Standard Cmos Setup Menu - Abit PX5 User Manual

Introduction of BIOS

- Standard CMOS Setup Menu

It is the basic configuration parameters of the BIOS. These parameters include
the settings of date, hour, VGA card, FDD and HDD.
l Set up of HDD operating mode¡i
Since old operating systems were only able to support HDD whose capacity was
not bigger than 528MB, any hard disk with more than 528MB was unusable.
AWARD BIOS features a solution to this problem: you can, according to your
operating system, choose three operating modes: NORMAL, LBA or LARGE.
ä Normal mode:
Standard normal mode supports hard disks of 528MB or less. This
mode directly uses positions indicated by Cylinders (CYLS), Heads,
and Sectors to access data.
Fig 3-2 Standard CMOS Setup Menu
NORMAL, LBA, LARGE¡j
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