User manual ASUS F80Q

[. . . ] · Intel, LANDesk, and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. · IBM and OS/2 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines. · Symbios is a registered trademark of Symbios Logic Corporation. · Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. [. . . ] If the boot block in the file is different from the current boot block, this option will not update the main block. Instead, it will display the following messages. 34 ASUS F80Q User's Manual IV. Advanced Features This option displays the Advanced Features screen for clearing the PnP configuration record and updating the motherboard BIOS. Advanced Features Menu 1. Clear PNP ESCD Parameter Block This option erases the Plug-and-Play (PnP) configuration record. Update BIOS Including Boot Block and ESCD This option updates the boot block, the baseboard BIOS, and the PnP extended system configuration data (ESCD) parameter block from a new BIOS file. ASUS F80Q User's Manual 35 IV. BIOS SOFTWARE Managing and Updating Your Motherboard's BIOS Upon First Use of the Computer System 1. Create a bootable system floppy diskette by typing [FORMAT A:/S] from the DOS prompt without creating "AUTOEXEC. BAT" and "CONFIG. SYS" files. Run PFLASH. EXE from your new diskette and select option 1 "Save Current BIOS to File. " Enter the "Current BIOS Revision:" for the file name. Updating BIOS Procedures (only when necessary) IMPORTANT: If "unknown" is displayed after Flash Type -- , the memory chip is not programmable or is not supported with the PnP BIOS and therefore cannot be programmed by the Flash Memory Writer utility. Download an updated ASUS BIOS file from the Internet (WWW or FTP) or a BBS (Bulletin Board Service) (see ASUS CONTACT INFORMATION on page 3 for details) and save to the disk you created earlier. At the "A:\" prompt, type PFLASH and then press <Enter>. This appears during the Power-On Self Test (POST). Press <Delete> to call up the Setup utility. If you are a little bit late pressing the mentioned key(s), POST will continue with its test routines, thus preventing you from calling up Setup. If you still need to call Setup, reset the system by pressing <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <Delete>, or by pressing the Reset button on the system case. You can also restart by turning the system off and then back on again. But do so only if the first two methods fail. When you invoke Setup, the CMOS SETUP UTILITY main program screen will appear with the following options: ASUS F80Q User's Manual 37 IV. BIOS SOFTWARE Load Defaults The "Load BIOS Defaults" option loads the minimum settings for troubleshooting. "Load Setup Defaults", on the other hand, is for loading optimized defaults for regular use. Choosing defaults at this level, will modify all applicable settings. A section at the bottom of the above screen displays the control keys for this screen. [. . . ] Internal devices connect to the ASUS PCI-SC200 or ASUS PCI-SC860 with a fifty-pin flat ribbon cable. External devices connect to the external port with a SCSI-2 cable. If there are more than one internal or external devices, additional devices are connected with cables to form a "daisy chain. " Terminating the devices on the ends of the SCSI Bus "chain" is necessary for SCSI devices to work properly. Termination of the devices between the ends must be Disabled. ASUS F80Q User's Manual VI. [. . . ]