Specifications

Software Configuration
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3.3 SETUP 1—MAIN MENU
The first SETUP page contains a menu for accessing several SETUP screens, plus several additional
parameters. Figure 3–1 shows SETUP page 1. Sections following the figure describe each option.
CMOS SETUP UTILITY
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STANDARD CMOS SETUP LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS
BIOS FEATURES SETUP LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS
CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION
POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP SAVE & EXIT SETUP
PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP EXIT WITHOUT SAVING
ESC : Quit ↑ ↓ → ← : Select Item
F1 : Help (Shift)F2 : Change Color
Help messages for each feature line appear here
Figure 3–1 SETUP 1—Main Menu
The main menu screen allows the selection of other optional setup screens.
• STANDARD CMOS SETUP—allows the setup of time, date, hard and floppy disk, video and POST
halt conditions.
• BIOS FEATURES SETUP—selects BIOS features including Virus Warning, caching, POST speed,
boot sequence, floppy features, A20 options, memory parity, keyboard typematic selection, security,
PCI/VGA palette snoop, shadowing, and onboard SCSI.
• CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP—allows the modification of chipset function including
configuration, AT bus clock, DRAM timing, SRAM timing, refresh, ISA bus timing, memory
allocation at 15M, IDE controller, IDE buffering, secondary IDE, IDE modes, and onboard FDC,
serial, and parallel port.
• POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP—selects Advanced Power Management features.
• PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP—configures the PCI interrupt and other PCI-unique features.
• LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS—sets all BIOS features to their default state.
• LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS—initializes all chipset features to the default state.
• IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION—polls the IDE interfaces for hard disks and displays the various
ways the device can be configured.
• SAVE & EXIT SETUP—prompts to save CMOS information and exits.
• EXIT WITHOUT SAVING—exits without writing SETUP information.