Chapter 4: BIOS
4-5 Boot Menu
The BOOT menu is accessible only when the LOAD ONBOARD LAN OPTION ROM setting (in the PCI/PNP CONFIGURATION menu) is enabled. Menu items in the BOOT menu are shown below in Table
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Menu Item | Description | |
Boot Device | This feature allows the user to prioritize the boot sequence from the available | |
Priority | devices. | |
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Hard Disk Drives | This feature allows the user to specify the boot sequence from available hard | |
disk drives. | ||
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4-6 Security Menu
AMI BIOS provides a Supervisor and a User password. If you use both passwords, the Supervisor password must be set first in the SECURITY menu. Menu items for the security menu are shown below in Table
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Menu Item | Description |
Change Supervisor | Select this option and press <ENTER> to access the sub menu, and then type in |
Password | the password. |
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Change User | Select this option and press <ENTER> to access the sub menu, and then type in |
Password | the password. |
| This option is near the bottom of the SECURITY SETUP screen. Select Disabled to |
| deactivate the Boot Sector Virus Protection. Select ENABLED to enable boot |
Boot Sector Virus | sector protection. |
Protection | When ENABLED, the AMI BIOS displays a warning when any program (or virus) |
| issues a DISK FORMAT command or attempts to write to the boot sector of the |
| hard disk drive. The options are ENABLED and Disabled. |
