About Your System; Accessing System Features During Startup - Dell DX6000 Hardware Owner's Manual

About Your System

Accessing System Features During Startup

The following keystrokes provide access to system features during startup.
Keystroke Description
<F2> Enters the System Setup program. See "Using the System Setup
Program and UEFI Boot Manager" on page 57.
<F10> Enters System Services, which opens the Unified Server Configurator
from which you can access utilities such as system diagnostics.
For more information, see the Unified Server Configurator
user documentation.
NOTE:
updates, can cause virtual devices to be created that at times may
appear as USB devices attached to your system. These connections are
both secure and temporary, and can be disregarded.
<F11> Enters the BIOS Boot Manager or the UEFI Boot Manager,
depending on your system's boot configuration. See "Using the
System Setup Program and UEFI Boot Manager" on page 57.
<F12> Enters PXE boot, if enabled.
<Ctrl><E> Enters the iDRAC Configuration Utility, which allows access to the
system event log (SEL) and configuration of remote access to the
system. For more information, see the iDRAC user documentation.
<Ctrl><R> Enters the PERC configuration utility. For more information, see the
PERC card documentation.
<Ctrl><S> Enters the utility to configure NIC settings for PXE boot. For more
information, see the documentation for your embedded NIC.
Some Unified Server Configurator processing, such as software
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