Abit IT5 Series, User Manual

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Introduction of BIOS 3-11
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Standard CMOS Setup Menu
It is the basic configuration parameters of the BIOS. These parameters
include the settings of date, hour, VGA card, FDD and HDD.
Date(mm:dd:yy) : Wed,Jul 10 1996
Time(hh:mm:ss) : 14:53:31
HARDS DISKS Type SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE
Primary Master : None 0 0 0 0 0 0 ------
Primary Slave : None 0 0 0 0 0 0 ------
Secondar
y Master : None 0 0 0 0 0 0 ------
Secondar
y Slave : None 0 0 0 0 0 0 ------
Drive A: 1.44M,3.5IN.
Drive B: None
Floppy 3Mode Support: Disable
Base Memory : 640K
Extended Memory : 3328K
Video: EGA/VGA Expanded Memory : 0K
Other Memory : 128K
Halt On: All Errors
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Total Memory: 4096K
Esc: Quit
F1: Help
↑↓→←
: Select Item
(Shift)F2: Change color
PU/PD/+/- : Modify
F3 : Toggle Calendar
Fig 3-2 Standard CMOS Setup Menu
l Set up of HDD operating mode
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NORMAL, LBA, LARGE
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Since old operating systems were only able to support HDD whose
capacity was not bigger than 528MB, any hard disk with more than 528MB
was unusable. AWARD BIOS features a solution to this problem: you can,
according to your operating system, choose three operating modes:
NORMAL, LBA or LARGE.
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Normal mode:
Standard normal mode supports hard disks of 528MB or
less. This mode directly uses positions indicated by Cylinders
(CYLS), Heads, and Sectors to access data.