Enabling or disabling the configuration change detection

With the configuration-change detection enabled, if the POST detects configuration changes of some hardware devices (such as storage drives or memory modules), an error message is displayed.

To enable or disable the configuration change detection, do the following:

Start the Setup Utility program. See Starting the Setup Utility program.
Select Security > Configuration Change Detection and press Enter.
Select the desired setting and press Enter.
To save settings and exit the Setup Utility program, press F10 or Fn+F10 (depending on the keyboard settings). Then, select Yes in the window displayed, and press Enter.

To bypass the error message and log in to the operating system, do one of the following:

Press F2 or Fn+F2 (depending on the keyboard settings).
Start and then exit the Setup Utility program. See Starting the Setup Utility program and Exiting the Setup Utility program.