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Chapter 2 BIOS Description Day-weekday from Sun. to Sat. Month-month from 1 to 12 Date-date from 1st to 31st Year-year, set up by users. Use , or to select a field.Use or to configure system time and date. 1.2 IDE Channel 0/1/2/3 Master/slave These categories identify the HDD types of 1 IDE channel installed in the computer system. There are three choices provided for the Enhanced IDE BIOS: None, Auto, and Manual. "None" means no HDD is installed or set; "Auto" means the system can auto-detect the hard disk when booting up; by choosing "Manual" and changing Access Mode to "CHS", the related information should be entered manually. Enter the information directly from the keyboard and press < Enter>: Cylinder Precomp Sector number of cylinders write pre-compensation number of sectors Head Landing Zone number of heads landing zone Award (Phoenix) BIOS can support 3 HDD modes: CHS, LBA and Large. CHS LBA For HDD528MB & supporting LBA (Logical Block Addressing) Large For HDD>528MB but not supporting LBA Note: Set to [Auto] , the system can detect the hard disk and select the HDD mode automatically when booting up. Suggest you select this option. 1.3 Drive A This option allows you to select the kind of FDD to be installed, including [None], [360K, 5.25 in], [1.2M, 5.25 in], [720K, 3.5 in], [1.44M, 3.5 in] and [2.88 M, 3.5 in]. 1.4 Halt On This category determines whether or not the computer will stop if an error is detected during powering up. All Errors No Errors Whenever the BIOS detects a nonfatal error, the system will stop and you will be prompted. The system boot will not stop for any errors that may be detected. 23