Contents

Chapter 2: BIOS setup

2.1

Managing and updating your BIOS ........................................

2-2

 

2.1.1 Creating a bootable floppy disk ..............................

2-2

 

2.1.2

AwardBIOS Flash Utility ..........................................

2-3

 

2.1.3 ASUS EZ Flash utility ..............................................

2-5

 

2.1.4 ASUS CrashFree BIOS utility ...................................

2-6

 

2.1.5

ASUS Update utility ................................................

2-7

2.2

BIOS Setup program ...........................................................

2-10

 

2.2.1

BIOS menu bar ......................................................

2-11

 

2.2.2

Legend bar ...........................................................

2-11

2.3

Main Menu...........................................................................

2-13

 

2.3.1

System Time.........................................................

2-13

 

2.3.2

System Date .........................................................

2-13

 

2.3.3

Legacy Diskette A ................................................

2-13

 

2.3.4

HDD SMART Monitoring ........................................

2-13

 

2.3.5

Installed Memory ..................................................

2-13

 

2.3.6 Primary and Secondary IDE Master/Slave .............

2-14

 

2.3.7 First and Second SATA Master .............................

2-15

2.4

Advanced Menu ..................................................................

2-16

 

2.4.1

CPU configuration .................................................

2-17

 

2.4.2

Chipset configuration ...........................................

2-18

 

2.4.3

PCIPnP ...................................................................

2-21

 

2.4.4

Onboard device configuration .............................

2-22

 

2.4.5

USB configuration ................................................

2-24

2.5

Power Menu ........................................................................

2-25

 

2.5.1

APM configuration ................................................

2-26

 

2.5.2

Hardware monitor .................................................

2-29

2.6

Boot Menu ..........................................................................

2-30

 

2.6.1

Boot Device Priority ..............................................

2-30

 

2.6.2

Removable drives .................................................

2-31

 

2.6.3

Hard Disk Drives ...................................................

2-31

 

2.6.4

CD-ROM drives ......................................................

2-32

 

2.6.5

Boot settings configuration ..................................

2-32

 

2.6.6

Security ................................................................

2-34

2.7

Exit menu ...........................................................................

2-35

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