6. BIOS Configuration
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After the IDE hard disk drive information has been entered into BIOS, new IDE
hard disk drive must be partitioned (such as with FDISK.EXE), please refer to a
MS-DOS manual and then formatted before data can be read from and write on
Primary IDE hard disk drive must have its partition set to active (also possible with
FDISK.EXE).
The available options for IDE HDD Auto-Detection are : [Press Enter].
The available options for IDE Primary Master are : [Auto] [Manual] [None].
The available options for Access Mode are : [Auto] [Normal] [LBA] [Large].
6.1.3 Drive A / Drive B / Floppy 3 Mode Support
These items set the type of floppy disk drive in your system.
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The available options for Drive A and B are : [1.44M, 3.5 in] [2.88M, 3.5 in]
[None] [360K, 5.25 in] [1.2M, 5.25 in] [720K, 3.5 in].
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The available options for Floppy 3 Mode Support are : [Disabled] [Drive A]
[Drive B] [Both] . This is the Japanese standard floppy drive which stores 1.
2MB in a 3.5” diskette.
6.1.4 Video
This item set the Video mode of the system. This motherboard has a built-in VGA
graphics circuit so you must leave this item at the default value.
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[EGA/VGA]
: Enhanced Graphics Adapter/Video Graphics Array. For EGA, VGA,
SVGA, or PGA monitor adapters.
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[CGA 40]
: Color Graphics Adapter, power up in 40 column mode.
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[CGA 80]
: Color Graphics Adapter, power up in 80 column mode.
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[MONO]
: Monochrome adapter, includes high resolution monochrome
adapters.
The available options for Video are : [EGA/VGA] [CGA 40] [CGA 80] [MONO].
6.1.5 Halt On
This item set whether the system will stop If an error is detected during POST
(Power On Self Test) routine.
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[All, But Keyboard]
: The system boot will not stop for a keyboard error; it will
stop for all other errors.
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[All, But Diskette]
: The system boot will not stop for a disk error; it will stop for
all other errors.
