3.11 About the Boot Utilities
The MainBoard comes with the following boot utilities:
Phoenix QuietBoot™:
Phoenix QuietBoot displays a graphic illustration rather than the traditional POST
messages while keeping you informed of diagnostic problems.
Phoenix MultiBoot™:
Phoenix MultiBoot is a boot screen that displays a selection of boot devices from
which you can boot your operating system.
3.11.1 Using Phoenix QuietBoot
Right after you turn on or reset the computer, Phoenix QuietBoot displays the QuietBoot Screen, a graphic
illustration created by the computer manufacturer instead of the text-based POST screen, which displays a
number of PC diagnostic messages.
To exit the QuietBoot screen and run Setup, display the MultiBoot menu, or simply display the PC
diagnostic messages, you can simply press one of the hot keys described below.
The QuietBoot Screen stays up until just before the operating system loads unless one of the following
actions occurs:
Press <ESC> to display the POST screen
Press <F2> to enter Setup
POST issues an error message
The BIOS or an option ROM requests keyboard input
The following explains each of these situations.
When <ESC>
is pressed
Press <ESC> switch to the POST screen and take one of two
actions:
1.
If MultiBoot is installed, the boot process continues with the
POST screen until the end of POST, and then displays the
Boot First Menu, text-based with these options:
A: Load the operating system from a boot device of your
choice.
B: Enter Setup.
C: Exit the Boot First Menu (with <Esc>) and load the
operating system from the boot devices in the order
specified in Setup.
2.
If MultiBoot is not installed, the boot process continues as
usual.
Press <F2> to
enter Setup
Press <F2> at any time during POST switch to the POST screen
(if not already displayed) and enters Setup.
POST issues
an error
message
Whenever POST detects a non-fatal error, QuietBoot switches to
the POST screen and displays the errors. It then displays this
message:
Press <F1> to resume, <F2> to Setup
Press <F1> to continue with the boot. Press <F2> if you want
to correct the error in Setup.
The BIOS or
an option
ROM requests
keyboard input
If the BIOS or an Option ROM (add-on card) requests keyboard
input, QuietBoot switches over to the POST screen and the
Option ROM displays prompts for entering the information.
POST continues from there with the regular POST screen.
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