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HP Setup Program
The HP Setup program allows you to view and change the configuration of
your HP Brio PC. Sometimes you may also need to enter the Setup
program to reconfigure your PC after installing new hardware
components. The Setup program has online help to guide you through any
changes you have to make.
Entering the Setup Program
To enter the Setup program, press F2 when the Hewlett-Packard logo
appears on screen.
Setup Program Menus
Your PC’s Setup program contains a series of menus, which are selected
with the right and left arrow keys on your keyboard. You can select an item
withinamenuwiththeupanddownarrowkeys.Whenanitemisselected,
Setup displays a description of its function on the right of the screen.
The Setup program contains the following menus:
•
Main - for basic information on your configuration including processor
speed, the amount of installed RAM, installed drives, time and date.
•
Advanced - for setting Advanced Features.
• Security - for setting a password to restrict access to your computer.
It is possible to set a Supervisor or a User password. The Supervisor can
change all settings and the User can only change the date and time.
Setting a password will, by preventing access to the Setup menus,
protect your computer's configuration.
You can also disable the floppy, hard drive and CD-ROM drive from
within this menu page to prevent unauthorized use.
•
Power - for selecting power-management modes to reduce the amount of
energy used after specified periods of inactivity.
If your computer stays idle for a certain amount of time, your system
switches from Full Power Mode to Sleep Mode in order to reduce power
consumption.
In Sleep Mode, graphics, the processor and hard disks are stopped. A
user event, such as from the keyboard, can cause the system to resume
to Full Power Mode within a few seconds.
Other events may also wake up the system: a ring on an external
modem, a signal sent by an expansion card (network card etc.).