Users Guide

• Conguration options
• Conguring the setup, system, and hard disk drive passwords
• Clearing setup, system and hard disk drive passwords
• Conguring auto on option
• Conguring boot order
• Conguring primary battery charging
• Conguring advanced battery charging
• Conguring peak shift battery charging
• Conguring keyboard backlight color option
Conguration options
You can customize the BIOS settings and create a conguration package using the available conguration options described in the following
table.
Table 2. Conguration options
Options Description
View/Change
Click to view or change the selected conguration and load a new conguration. When you click View/
Change to load a new conguration, the conguration screen is displayed. After you have made the
preferred modications, click Save to save the changes, or click Cancel to return to the previous
conguration.
NOTE: If you try to load a new conguration without exporting the congured BIOS options,
then a screen is displayed. Click Discard Changes to discard the congured values or click
Cancel to continue with the same conguration.
Edit Click to edit the loaded conguration.
Advanced view
Click to view the conguration details such as command line options, possible values that you can set for
the option, current value of the option, options to apply settings, and the description of the option.
NOTE: You can view the current value of an option if you have loaded the settings of the host
system.
Basic view
Click to view the conguration details such as category to which the option belongs, name of the option,
possible values that you can set for the option, current value of the option, options to apply settings, and
the description of the option.
NOTE: You can view the current value of an option if you have loaded the settings of the host
system.
Validate Click to validate the loaded conguration against the conguration of the host system. For more
information, see BIOS option validation.
Search Search a text in the table. Type the text in the search box and the rst occurrence of the text in the table
is highlighted.
Category
Click to select the required categories from the drop-down list.
NOTE: You can view this option only in Basic View.
Name
Displays the name of the options.
NOTE: You can view this option only in Basic View.
Value to set Displays the value of the option. Double-click the row or click Edit to change the values.
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