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Chapter 3
BIOS Setup Utility
Introduction
The BIOS Setup Utility records settings and information about your
computer such as the date and time, the kind of hardware installed,
and various config uration settings. Your computer uses this informa-
tion to initialize all the components when booting up and functions as
the basis for coordination between system components.
If the Setup Utility configuration is incorrect, it may cause the system
to malfunction. It can even stop your computer from booting properly.
If this happens, you can use the clear CMOS jumper to clear the
CMOS memory used to store the configuration information.
You can run the setup utility and manually make changes to the con-
figuration. You might need to do this to configure some of the
hardware that you install on or connect to the mainboard, such as the
CPU, system memory, disk drives, etc.
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