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v View and clear error logs
v Change interrupt request (IRQ) settings
v Resolve configuration conflicts
Starting the Configuration/Setup Utility program
Complete the following steps to start the Configuration/Setup Utility program:
1. Turn on the server.
2. When the prompt Press F1 for Configuration/Setup appears, press F1. If you
3. Select settings to view or change.
Configuration/Setup Utility menu choices
The following choices are on the Configuration/Setup Utility main menu. Depending
on the version of the BIOS code, some menu choices might differ slightly from
these descriptions.
v System Summary
v System Information
v Devices and I/O Ports
v Date and Time
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have set both a power-on password and an administrator password, you must
type the administrator password to access the full Configuration/Setup Utility
menu. If you do not type the administrator password, a limited
Configuration/Setup Utility menu is available.
Select this choice to view configuration information, including the ID, speed, and
cache size of the microprocessors, a USB device summary, and the amount of
installed memory. When you make configuration changes through other options
in the Configuration/Setup Utility program, the changes are reflected in the
system summary; you cannot change settings directly in the system summary.
This choice is on the full and limited Configuration/Setup Utility menu.
Select this choice to view information about the server. When you make changes
through other options in the Configuration/Setup Utility program, some of those
changes are reflected in the system information; you cannot change settings
directly in the system information. This choice is on the full Configuration/Setup
utility menu only.
– Product Data
Select this choice to view the machine type and model of the server, the serial
number, the system UUID, the system board identifier, the revision level or
issue date of the BIOS code and diagnostics code, and the version, date, and
build level of ROM code for the Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine, if one
is installed.
– System card data
Select this choice to view the identity of the system board, power supplies,
DASD backplane, and power backplane.
This choice is on the full Configuration/Setup Utility menu only.
Select this choice to view or change assignments for devices and input/output
(I/O) ports. You can configure the serial ports, configure remote console
redirection, enable or disable integrated Ethernet controllers, the SAS controller,
IDE channels, and PCI slots, and view the system Ethernet MAC addresses. If
you disable a device, it cannot be configured, and the operating system will not
be able to detect it (this is equivalent to disconnecting the device).
This choice is on the full Configuration/Setup Utility menu only.
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