controls
the platform's built-in devices, the boot manager, and error manager.
The BIOS Setup interface consists of a number of pages or screens. Each page contains information
or links to other pages. The advanced tab in Setup displays a list of general categories as links.
These links lead to pages containing a specific category’s configuration.
The following sections describe the look and behavior for the platform setup.
BIOS Setup Operation
The BIOS Setup Utility has the following features:
1. Localization – The Intel
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Server Board BIOS is only available in English. However, BIOS Setup uses the
Unicode standard and is capable of displaying data and input in Setup fields in all languages currently
included in the Unicode standard.
2. Console Redirection – BIOS Setup is functional from Console Redirection over various terminal
emulation standards. When Console Redirection is enabled, the POST display out is in purely Text
Mode due to Redirection data transfer in a serial port data terminal emulation mode. This may limit
some functionality for compatibility, for example, usage of colors or some keys or key sequences or
support of pointing devices.
3. Setup screens are designed to be displayable in an 80-character x 24-line format in order to work with
Console Redirection, although that screen layout should display correctly on any format with longer
lines or more lines on the screen.
4. Password protection – BIOS Setup may be protected from unauthorized changes by setting an
Administrative Password in the Security screen When an Administrative Password has been set, all
selection and data entry fields in Setup (except System Time and Date) are grayed out and cannot be
changed unless the Administrative Password has been entered.
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NOTE
If an Administrative Password has not been set, anyone who boots the system to Setup has access
to all selection and data entry fields in Setup and can change any of them.
Setup Page Layout
The Setup page layout is sectioned into functional areas. Each occupies a specific area of the screen
and has dedicated functionality. The following table lists and describes each functional area.
The Setup page is designed to a format of 80 x 24 (24 lines of 80 characters each). The typical
display screen in a Legacy mode or in a terminal emulator mode is actually 80 characters by 25
lines, but with “line wrap” enabled (which it usually is) the 25
th
line cannot be used with the Setup
page.