User manual ASUS CP5140 QUICK INSTALLATION GUIDE

[. . . ] 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. ASUS may revise this manual from time to time without notice. Products mentioned in this manual are mentioned for identification purposes only. Product names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies. [. . . ] The SIZE field automatically adjusts according to the configuration you specify. The documentation that comes with your hard disk should provide you with the information regarding the drive specifications. The MODE entry is for IDE hard disks only, and can be ignored for MFM and ESDI drives. This entry provides three options: Normal, Large, LBA, or Auto (see below). Set MODE to the Normal for IDE hard disk drives smaller than 528MB; set it to LBA for drives over 528MB that support Logical Block Addressing (LBA) to allow larger IDE hard disks; set it to Large for drives over 528MB that do not support LBA. Large type of drive can only be used with MS-DOS and is very uncommon. Most IDE drives over 528MB support the LBA mode. BIOS (Standard CMOS) 14 Auto detection of hard disks on bootup (New Feature) 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 drives during bootup. This will allow you to change your hard drives (with the power off) and then power on without having to reconfigure your hard drive type. If you use older hard drives which do not support this feature, then you must configure the hard drive in the standard method as described above 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. External Cache These fields allow you to set the CPU's "Level 2" secondary cache to Enabled (default) or Disabled. Caching allows better performance. ASUS C-P55T2D User's Manual IV. BIOS SOFTWARE Quick Power On Self Test This field speeds up the Power-On Self Test (POST) routine by skipping retesting a second, third, and fourth 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 When using both SCSI and IDE hard disk drives, IDE is always the boot disk using drive letter C (default setting of IDE). This 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. Boot Up Floppy Seek When enabled, the BIOS will seek the floppy "A" drive one time. [. . . ] The onboard BIOS will detect as many system information as possible and store those collected information in a 4KB block in the motherboard's Flash EPROM and allow the DMI to retrieve data from this database. Unlike other BIOS software, the BIOS on this motherboard uses the same technology implemented for Plug and Play to allow dynamic real-time updating of DMI information versus creating a new BIOS image file and requiring the user to update the whole BIOS. This DMI Configuration Utility also allows the system integrator or end user to add additional information into the MIFD such as serial numbers, housing configurations, and vendor information. Those information not detected by the motherboard BIOS and has to be manually entered through the DMI Configuration Utility and updated into the MIFD. [. . . ]