Setup and Operation 2-9
How to Use Setup
The Setup utility has a Main Menu window and six top-level menus with submenus. The
Main Menu window contains the following areas:
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A title line
the top line of the Main Menu. This line displays the Setup utility
name and copyright message.
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The menu bar
the line under the Setup title line. The menu bar contains six
top-level menus (Main, Advanced, Security, Power, Boot, Exit) for setting
system parameters.
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A Main Menu summary window
the center area on the left side of the screen.
This area provides a summary of Main Menu Setup parameters. Main Menu
parameters can be set directly from this window or from the Main menu option in
the legend bar.
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The Field Help window or Item Specific Help
the area on the right side of the
screen. This help area provides help information for the Setup option currently
selected.
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The legend bar
the area at the bottom of the screen. The legend bar provides a
summary of command keys for using Setup.
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The General Help window
a window that appears any time during Setup after
pressing
F1
or
Alt H
. This help window provides two pages of general
information about using Setup.
The following subsections describe how to use the Main Menu window to set system
parameters.
Menu Bar
The menu bar at the top of the Main Menu window lists these menus:
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Main
Use this menu for basic system configuration. For example, select Main
to set the system time, system date, diskette drives, and video parameters. Use
this menu to check memory parameters, numlock, and boot options.
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Advanced
Use this menu to set serial port and printer port addresses and
interrupts, to enable/disable the system’s diskette drive controller and dual-IDE
controllers, and to enable a Plug and Play operating system such as Windows 95.
The Advanced menu also provides, for example, menu items for setting
parameters for large disks (using large disks with Windows NT™),
enable/disable onboard sound and surround sound, and enable/disable the mouse
port.
Some of the Advanced features are accessible only with a Supervisor password.
