IBM ThinkPad 380 or 380D User's Guide

Using Easy-Setup

Using Easy-Setup

The computer has a built-in system setup function called Easy-Setup. Easy-Setup allows you to set the date and time, password, the startup sequence of the drives, and shows hardware configurations. Easy-Setup also runs the diagnostics.

Starting Easy-Setup

Note:
You can change the screen color of the Easy-Setup menu with the key combinations of Ctrl+PgUp or Ctrl+PgDn. Use Ctrl+Home to restore the original screen color.
Enter your password if you are using passwords.

To start Easy-Setup:

1. Turn off the computer.

2. Remove any diskette from the diskette drive. (Ref #24.)

3. Press and hold F1; then turn on the computer. Hold F1 until the Easy-Setup menu appears.
   
   

To select an item from the Easy-Setup menu, move the pointer with a pointing device to the item and click on the item or use the keyboard as follows:

• The arrow keys (^V<>) highlights the item from the menu.

• The spacebar selects the item.

• The enter key enters the next menu, or saves the changes and exits the menu.

• The Esc key returns to the previous menu, or cancels the changes.

Config contains the following:

  Memory shows the amount of installed memory and available memory.

  SystemBoard provides information about the installed system board.

  Initialize sets all items that have been changed back to their default values.

After verifying your selections, click on OK or press Enter. To cancel the selections, press Esc.

    (Ref #25.) Date/Time is used to set the current date and time.

Select any field (Year, Month, Date, Hour, Minute, or Second) with the Arrow keys or pointing device; then type or click on the or icon to change the setting. Clicking on the or icon changes the setting more quickly.

After verifying the selection, click on OK or press Enter. To cancel the setting, click on Cancel or press Esc.

      Password is used to set the power-on password and the hard disk password.

For more information about the power-on password and the hard disk password, see "Protecting Your Computer".

    (Ref #26.) Start up is used to change the startup sequence of your computer.
Following panel shows default start up.

For more information about the startup sequence, see "Using the Selectable Drive-Startup Sequence".

    Select Test to test the computer hardware. For more information, see "Testing the Computer".

    Click on Restart to restart the computer after you have made your selections. Then press Enter or click on OK.

Using the Selectable Drive-Startup Sequence

Selectable drive startup (selectable boot) allows you to control the startup sequence of the drives in your computer. The order in which the computer searches the drives for your operating system is the drive-startup sequence. If you are working with multiple operating systems, you might want to change the drive-startup sequence to load an operating system from the hard disk or a PC Card without checking the diskette drive, or to do a remote program load (RPL).

Changing the Startup Sequence

To start Easy-Setup:
reference #23.

Note:
Set a PC Card (PCMCIA) before a hard disk drive if you want to boot from the PC Card.

To change the startup sequence:

1. Start Easy-Setup and select Start up.

2. Move the cursor to the Reset icon; then press the Spacebar.

   The sequence is reset, and all available device icons appear at the bottom of the screen. For the meaning of the icons, see reference #26.

3. Move the cursor to the icon for the first device in the startup sequence; then press the Spacebar.

   Repeat this step to set the other devices for the startup sequence. You can set up to four devices.

4. Click on OK or press Enter to save the change.

Selecting the Network RPL Speed

1. Start Easy-Setup and select Start up.

2. Move the cursor to the Network icon; then press the Spacebar.

   The window to select the token-ring RPL speed appears.

3. Move the cursor to the 4 icon or the 16 icon; then press the Spacebar and press Enter.

   If you are using another card, such as an Ethernet card, press Esc to exit this window.