Dell PowerEdge 1400, User Manual

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4-4 User’s Guide
The following options or information fields appear on the main System Setup screen:
System Time — resets the time on the computer's internal clock.
System Date — resets the date on the computer's internal calendar.
Diskette Drive A: — identifies the type of diskette drive installed in your
computer.
System Memory — displays the amount of system memory. This option has no
user-selectable settings.
Video Memory — displays the amount of video memory. This option has no
user-selectable settings.
CPU Information — displays information related to the system bus and micro-
processors. This screen has no user-selectable settings.
Boot Sequence — displays the Boot Sequence screen, discussed later in this
chapter.
Hard-Disk Drive Sequence — displays the Hard Disk Drive Sequence screen,
discussed later in this chapter.
Integrated Devices — displays the Integrated Devices screen, discussed later
in this chapter.
PCI IRQ Assignment — displays a screen that allows you to change the interrupt
request (IRQ) allocated to each of the three integrated devices on the peripheral
component interconnect (PCI) bus, as well as any installed expansion cards that
require an IRQ
.
System Security — displays a screen which allows you to configure the system
password and setup password features. See “Using the System Password Fea-
ture” and “Using the Setup Password Feature” later in this chapter.
Keyboard Numlock — determines whether your system boots with the Num
Lock mode activated on 101- or 102-key keyboards (it does not apply to 84-key
keyboards).
Report Keyboard Error — enables or disables reporting of keyboard errors dur-
ing the power-on self-test (POST).
This option is useful when applied to self-starting servers or host systems that
have no permanently attached keyboard. In these situations, selecting
Do Not
Report suppresses all error messages relating to the keyboard or to the keyboard
controller during POST. This setting does not affect the operation of the keyboard
itself if a keyboard is attached to the computer.
Asset Tag — displays the customer-programmable asset tag number for the sys-
tem if an asset tag number has been assigned. To enter an asset tag number of
up to ten characters into NVRAM, follow the procedure in “Asset Tag Utility” in
Chapter 2.
The Boot Sequence screen options determine the order in which the system looks
for the files that it needs to load during system startup. Available options include the