
Standard Setup
Standard Setup is selected from the Setup window in the main
screen. Standard setup options described in this section are
selected by choosing the appropriate high-level icon from the
Standard Setup screen. All displayed icons are described in this
section, although the screen display is often all you need to
understand how to set the option.
Date, Day and Time Configuration
Select the Standard option. Select the Date and Time icon. The
current values for each category are displayed. Enter new values
through the keyboard.
Master Hard Disk:
Slave Hard Disk:
Select one of these hard disk drive icons to configure the drive
named in the option. A scrollable screen that lists all valid disk
drive types is displayed. Select the correct type and press <
Enter >. Note that a hard drive will not work properly if you
enter incorrect drive parameter. If the hard disk drive is an IDE
type, select
Detect C: or Detect D:
from the Utility section of
the BIOS Setup main menu to automatically detect the IDE
drive parameters and report them to this screen.
You can also manually enter the hard disk drive parameters.
The drive parameters are:
Parameter
Description
Type
The number for a drive with certain
identification parameters.
Cylinders
The number of cylinders in the disk
drive.
Heads
The number of heads.
Write
Precompensation
The size of a sector gets progressively
smaller as the track diameter
diminishes. Yet each sector must sill
hold 512 bytes. Write precompensation
circuitry on the hard disk compensates
for the physical difference in sector
size by boosting the write current for
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