Chapter 2
Installation and Configuration
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Security Menu
Use this menu to enable BIOS security options.
Set User Password
—This setting allows you to specify a password that
must be entered to boot the system. To activate this feature, you must first
specify a Supervisor password and enable the
Password on boot
feature.
By default, no password is specified.
Set Supervisor Password
—This setting allows you to specify a password
that must be entered to access the BIOS setup options. By default, no
password is specified.
Password on Boot
—This setting controls whether or not a password is
required to boot the system. If enabled, the user must enter the User
Password to boot the system. The default setting is
Disabled
.
Write Protect Boot Sector
—When set to
Yes
, this setting prevents
modification of a hard disk boot sector via INT 13h services, which may
help prevent certain computer viruses from infecting the controller. This
setting does not prevent boot sector modification by 32-bit operating
system drivers that access the hard disk directly. The default is
No
.
Boot Setup Menu
This screen displays the boot order of devices associated with the
controller. The BIOS proceeds down the
Boot priority order list
in search
of a bootable device. Devices under the
Excluded from boot order
list
will not be used for booting. If the BIOS fails to find a bootable device, the
message
Operating System Not Found
is displayed, and the system
halts.
•
IDE SATA
—The internal Serial ATA hard drive, connected to the
Serial ATA port.
•
USB HDD
—A USB based flash drive or hard disk drive.
•
USB CDROM
—A USB based CD-ROM drive.
•
USB FDC
—A USB based floppy disk drive.
•
PCI SCSI
—A SCSI drive (hard disk drive or CD-ROM) connected
through a SCSI controller in the PXI Express chassis.
•
PCI LAN
—A PXE Network boot device, if
PXE Network Boot
is
enabled on the
Advanced
menu.
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