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F1
Help ↓
Esc Exit
←→ Select Menu Enter Select Sub-Menu F10 Save and Exit
After setting the specified parameters, use the Left or Right keys to select the Exit
menu item. Reply positively to the prompt on saving the specified parameters.
For AwardBIOS for motherboards for Pentium, Pentium Pro processors (i.e the ones
older than those described above) and AMD-K5/K6, the standard CMOS setup
screen looks like this:
Date (mm:dd:yy)
Time (hh:mm:ss)
HARD DISKS
Primary Master
Primary Slave
Secondary Master : None
Secondary Slave
Drive A : 1.44 M
Drive B : None
Video : EGA/VG
Halt On: All Errors
ESC : Quit
F1 : Help
The Type parameter can have Auto, Not Installed or User Defined values. In the
latter case, you have to specify the values of other parameters manually (except
MODE) according to the information on the case of the hard disk.
The purpose of the MODE and LANDZ parameters is described in the note above. The
PRECOMP parameter is the so-called precompensation parameter and is important only for
the older hard disks (MFM and RLL). IDE disks ignore this parameter.
In earlier BIOS versions, the boot sequence was set in the BIOS FEATURES setup
section in the Boot Sequence line where you could select the most typical boot
sequences, for example C:; A:;CD-ROM: or CD-ROM:; C:; A:, and other.
B.2.5
Hard disk initialization errors
Devices are usually initialized successfully, but sometimes errors can happen.
Typical errors related to hard disks are reported by the following messages:
PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT
This error message is not directly related to errors during hard disk initialization.
However, it appears, for example, when the boot program finds no operating
system on the hard disk, or when the primary partition of the hard disk is not set as
active.
DISK BOOT FAILURE,
INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND
PRESS ENTER
80
Select Item
-/+
Change Values
ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A69JA2A)
STANDARD CMOS SETUP
AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
: Fri,
May
15
1998
: 11:
33:
53
: TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE
: Auto
0
0
0
: Auto
0
0
0
0
0
0
: None
0
0
0
↓→←:
Select Item
(Shift) F2
Change Color
F5
Setup Defaults
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Base Memory:
0K
Extended Memory:
0K
Other Memory:
512K
Total Memory:
512K
PU/PD/+/- : Modify
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