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hurikhan77
Asked: 2010-05-04 09:24:25 +0800 CST

Dell PowerEdge R410: System asks to press F1 or F2

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We just installed an option card (PERC 6/i) into a brand-new Dell PowerEdge R410 and now the system does no unattended startup but instead asks me to press F1 to continue or F2 to enter system setup after printing the following message on the console:

Fan 4 speed may change depending on system configuration and option card install.

How do I make the system ignore this "problem" or whatever that is? This system is going to be installed at a remote data center and needs to be able to restart unattended. I do not want to ignore errors completely to not get endless restart loops in case of errors.

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6 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Usually you press F2 to enter system setup and save whatever changes the hardware upgrade caused and it will stop prompting. It's not like swapping in a RAID card is done remotely ^^

    But there should be an option to halt on no errors as well...

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  2. What sort of fan configuration do you have? I'm not 100% sure, but it sounds like you may no longer be in a N+1 fan configuration based on the peripherals you've added. Adding an additional fan may clear the error.

    I'm not very familiar with the 410's, though, so a quick call to Dell Support could confirm/deny my theory.

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  3. "prompt on error" which I inadvertently checked .....unchecking this option in the PERC controller bios configuration fixed this issue for me.

    My issue was that I got this message ... "F1 to continue or F2 to enter system setup" that I received after rebooting my dell 2950 PERC/5.....

    after unchecking the "prompt on error" PERC controller bios configuration located in the mgt-controller menu option.....

    thanks for the tech assist SIR cagenut who answered on May 3 '10 at 22:22

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  4. Somewhere near the bottom of the first screen in the regular bios menu should be a toggle for "prompt on error" or the like. Toggle that and it won't do this anymore.

    Granted its a workaround not a fix, it shouldn't be doing this.

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  5. You probably need to call Dell and see if this is a supported system config. They've been getting much more stringent about what goes in their servers. If it's unsupported, they'll let you know, and if it's supported, they'll tell you how to fix it.

    They might even tell you how to turn off that warning even if the card itself is unsupported.

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  6. I have a PowerEdge T110, with BIOS version: 1.6.4:

    F1/F2 Prompt on Error "Disabled" or you can try to restore system defaults / settings

    hope that helps.

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