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Three to five seconds after the message is displayed, if you press the Del
key, or if you press simultaneously the Ctrl Alt Esc keys, you will access the
BIOS Setup menu. At that moment, the BIOS will display the following
message:
¡I¡I CPU SOFT MENU ¡I¡I
STANDARD CMOS SETUP
BIOS FEATURES SETUP
CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP
POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP
PCI & ONBOARD I/O SETUP
ESC : Quit
F10: Save & Exit Setup
Description of each function
In the BIOS Setup main menu of Figure 3, you can see several options. We
will explain these options step by step in the following pages of this chapter, but
let us first see a short description of the function keys you may use here:
l Press Esc to quit the BIOS Setup.
l Press ¡ô¡õ¡÷¡ö (up, down, left, right) to choose, in the main menu, the
option you want to confirm or to modify.
l Press F10 when you have completed the setup of BIOS parameters to
save these parameters and to exit the BIOS Setup menu.
l
Press Page Up/Page Down or +/- keys when you want to modify the
BIOS parameters for the active option
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ROM PCI/ISA BIOS(XXXXXXXX)
CMOS SETUP UTILITY
AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
Fig 3 BIOS Setup main menu
CMOS DATA
Maybe you have heard somebody saying that their CMOS
DATA was lost. What is the CMOS? Is it important? The
CMOS is the memory used to store the BIOS parameters that
you have configured. This memory is passive. You can read its
data, and you can also store data in it. But this memory has to
be powered by a battery, in order to avoid any loss of its data
when the computer is turned off. Since you may have to change
the CMOS battery when it is out of power and indoing so, you
will loose all CMOS data, therefore, we recommend that you
write down all the parameters of your hardware, or to put a
label with these parameters on your hard disk.
LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS
LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS
PASSWORD SETTING
IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION
SAVE & EXIT SETUP
EXIT WITHOUT SAVING
¡ô¡õ¡÷¡ö : Select Item
(Shift)F2: Change color
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