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IV. BIOS SOFTWARE Auto detection of hard disks on bootup For each field: Primary Master, Primary Slave, Secondary Master, and Secondary Slave, you can select Auto under the TYPE and MODE fields. This will enable auto detection of your IDE hard disk during bootup. This will allow you to change your hard disks (with the power off) and then power on without having to reconfigure your hard disk type. If you use older hard disks that do not support this feature, then you must configure the hard disk in the standard method as described earlier by the "User" option. NOTE: After the IDE hard disk drive information has been entered into BIOS, new IDE hard disk drives must be partitioned (such as with FDISK) and then formatted before data can be read from and write on. Primary IDE hard disk drives must have its partition set to active (also possible with FDISK). NOTE: SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading. Drive A / Drive B (None) These fields record the types of floppy disk drives installed in your system. The available options for drives A and B are: 360KB, 5.25 in.; 1.2MB, 5.25 in.; 720KB, 3.5 in.; 1.44MB, 3.5 in.; 2.88MB, 3.5 in.; None To enter the configuration value for a particular drive, highlight its corresponding field and then select the drive type using the left- or right-arrow keys. Floppy 3 Mode Support (Disabled) This is the Japanese standard floppy drive. The standard stores 1.2MB in a 3.5inch diskette. This is normally disabled but you may choose from either: Drive A, Drive B, Both, and Disabled Video (EGA/VGA) Set this field to the type of video display card installed in your system. The options are EGA/VGA, CGA 49, CGA 80, and Mono (for Hercules or MDA). If you are using a VGA or any higher resolution card, choose EGA/VGA. Halt On (All Errors) This field determines which types of errors will cause the system to halt. Choose from All Errors; No Errors; All,But Keyboard, All,But Diskette; and All,But Disk/Key. IV. BIOS Standard CMOS 36 ASUS P2L97A User's Manual

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ASUS P2L97A User’s Manual
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IV.
BIOS SOFTWARE
IV.
BIOS
Standard CMOS
Auto detection of hard disks on bootup
For each field:
Primary Master, Primary Slave, Secondary Master, and Secondary
Slave, you can select
Auto
under the TYPE and MODE fields.
This will enable auto
detection of your IDE hard disk during bootup.
This will allow you to change your
hard disks (with the power off) and then power on without having to reconfigure
your hard disk type.
If you use older hard disks that do not support this feature, then
you must configure the hard disk in the standard method as described earlier by the
“User” option.
NOTE:
After the IDE hard disk drive information has been entered into BIOS, new
IDE hard disk drives must be partitioned (such as with FDISK) and then formatted
before data can be read from and write on.
Primary IDE hard disk drives must have
its partition set to
active
(also possible with FDISK).
NOTE:
SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading.
Drive A / Drive B (None)
These fields record the types of floppy disk drives installed in your system.
The
available options for drives A and B are:
360KB, 5.25 in.; 1.2MB, 5.25 in.; 720KB,
3.5 in.; 1.44MB, 3.5 in.; 2.88MB, 3.5 in.; None
To enter the configuration value for a particular drive, highlight its corresponding
field and then select the drive type using the left- or right-arrow keys.
Floppy 3 Mode Support (Disabled)
This is the Japanese standard floppy drive.
The standard stores 1.2MB in a 3.5inch
diskette.
This is normally disabled but you may choose from either:
Drive A, Drive
B, Both, and Disabled
Video (EGA/VGA)
Set this field to the type of video display card installed in your system.
The options
are
EGA/VGA
,
CGA 49
,
CGA 80
, and
Mono
(for Hercules or MDA)
.
If you are using a VGA or any higher resolution card, choose
EGA/VGA
.
Halt On (All Errors)
This field determines which types of errors will cause the system to halt.
Choose from
All Errors
;
No Errors
;
All
,
But Keyboard, All
,
But Diskette
; and
All,But Disk/Key.