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Intel® Server Board S2600WF Product Family Technical Product Specification
2.5.1.1 POST Logo/Diagnostic Screen
If quiet boot is enabled in the BIOS setup utility, a splash screen is displayed with the standard Intel logo
screen or a customized original equipment manufacturer (OEM) logo screen if one is present in the
designated flash memory location. By default, quiet boot is enabled in the BIOS setup utility and the logo
screen is the default POST display. However, the pressing <Esc> hides the logo screen and displays the
diagnostic screen instead.
If a logo is not present in the BIOS flash memory space, or if quiet boot is disabled in the system
configuration, the POST diagnostic screen is displayed with a summary of system configuration information.
The POST diagnostic screen is purely a text mode screen, as opposed to the graphics mode logo screen.
If console redirection is enabled in the BIOS setup utility, the quiet boot setting is disregarded and the text
mode diagnostic screen is displayed unconditionally. This is due to the limitations of console redirection,
which transfers data in a mode that is not graphics-compatible.
2.5.1.2 BIOS Boot Pop-Up Menu
The BIOS boot specification (BBS) provides a boot pop-up menu that can be invoked by pressing the <F6>
key during POST. The BBS pop-up menu displays all available boot devices. The boot order in the pop-up
menu is not the same as the boot order in the BIOS setup utility. The pop-up menu simply lists all of the
available devices from which the system can be booted, and allows a manual selection of the desired boot
device.
When an administrator password is installed in the BIOS setup utility, the administrator password is required
to access the boot pop-up menu. If a user password is entered, the user is taken directly to the boot manager
in the BIOS setup utility only allowing booting in the order previously defined by the administrator.
2.5.1.3 Entering BIOS Setup
To enter the BIOS setup utility using a keyboard (or emulated keyboard), press the <F2> function key during
boot time when the OEM or Intel logo screen or the POST diagnostic screen is displayed.
The following instructional message is displayed on the diagnostic screen or under the quiet boot logo
screen:
Press <F2> to enter setup, <F6> Boot Menu, <F12> Network Boot
Note: With a USB keyboard, it is important to wait until the BIOS discovers the keyboard and beeps; until the
USB controller has been initialized and the keyboard activated, key presses are not read by the system.
When the BIOS setup utility is entered, the main screen is displayed initially. However, if a serious error
occurs during POST, the system enters the BIOS setup utility and displays the error manager screen instead
of the main screen.
For additional BIOS setup utility information, refer to Intel® Server Board S2600 Family BIOS Setup User
Guide.
2.5.1.4 BIOS Update Capability
To bring BIOS fixes or new features into the system, it is necessary to replace the current installed BIOS
image with an updated one. The BIOS image can be updated using a standalone IFLASH32 utility in the UEFI
shell or using the OFU utility program under a supported operating system. Full BIOS update instructions are
provided with update packages downloaded from the Intel website.
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