HN440 USER’S GUIDE
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Main menu
Use this menu for basic system configuration, such as setting
the time and date, and identifying the diskette drives.
If necessary, sub-menus allow you to define the fundamental
characteristics of the system’s IDE drives, although these can
usually be determined automatically. Further sub-menus may
allow you to configure memory caching and shadowing.
Boot menu
This menu allows you to alter the sequence in which the
BIOS firmware will look at various devices at boot time in
search of an operating system.
Advanced menu
Use this menu to configure certain advanced features of the
motherboard’s chipset.
Perhaps the most important item on this menu is that which
allows you to declare whether your operating system supports
Plug and Play (PnP).
The PCI Configuration sub-menu allows you to reserve
interrupts and upper memory block (UMB) regions for
“legacy” (non-PnP) expansion cards.
You can also fine-tune the configuration of your system’s PCI
devices, and the serial and parallel ports.
Security menu
Use this menu to set User and Supervisor passwords, and the
Back-up and Virus Check reminders.
Power menu
Use this menu to specify your settings for power
management. Depending on your system, you should be able
to set timeouts for overall power-saving Standby and Suspend
modes, and idle timeouts for individual devices such as hard
disk drives and the monitor. You can also configure the
Power button as a suspend/resume button instead of a simple
on/off button.
