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BIOS Setup Utility Intel® Server Board S2600GZ/GL TPS 5. Dual Monitor Video Option Values: Enabled Disabled Help Text: If enabled, both the on-board video controller and an add-in video adapter are enabled for system video. The on-board video controller becomes the primary video device. Comments: This option must be enabled to use an add-in card as a secondary POST Legacy Video device while also displaying on the Onboard Video device. If there is no add-in video card in any PCIe slot connected to CPU Socket 1, this options is set to Disabled and grayed out and unavailable. If the Legacy VGA Socket option is set to CPU Socket 2, this option is grayed out and unavailable, with a value set to Disabled. When Legacy VGA Socket is set back to CPU Socket 1, this option is set to its default value of Disabled, and may become available depending on add-in video card configuration, Note: This option does not appear on some models. Back to [PCI Configuration Screen] - [Advanced Screen] 6. NIC Configuration Option Values: Help Text: View/Configure NIC information and settings. Comments: Selection only. Position to this line and press the key to go to the NIC Configuration group of configuration settings. Back to [PCI Configuration Screen] - [Advanced Screen] 12.2.2.7 NIC Configuration The NIC Configuration screen allows the user to configure the NIC controller options for BIOS POST. It also displays the NIC MAC Addresses currently in use. This NIC Configuration screen handles network controllers built in on the baseboard ("onboard") or installed as an IO Module (IOM). It does not configure or report anything having to do with add-in network adapter cards. To access this screen from the Main screen, select Advanced > PCI Configuration > NIC Configuration. To move to another screen, press the key to return to the PCI Configuration screen, if necessary press the key again to return to the Advanced screen, then select the desired screen. There is usually one Onboard NIC built into the baseboard, although in some cases there are two Onboard NICs. There are several possible types of NICs which are incorporated into different boards. When an Infiniband* controller is on the baseboard, it appears as an Onboard NIC. Most boards in this family also can have an IO Module that installs on the board in a specialized connector. There are boards which can have two IO Modules installed. The descriptive names of the Onboard NIC types are: 1. Intel® 82574 Single-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller 148 Revision 1.1 Intel order number G24881-004