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The best advice is to alter only settings that you thoroughly understand. In particular, do not change set-
tings in the Chipset screen unless you are absolutely sure that you need to. The Chipset defaults were
carefully chosen for the best performance and reliability. Even a seemingly small change to the Chipset
setup may cause the system to become unstable.
Setup Variations
Not all systems have the same setup program. While the basic look and function of the setup program
remains more or less the same for all system, the appearance of your Setup screen may differ from other
Award BIOS screens. Each system design and chipset combination require custom configurations. In
addition, the final appearance of the setup program depends on your system designer. You system
designer can decide that certain items should not be available for user configuration, and remove them
from the BIOS setup program.
General Help
At any time, you can press [F1] to bring up a General Help screen in case you want to learn the shortcut
commands. There are two settings you should be aware of (listed below).
Setting
Load Failsafe Defaults
Load Optimal Defaults
3.1 Main Setup
The BIOS allows you to select from several setup functions and two exit choices. If an additional configu-
ration screen is available, it will have a
brought to another configuration screen. Hitting [ESC] will bring you back out.
3.2 Standard CMOS Setup
3.2-A. Date/Time
You can type in the date and time directly, or select the portion of the date or time that you want to modify
and adjust it using the
3.2-B. IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave
These four options are for setting IDE devices such as HDDs and CD-ROMs. If left on the default setting
of "Auto", the drives will be auto-detected.
The next page describes the settings available for configuring the IDE devices.
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If your system is experiencing configuration problems, you can choose
this option to reset all settings.
This will load preset options that are designed for maximum system
performance, but may not work for all computer applications. You
should not use this option if you are experiencing configuration prob-
lems.
symbol. If you select that option with that symbol, you will be
cursor keys. The clock runs on a 24-hour cycle (i.e 1:00 PM is 13:00).
Function
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