Boot Main Setup Menu - NEC Versa 2400 Series Service Manual

1-16 Introduction
Item
System Time
System Date
Diskette A
HDD LBA Mode
Hard Disk
Base Memory
Extended Memory
Boot Sequence
Num Lock
Keyboard Repeat
Rate
Table 1-4 Boot Main Setup Menu
Function
This option allows you to change the system time, using the
format hour : minute : second . You can change the system
time here or from your operating system's command prompt.
This option allows you to change the system date, using the
format month day, year . You can change the system date
here or from your operating system's command prompt.
This option allows you to specify the type of diskette drive
mounted inside the notebook. The default setting for this
option is 3.5", 1.44MB disk drive .
The NEC Versa 2400 supports LBA (logical block addressing)
mode which is Enabled automatically for large capacity hard
drives over DOS' limit of 528MB.
This option allows you to specify the type of hard drive
mounted inside the notebook.
Select the Auto option to instruct the BIOS to automatically
detect the relevant parameters of the hard drive.
Some hard drives, however, do not respond correctly to the
values detected. In such cases, you must search and select,
from the list, the make and model of the drive being used.
This field reports the amount of base (or conventional)
memory found by the BIOS during its POST. The value
should not exceed or go below 640KB.
This field reports the amount of extended memory found by
the BIOS during POST. The value displayed is the amount of
the memory address map. Because all models in the NEC
Versa 2400 series have a minimum of 8MB of memory as the
standard configuration, this value should not be less than
3072KB.
This option allows you to configure the computer to which
drive it will first try to look for the operating system.
Select A: then C: if you want to boot from a diskette. If there
is no diskette found in the floppy drive, the computer will then
try to load the operating system from the hard drive.
Select C: then A: if you want to boot from a hard drive. If
there is no operating system found in the hard drive the
computer will try to load the operating system from a floppy
drive.
Select C: only if the hard drive already holds an operating
system and all necessary startup file configurations.
This option allows you to toggle the Num Lock key on or off.
This option allows you to select the auto-repeat key speed.
Possible values include 2, 6, 10, 13.3, 18.5, 21.8, 26.7, or 30
seconds.