2-8 Setup and Operation
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A Main Menu summary window — the center area on the left side of the screen.
This area provides a summary of Main Menu Setup parameters. Main Menu
parameters can be set directly from this window or from the Main menu option in
the legend bar.
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The Item Specific Help window — the area on the right side of the screen. This
help area provides help information for the Setup option currently selected.
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The legend bar — the area at the bottom of the screen. The legend bar provides a
summary of command keys for using Setup.
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The General Help window — a window that appears any time during Setup after
pressing
F2
or
Alt H
. This help window provides two pages of general
information about using Setup.
The following subsections describe how to use the Main Menu window to set system
parameters.
Menu Bar
The menu bar at the top of the Main Menu window lists these menus:
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Main — Use this menu for basic system configuration. For example, select
“Main” to set the system time, system date, diskette drives, and video parameters.
Use this menu to check memory parameters.
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Advanced — Use this menu to set serial port and printer port addresses and
interrupts, to enable/disable the system’s diskette drive controller and dual-IDE
controllers.
The Advanced menu also provides menu items for setting parity and for setting
parameters for large disks (for example, to use large disks with Windows NT).
Some of the Advanced features are accessible only with a Supervisor password.
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Security — Use this menu to edit and set Supervisor and user IDs and
passwords, set Backup and Virus-check reminders, set network and diskette
access, and enable write-protection for the hard disk.
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Exit — Exits the current menu.
To select an option from the menu bar, use the left and right
←
←
→
→
arrow keys. See “Exiting
Setup” in this section for a description on exiting the Main Menu.