4 Summary of the HP/Phoenix BIOS
Setup Program
Setup Program
To run the Setup program, interrupt the POST by pressing 
when the F2=Setup message appears on the initial “Vectra” logo screen.
The band along the top of the screen offers five menus: Main, Configuration, Security, Power, and Exit. These are selected using the left and right arrow keys. Each menu is discussed in the following
Main Menu
The Main Menu presents the user with a list of fields, such as “System Time” and “Key
arrow keys, and can have their values changed using the 
and 
keys.
The
Some fields are not changeable. Examples include fields that are for information only, and fields whose contents become “frozen” by the setting of a value in some other field. Such fields are displayed in a different color, without the “[” and “]” brackets. When the user moves the cursor with the up and down arrow keys, these fields are skipped.
Some fields disappear completely when a choice in another field makes their appearance inappropriate (for example, the “Key
Configuration Menu
The Configuration Menu does not have the same structure as the Main Menu and Power Menu. Instead of presenting a list of fields, it offers the user a list of
down arrow keys, but presses the 
key to enter the chosen sub-
menu (and the 
key to go back again when finished).
If access to devices has been disabled in the Security Menu, then the configuration of those devices on the Configuration Menu becomes frozen, as shown in the diagram below for Serial port A. The field becomes starred,
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