Heading Option DescriptionAdvanced** Power-OnOptionsAllows you to set:● POST Mode (QuickBoot, FullBoot, or FullBoot every 1–30 days).● POST Messages (Enable or Disable).● F9 Prompt (Enable or Disable). Enabling this feature displays F9=Boot Menu during POST.Disabling this feature prevents the text from being displayed. However, pressing the F9 keystill accesses the boot menu.● F10 Prompt (Enable or Disable)—Enabling this feature displays F10=Setup during POST.Disabling this feature prevents the text from being displayed, but pressing F10 still accessesthe Setup screen.● F11 Prompt (Enable or Disable)—Makes the Factory Recovery option visible during POST.Disabling this feature prevents the text from being displayed, but pressing F10 still accessesthe Setup screen. Factory Recovery Boot Support must be enabled to use this option.● F12 Prompt (Enable or Disable)—Enabling this feature displays F12=Network Service Bootduring POST. Disabling this feature prevents the text from being displayed but pressing F12still forces the system to attempt booting from the network.● Factory Recovery Boot Support (Enable or Disable)—Recovery partition hard disk drive(HDD) option available. Vista leaves the factory with this support in place.● Option ROM prompt* (Enable or Disable)—Enabling this feature causes the system to displaya message before loading options ROMs.● Remote Wakeup Boot Source● After Power Loss (On or Off)—Enabling this option directs the previous state to be the default.● POST Delay (in seconds) (Enable or Disable)—Enabling this feature adds a user-specifieddelay to the POST process. This delay is sometimes needed for hard drives on some PCIcards that spin up slowly (so slowly that they are not ready to boot by the time POST isfinished). The POST delay also gives you more time to select F10 to enter the ComputerSetup (F10) Utility.● Limit (CPUID Maximum Value to 3) (Enable/Disable)ExecuteMemory TestTests workstation memory. The workstation reboots, and any changes that have been made arelost. The workstation might boot with memory in a sub optimal configuration.BIOS Power-On Enables you to disable or specify a weekday and time for BIOS power-on.OnboardDevicesEnables you to set resources for or disable onboard system devices such as serial ports, parallelports, and diskette controllers. Operating system parameters generally override Onboard Devicessettings.PCI Devices Enables you to set the IRQ for or disable the following devices during POST:● Intel USB controllers● Intel HD audio device● Intel RAID controller● nVidia VGA controller● Broadcom Ethernet controllerOperating system parameters generally override PCI Devices settings.Available IRQ values are 5, 10, and 11.Table 4-1 Computer Setup (F10) Utility menu descriptions (continued)ENWW Computer Setup (F10) Utility 31
