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PCI/I-P54SP4
User's Manual
"STANDARD CMOS SETUP" displays a screen with a list of en-
tries. Follow the on-screen instructions to move around the screen.
Instructions at the bottom of the screen list the controls for this screen.
Use the arrow keys to move between fields, and the <Page Up>
('PU'), <Page Down> ('PD') or plus and minus keys to change the op-
tion shown in the selected field. Pressing <Shift>+<F2> changes the
color scheme of the display, and <Esc> exits this level and returns to
the main screen.
Modifiable fields appear in a different color. If you need infor-
mation about what changes to make, press the <Fl> key. The help
menu will then give you information on the item highlighted. The
display of available memory at the lower right-hand side of the screen
functions automatically.
Date& Time
The first two lines on the screen are the date and time settings for
the system clock.
Hard Drive Type
You must enter the specifications of certain types of hard disk
drive if they are installed in your system. MFM, ESDI and IDE hard
disks all need to have their specifications recorded here. ·
If you have one or more SCSI hard disks installed in your system,
you do not need to enter their specifications here. SCSI drives oper-
ate using device drivers and are not supported directly by any cur-
rent PC BIOS. If your mainboard has the SCSI controller card option,
and you will use it, see the SCSI instructions that follow later in this
section. If you have some other SCSI controller, follow the instruc-
tions that came with it on how to install any required SCSI driver .
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The are four hard disks listed "Drive C:", "Drive D :" "Drive E:"
an d "Drive F:" . Note that these letters refer to the physical drive
(think of them as 'Drive 1' and 'Drive 2' etc.), not to any logical drives
or partitions you might create under an operating system such as M5-
DOS. You can install only two MFM or ESDI hard disks as Drive C:
and D:. With the on-board PCI IDE controller which supports En-
hanced features, you can install four IDE hard disk drives as Drive
C:, D:, E: and F:.
To enter the specifications for an MFM or ESDI hard disk drive,
you must first select a 'type'. You can select the "User" option and
en ter the specifications yourself manually or there are 46 pre-defined
drive specifications which you can look through to see if the specifi-
cations for your drive are assigned a type number. Do this by u sing
the <Page Up> or <Page Down> key to change the option listed af-
ter the drive letter.
For an IDE hard drive, you should use the auto-detection utility
described later to enter the drive specifications automatically. If you
w ant to do this, leave the drive set to "None". You can enter the speci-
fications yourself manually by using the User option if you want to.
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There are six categories of information you must enter: "Cyls."
(number of cylinders), "Heads" (number of read/write heads),
"Precomp" (write precompensation), "LandZone" (landing zone),
"Sectors" (number of sectors) and "Mode". The size entry is automati-
cally determined by the other entries. The hard disk vendor's or sys-
tem manufacturer's documentation should provide you with the
drive specifications. If you have an IDE drive, unless your drive is
already formatted with specifications different from those detected
by the auto-detection utility, the easiest thing to do is use the auto-
detection feature to enter the drive specifications.
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