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#HOW TO SAVE BIOS SETTINGS ON A DELL SERVER INSTALL#
#HOW TO SAVE BIOS SETTINGS ON A DELL SERVER SERIAL#
#HOW TO SAVE BIOS SETTINGS ON A DELL SERVER MAC#

System Securityįrom system security menu, you can enable DELL BIOS password.

#HOW TO SAVE BIOS SETTINGS ON A DELL SERVER SERIAL#

As you see below, serial device 1 is COM1, with remote terminal type VT100. Serial Communicationsįrom here you can view information about systems serial communication ports. Scroll down to ‘PCI IRQ Assigments’, and press Enter to view all the IRQ number assigned to various devices as shown below.

#HOW TO SAVE BIOS SETTINGS ON A DELL SERVER MAC#

As you see below, you can also view the MAC address of your system’s Ethernet card from here. This will display information about all the integrated devices in the systems including, RAID controller, USB, SD card, Embedded NIC cards, etc. Here it will first look for SATA optical drive, then hard drive, and then network. Select ‘Boot Sequence’ and press Enter, which will display boot sequence. Scroll down to ‘Boot Settings’ and press Enter, which will display the following boot settings menu. In this example, the system has two Intel Xeon E5620 CPUs that has 4 cores each. Now this shows the details about each and every processor on the system. Use arrow keys to view more information about the processors.

#HOW TO SAVE BIOS SETTINGS ON A DELL SERVER INSTALL#

If you are planning to install VMWare (or any virtualization server), you have to enable the “Virtualization Technology” in the CPU.

In this example, you can see that it is 64-bit cpu, with 2.40 GHz processor speed, and bus speed of 5.86 GT/s, etc. Scroll down to ‘Processor Settings’ and press Enter, which will display more details about the CPU of the system as shown below.

Memory Operating Voltage: Auto ( 1.5V ).

Memory Operating Mode: Advanced ECC Mode (Optimizer Mode, Mirror Mode).

System memory testing: Enabled (disabled).

The default values are shown in bold below. The following are some of the memory settings that can be changed from this screen. This displays memory information including RAM Size, Memory type, Memory speed, Video memory size, etc. Scroll down to ‘Memory Settings’ and press Enter, which will display more details about the memory configurations of the system as shown below. You can modify these if they are not correct. On the top, you’ll see the system time and date. When the system is starting up, press F2 to enter the system setup, which will allow you to view (or modify) the DELL BIOS settings. The screenshots below are from a DELL PowerEdge server. If you’ve not played around with these BIOS settings, just go to your system BIOS, view these settings to understand what they means.įor most part, you don’t have to change any of these default settings. From DELL BIOS, you can view and changes several system settings.