User manual ASUS P55SP4

[. . . ] For updated BIOS, drivers, or product release information you may visit ASUSTeK's home page at: http://www. asus. com. tw/ 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 product name and revision number are both printed on the motherboard itself. Manual revisions are released for each motherobard design represented by the digit before the period and for additions or corrections represented by the digit after the period. [. . . ] 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. Take note of these keys and their respective uses. Another section just below the control keys section displays information on the currently highlighted item in the list. Standard CMOS Setup This "Standard CMOS Setup" option allows you to record some basic system hardware configuration and set the system clock and error handling. If the motherboard is already installed in a working system, you will not need to select this option anymore. However, if the configuration stored in the CMOS memory on the board gets lost or damaged, or if you change your system hardware configuration, you will need to respecify the configuration values. The configuration values usually get lost or corrupted when the power of the onboard CMOS battery weakens. The above screen provides you with a list of options. At the bottom of this screen are the control keys for use on this screen. Take note of these keys and their respective uses. P/I-P55SP4 User's Manual 27 IV. BIOS SOFTWARE User-configurable fields appear in a different color. If you need information on the selected field, press the <F1> key. Large type of drive can only be used with MS-DOS and is very uncommon. Most IDE drives over 528MB support the LBA mode. Auto detection of hard disks on boot-up (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 boot-up. 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 on page 28. P/I-P55SP4 User's Manual 29 IV. BIOS SOFTWARE Drive A, Drive B These fields record the types of floppy disk drives installed in your system. The available options for drives A and B are: 360KB, 5. 25 in. None To enter the configuration value for a particular drive, highlight its corresponding field and then select the drive type using the left- or right-arrow key. Floppy 3 Mode Support This is the Japanese standard floppy drive. The standard stores 1. 2MB in a 3. 5" diskette. This is normally disabled but you may choose from either: Drive A Drive B Both Disabled (Default) Video Set this field to the type of video display card installed in your system. [. . . ] With the card installed in your system you can connect SCSI devices installed in your system case to the internal connector on the card. You also have the additional option of connecting external SCSI devices to the external SCSI-2 connector on the card. If you get the PCI-SC200 later on as an option, you will need to install it yourself. PCI-SC200 (Setup) Setting Up the PCI-SC200 There are two jumper settings you may need to make on the card to set it up. [. . . ]