Security Features of
Chassis
Description
Microtower
Small Form
Factor
Solenoid Hood Lock
—
No No
Hood Sensor
—
No No
Kensington Lock Support
—
Yes Yes
Cable Lock Provision
Allows the user to physically secure computer hardware from theft via a
loop on the chassis. With lock installed, this loop also prevents the hood
from being removed.
Yes Yes
Serial, Parallel, USB
Enable/Disable
Allows the user to enable or disable serial, parallel or USB ports and hide
them from the operating system
Yes Yes
Port Control
Device which attaches to back of chassis covering external ports and thereby
preventing unauthorized access; also aids in cable management
No No
Removable Media Write /
Boot Control
Prevents the computer from being booted from removable media on
supported devices (and can disable writes to media)
No No
Power-On Password
Prevents an unauthorized person from booting up the computer
Yes Yes
Setup Password
Prevents an unauthorized person from changing the system configuration
Yes Yes
SmartCard Reader
Security device that prevents system access into the operating system
unless the user has the appropriate Smartcard
No No
SMART Hard Drives, Fault
Notification, & Prefailure
Warranty
Allows hard drives to monitor their own health and to raise flags if
imminent failures were predicted
Predicts failures before they occur. Tracks fault prediction and failure
indication parameters such as re-allocated sector count, spin retry
count, calibration retry count
By helping users avoid actual hard drive failures, SMART hard drives
act as "insurance" against unplanned user downtime and potential
data loss from hard drive failure
Yes Yes
Surge Tolerant Full
Ranging Power Supply
Withstands power surges up to 2000V
Yes Yes
Ultra ATA Integrity
Monitoring (CRC Checking)
Provides data transfer verification.
Provides proactive notification of hard drive data transmission
problems and recommendations for enhancing system performance
Detects all the following errors types:
single bit errors
double bit errors
an odd number of errors
error bursts up to 32-bits long
Yes Yes
Integrated SATA RAID
Controller
RAID-0/1. User-configurable with matching 2nd HDD configuration
Yes Yes
Support Software CD &
website
www.hp.com/support
Yes Yes
QuickSpecs
HP dx5150 Business PC
Technical Specifications
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