System Menu

The system menu of the SCU provides an interface to modify several system settings. See Figure 13 for an example of the system menu. An explanation of each system setting and the corresponding options are provided in Table 8.

Figure 13 - System Menu Screen

Table 8 - System Menu Settings

Setting

Parameters

Default

Comment

Date and Time…

Day; Month; Year;

 

 

 

Hour; Minute; Second

 

 

Boot Devices…

 

 

 

Boot Device

FDD First; HDD First

FDD First

Booting from HDD first is useful

 

 

 

for protecting a computer from

 

 

 

becoming infected by a boot-

 

 

 

sector virus.

Boot Configuration

Full; Boot devices only;

Auto-Detect

Full configures all PnP devices;

 

Auto-detect

 

Boot devices only is used with

 

 

 

Win95; Auto-detect will configure

 

 

 

for the loaded OS.

Fast Boot

Selected; not selected

Not selected

Fast Boot skips RAM test.

Enable SCSI BIOS2

Selected; not selected.

Not selected.

Note, this requires changing the

 

 

 

config.sys file. In Windows 3.11

 

 

 

enabling SCSI BIOS maximizes

 

 

 

available memory when a hard

Enable boot sector2

 

 

disk drive is the only SCSI device.

Selected; not selected.

Selected.

Displays message during boot if

virus check

 

 

hard disk sector 0 (partition sector)

2For the OmniBook 5500, this requires BIOS version 2.12 or later

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