System Menu; Figure 13 - System Menu Screen; Table 8 - System Menu Settings - HP OMNIBOOK 5500 Service Manual

System Menu

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.

Figure 13 - System Menu Screen

Table 8 - System Menu Settings

Setting
Date and Time...
Boot Devices...
Boot Device
Boot Configuration
Fast Boot
2
Enable SCSI BIOS
2
Enable boot sector
virus check
2
For the OmniBook 5500, this requires BIOS version 2.12 or later
Parameters
Day; Month; Year;
Hour; Minute; Second
FDD First; HDD First
Full; Boot devices only;
Auto-detect
Selected; not selected
Selected; not selected.
Selected; not selected.
Default Comment
FDD First Booting from HDD first is useful
for protecting a computer from
becoming infected by a boot-
sector virus.
Auto-Detect Full configures all PnP devices;
Boot devices only is used with
Win95; Auto-detect will configure
for the loaded OS.
Not selected Fast Boot skips RAM test.
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.
Selected. Displays message during boot if
hard disk sector 0 (partition sector)
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