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IV. BIOS SETUP

Standard CMOS

Time

To set the time, highlight the “Time” field and then press either <Page Up>/<Page Down>

or <+>/<–> to set the current time. Follow the hour, minute and second format. Valid

values for hour, minute and second are: (Hour: (00 to 23), Minute: (00 to 59), Second:

(00 to 59).

NOTE: You can bypass the date and time prompts by creating an AUTOEXEC.BAT

file. For information on how to create this file, please refer to the MS-DOS manual.

Hard Disks

This field records the specifications for all non-SCSI hard disk drives installed in

your system. The onboard PCI IDE connectors provide Primary and Secondary chan-

nels for connecting up to four IDE hard disks or other IDE devices. Each channel

can support up to two hard disks; the first of which is the “master” and the second is

the “slave”.

Specifications for SCSI hard disks need not to be entered here since they operate

using device drivers and are not supported by the BIOS. If you install other SCSI

controller cards, refer to their respective documentations on how to install the re-

quired SCSI drivers.

For IDE hard disk drive setup, you can:

• Use the Auto setting for detection during bootup.

• Use the IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION in the main menu to automatically

enter the drive specifications.

• Enter the specifications yourself manually by using the “User” option.

The entries for specifying the hard disk type include CYLS (number of cylinders),

HEAD (number of read/write heads), PRECOMP (write precompensation), LANDZ

(landing zone), SECTOR (number of sectors) and MODE. The SIZE field auto-

matically adjusts according to the configuration you specify. The documentation

that comes with your hard disk should provide you with the information regarding

the drive specifications.

The MODE entry is for IDE hard disks only, and can be ignored for MFM and ESDI

drives. This entry provides three options: Normal, Large, LBA, or Auto (see below).

Set MODE to the Normal for IDE hard disk drives smaller than 528MB; set it to

LBA for drives over 528MB that support Logical Block Addressing (LBA) to allow

larger IDE hard disks; set it to Large for drives over 528MB that do not support

LBA. Large type of drive can only be used with MS-DOS and is very uncommon.

Most IDE drives over 528MB support the LBA mode.

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