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Question posted by dchapman0211 on May 9th, 2012

Where Is The Bios In Dell Poweredge 840?

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Answer #1: Posted by Anonymous-58825 on May 9th, 2012 8:59 AM

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The bios is embedded on the motherboard. To find out the current level, go into the F2 bios and it will be listed. To update, go to support.dell.com and select your server, download the update, run and it will restart the server to update it outside the operating system.

Answer #2: Posted by DellJesse1 on May 10th, 2012 6:29 AM

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Press the F2 key while booting up to enter System Setup to make changes to the user definable settings.

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