Chapter 4 | BIOS Setup Description |
Security Settings
Feature
Options
Description
Supervisor Password | Installed | Reports if there is a supervisor password set. |
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User Password | Installed | Reports if there is a user password set. |
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Change Supervisor | enter password | Specifies the supervisor password. |
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User Access Level | No Access | Sets BIOS setup utility access rights for user level. |
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Change User Password | enter password | Specifies the user password. |
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Password Check | Setup | Setup: Check password while invoking setup. |
| Always | Always: Check password also on each boot. |
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Boot Sector Virus | Disabled | Select Enabled to enable boot sector protection. |
Protection | Enabled | The BIOS displays a warning when any program (or |
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| attempted to the boot sector. You may have to type N |
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| several times to prevent the boot sector write. |
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| Boot Sector Write! |
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| Possible VIRUS: Continue (Y/N)? |
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| The following appears after any attempt to format any |
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| cylinder, head or sector of any hard disk drive via the |
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| BIOS INT13 hard disk drive service: |
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| Format!!! |
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| Possible VIRUS: Continue (Y/N)? |
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BIOS Update & Write | Disabled | Only visible if a supervisor password is installed. If |
Protection | Enabled | enabled the BIOS update and modification utilities |
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| any write accesses to the BIOS flash ROM chip. |
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Yes | If set to Yes, the user can force the loading of CMOS | |
CMOS Defaults | No | defaults by pressing the END key during POST. |
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Hard Disk Security
This feature enables the users to set, reset or disable passwords for each hard drive in Setup without rebooting. If the user enables password support, a power cycle must occur for the hard drive to lock using the new password. Both user and master password can be set independently however the drive will only lock if a user password is installed.
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