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4-11 Password Setting
When you select this function, a message appears at the center of the screen:
ENTER PASSWORD:
Type the password, up to eight characters and press Enter. Typing a password clears any
previously entered password from CMOS memory.
Now the message changes:
CONFIRM PASSWORD:
Again, type the password and press Enter.
To abort the process at any time, press Esc.
In Security Option item in the BIOS Features Setup screen, select System or Setup:
System: Enter a password each time the system boots and whenever you enter Setup.
Setup: Enter a password whenever you enter Setup.
NOTE: To clear the password, simply press Enter when asked to enter
a password. Then the password function is disabled.
4-12 IDE HDD Auto Detection
The "IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION" utility is a very useful tool especially when you do not
know which kind of hard disk type you are using. You can use this utility to detect the correct
disk type installed in the system automatically. But now you can set HARD DISK TYPE to Auto
in the STANDARD CMOS SETUP. You do not need the "IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION"
utility. The BIOS will Auto-detect the hard disk size and model during POST.
NOTE: HDD Modes
The Award BIOS supports 3 HDD modes : NORMAL, LBA and LARGE mode. Generic access
mode that is neither the BIOS nor the IDE controller will make transformations during accessing.
The maximum numbers of cylinders, head & sectors for NORMAL mode are 1024, 16 and 63.
no. Cylinder (1024)
x no. Head ( 16)
x no. Sector ( 63)
x no. per sector( 512)
528 Megabytes
If an user sets the HDD to NORMAL mode, the maximum accessible HDD size will be 528
Megabytes even though its physical size may be greater than that.
LBA (Logical Block Addressing) mode: This is a new HDD accessing method to overcome the
528 Megabyte bottleneck.
The number of cylinders, heads and sectors shown in the setup may not be the number physically
contained in the HDD. During the HDD accessing, the IDE controller will transform the logical
address described by sector, head and cylinder into its own physical address inside the HDD. The
maximum HDD size supported by LBA mode can be larger than 8.4 GB for IDE hard drives.
These BIOSes have built-in INT13 extension support.
Full support of hard drives beyond the 8.4-GB capacity requires support in both the BIOS and
