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4 Summary of the HP/Phoenix BIOS
Setup Program
Setup Program
To run the Setup program, interrupt the POST by pressing when the
F2=Setup
message appears on the initial “Vectra” logo screen.
The band along the top of the screen offers five menus: Main, Configuration,
Security, Power, and Exit. These are selected using the left and right arrow
keys. Each menu is discussed in the following sub-sections. For a more
complete description, see the User’s Guide that was supplied with the PC.
Main Menu
The Main Menu presents the user with a list of fields, such as “System Time”
and “Key auto-repeat speed”. These can be selected using the up and down
arrow keys, and can have their values changed using the and keys.
The “Item-Specific Help” field changes automatically as the user moves the
cursor between the fields. It tells the user what the presently highlighted
field is for, and what the options are.
Some fields are not changeable. Examples include fields that are for
information only, and fields whose contents become “frozen” by the setting
of a value in some other field. Such fields are displayed in a different color,
without the “[” and “]” brackets. When the user moves the cursor with the up
and down arrow keys, these fields are skipped.
Some fields disappear completely when a choice in another field makes their
appearance inappropriate (for example, the “Key auto-repeat speed” and
“Delay before auto-repeat” fields disappear when the user selects
Yes
in the
“Running Windows 95” field, since these parameters can be set within the
Windows 95 operating system).
Configuration Menu
The Configuration Menu does not have the same structure as the Main Menu
and Power Menu. Instead of presenting a list of fields, it offers the user a list
of sub-menus. Again, the user steps between the options using the up and
down arrow keys, but presses the key to enter the chosen sub-
menu (and the key to go back again when finished).
If access to devices has been disabled in the Security Menu, then the
configuration of those devices on the Configuration Menu becomes frozen,
as shown in the diagram below for Serial port A. The field becomes starred,
