Prevent F9 boot device options or boot from USB HP 250 G3

Is there anyway to prevent users from booting from USB on these laptops, either be locking down the boot menu or disabling the boot option for USB. These are laptops to be used in a college and we need them to only be bootable on the HDD. Many thanks, Simon

Ok,
by enabling the lagacy bios support all worked.
Thanks anyway.
Damiano

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Quote from: xmad on 05-February-14, 23:42:55
Try updating the firmware of the ssd.
Also try updating the bios of the mainboard from the files here: >> BIOSes<<
(I'll check for a newer beta version today)
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Thank you for the quick reply.
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I will check out updating the SSD drive, didn't occur to me to check on that.
I will check to see if there is a different BIOS available than the one that Live Update provided. I didn't compare, I just assumed it would be the latest official one.
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Cisco IOS Software, IOS-XE Software (X86_64_LINUX_IOSD-UNIVERSAL-M), Version 15.3(1)S, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc4)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 1986-2012 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Tue 27-Nov-12 11:17 by mcpre
IOS XE Version: 03.08.00.S
Cisco IOS-XE software, Copyright (c) 2005-2012 by cisco Systems, Inc.
All rights reserved. Certain components of Cisco IOS-XE software are
licensed under the GNU General Public License ("GPL") Version 2.0. The
software code licensed under GPL Version 2.0 is free software that comes
with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You can redistribute and/or modify such
GPL code under the terms of GPL Version 2.0. For more details, see the
documentation or "License Notice" file accompanying the IOS-XE software,
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System Bootstrap, Version 15.4(2r)S, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
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"Reboot and select a proper boot device..." error on a p6214y

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The Boot tab of the BIOS Setup shows the following typical items on the screen. (Your system might be different and not include all items):
Figure 8: Example of a Boot screen
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