Using Bios Setup; Record Your Setup Settings; If You Cannot Access Setup - Intel N440BX Product Manual

Using BIOS Setup

This section describes the BIOS Setup options. Use Setup to change the system configuration
defaults. You can run Setup with or without an operating system being present. Setup stores most
of the configuration values in battery-backed CMOS; the rest of the values are stored in flash
memory. The values take effect when you boot the system. POST uses these values to configure
the hardware; if the values and the actual hardware do not agree, POST generates an error
message. You must then run Setup to specify the correct configuration.
Run Setup: you may run Setup to modify any standard PC AT
Select diskette drive
x
Select parallel port
x
Select serial port
x
Set time/date (to be stored in RTC)
x
Configure IDE hard drive
x
Specify boot device sequence
x
Enable SCSI BIOS
x
Specify processor speed
x
Run SSU, not Setup: you must run the SSU instead of Setup to do the following:
Add or remove any ISA board that is not Plug and Play-compatible
x
Enter or change information about a board
x
Alter system resources (such as interrupts, memory addresses, I/O assignments) to user-
x
selected choices instead of choices selected by the BIOS resource manager

Record Your Setup Settings

If the default values ever need to be restored (after a CMOS-clear, for example), you must run
Setup again. Referring to the worksheets could make your task easier.

If You Cannot Access Setup

If the diskette drive is misconfigured so that you cannot access it to run a utility from a diskette,
you may need to clear CMOS memory. You will need to open the system, change a jumper
setting, use Setup to check and set diskette drive options, and change the jumper back. For a step-
by-step procedure, see Chapter 5, under the heading, "CMOS Jumper."
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system board feature such as:
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