HP Vectra VLi 8, Supplementary Manual

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4 Managing Your PC
HP Setup Program
Device Boot Order
Boot Menu for the Current Startup Only
The current startup Boot menu gives the order of devices which the PC
attempts to start or “boot” from (for example, the floppy drive first, the
CD-ROM drive second, the hard disk drive third, and lastly the
network). From this menu you can choose the device to boot from
for
the current startup .
To Go to the Current
Startup’s Boot Menu
To go to the current startup Boot menu while the Vectra logo appears
on your display, press
F8
.
Boot Menu for the Default Startup
You can also enter the Setup program to change the boot order for all
startups
. To do this, go to the “Boot Device Priority” submenu of the
Boot menu in the Setup program, accessed by pressing
F2
at startup.
Boot Menu for Hard Disk Drives
In the
Setup
program, you can also select the hard disk drive to boot
from if there is more than one hard disk drive installed. To do this, go to
the “Hard Disk Drives” submenu of the Boot menu in the
Setup
program.
NOTE If your PC comes with an IDE hard disk drive, it will by default boot from
the hard drive connected to the master IDE connector when you first
start your PC. If your PC has a SCSI hard disk drive, this will be used as
the default boot drive.