System Menu Screen

Table 9 - System Menu Settings

Setting

Parameters

Default

Comment

Date and Time…

Day; Month;

n/a

Enter appropriate settings for time

 

Year; Hour;

 

and date.

 

Minute; Second

 

 

Boot Devices…

 

 

 

Boot Device

FDD First; HDD

FDD First

Booting from HDD first is useful for

 

First

 

protecting a computer from

 

 

 

becoming infected by a boot-sector

 

 

 

virus.

CardBus Mode

Legacy; Disable;

Legacy

Available only on F1360.

 

CardBus Mode

 

Determines the BIOS power up

 

 

 

mode for the CardBus controller.

Boot Configuration

Full; Boot

Auto-Detect

Fully configures all PnP devices;

 

devices only;

 

Boot devices only is used with

 

Auto-detect

 

Win95; Auto-detect will configure

 

 

 

for the loaded OS.

Fast Boot

Selected; not

Not selected

Fast Boot skips RAM test.

 

selected

 

 

Force PCI Bridge

Selected; not

Not selected

Configure PCI bridge for use with

Configuration

selected

 

Windows NT 3.51. Do not select

 

 

 

this option for other operating

 

 

 

systems.

Hot Dock: OS

Selected; not

Not selected

Available only on F1360. Allows

Configure PCI

selected

 

the OS to configure PCI devices at

 

 

 

hot-dock.

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