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Save & Exit Setup
When all the changes have been made, highlight “Save & Exit Setup”
and press <Enter>. The message below will appear:
Save to CMOS and Exit (Y/N)? N
Type “Y” and press <Enter>. The modifications you have made will be
written into the CMOS memory, and the system will reboot. You will
once again see the initial diagnostics on the screen. If you wish to
make additional changes to the setup, press <Ctrl> <Alt> <Esc> simul-
taneously or <Del> after memory testing is done.
Exit Without Saving
When you do not want to save the changes you have made, highlight “Exit
Without Saving” and press <Enter>. The message below will appear:
Quit Without Saving (Y/N)? N
Type “Y” and press <Enter>. The system will reboot and you will once
again see the initial diagnostics on the screen. If you wish to make any
changes to the setup, press <Ctrl> <Alt> <Esc> simultaneously or
<Del> after memory testing is done.
Desktop Management Interface (DMI)
The 586IHX system board comes with a DMI built into the BIOS. DMI,
along with the appropriately networked software, is designed to make
inventory, maintenance and troubleshooting of computer systems
easier. With DMI, a network administrator or MIS engineer can remotely
access some information about a particular computer system without
physically going to it. Quite often, a service call may be unnecessary as
the problem can be solved remotely.
The DMI utility in the BIOS automatically records various information
about your system configuration. Information about the type and speed
of CPU, type and amount of memory for each memory slot, BIOS revi-
sion level, types of add-in PCI boards and components, certain revision
numbers of hardware installed, etc. are automatically detected and
stored in the DMI pool, which is a part of the system board's Plug and
