About System Setup; Enabling Console Redirection; Entering System Setup; System Setup Main Menu - Dell PowerEdge T630 Owner's Manual

About System Setup

Using System Setup, you can configure the BIOS settings, iDRAC settings, and device settings of your
system.
You can access System Setup in two ways:
• Standard Graphical Browser — This is enabled by default.
• Text Browser — This is enabled by using Console Redirection.
NOTE: By default, help text for the selected field is displayed in the graphical browser. To view the
help text in the text browser, press <F1>.

Enabling Console Redirection

To enable Console Redirection, in System Setup, select System BIOS → Serial Communication → On
with Console Redirection via COMx (or Auto if a serial terminal is present).

Entering system setup

1. Turn on or restart your system.
2. Press <F2> immediately after you see the following message:
<F2> = System Setup
If your operating system begins to load before you press <F2>, wait for the system to finish booting,
and then restart your system and try again.

System Setup Main Menu

Option
System BIOS
iDRAC Settings
Device Settings

System BIOS screen details

You can use the System BIOS screen to view BIOS settings as well as edit specific functions such as boot
order, system password, setup password, setting RAID mode, and enabling or disabling USB ports.
To view the System BIOS screen, in the System Setup Main Menu, click System BIOS.
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Description
Enables you to configure BIOS settings.
Enables you to configure iDRAC settings.
The iDRAC Settings utility is an interface to set up and configure the
iDRAC parameters by using UEFI. You can enable or disable various
iDRAC parameters by using the iDRAC Settings utility. For more
information about this utility, see the Integrated Dell Remote Access
Controller User's Guide at dell.com/esmmanuals.
Enables you to configure device settings.