User manual ASROCK PE PRO

[. . . ] PE Pro / GE Pro / G Pro A User Manual Published October 2002 Copyright©2002 ASRock INC. All rights reserved. 1 Copyright Notice: No part of this manual may be reproduced, transcribed, transmitted, or translated in any language, in any form or by any means, except duplication of documentation by the purchaser for backup purpose, without written consent of ASRock Inc. Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies, and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners' benefit, without intent to infringe. Disclaimer: Specifications and information contained in this manual are furnished for informational use only and subject to change without notice, and should not be constructed as a commitment by ASRock. ASRock assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions that may appear in this manual. [. . . ] System Time [Hour:Minute:Second] Set the system to the time that you specify. Use keys to move between the Hour, Minute and Second fields. Floppy Drives Use this to set the type of floppy drives installed. IDE Devices Use this to configure IDE devices. 17 TYPE It allows user to select the type of the IDE Drive. After making your selections on this sub-menu, press <ESC> key to return to the upper menu, in which the hard disk drive field will display the size for the hard disk drive that you configured. [USER]: It allows user to manually enter the number of cylinders, heads, and sectors per track for the drive. Before attempting to configure a hard disk drive, make sure you have the correct configuration information supplied by the drive manufacturer. Incorrect settings may cause the system to fail to recognize the installed hard disk. [Auto]: Select [Auto] to automatically detect hard disk drive. If auto-detection is successful, the BIOS Setup automatically fills in the correct values for the remaining fields on this sub-menu. If the autodetection fails, it may due to that the hard disk is too old or too new. If the hard disk was already formatted on an older system, the BIOS Setup may detect incorrect parameters. In these cases, select [User] to manually enter the IDE hard disk drive parameters. After entering the hard disk information into BIOS, use a disk utility, such as FDISK, to partition and format new IDE hard disk drives. This is necessary so that you can write or read data from the hard disk. Make sure to set the partition of the Primary IDE hard disk drives to active. 18 [CD/DVD]: This is used for IDE CD/DVD drives. [ARMD]: This is used for IDE ARMD (Accelerated RemovableMedia Device), such as MO. Cylinders This is used to configure the number of cylinders. Refer to the drive documentation to determine the correct value. Heads This is used to configure the number of read/write heads. Refer to the drive documentation to determine the correct values. Write Pre-compensation Enter Write Pre-compensation sector. [. . . ] Power Setup Menu Suspend to RAM (S3): This field allows you to select whether to auto-detect or disable the ACPI Suspend-to-RAM feature. Select [Auto] will enable this feature if the system supports it. Repost Video on S3 Resume: This allows you to repost video on S3 resume. Restore on AC/Power Loss: This allows you to set the power state after an unexpected AC power loss. [. . . ]