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Chapter 3: BIOS Setup Utility
System Time & System Date
These items set up system date and time.
Primary IDE Master/Primary IDE Slave/Secondary IDE Master/Secondary
IDE Slave
Your computer has one IDE channel and each channel can be installed with one
or two devices (Master and Slave). In addition, this motherboard supports four
SATA channels and each channel allows one SATA device to be installed. Use
these items to configure each device on the IDE channel.
Floppy A/B
These items set up size and capacity of the floppy diskette drive(s) installed in
the system.
You can use cursor arrow keys to highlight anyone of options on the main menu
page. Press
Enter
to select the highlighted option. Press the
Escape
key to leave
the setup utility. Press +/-/ to modify the selected field’s values.
Some options on the main menu page lead to tables of items with installed values
that you can use cursor arrow keys to highlight one item, and press
+
++
++
and
-----
keys
to cycle through alternative values of that item. The other options on the main
menu page lead to dialog boxes requiring your answer OK or Cancel by selecting
[OK]
or
[Cancel]
.
If you have already changed the setup utility, press
F10
to save those changes
and exit the utility. Press
F1
to display a screen describing all key functions.
Press
F9
to install the setup utility with a set of default values.
Standard CMOS Setup Page
This page displays a table of items defining basic information about your
system.
CMOS SETUP UTILITY – Copyright (C) 1985-2003, American Megatrends, Inc.
Standard CMOS Setup
System Time
00:17:00
System Date
Fri 06/02/2006
Primary IDE Master
Not Detected
Primary IDE Slave
Not Detected
Secondary IDE Master
CD/DVD ROM
Secondary IDE Slave
Not Detected
Floppy A
1.44 MB 3 1/2”
Floppy B
Disabled
Help Item
User [Enter], [TAB] or [SHIFT-TAB] to
select a field.
Use [+] or [-] to configure system
time.