HP omnibook 2000_5500_5700 Manuale Di Servizio

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The system menu of the SCU provides an interface to modify several system settings.  See
Figure 13 for an example of the system menu.  An explanation of each system setting and the
corresponding options are provided in Table 8.

Date and Time…

Day; Month; Year;
Hour; Minute; Second

Boot Devices…

Boot Device

FDD First; HDD First

FDD First

Booting from HDD first is useful
for protecting a computer from
becoming infected by a boot-
sector virus.

Boot Configuration

Full; Boot devices only;
Auto-detect

Auto-Detect

Full configures all PnP devices;
Boot devices only is used with
Win95; Auto-detect will configure
for the loaded OS.

Fast Boot

Selected; not selected

Not selected

Fast Boot skips RAM test.

Enable SCSI BIOS

2

Selected; not selected.

Not selected.

Note, this requires changing the
config.sys file.  In Windows 3.11
enabling SCSI BIOS maximizes
available memory when a hard
disk drive is the only SCSI device.

Enable boot sector

2

virus check

Selected; not selected.

Selected.

Displays message during boot if
hard disk sector 0 (partition sector)

                                                  

2

 For the OmniBook 5500, this requires BIOS version 2.12 or later