User manual ASUS P2-M3A3200 P2-M3A3200/P4-M3A3200 USER’S MANUAL(ENGLISH)

[. . . ] 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. · Intel, LANDesk, and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. · Celeron is a trademark of Intel Corporation. · IBM and OS/2 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines. [. . . ] If you need information on the selected field, press <F1>. The help menu will then appear to provide you with the information you need. The memory display at the lower right-hand side of the screen is read-only and automatically adjusts accordingly. Details of Standard CMOS Setup: Date To set the date, highlight the "Date" field and then press either <Page Up>/<Page Down> or <+>/<­> to set the current date. Valid values for month, day and year are: Month: (1 to 12), Day: (1 to 31), Year: (up to 2079). 42 ASUS P2-M3A3200 User's Manual IV. BIOS SETUP Time To set the time, highlight the "Time" field and then press either <Page Up>/<Page Down> or <+>/<­> to set the current time. Follow the hour, minute and second format. Valid values for hour, minute and second are: (Hour: (00 to 23), Minute: (00 to 59), Second: (00 to 59). NOTE: You can bypass the date and time prompts by creating an AUTOEXEC. BAT file. For information on how to create this file, please refer to the MS-DOS manual. Hard Disks This field records the specifications for all non-SCSI hard disk drives installed in your system. The onboard PCI IDE connectors provide Primary and Secondary channels for connecting up to four IDE hard disks or other IDE devices. Each channel can support up to two hard disks; the first of which is the "master" and the second is the "slave". The standard stores 1. 2MB in a 3. 5inch diskette. This is normally disabled but you may choose from either: Drive A, Drive B, Both, and Disabled Video Set this field to the type of video display card installed in your system. The options are EGA/VGA, CGA 40, CGA 80, and MONO (for Hercules or MDA). If you are using a VGA or any higher resolution card, choose EGA/VGA. Halt On This field determines which types of errors will cause the system to halt. Choose from All Errors; No Errors; All, But Keyboard, All, But Diskette; and All, But Disk/Key. ASUS P2-M3A3200 User's Manual IV. BIOS SETUP BIOS Features Setup The "BIOS Features Setup" option consists of configuration entries that allow you to improve your system performance, or let you set up some system features according to your preference. Some entries are required by the motherboard's design to remain in their default settings. A section at the lower right of the screen displays the control keys you can use. Take note of these keys and their respective uses. If you need information on a particular entry, highlight it and then press <F1>. A pop-up help menu will appear to provide you with the information you need. [. . . ] LPT Port (Line Printer Port) Logical device name reserved by DOS for the computer parallel ports. Each LPT port is configured to use a different IRQ and address assignment. MMX A set of 57 new instructions based on a technique called Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD), which is built into the new Intel Pentium PP/MT (P55C) and Pentium II (Klamath) CPU as well as other x86-compatible microprocessors. The MMX instructions are designed to accelerate multimedia and communications applications, such as 3D video, 3D sound, video conference. [. . . ]