User Guide

Table8.Startupmenuitems(continued)
Menuitem
SelectionComments
BootMode
•Quick
•Diagnostics
ScreenduringPOST:
•Quick:ThinkPadLogoscreenis
displayed.
•Diagnostics:Textmessagesare
displayed.
Note:Youcanalsoenterthe
“Diagnostic”modebypressingEsc
duringPOST.
OptionKeysdisplay(ThinkVantage
buttonmessage)
•Disabled
•Enabled
Ifyouselect“Disabled”,the“To
interruptnormalstartup,pressthe
blueThinkVantagebutton.”message
isnotdisplayedduringPOST.
BootDeviceListF12Option
•Disabled
•Enabled
Ifyouselect“Enabled”,theF12key
isrecognizedandtheBootMenuis
displayed.
BootOrderLock
•Disabled
•Enabled
Ifyouselect“Enabled”,theBoot
PriorityOrderislockedforyourfuture
use.
UpdatingyoursystemUEFIBIOS
TheUniedExtensibleFirmwareInterface(UEFI)BIOSisapartofthesystemprogramsthatmakeupthe
basiclayerofsoftwarebuiltintoyourcomputer.UEFIBIOStranslatestheinstructionsfromothersoftware
layers.
Yourcomputersystemboardhasamodulecalledelectricallyerasableprogrammableread-onlymemory
(EEPROM,alsoreferredtoasashmemory).YoucanupdateUEFIBIOSandtheConguration/ThinkPad
SetupProgrambystartingyourcomputerwithaashupdateopticaldiscor.ashupdatetoolapplication
runningontheWindwosenvironment.
Insomeinstanceswhenyouaddsoftware,hardware,oradevicedriver,youmaybeinformedthatyouneed
toupdateyourUEFIBIOSinorderforthenewadditiontoworkproperly.
ToupdateyourUEFIBIOS,visitthisWebsiteat
http://www.lenovo.com/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=tpad-matrix
Thenfollowtheinstructionsonthescreen.
Usingsystemmanagement
Thissectionisintendedprimarilyfornetworkadministrators.
Yourcomputerisdesignedformanageability,sothatyoucanredirectmoreofyourresourcestobetter
meetyourbusinessobjectives.
Thismanageability,or“TotalCostofOwnership”(TCO),enablesyoutoremotelypoweronyourcomputer,
formattheharddiskdrive,installthesoftwareofyourchoice(forexample,WindowsXPwithuserand
system-managementapplications),andhavethecomputerstartupandfunctioninthesamewayasan
ordinarydesktopPC.
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