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Adjusting BIOS Option Settings
3BM includes a few settings that let you customize the behavior of the BIOS for the selected controller. You can access these settings by selecting Settings > BIOS Settings from the 3BM BIOS Manager screen.
Show 3BM BIOS Option Settings
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Power-On Self Test (POST) Display Options
Display Control. Specifies what level of detail to display on the start-up screen.
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Full displays all available information about the items attached to the controller, including available drives, hot spares, and configured units.
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Unit Only displays only configured units.
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Summary displays a one-sentence description of the items attached to the controller.
Array View. Specifies what level of information to show about configured units on the start-up screen.
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Expanded lists each unit and shows the specific drives that make up the unit.
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Collapsed lists only the configured units.
Pause Time. Sets the number of seconds that BIOS loading will pause to displaying the RAID configuration before continuing to boot the operating system. You can set a pause time of up to 10 seconds. The default is 6 seconds.
Full Screen Control. When you have many drives attached to a controller and choose to display the Full level of detail, the information can extend beyond a screens’ worth. The Full Screen Control setting lets you specify whether to wait for a keystroke when the screen is full, before displaying additional information. This option can be either No Key or Wait Key.
BIOS Loading Options
Load Control. This setting is enabled by default. It allows you to boot from RAID units or drives managed by the controller. If this setting is disabled, you will only be able to boot from hard drives or peripheral devices (such as CD-ROM or floppy) that are not managed by the controller. You may wish to disable this setting if you have multiple controllers in a "headless" system with no monitor or keyboard.
Options for Entering BIOS
Hot Key. The default key combination for entering the BIOS is Alt-3. If you wish, you can change this key combination to Ctrl-6.
Require Password. To control access to the BIOS setup program, you can enable a security password. If you enable the password function, you must then specify a password.
Change Password. This field is where you will enter a password if you have enabled the Require Password setting. This password will control access to the BIOS.
 
Note: During the boot process, you can also bypass loading of the BIOS for all controllers for one time only by pressing Alt-B. This is useful to temporarily boot from a non-3ware device without having to change the system’s boot order.
Changing BIOS Settings
You can change the BIOS settings from the Bios Option Settings screen in 3BM.
To change the BIOS Settings
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On the 3BM BIOS Manager screen, Tab to Settings and press Enter.
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On the pop-up menu, select BIOS and press Enter.
The BIOS Option Settings screen appears.
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Tab through the options and make the desired changes.
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Tab to OK and press Enter to return to the main screen.

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