Accessing The Setup Utility; Menu Bar - HP D5970A - NetServer - LCII User Manual

Chapter 10

Accessing the Setup Utility

The (BIOS) Setup Utility menu offers the choices listed above, and the
corresponding items are described in the topics below.
1. Turn on the monitor and the HP Netserver.
2. Start the Setup Utility by pressing the [F2] key, when the following message
appears on the boot screen.
Press <F2> to enter SETUP

Menu Bar

The Setup Utility provides a menu bar with several menu selections. The menu bar
choices are:
• User Preferences - Use this menu option to set the Netserver time, date and
keyboard functions.
• Security - Use this menu option to set Power-on password protections and
hardware security options. Two choices are available under Security:
o Power-On Password - Use this option to set the power-on password,
which will require a password to enter the Setup Utility or complete the
boot process.
o Hardware Security - Use the options under this head to enable or disable
writing to flexible disk connected to the embedded controller. Also found
here are switches for allowing booting from the flexible disk drive, hard
disk drive, and CD-ROM.
• Configuration - Use this menu option to configure I/O ports, I/O addressing,
interrupts, PCI slot masters, IRQ interrupt locking, and boot device ordering.
These menu selections also provide access to enable/
disable specific options or features, such as the Alert-On-LAN 2 feature.
o Integrated I/O Port - Configure ports for serial and parallel, assign base
addresses and interrupts, pointing devices (mouse), and console
redirection for remote control.
o Flexible Disk Drive - Enable or disable the flexible disk drive controller.
o CPU and Memory - Enable or disable memory cache, memory hole, and
processor serial number.
o IDE Devices - Set primary master/slave, secondary master/slave
relationships on IDE devices, and set the local bus IDE adapter.
o PCI Slot Devices - Set a PCI slot as master and PCI IRQ locking. The
BIOS warns of conflicts.
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