User manual ASUS CP6ND

[. . . ] R C-P6ND CPU Card USER'S MANUAL USER'S NOTICE No part of this product, including the product and software may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form by any means without the express written permission of ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (hereinafter referred to as ASUS) except documentation kept by the purchaser for backup purposes. ASUS provides this manual "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties or conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall ASUS be liable for any loss or profits, loss of business, loss of use or data, interruption of business, or for indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any kind, even if ASUS has been advised of the possibility of such damages arising from any defect or error in this manual or product. [. . . ] The BIOS will load the update on all processors during system bootup in the default position of Enabled. ASUS C-P6ND User's Manual IV. BIOS SOFTWARE CPU Fast String Leave on default setting of Enabled for best performance. Deturbo Mode When Enabled, FLUSH# signal is held asserted to disable caching and the P6 bus pipeline will be stalled. This allows software to run at a reduced-speed. The default is set to Disabled to allow maximum processing speed. Quick Power On Self Test This field speeds up the Power-On Self Test (POST) routine by skipping retesting a second, third, and forth time. Setup default setting for this field is Enabled. A complete test of the system is done on each test. HDD Sequence SCSI/IDE First (New Feature!) When using both SCSI and IDE hard disk drives, IDE is always the boot disk using drive letter C (default setting of IDE). This new feature allows a SCSI hard disk drive to be the boot disk when set to SCSI. This allows multiple operating systems to be used on both IDE and SCSI drives or the primary operating system to boot using a SCSI hard disk drive. Boot Sequence This field determines where the system looks first for an operating system. Options are C, CDROM, A; CDROM, C, A; A, C; C, A The setup default setting is to check first the hard disk and then the floppy drive; that is, C, A. BIOS (BIOS Features) 15 Swap Floppy Drive When enabled, the BIOS swaps floppy drive assignments so that Drive A becomes Drive B, and Drive B becomes Drive A under DOS. By setup default, this field is set to Disabled. Boot Up Floppy Seek When enabled, the BIOS will seek the floppy "A" drive one time. By setup default, this field is set to Disabled. Floppy Disk Access Control This allows protection of files from the computer system to be copied to floppy drives by allowing the setting of Read Only to only allow reads from the floppy but not writes. The setup default R/W allows both reads and writes. Boot Up NumLock Status This field enables users to activate the Number Lock function upon system boot. The setup default setting for this field is On. Boot Up System Speed This has not function and should be left at the setup default of High. ASUS C-P6ND User's Manual IV. [. . . ] This DMI Configuration Utility provides the same reliability as PnP updating and will prevent the refreshing failures associated with updating the entire BIOS. System Requirements The motherboard BIOS must support DMI. The following motherboards do not support DMI: · P/I-P6RP4 · PCI/E-P54NP4 · PCI/I-P54NP4D (not supported) (not supported) (not supported) V. DMI (DMI Introduction) 29 The DMI Configuration Utility (DMICFG. EXE) must be ran in real mode in order for the program to run, the base memory must be at least 180K. Memory managers like HIMEM. SYS (required by windows) must not be installed. [. . . ]