Patent ID: 8201730

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine that operates responsive to data read from data bearing records to cause financial transfers, including: a card reader operative to read card data on user cards corresponding to financial accounts; a cash dispenser; at least one input device operative to receive manual user inputs; at least one computer including a BIOS, wherein the at least one computer is in operative connection with the card reader, the cash dispenser and the at least one input device, wherein the BIOS includes a BIOS boot password, and wherein the BIOS specifies a default bootable media which does not require a boot password, wherein the at least one computer is operative to detect a connection of a portable bootable media with the at least one computer; a storage device drive in operative connection with the at least one computer, wherein the storage device drive corresponds to the default bootable media specified in the BIOS, wherein when the at least one computer detects the connection of the portable bootable media, the at least one computer is operative to require input of at least one manual input that corresponds to the BIOS boot password through the at least one input device prior to booting responsive to a boot record associated with the portable bootable media, wherein when the computer does not detect a connection of a portable bootable media, the at least one computer is operative to boot responsive to a boot record on the specified default bootable media without requiring user input of the BIOS boot password.