BIOS Setup Utility Intel® Server Boards S5520HC, S5500HCV, and S5520HCT TPS
Revision 1.8
Intel order number E39529-013
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Table 35. Setup Utility — Boot Options Screen Fields
Setup Item Options Help Text Comments
Boot Timeout 0 - 65535 The number of seconds the BIOS should pause at
the end of POST to allow the user to press the
[F2] key for entering the BIOS Setup utility.
Valid values are 0-65535. Zero is the default. A
value of 65535 causes the system to go to the
Boot Manager menu and wait for user input for
every system boot.
After entering the necessary
timeout, press the Enter key
to register that timeout value
to the system. These
settings are in seconds.
Boot Option #x Available
boot
devices.
Set system boot order by selecting the boot option
for this position.
Hard Disk Order Set the order of the legacy devices in this group. Displays when one or more
hard disk drives are in the
system.
CDROM Order Set the order of the legacy devices in this group. Displays when one or more
CD-ROM drives are in the
system.
Floppy Order Set the order of the legacy devices in this group. Displays when one or more
floppy drives are in the
system.
Network Device
Order
Set the order of the legacy devices in this group. Displays when one or more
of these devices are
available in the system.
BEV Device Order Set the order of the legacy devices in this group. Displays when one or more
of these devices are
available in the system.
Add New Boot
Option
Add a new EFI boot option to the boot order. This option is only displayed
if an EFI bootable device is
available to the system (for
example, a USB drive).
Delete Boot Option Remove an EFI boot option from the boot order. If the EFI shell is deleted, it
is restored on the next
system reboot. It cannot be
permanently deleted.
EFI Optimized Boot
Enabled
Disabled
If enabled, the BIOS only loads modules required
for booting EFI-aware Operating Systems.
Grayed out when [SW
RAID] SATA Mode is
Enabled. SW RAID can only
be used in Legacy Boot
mode.
Use Legacy Video
for EFI OS
Enabled
Disabled
If enabled, the BIOS will use the legacy video
ROM instead of the EFI video ROM.
Only displays when EFI
Optimized Boot is enabled.
Boot Option Retry
Enabled
Disabled
If enabled, this continually retries non-EFI-based
boot options without waiting for user input.
USB Boot Priority
Enabled
Disabled
If enabled newly discovered USB devices will be
put to the top of their boot device category.
If disabled newly discovered USB devices will be
put at the bottom of the respective list
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