Technical Product Specification

BIOS Setup Interface Intel® Server Board S2600WP TPS
5. BIOS Setup Interface
5.1
HotKeys Supported During POST
Certain “HotKeys” are recognized during POST. A HotKey a key or key combination that is
recognized as an unprompted command input, that is, the operator is not prompted to press the
HotKey and typically the HotKey will be recognized even while other processing is in progress.
The Intel
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Server Board S2600WP Family BIOS recognizes a number of HotKeys during POST.
After the OS is booted, HotKeys are the responsibility of the OS and the OS defines its own set
of recognized HotKeys.
Following are the POST HotKeys, with the functions they cause to be performed.
Table 24. POST HotKeys recognized
HotKey Combination
Function
<F2>
Enter Setup
<F6>
Pop up BIOS Boot Menu
<F12>
Network boot
5.2
POST Logo/Diagnostic Screen
The logo/Diagnostic Screen displays in one of two forms:
 If Quiet Boot is enabled in the BIOS setup, a logo splash screen displays. By default,
Quiet Boot is enabled in the BIOS setup. If the logo displays during POST, press <Esc>
to hide the logo and display the diagnostic screen.
 If a logo is not present in the flash ROM or if Quiet Boot is disabled in the system
configuration, the POST Diagnostic Screen is displayed with a summary of system
configuration information.
 The diagnostic screen displays the following information:
 “Copyright <year> Intel Corporation”
 AMI Copyright statement
 BIOS version (ID)
 BMC firmware version
 SDR version
 ME firmware version
 Platform ID
 System memory detected (total size of all installed DDR3 DIMMs)
 Current memory speed (currently configured memory operating frequency)
 Processor information (Intel
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Brand String identifying type of processor and nominal
operating frequency, and number of physical processors identified)
 Keyboards detected, if any attached
 Mouse devices detected, if any attached
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