Bios Setup - Inspur NF5180M5 User Manual

8 BIOS Setup

This chapter introduces how to configure BIOS. All operations described in this section are limited
to experienced operators or administrators with proper system maintenance qualifications.
BIOS is the basic input/output system, which is the basic program code loaded in the
motherboard chipset. It stores the computer's most important input/output program,
POST program and system auto-boot program. It provides the most basic and most direct
hardware settings and control, detects the boot device, boots the system or other preboot
execution environment.
Inspur Purley platform server is developed on the basis of AMI Codebase, supporting Legacy
and UEFI operating environments, with abundant in-band and out-of-band configuration
functions and scalability. It can meet the customization needs of different customers.
BIOS has a great impact on the system booting and running, setting parameters
improperly may cause conflicts among hardware resources, or degrade the system running
performance. Hence, understanding the BIOS setup is significant to the configuration of your
server. It is suggested to use the default value, and not to alter the parameters arbitrarily.
Notes:
1. We recommend that you record the original BIOS settings before you modify them so it
can safely revert to its previous state if required. If there is an exception, such as failure to
boot, caused by changing the BIOS settings, users can try to recover it through the Clear
CMOS operation.
2. The factory default settings are the optimal settings. It is advised not to alter the
parameters before understanding their denotations.
3. The common settings are introduced in detail in this chapter, but less common ones are not.
4. The BIOS content varies according to different configurations of the products; hence the
detailed introduction is elided.
8.1 Common Operations
8.1.1 Login to BIOS Interface
Power on the server. The system will then start to boot. When the following content appears
below Inspur logo on the screen: "Press <DEL> to SETUP or <TAB> to POST or <F11> to Boot
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