Abit BX6 Pentium II User Manual page 26

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Three to five seconds after the message is displayed, if you press the Del key,
you will access the BIOS Setup menu. At that moment, the BIOS will display the
following message:
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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Fig 3 BIOS Setup main menu
CMOS DATA
Maybe you have heard somebody saying that their
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 in doing so, you will
loose all CMOS data, therefore, we recommend that you write
down all the parameters of your hardware.
Chapter 3
CMOS