Abit PX5, User Manual

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Introduction of BIOS 3-9
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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.
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.