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Setup 1 — Main Menu
The first Setup page contains a menu for accessing several Setup screens, plus several additional
parameters. Figure 2– 6 shows Setup page 1. Sections following the figure describe each option.
CMOS SETUP UTILITY
Ampro Computers, Inc.
STANDARD CMOS SETUP
BIOS FEATURES SETUP
CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP
POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP
PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP
INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS
LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS
SAVE & EXIT SETUP
EXIT WITHOUT SAVING
ESC : Quit ↑ ↓ → ←: Select Item
F1 : Help (Shift)F2 : Change Color
Help messages for each feature line appear here
Figure 2– 6. Setup 1 — Main Menu
The main menu screen allows the selection of other optional setup screens.
! STANDARD CMOS SETUP – allows the setup of time, date, hard and floppy disk, video and
POST halt conditions.
! BIOS FEATURES SETUP – selects BIOS features including Virus Warning, caching, POST
speed, boot sequence, floppy features, A20 options, memory parity, keyboard typematic
selection, security, PCI/VGA palette snoop, shadowing, an d on board SC SI.
! CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP – allows the modification of CHIPSET function including
configuration, AT bus clock, DRAM timing, SRAM timing, refresh, ISA bus timing, memory
allocation at 15M, CPU pipelining, IDE controller, IDE buffering, secondary IDE, IDE modes,
and onboard FDC, serial, and parallel port.
! POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP – selects the power management features and their
implementation.
! PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP – configures the PCI interrupt and other PCI unique
features.
! INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS – configures the onboard peripheral device such as serial,
parallel and other devices.
! LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS – initializes all CMOS settings to a predefined default state.
! SAVE & EXIT SETUP – option prompts to save CMOS information and exits.
! EXIT WITHOUT SAVING – exits setup without writing setup information.