Parallel Port
Default Setting: ECP
Allows you to configure the integrated serial port. The options are: Disabled, COM1, COM2, COM3, and COM4
Serial Port
Default Setting: COM1
Allows you to configure the internal SATA hard drive controller. The options are: Disabled, ATA, AHCI, and RAID On
SATA Operation
Default Setting: RAID On
Allows you to enable or disable the following devices:
| • | Internal Modem | |
| • | Module Bay | |
| • | ExpressCard or PC Card | |
| • | Media Card, PC Card and 1394 | |
Miscellaneous Devices | • | External USB Port | |
| • | Microphone | |
| • | eSATA Ports | |
| • | Hard Drive Free Fall Protection | |
| • | Camera and Microphone | |
| Default setting: All enabled. | ||
Latitude ON™ Reader | Allows you to configure the operating mode of the Latitude ON Reader. The options are: Disabled and Enabled | ||
Default Setting: Enabled | |||
| |||
| Allows you to configure the keyboard illumination feature. The options are: Disabled, Auto ALS and Input, and Auto Input | ||
Keyboard Illumination | Only |
| |
|
| ||
| Default Settings: Disabled | ||
|
|
| |
Video |
|
| |
|
| ||
Option | Description | ||
| To enable the Ambient Light Sensor, select the Ambient Light Sensor check box. | ||
Ambient Light Sensor |
|
| |
| Default Settings: Disabled | ||
LCD Brightness | Allows you to set the display brightness depending up on the power source (On Battery and On AC). | ||
|
|
| |
Security |
|
| |
|
| ||
Option | Description | ||
| Allows you to set, change, or delete the administrator (admin) password. When set, the admin password enables several | ||
| security features including: | ||
| • | Restricts changes to the settings in Setup | |
| • | Restricts the boot devices listed in the <F12> Boot Menu to those enabled in the "Boot Sequence" field | |
| • | Prohibits changes to the owner and asset tags | |
Admin Password | • | Substitutes for the system and hard drive password | |
| NOTE: You must set the admin password before you set the system or hard drive password. | ||
| NOTE: Successful password changes take effect immediately. | ||
| NOTE: Deleting the admin password automatically deletes the system password as well. | ||
| Default Setting: Not Set | ||
| Allows you to set, change, or delete the system password. When set, your computer requests you to enter the system | ||
| password every time your computer turns on or restarts. | ||
System Password | NOTE: Successful password changes take effect immediately. | ||
| |||
| Default Setting: Not Set | ||
| This field lets you set, change, or delete the password on the system's internal hard disk drive (HDD). Successful changes take | ||
| place immediately and require a system restart. The HDD password travels with the hard drive, so the HDD is protected even | ||
Internal HDD Password | when installed in another system. | ||
| Default Setting: Not Set | ||
| Allows you to bypass the system and internal hard drive password prompts when your computer restarts or resumes from | ||
| standby. | ||
Password Bypass | You can set Password Bypass to Disabled and Reboot Bypass. | ||
|
| ||
| NOTE: You cannot bypass the system or hard drive password when you turn on your computer that has been shut down. | ||
| Default Setting: Disabled | ||
| Allows you to enable the disable permission to the System and Hard Drive passwords when the admin password is set. | ||
Password Change |
|
| |
| Default Setting: Allow | ||
| Allows you to enable of disable option to enforce strong passwords. If enabled, all passwords set on the computer must | ||
| contain at least one uppercase character, one lowercase character and be at least 8 characters long. Enabling this feature | ||
Strong Password | automatically changes the default minimum password length to 8 characters. | ||
| Default Setting: Disabled | ||
| Allows you to enable or disable the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) on the computer. | ||
| NOTE: Disabling this option does not change any settings you may have made to the TPM, or delete any information or keys | ||
| you may have stored there. | ||
|
|
| |