[Leaplist] Seeing which key brings up the BIOS

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 16:08 -0400, William H. Ferguson wrote:
> Thanks, Whit,
> I found that the F2 key at the initial phase of boot-up gave me the
> BIOS.
> But, I could find no evidence of a "quick" or "slow" Set Up option in
> the BIOS menu..
> Guess this machine's Motherboard doesn't offer that particular option.

Some say "Quick Power-On Self Test (POST)".
Others have options on whether or not to test memory.
Etc...

On servers, with ECC or other memory, they will take a long time.  ;)


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