MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP
BIOS, Driver & Utility Guide
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Standard CMOS Setup
This first menu is where the most basic hardware options are set. Information
regarding the system clock, IDE hard disks and floppy drives is stored and
configured in this section. To enter the Standard CMOS Setup, press the [ENTER]
key with this menu highlighted.
Upon entering the Standard CMOS Setup screen, you will see a screen like that
below:
Date (mm:dd:yy) : Sat, Dec 18 1999
Time (hh:mm:ss) : 00:00:00
HARD DISKS TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE
Primary Master : Auto 0 0 0 0 0 0 Auto
Primary Slave : Auto 0 0 0 0 0 0 Auto
Secondary Master : Auto 0 0 0 0 0 0 Auto
Secondary Slave : Auto 0 0 0 0 0 0 Auto
Drive A : 1.44M , 3.5in.
Drive B : None
Floppy 3 Mode Support: Disabled
Base Memory
: 640K
Extended Memory
: 15360K
Video : EGA / VGA
Other Memory
: 384K
Halt On : All Errors
Total Memory
: 16384K
ESC : Quit
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: Select Item PU / PD / + / - : Modify
F1 : Help (Shift) F2 : Change Color
First, let’s set the system
Date
. Use the arrow keys to move to and highlight the
“Date” option. Select the Month by using the PgDn and PgUp keys. This is how
most settings will be configured. Then, move to the day, year and time via the
arrow keys to finish setting the system date and time.
Keep in mind that the system time is set in 24-hour time. With this method, 1PM
is represented as 13:00, 2PM as 14:00 and so on, with 00:00 corresponding to
Midnight.
Pri Master, Pri Slave, Sec Master, Sec Slave
- These four options relate to the
(4) IDE hard drives, CD-ROMs or other ATAPI devices that can be controlled via
the on-board IDE controller (review IDE Hard Drives and CD-ROMs in the
Installation Guide). The “Pri Master” setting specifies the first device on the
