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2-6 Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 Servers Service Manual • June 2006
2.3.3 Descriptions of the BIOS Setup Screens
TABLE 2-1 contains summary descriptions of the seven top-level BIOS setup screens.
FIGURE 2-3 summarizes the BIOS menu tree, with differences between versions of the
server noted. See Section 2.3.4, “BIOS Setup Menu Screens” on page 2-8 for examples
of each of these screens.
TABLE 2-1 BIOS Setup Screens Summary
Screen Description
Main General system information.
Advanced Configuration interface for the CPUs, IDE, SuperIO, ACPI, Event
Log, HyperTransport, IPMI, MPS, PowerNow!, Remote Access, and
USB.
PCI/PnP Plug-and-Play (PnP) devices can be configured by the BIOS
(default), or by the operating system (if applicable).
Boot Configure the boot device priority (hard disk drives and the ATAPI
DVD-ROM drive).
Security Install or change the user and supervisor passwords.
Chipset Configuration options forthe NorthBridge and SouthBridge devices,
and PCI-X devices.
Note that the Memory Chipkill option is enabled by default.
Enabling Chipkill improves system reliability but degrades system
performance under specific applications.
Exit Save or discard changes.