Setup Parameters - IBM Aptiva Handbook

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The start options are settings that affect the way your
computer acts when started.
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This setting controls which devices your computer will
attampt to read data from when it is started.
Your computer can be started from several devices,
including the hard disk drive, diskette drive, and CD-ROM
drive. The startup program looks for these devices in a
selected sequence. The startup sequence on your computer
is preset from the factory to have the computer start up from
a CD, diskette, or hard disk. This startup sequence allows
you to start the diagnostic and recovery programs from the
Product Recovery and Diagnostics CD, use emergency
diskettes to recover from a startup failure, and start from
your hard disk for normal day-to-day operation. In most
cases, there is no reason to change the startup sequence.
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This setting determines if the BIOS will monitor the boot
sector and partition table of the hard disk drive for any
attempt at modification. If any attempt is made, the BIOS will
halt the system and an error message will appear.
Afterwards, if necessary, you will be able to run an anti-virus
program to locate and remove the problem before any
damage is done.
Activates automatically when the system boots up causing
Enabled a warning message to appear when anything attempts to
access the boot sector or hard disk partition table.
No warning message will appear when anything attempts
Disabled
to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table.
Many disk diagnostic programs that attempt to access
the boot sector table can cause the above warning
message. If you are running such a program, you can
Note:
avoid the virus warning by disabling the virus protection
before you run the program. After running the program,
remember to re-enable virus protection.
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This setting causes the computer to run a shortened power-
on self-test (POST). The shortened POST takes less time to
complete, but does not test the computer as thoroughly as
the normal POST.
Enabled Enable quick POST
Disabled Normal POST
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This setting determines whether or not the computer will
check for the presence of a diskette drive at startup.

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