User manual SONY VAIO VPC-EA25FX

[. . . ] Microsoft, MS-DOS, and Windows, are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. Intel and Pentium are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries. UNIX is a trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. All other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. [. . . ] Saves system configuration, including CMOS, to a blank, formatted 1. 44-MB diskette. Restores system configuration, including CMOS, from a diskette. Restores factory default settings, which includes clearing any established passwords. Exits Computer Setup without applying or saving any changes. Saves changes to system configuration and exits Computer Setup. Restore from Diskette Set Defaults and Exit Ignore Changes and Exit Save Changes and Exit Support for Computer Setup options may vary depending on your specific hardware configuration. 4 Computer Setup Guide Computer Setup Computer Setup (Continued) Heading Storage Option Device Configuration Description Lists all installed storage devices. When a device is selected, detailed information and options are displayed. The following options may be presented: Diskette Type Identifies the highest capacity media type accepted by the diskette drive. Legacy Diskette Drives Options are 3. 5" 1. 44 MB, 3. 5" 720 KB, 5. 25" 1. 2 MB, 5. 25" 360 KB, and Not Installed. Multibay Superdisk Drives Options are LS-120 and LS-260. Drive Emulation Allows you to select a drive emulation type for a storage device. (For example, a Zip drive can be made bootable by selecting diskette emulation. ) LS-120 and ATAPI Zip Drives Drive Type IDE LS-120 Emulation Options None (treated as diskette drive) Disk (treated as hard drive) ATAPI Zip drive None (treated as Other) Diskette (treated as diskette drive) Disk (treated as hard drive) Support for Computer Setup options may vary depending on your specific hardware configuration. Computer Setup Guide 5 Computer Setup Computer Setup (Continued) Heading Storage (continued) Option Device Configuration (continued) Description Drive Emulation (continued) IDE Devices Drive Type Hard Disk Diskette Emulation Options No emulation options available. When POST is completed, a list of bootable devices is displayed. Use the arrow keys to select a device and press the Enter key. *Option not supported on all products. 12 Computer Setup Guide Computer Setup Computer Setup (Continued) Heading Security (continued) Option Master Boot Record Security* Description Allows you to enable or disable Master Boot Record (MBR) Security. When enabled, the BIOS rejects all requests to write to the MBR on the current bootable disk. Each time the computer is powered on or rebooted, the BIOS compares the MBR of the current bootable disk to the previously-saved MBR. If changes are detected, you are given the option of saving the MBR on the current bootable disk, restoring the previously-saved MBR, or disabling MBR Security. You must know the setup password, if one is set. Disable MBR Security before intentionally changing the formatting or partitioning of the current bootable disk. Several disk utilities (such as FDISK and FORMAT) attempt to update the MBR. If MBR Security is enabled and disk accesses are being serviced by the BIOS, write requests to the MBR are rejected, causing the utilities to report errors. If MBR Security is enabled and disk accesses are being serviced by the operating system, any MBR change will be detected by the BIOS during the next reboot, and an MBR Security warning message will be displayed. Support for Computer Setup options may vary depending on your specific hardware configuration. *Option not supported on all products. Computer Setup Guide 13 Computer Setup Computer Setup (Continued) Heading Security (continued) Option Save Master Boot Record* Restore Master Boot Record* Description Saves a backup copy of the Master Boot Record of the current bootable disk. · · · Only appears if MBR Security is enabled. Restores the backup Master Boot Record to the current bootable disk. Only appears if all of the following conditions are true: MBR Security is enabled. [. . . ] This delay is sometimes needed for hard disks that spin up very slowly; so slowly that they are not ready to boot by the time POST is finished. · · · Support for Computer Setup options may vary depending on your specific hardware configuration. * These options should be used by advanced users only. 18 Computer Setup Guide Computer Setup Computer Setup (Continued) Heading Advanced* (continued) Option Power-On Options (continued) Description · After Power Loss (off/on): After power loss, if you connect your computer to an electric power strip and would like to turn on power to the computer using the switch on the power strip, set this option to "on. " If you turn off power to your computer using the switch on a power strip, you will not be able to use the suspend/sleep feature or the Remote Management features. · I/O APIC Mode (enable/disable). Enabling this feature will allow Microsoft Windows Operating Systems to run optimally. This feature must be disabled for certain non-Microsoft Operating Systems to work properly. [. . . ]