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3 Configuration Software and Utilities
This chapter describes the Power-On Self-Test (POST) and server configuration utilities. The table
below briefly describes the utilities.
Table 8. Configuration Utilities
Utility Description and brief procedure Page
BIOS Setup The BIOS Setup program is for viewing and changing BIOS settings for the
server. 55
BIOS Update
Utility Use to update the BIOS or recover from a corrupted BIOS update. 64
Hot Keys
Use the keyboard’s numeric pad to enter numbers and symbols.
Table 9. Hot Keys
To do this: Press these keys
Clear memory and reload the operating
system

this is a system reset.
Power-On Self-Test (POST)
Each time you turn on the system, POST starts running. POST checks the server board, processor,
memory, keyboard, and most installed peripheral devices. During the memory test, POST displays
the amount of memory that it is able to access and test. The length of time needed to test memory
depends on the amount of memory installed. POST is stored in flash memory.
1. Turn on your video monitor and server. After a few seconds, POST begins to run.
2. After the memory test, these screen prompts and messages appear:
Legacy Keyboard.....Detected
Legacy Mouse........Detected
Press key if you want to run SETUP
3. If you do not press and do NOT have a device with an operating system loaded, the
above message remains for a few seconds while the boot process continues, and the system
beeps once. Then this message appears:
Missing Operating System
What appears on the screen after this depends on whether you have an operating system loaded and
if so, which one.
If the system halts before POST completes running, it emits a beep code indicating a fatal system
error that requires immediate attention. If POST can display a message on the video display screen,
it causes the speaker to beep twice as the message appears.