Answers And Explanations - HP Vectra VE5 4 Supplementary Manual

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1 How can you recover from the corruption of your operating system?
b Connect across to the remote server, and use the dynamic host
configuration protocol (DHCP) to restore the user's profile of the
operating system.
c Run the Windows 95 Setup program from the masters directory.
Setting the two system board switches together is for recovery from a
BIOS upgrade failure, not for recovery from a corrupted operating
system.
2 What do you do to upgrade the system BIOS?
a Download the BIOS to a bootable flexible diskette, and flash it
directly on the PC.
c Download the BIOS to another PC, and execute the BIOS flasher so
that it flashes the BIOS across the local area network to the target PC.
Response (c) makes use of the OpenView, TopTools utility.
3 How can you recover from the corruption of your System BIOS?
a Set SW-7 and SW-8 together to the
If the BIOS is corrupted, the PC will be unusable. These two switches
force the PC to boot from the flexible disk drive (from whence the BIOS
can be re-flashed).
4 How do you install a CD-ROM drive in a model without CD-ROM drive?
c The CD-ROM drive can be connected to the secondary IDE cable that
is supplied with the PC.
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