Bios Setup; System Bios Setup Methods - Inspur NF5166M4 User Manual

3 BIOS Setup

This chapter introduces how to configure BIOS. All operations described in this
section are only limited to operators or administrators with system maintenance
qualification.
BIOS is a basic input and output system. The system parameters and hardware
parameters can be adjusted through special setup procedure. 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. If no especial requirement, you are suggested to use the default value and
not alter the parameters arbitrarily.
1. Before changing the BIOS setup, please record the corresponding original setup.
Hence when there are operating problems in the system due to the option altered,
the setup can revert to the previous state.
2. Ordinarily the factory default settings are the optimal settings. Don't try to alter the
parameters before you understand their denotations.
3. The common settings are introduced in detail in this chapter. The less referred
options during using are simply explained or not.
4. The BIOS content varies according to different configurations of the products;
hence the detailed introduction is elided.

3.1 System BIOS Setup Methods

Power on the server, system starts to boot, when the following content appears
below Inspur logo on the screen:
"Press <DEL> to SETUP or <TAB> to POST or <F12> to PXE Boot.", press [DEL]
button; when "Entering Setup..." appears in the lower right corner, it will enter system
BIOS configuration later, and you could select options in BIOS main menu using
arrow buttons to enter sub-menu.
Note: Options in grey are not available. Options with symbol "
BIOS Setup
" have a sub-menu.
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