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Chapter 3 `BIOS Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Entering Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Product Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Disk Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Onboard Peripherals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Onboard Device Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Boot Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Date and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 System Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Setting a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Changing or Removing the Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Bypassing the Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Advanced Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Memory/Cache Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 PnP/PCI Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Load Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Abort Settings Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Exiting Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Chapter 4 Upgrading the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Installation Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

ESD Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Preinstallation Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Post-installation Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Opening the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Removing the Housing Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Replacing the Housing Cover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Installing Additional Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Installing a DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Removing a DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Reconfiguring the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Upgrading the CPU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Removing the CPU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Installing the Upgrade CPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Replacing the Hard Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Installing and Removing a PCI Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Installing a PCI Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Removing a PCI Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

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