Artesyn ATCA-7350 Installation and Use (September 2014) - Manual (Page 121)

BIOS
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In the BIOS Setup Menu:
 Disable PXE Boot option if customer configuration does not use PXE boot.
 Disable Quiet Boot, which eliminates display of the logo splash screen. This could save
several seconds of painting complex graphic images and changing video modes.
 Enable Quick Boot. This feature bypasses memory count and the search for a removable
drive. In the Peripheral Configuration submenu, disable the LAN device if it will not be used.
This can reduce up to four seconds of option ROM boot time.
6.8 BIOS Security Features
The BIOS includes security features that restrict access to the BIOS Setup program and which
can boot the computer. A supervisor password and a user password can be set for the BIOS
Setup program and for booting the computer, with the following restrictions:
 The supervisor password gives unrestricted access to view and change all the Setup
options in the BIOS Setup program. This is the supervisor mode.
 The user password gives restricted access to view and change Setup options in the BIOS
Setup program. This is the user mode.
 If only the supervisor password is set, pressing the key at the password prompt of
the BIOS Setup program allows the user restricted access to Setup.
 If both the supervisor and user passwords are set, users can enter either the supervisor
password or the user password to access Setup. Users have access to Setup respective to
which password is entered.
It is possible to optimize the boot process to the point where the system boots so quickly that
the Intel logo screen (or a custom logo splash screen, if implemented) will not be seen.
Monitors and hard disk drives with minimum initialization times can also contribute to a boot
time that might be so fast that necessary logo screens and POST messages cannot be seen.