Computer Setup (F10) Utility Guide - dx2250
Microtower Model
HP Compaq Business PC
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This guide provides instructions on how to use Computer Setup. This tool is used to reconfigure and
modify computer default settings when new hardware is installed and for maintenance purposes.
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bodily harm or loss of life.
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damage to equipment or loss of information.
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Computer Setup (F10) Utility
Computer Setup (F10) Utilities
Use Computer Setup (F10) Utility to do the following:
Change factory default settings.
Set the system date and time.
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Set, view, change, or verify the system configuration, including settings for processor, graphics,
memory, audio, storage, communications, and input devices.
Modify the boot order of bootable devices such as hard drives, diskette drives, optical drives, or
USB flash media devices.
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Restrict a device from booting the unit.
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Run hard drive self-tests.
View CPU and system temperatures.
Enter the Asset Tag or property identification number assigned by the company to this computer.
Establish a supervisor password that controls access to Computer Setup (F10) Utility and the
settings described in this section.
Secure integrated I/O functionality, including the serial, USB, or parallel ports, audio, or embedded
NIC, so that they cannot be used until they are unsecured.
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Enable or disable removable media boot ability.
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Enable or disable legacy diskette write ability (when supported by hardware).
Using Computer Setup (F10) Utilities
Computer Setup can be accessed only by turning the computer on or restarting the system. To access
the Computer Setup Utilities menu, complete the following steps:
1. Turn on or restart the computer.
2. As soon as the computer is turned on, press F10 when the monitor light turns green to enter
Computer Setup. Press Enter to bypass the title screen, if necessary.
NOTE: If you do not press F10 at the appropriate time, you must restart the computer and
again press F10 when the monitor light turns green to access the utility.
3. The Computer Setup Utility screen is divided into menu headings and actions.
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Eight menu headings appear on the Computer Setup Utility screen:
System Information
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Standard CMOS Features
Advanced BIOS Features
Advanced Chipset Features
Integrated Peripherals
Power Management Setup
PC Health Status
Five action choices are listed on the Computer Setup Utility screen:
Load Optimized Defaults
Set Supervisor Password
Set User Password
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Save & Exit Setup
Exit Without Saving
Use the arrow keys to select the appropriate heading, then press Enter. Use the arrow (up and
down) keys to select the option you want, then press Enter. To return to the previous screen,
press Esc.
4. To apply and save changes, press F10 or select Save & Exit Setup on the Computer Setup Utility
screen and press Enter.
If you have made changes that you do not want applied, select Exit Without Saving and press
Enter.
CAUTION: Do NOT turn the computer power OFF while the ROM is saving the Computer Setup
(F10) changes because the CMOS could become corrupted. It is safe to turn off the computer
only after exiting the F10 Setup screen.
Table 1 Computer Setup (F10) Utility Main Menu
Heading
Table
System Information
Standard CMOS Features
Advanced BIOS Features
Advanced Chipset Features
Integrated Peripherals
Power Management Setup
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Table 1 Computer Setup (F10) Utility Main Menu (continued)
PC Health Status
(Action Choices)
Computer Setup—System Information
NOTE: Support for specific Computer Setup options may vary depending on the hardware
configuration.
Table 2 Computer Setup—System Information
Option
Description
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(view only)
(view only)
(view only)
(view only)
(view only)
(view only)
(view only)
(view only)
(view only)
(view only)
Product Name
SKU Number
Processor Type
Processor Speed
Cache Size
Memory Size
System ROM
Integrated MAC
UUID
System Serial #
Asset Tracking
Number
Enter Asset Tag No.
Enter asset tag number assigned by the company (maximum 18 characters).
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Computer Setup—Standard CMOS Features
NOTE: Support for specific Computer Setup options may vary depending on the hardware
configuration.
Table 3 Computer Setup—Standard CMOS Features
Option
Description
Date (mm:dd:yy)
Time (hh:mm:ss)
PATA Controller
PATA Ch 0 Master
PATA Ch 0 Slave
Allows you to set system date.
Allows you to set system time.
Disables/enables PATA Controller.
For each, if PATA HDD is used, allows you to:
run HDD self-test for selected channel:
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SMART Status Check
HDD Short Self-Test
HDD Extended Self-Test
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set PATA Ch 0 Master/Slave device details on selected channel to:
None
Auto
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Manual
set access mode on selected channel to:
CHS (Cylinder-Head-Sector)
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LBA (Logical Block Addressing)
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Large
Auto
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view:
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Firmware Version
Capacity
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Cylinder
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Head
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Precomp
Landing Zone
Sector
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SATA Controller
SATA Mode
Disables/enables onboard SATA controller.
Allows you to set the onboard SATA mode to:
Native IDE
Legacy IDE
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Table 3 Computer Setup—Standard CMOS Features (continued)
SATA Ch 1 Master
SATA Ch 1 Slave
SATA Ch 2 Master
SATA Ch 2 Slave
For each, allows you to:
run HDD self-test for selected channel:
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SMART Status Check
HDD Short Self-Test
HDD Extended Self-Test
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set extended IDE drive on selected channel to:
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None
Auto
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set access mode on selected channel to:
Large
Auto
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view:
Firmware Version
Capacity
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Cylinder
Head
Precomp
Landing Zone
Sector
Floppy Controller
Drive A
Disables/enables the floppy disk controller.
Allows you to set Drive A to:
None
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1.44M, 3.5 in.
Halt On
Allows you to set POST error behavior to:
All Errors
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No Errors
All but Keyboard
All but Diskette
All but Diskette/Keyboard
POST Delay
Allows you to set a POST delay to:
0 seconds
5 seconds
10 seconds
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15 seconds
30 seconds
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Computer Setup—Advanced BIOS Features
NOTE: Support for specific Computer Setup options may vary depending on the hardware
configuration.
Table 4 Computer Setup—Advanced BIOS Features
Option
Description
Device Boot Disabling Allows you to restrict a device from booting the unit. You can disable as a bootable device:
None
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USB
Internal ODD
Internal FDD
USB + ODD + FDD
F9 Boot Menu
Disables/enables F9 Boot Menu.
Factory Recovery Boot Disables/enables the ability to boot to the Recovery partition at startup. Enabling this feature will add
the <F11>Recovery prompt to the startup window.
F11 Prompt
Disables/enables the <F11>Recovery prompt at startup. However, if this feature is disabled and
the Factory Recovery Boot is enabled, pressing F11 will still boot the computer to the Recovery
partition.
Hard Disk Boot Seq.
Allows you to specify the order of attached hard drive devices (such as USB HDD storage, USB2
Drive Key, or USB flash media). The first drive in the order has priority in the boot sequence and is
recognized as drive C (if any devices are attached).
Optical Drive Boot
Seq.
Allows you to specify the order in which attached optical drives (including USB ODD) are checked
for a bootable operating system image.
Network Boot Seq.
Allows you to specify the order in which network devices (including UP NIC cards) are checked for
a bootable operating system image.
First Boot Device
Second Boot Device
Third Boot Device
Fourth Boot Device
Allows you to specify which devices will boot first, second, third, and fourth or to disable any of the
four:
Removable
Hard Disk
CDROM
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Network
Disabled
NOTE: MS-DOS drive lettering assignments may not apply after a non-MS-DOS operating
system has started.
Boot Up NumLock
Status
Allows you to set the default NumLock status to off or on.
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Table 4 Computer Setup—Advanced BIOS Features (continued)
Security Option
Allows you to set the security option to Setup or System so that the password is required every time
the system boots or only when entering Computer Setup.
Disables/enables BIOS Write Protect function.
Disables/enables AMD NX Function.
BIOS Write Protect
AMD NX Function
Computer Setup—Advanced Chipset Features
NOTE: Support for specific Computer Setup options may vary depending on the hardware
configuration.
Table 5 Computer Setup—Advanced Chipset Features
Option
Description
UMA Frame Buffer
Select the UMA (Unified Memory Architecture) frame buffer size:
32MB
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64MB
128MB
256MB
Recommended (system allocates memory automatically)
Init Display First
Allows you to select the primary display device:
(VGA Setting)
PCI Slot
OnChipVGA
PCIEx
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SURROUNDVIEW
(VGA Setting)
Disables/enables SURROUNDVIEW (available when an ATI PCIEx video card is installed).
Auto Detect PCI Clk
(VGA Setting)
Disables/enables PCI clock auto-detection.
Spread Spectrum
(VGA Setting)
Disables/enables Spread Spectrum.
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Computer Setup—Integrated Peripherals
NOTE: Support for specific Computer Setup options may vary depending on the hardware
configuration.
Table 6 Computer Setup—Integrated Peripherals
Option
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Onboard HD Audio
Disables/enables onboard HD audio.
Disables/enables USB controller.
OnChip USB
Controller
USB Legacy Support
Onboard LAN
Disables/enables USB legacy support function (USB keyboard, USB mouse, and USB flash media).
Disables/enables onboard LAN controller.
Onboard LAN Boot
ROM
Disables/enables the boot ROM of the onboard LAN chip.
Onboard Serial Port
Allows you to select a setting for the onboard serial port:
Disabled
3F8/IRQ4
2F8/IRQ3
3E8/IRQ4
2E8/IRQ3
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Onboard Parallel Port
Allows you to select a setting for the onboard parallel port:
Disabled
378/IRQ7
278/IRQ5
3BC/IRQ7
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Parallel Port Mode
Allows you to select parallel port mode:
SPP
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EPP
ECP
ECP+EPP
Normal
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Computer Setup—Power Management Setup
NOTE: Support for specific Computer Setup options may vary depending on the hardware
configuration.
Table 7 Computer Setup—Power Management Setup
Option
Heading
After AC Power Loss
Allows you to select system power loss behavior:
On
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Off
Last State
External Modem S5
Wake-Up
Disables/enables wake-up modem from S5.
Wake on PCI Device
from S5
Disables/enables PCI S5 on power on.
AMD Cool'n'Quiet
HPET Support
Disables/enables the AMD Cool'n'Quiet feature.
Disables/enables HPET (high precision event timer). This feature can be disabled if it causes a
resource conflict in the OS.
RTC Alarm Resume
Date (of Month)
Disables/enables RTC (real-time clock) alarm.
If RTC Alarm Resume is enabled, allows you to select the day of the month for resumption of RTC
alarm. (Set to 0 for every day.)
Resume Time
(hh:mm:ss)
If RTC Alarm Resume is enabled, allows you to select what time the RTC alarm will resume.
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Computer Setup—PC Health Status
NOTE: Support for specific Computer Setup options may vary depending on the hardware
configuration.
Table 8 Computer Setup—PC Health Status
Option
Description
System Fan Fail Check Disables/enables system fan detection during POST.
Smart Fan Function
Disables/enables smart fan functionality.
(view only)
Current CPU
Temperature
Current System
Temperature
(view only)
(view only)
(view only)
Current CPU Fan
Speed
Current System Fan
Speed
Vcore
(view only)
(view only)
(view only)
(view only)
(view only)
(view only)
+12V
VCC5
+3.3V
VBAT (V)
3VSB (V)
Computer Setup—(Action Choices)
NOTE: Support for specific Computer Setup options may vary depending on the hardware
configuration.
Table 9 Computer Setup—(Action Choices)
Option
Description
Load Optimized
Defaults
Allows you to reset Computer Setup to factory defaults.
Set Supervisor
Password
Allows you to establish a password to control access to Computer Setup.
Set User Password
Allows you to establish a password to control access to the computer. (Supervisor password must
be set before you can set a User password.)
Save & Exit Setup
Allows you to save current settings and exit Computer Setup.
Allows you to exit Computer Setup without saving changes.
Exit Without Saving
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Recovering the Configuration Settings
Recovering the configuration settings established in the Computer Setup (F10) Utility requires that you
first back up the settings before a recovery is needed.
for your specific model. Download the firmware files into a folder on a removable storage device. It is
recommended that you save any modified computer configuration settings to a diskette, a USB flash
media device, or a diskette-like device (a storage device set to emulate a diskette drive) and save the
diskette or device for possible future use.
Backing Up the CMOS
1. Make sure the computer to be backed up is turned on. Connect the removable storage to the
computer.
2. Boot to DOS.
3. Type N:\folder\BIOS.exe SAVE:ABC001.DAT(where Nis the drive letter of the removable
storage) to save the CMOS setting to the removable storage device.
Restoring the CMOS
1. Make sure the target computer is turned on. Connect the removable storage to the target computer.
2. Boot to DOS.
3. Type N:\folder\BIOS.exe LOAD:ABC001.DAT(where Nis the drive letter of the removable
storage) to load the custom CMOS setting onto the target system.
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