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Alienware Area-51 m5550 Technical Reference

The Setup Utility is a hardware conﬁguration program built into your computer’s BIOS

(Basic Input/Output System). It runs and maintains a variety of hardware functions.

It is a menu-driven software, which allows you to easily conﬁgure and change the

settings.

The BIOS contains the manufacturer’s default settings for the computer’s standard

operations. However, there are occasions when you may be required to modify the

default settings in the BIOS. For example, you may need to conﬁgure the BIOS power

management (APM) settings if you are using DOS or a non-Windows operating system.

The BIOS allows you to set up passwords to limit access to users. This is an important

feature because a great deal of vital information is carried within the computer

nowadays. Unauthorized access can be prevented. Later in this chapter, you will learn

how to use this security feature.

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