BIOS Quick Reference • CC5-RAVE
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Basic CMOS Configuration Screen
The system’s drive types, boot activities, and POST optimizations are configured from the Basic
Setup Screen. In order to use disk drives with your system, you must select appropriate
assignments of drive types in the left-hand column. Then, if you are using true floppy and IDE
drives (not memory disks that emulate these drives), you need to configure the drive types
themselves in the Floppy Drive Types and IDE Drive Geometry sections. Finally, you’ll need to
configure the boot sequence in the middle of the screen. Once these selections have been
made, your system is ready to use.
Date/Time
This section lets you set the real-time clock of the system. If the clock stands still, the buffer
accumulator of the CMOS is probably depleted (or needs to be simply recharged). In this case
exchange the accumulator (or set the board under power in order to recharge the accumulator)
and set the RTC again. When detecting a failure in the CMOS CRC, caused by an exhausted
accumulator, all CMOS options are automatically loaded from the BIOS Flash (factory default
parameters) and have to be reconfigured (if necessary) by the user.
