Contents

3.3 Powering off the computer....................................................

48

Chapter 4: BIOS setup .............................................................

1

4.1

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

49

 

4.1.1 Using the computer system for the first time ............

49

 

4.1.2

Updating BIOS procedures ......................................

51

4.2

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

53

 

4.2.1

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

54

 

4.2.2

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

54

4.3

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

56

 

4.3.1 Primary and Secondary Master/Slave ......................

57

 

4.3.2

Keyboard Features ..................................................

61

4.4

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

63

 

4.4.1

Chip Configuration ...................................................

65

 

4.4.2

I/O Device Configuration ..........................................

68

 

4.4.3

PCI Configuration ....................................................

70

4.5

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

73

 

4.5.1

Power Up Control ....................................................

75

 

4.5.2

Hardware Monitor ....................................................

77

4.6

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

78

4.7

Exit Menu ..............................................................................

80

Chapter 5: Software support ...................................................

1

5.1

Install an operating system ...................................................

83

5.2

Support CD information .........................................................

83

5.3

A7V333 Motherboard Support CD ........................................

84

5.4

Using the Promise Chip for RAID 0 or 1 ...............................

86

5.5

Manual Installation of IDE/RAID Drivers ...............................

93

5.4

ASUS PC Probe....................................................................

94

5.5

ASUS Live Update ................................................................

99

5.6

3Deep Color Tuner ..............................................................

100

5.7

Winbond Voice Editor ..........................................................

102

5.8

ITE GSM Editor ...................................................................

106

Glossary .................................................................................

111

Index

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115

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