Gateway E-420, Maintaining & Troubleshooting

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66 Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your E-4200 System
About the BIOS setup utility
The computer’s BIOS has a built-in program that lets you set many basic
system characteristics. These settings are stored and saved even when the
power is off. This chapter contains information about this setup utility and
is intended to serve as a guide so that you can make changes to your system
BIOS when necessary.
Using the BIOS setup utility
The computer’s BIOS has a built-in setup utility that lets you configure
several basic system characteristics. The settings are stored in
battery-backed RAM and are retained even when the power is off.
To enter the setup utility, restart the system and then press
F
1 when
prompted on screen during the startup process. Upon entering setup, the
Main Setup screen opens.
As you select items on the main menu and in submenus, you will see
specific information related to the current selection in the Item Specific
Help box. Refer to the Help box for information about the menu options.
The command bar at the bottom of the screen shows the keystrokes
necessary to access help, navigate through the menus, and perform other
functions.
BIOS Setup Utility
Main Advanced Security Power Boot Exit
Item Specific Help
BIOS Version
Processor Type
Processor Speed
Front Side Bus Speed
Cache Ram
System Memory
Memory Bank 0
Memory Bank 1
Memory Bank 2
Language:
Cache ECC Support:
System Time:
System Date:
4M4PBox1.15A.xxx.xxx
Pentium
®
II
xxx MHz
xxx KB
xxx MB
[Not Installed]
[Not Installed]
64 MB SDRAM
[English (US)]
[Disabled]
[xx:xx:22]
[xx/xx]
Select the current
default language used
by BIOS
F1 Help
↑↓
Select Item -/+ Change Values F9 Setup Default
ESC Exits
←→
Select Menu Enter Select > Sub-Menu F10 Save and Exit