Standard Cmos Setup Menu - Abit AX5 Instruction Booklet

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- 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.
Set up of HDD operating mode
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LARGE ¡j
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
¡i NORMAL, LBA,
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