User`s guide

Serverboard Manual
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BIOS
Setup
phoeniX boot utilities
This ServerBoard comes with the following boot utilities:
* Phoenix
QuietBoot™: Phoenix QuietBoot displays a graphic illustration rather
than the traditional POST messages while keeping you informed of diagnostic
problems.
* Phoenix
MultiBoot™: Phoenix MultiBoot is a boot screen that displays a selection
of boot devices from which you can boot your operating system.
using phoeniX Quietboot
Right after you turn on or reset the computer, Phoenix QuietBoot displays the QuietBoot
Screen, a graphic illustration created by the computer manufacturer instead of the text-
based POST screen, which displays a series of PC diagnostic messages.
To exit the QuietBoot screen and run Setup, display the MultiBoot menu, or simply display
the PC diagnostic messages, you can simply press one of the hot keys described below.
The QuietBoot Screen stays up until just before the operating system loads unless one of
the following actions occurs:
* Press <Esc> to display the diagnostic/POST screen
* Press <F2> to enter Setup
* POST issues an error message
* The BIOS or an option ROM requests keyboard input
When Escape is
pressed
Pressing <Esc> switches to the POST screen and takes one of two actions:
1. If MultiBoot is installed, the boot process continues with the POST screen
until the end of POST, and then displays the Boot First Menu, text-based with
these options:
* Load the operating system from the boot device of your choice.
* Enter the BIOS Setup Utility.
* Exit the Boot First Menu (with <Esc>) and load the operating system from
the boot devices specified in the BIOS Setup.
OR
2. If MultiBoot is not installed, the boot process continues as usual.
Press <F2> to
enter Setup
Pressing <F2> at any time during POST switches to the POST screen (if not already
displayed) and enters Setup.
POST issues an
error message
Whenever POST detects a non-fatal error, QuietBoot switches to the POST screen and
displays the errors. It then displays this message:
Press <F1> to resume, <F2> to Setup
Press <F1> to continue with the boot. Press <F2> if you want
to correct the error in Setup.
The BIOS
or an option
ROM requests
keyboard input
If the BIOS or an Option ROM (add-on card) requests keyboard input, QuietBoot switches
over to the POST screen and the Option ROM display prompts the user to enter the
information. POST then continues from there with the regular POST screen.
Here are the possible QuietBoot scenarios in greater detail: