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IV. BIOS SOFTWARE

IV. BIOS

(Standard CMOS)

Auto detection of hard disks on bootup

For each field: Primary Master, Primary Slave, Secondary Master, and Secondary

Slave, you can select Auto under the TYPE and MODE fields. This will enable auto

detection of your IDE drives during bootup. This will allow you to change your

hard drives (with the power off) and then power on without having to reconfigure

your hard drive type. If you use older hard drives which do not support this feature,

then you must configure the hard drive in the standard method as described above

by the “User” option.

NOTE: After the IDE hard disk drive information has been entered into BIOS, new

IDE hard disk drives must be partitioned (such as with FDISK) and then formatted

before data can be read from and write on. Primary IDE hard disk drives must have

its partition set to active (also possible with FDISK).

NOTE: SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading.

Drive A / Drive B (None)

These fields record the types of floppy disk drives installed in your system. The

available options for drives A and B are: 360KB, 5.25 in.; 1.2MB, 5.25 in.; 720KB,

3.5 in.; 1.44MB, 3.5 in.; 2.88MB, 3.5 in.; None

To enter the configuration value for a particular drive, highlight its corresponding

field and then select the drive type using the left- or right-arrow key.

Floppy 3 Mode Support (Disabled)

This is the Japanese standard floppy drive. The standard stores 1.2MB in a 3.5inch

diskette. This is normally disabled but you may choose from either: Drive A, Drive

B, Both, and Disabled

Video (EGA/VGA)

Set this field to the type of video display card installed in your system. The options

are: EGA/VGA, Mono (for Hercules or MDA), CGA 40, and CGA 80

If you are using a VGA or any higher resolution card, choose the “EGA/VGA”

option.

Halt On (All Errors)

This field determines which types of errors will cause the system to halt. Choose from

All Errors, No Errors, All, But Keyboard, All, But Diskette, and All, But Disk/Key.

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