HP xw4200 Service And Technical Reference Manual page 42

Table 3-1 Computer Setup Menu (Continued)
Heading Option
Advanced** Power-On Options
BIOS Power-On
Onboard Devices
PCI Devices
Bus Options*
*Available on select models.
**These options should be used by advanced users only.
42 SYSTEM MANAGEMENT
Description
Allows you to set:
- POST mode (QuickBoot, FullBoot, or FullBoot every 1–30 days).
- POST messages (enable/disable).
- Safe POST* (enable/disable). Enabling this feature allows the ROM to monitor add-in cards
during boot. If an add-in card does not work or initialize correctly, then on the next boot all cards
will be skipped during POST.
- F9 prompt (enable/disable). Enabling this feature will display the text F9=Boot Menu during
POST. Disabling this feature prevents the text from being displayed but pressing F9 will still
access the Shortcut Boot (Order) Menu screen. Refer to Storage>Boot Order for more
information.
- F10 prompt (enable/disable). Enabling this feature will display the text F10=Setup during
POST. Disabling this feature prevents the text from being displayed but pressing F10 will
still access the Setup screen.
- F12 prompt (enable/disable). Enabling this feature will display the text F12=Network
Service Boot during POST. Disabling this feature prevents the text from being displayed
but pressing F12 will still force the system to attempt booting from the network.
- Option ROM* prompt (enable/disable). Enabling this feature will cause the system to display a
message before loading options ROMs.
- Remote wakeup boot source (remote server/local hard drive).
- Fan Idle Mode: Allows you set the fan idle mode.
- After Power Loss (off/on/previous state): After power loss, if you connect your workstation to
an electric power strip and would like to turn on power to the workstation using the switch on
the power strip, set this option to ON. The previous state will set the power loss setting to
whatever the unit status was before the power loss.
- If you turn off power to your workstation using the switch on a power strip, you will not be able
to use the suspend/sleep feature or the Remote Management features.
- POST Delay (in seconds) (enable/disable). Enabling this feature will add a user-specified
delay to the POST process. This delay is sometimes needed for hard disks on some PCI cards
that spin up very slowly; so slowly that they are not ready to boot by the time POST is finished.
The POST delay also gives you more time to select F10 to enter Computer Setup (F10).
- I/O APIC Mode (enable/disable). Enabling this feature will allow Microsoft Windows Operating
system to run optimally. This feature must be disabled for certain non-Microsoft Operating
Systems to work properly.
- ACPI/USB Buffers @ Top of Memory (enable/disable). Enabling this feature places USB
memory buffers at the top of memory. The advantage of remapping is that it allows space in the
DOS Compatibility Hole range, below 1-MB, to be made available for additional PCI plug-in
cards that need option ROM space.
Allows you to select week days and a specific time to automatically power the unit on from the
power-off state.
Allows you to set resources for or disable onboard system devices (serial port, parallel port, or
diskette controller).
Lists currently installed PCI devices and their IRQ settings.
Allows you to reconfigure IRQ settings for these devices or to disable them entirely. These
settings have no effect under an APIC-based operating system.
Allows you to enable or disable:
- PCI bus mastering, which allows a PCI device to take control of the PCI bus.
- PCI VGA palette snooping, which sets the VGA palette snooping bit in PCI configuration
space; only needed when more than one graphics controller is installed.
- PCI SERR# generation.
- ECC support allows hardware-based error correction for ECC-capable memories.