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2-8 Sun Fire X4500/X4540 Server Service Manual • May 2010
2.9 BIOS Setup Screens (X4500)
TABLE 2-1
contains summary descriptions of the seven top-level BIOS setup screens.
FIGURE 2-2
summarizes the BIOS menu tree. See Section 2.12, “BIOS Setup Menu
Screens (X4500)” on page 2-12 for examples of each of these screens.
See Section t, “To Install a PCI-X or PCIe Card (FRU)” on page 3-65 for the locations
of the PCI slots.
TABLE 2-1
BIOS Setup Screens Summary (X4500)
Screen Description
BIOS Main Menu
Screen (X4500) General system information.
BIOS Advanced
Menu, Main Screen
(X4500) Configuration information for the CPUs, IDE, SuperIO, ACPI, Event
Log, Hyper Transport, IPMI, MPS, PCI Express, Remote Access, and
USB. Twelve additional screens can be accessed from the Advanced
menu.
BIOS PCI/PnP Menu
(X4500) Plug-and-Play (PnP) devices can be configured by the BIOS (default),
or by the operating system (if applicable).
BIOS Boot Menu,
Main Screen (X4500) Configure the boot device priority (disk drives and the ATAPI
DVD-ROM drive).
BIOS Security
Settings Menu
(X4500) Install or change the user and supervisor passwords.
BIOS Chipset Menu,
Main Screen (X4500) Configuration options for the NorthBridge, SouthBridge, and PCI-X
devices. Six separate screens can be accessed from the Chipset menu.
Note that the Memory Chipkill option is enabled by default. Enabling
Chipkill improves system reliability but degrades system
performance under specific applications.
BIOS Exit Options
Menu Screen (X4500) Save or discard changes.