It was caused by having the on-board SCSI BIOS enabled and having nothing attached. Disabling the on-board SCSI BIOS in the system BIOS prevents the prompt. Solved.
The F1/F2 prompt signals a misconfiguration of "some kind" by the BIOS. This can be a device turned on with nothing attached (hard drive, CDROM - usually shows as Unknown in BIOS) or can mean bad hardware that does not register properly with the BIOS. If there are no other error message on the POST screen (fans, etc.) and nothing is amiss in the BIOS, then you may consider 32-bit diags to see if it can tell you what the problem is.
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January 27th, 2010 13:00
It was caused by having the on-board SCSI BIOS enabled and having nothing attached. Disabling the on-board SCSI BIOS in the system BIOS prevents the prompt. Solved.
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January 27th, 2010 10:00
The F1/F2 prompt signals a misconfiguration of "some kind" by the BIOS. This can be a device turned on with nothing attached (hard drive, CDROM - usually shows as Unknown in BIOS) or can mean bad hardware that does not register properly with the BIOS. If there are no other error message on the POST screen (fans, etc.) and nothing is amiss in the BIOS, then you may consider 32-bit diags to see if it can tell you what the problem is.