Asus P5B-VM - page 4

Contents

Chapter 2: BIOS setup

2.1 Managing and updating your BIOS ............................................2-2

2.1.1 Creating a bootable oppy disk .......................................2-2

2.1.2 ASUS EZ Flash 2 utility ...................................................2-3

2.1.3 AFUDOS utility ................................................................2-4

2.1.4 ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 utility ......................................2-6

2.1.5 ASUS Update utility ........................................................2-8

2.2 BIOS setup program ..................................................................2-11

2.2.1 BIOS menu screen ........................................................2-12

2.2.2 Menu bar .......................................................................2-12

2.2.3 Navigation keys .............................................................2-12

2.2.4 Menu items ...................................................................2-13

2.2.5 Sub-menu items ............................................................2-13

2.2.6 Conguration elds .......................................................2-13

2.2.7 Pop-up window .............................................................2-13

2.2.8 Scroll bar .......................................................................2-13

2.2.9 General help .................................................................2-13

2.3 Main menu ..................................................................................2-14

2.3.1 System Time .................................................................2-14

2.3.2 System Date .................................................................2-14

2.3.3 Legacy Diskette A ........................................................2-14

2.3.4 Primary, Secondary, Third, Fourth IDE Master/Slave ............2-15

2.3.5 IDE Conguration ..........................................................2-16

2.3.6 System Information .......................................................2-17

2.4 Advanced menu .........................................................................2-18

2.4.1 CPU Conguration ........................................................2-18

2.4.2 Chipset .........................................................................2-19

2.4.3 Onboard Devices Conguration ....................................2-24

2.4.4 PCI PnP ........................................................................2-26

2.5 Power menu ................................................................................2-27

2.5.1 ACPI 2.0 Support .........................................................2-27

2.5.2 ACPI APIC Support .......................................................2-27

2.5.3 APM Conguration ........................................................2-28

2.5.4 Hardware Monitor .........................................................2-29