Dell Vostro 1520 (Early 2009) - Manual (Page 2)

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System Setup
Dell™ Vostro™ 1520 Service Manual
Entering System Setup
Menu
Your computer's BIOS, or System Setup program allows you to do the following:
l Access System Setup by pressing
l Bring up a one-time boot menu by pressing
Entering System Setup
Press to enter System Setup and make changes to the user-definable settings. If you are having trouble entering Setup using this key, reboot and press
the key when the keyboard LEDs first flash.
Menu
Press when the Dell logo appears to initiate a one-time boot menu with a list of the valid boot devices for the computer. The devices listed on the boot
menu depend on the bootable devices installed in the computer.
l Internal HDD
l CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive
l Onboard NIC
l BIOS Setup
l Diagnostics (starts the Pre-boot System Assessment (PSA) diagnostics)
This menu is useful when attempting to boot to a particular device or to bring up the diagnostics for the computer. Using the boot menu does not make any
changes to the boot order stored in the BIOS.