Configuring Your Notebook

Main Menu

Feature

Settings

Comments

System Time

Enter current time:

Sets the system to specified time.

 

hour, minute, second

 

 

format.

 

System Date

Enter current date:

Sets the system to specified date.

 

month, day, year

 

 

format.

 

Diskette

Display only field

Indicates the notebook is configured to support a

 

 

1.44/1.25MB 3 ½ " floppy drive.

Lid Switch

Suspend/Resume*

 

Desktop/CRT

This option allows you to configure the way the notebook computer responds when opening and closing the LCD display panel. When Suspend/Resume is selected, the system enters Suspend Mode when the lid is closed and Resumes operation when the lid is opened. When Desktop/CRT mode is selected, the external video port is enabled when the lid is closed.

Primary Master

Display only field

Description of hard drive.

Primary Slave

Display only field

Description of IDE device installed in the

 

 

notebook’s Expansion Bay.

Secondary

Display only field

Description of IDE device installed in Compaq

Master

 

Mobile 6500 Expansion Unit.

System Memory

Display only field

Indicates the amount of conventional memory

 

 

used by the system.

Extended

Display only field

Indicates the amount of RAM, minus

Memory

 

conventional memory (640KB) and high memory

 

 

(360KB), installed in the system.

System BIOS

Display only field

Indicates the current System BIOS version.

version

 

 

Keyboard BIOS

Display only field

Indicates the current Keyboard BIOS version.

version

 

 

 

 

 

*Factory default setting

 

 

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