Contents

Using DriveLock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–7 Protecting a Hard Drive with DriveLock . . . . . . . . . 3–8 Accessing a Protected Hard Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–9 Changing a DriveLock Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–10 Removing DriveLock Protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–11

Disabling a Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–12 Protecting System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–13 Selecting an Information Management Procedure . 3–13 Entering and Displaying System Information . . . . . 3–14 Connecting an Optional Cable Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–15

4 Intelligent Manageability

Understanding Intelligent Manageability. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–1 Installing Intelligent Manageability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–2 Setting Up Insight Management Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–2 Using Fault Management Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–2 Identifying a Fault Management Alert . . . . . . . . . . . 4–2 Setting Fault Management Alert Preferences . . . . . . 4–3

5 MultiBoot (Advanced Users Only)

Changing the Startup Sequence with MultiBoot . . . . . . . 5–1 Enabling Media and Devices for MultiBoot . . . . . . . . . . 5–2 Using the Default Search Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–3 Planning Changes to the Startup Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . 5–4 Specifying MultiBoot Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–5

Setting a Continuing Startup Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . 5–5 Setting the MultiBoot Express Prompt . . . . . . . . . . . 5–6 Responding to the MultiBoot Express Prompt . . . . . 5–6

6 Software Updates and Restorations

Updating Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–1 Preparing for a Software Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–2 Accessing Notebook Model Information . . . . . . . . . 6–2 Accessing ROM Version Information. . . . . . . . . . . . 6–2 Accessing Software Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–4

Software Guide

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