IV. BIOS SOFTWARE

Details of Standard CMOS Setup:

Date

To set the date, highlight the “Date” field and then press the page up/page down or +/- keys to set the current date. Follow the month, day and year format. Valid values for month, day and year are:

Month:

1 to 12

Day:

1 to 31

Year:

up to 2099

Time

To set the time, highlight the “Time” field and then press the page up/page down or +/- keys to set the current time. Follow the hour, minute and second format. Valid values for hour, minute and second are:

Hour:

00 to 23

Minute:

00 to 59

Second:

00 to 59

You can bypass the date and time prompts by creating an AUTOEXEC.BAT file. For information on how to create this file, please refer to the MS-DOS manual.

Hard Disk Drives

This field records the specifications for all non-SCSI hard disk drives installed in your system. The onboard PCI IDE connectors provide Primary and Secondary channels for connecting up to four IDE hard disks or other IDE devices. Each channel can support up to two hard disks; the first of which is the “master” and the second is the “slave”.

Specifications for SCSI hard disks need not to be entered here since they operate using device drivers and are not supported by any the BIOS. If you install the optional ASUS SCSI controller card into the motherboard (see section VI for in- structions). If you install other vendor’s SCSI controller card, please refer to their respective documentations on how to install the required SCSI drivers.

To enter specifications for a hard disk drive, you must select first a “type”. You can select “User” and specify the specifications yourself manually, or you can select from the provided predefined drive specifications. To select, simply press the <Page Up> or <Page Down> key to change the option listed after the drive letter.

IV. BIOS (Standard CMOS)

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