User manual ASUS P5SD2-VM

[. . . ] 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. · SiS is a trademark of Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. · Adobe and Acrobat are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. · Sound Blaster is a registered trademark of Creative Technology Ltd. [. . . ] Primary IDE hard disk drives must have its partition set to active (also possible with FDISK). NOTE: SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading. Drive A / Drive B (None) These fields record the types of floppy disk drives installed in your system. The available options for drives A and B are: 360K , 5. 25 in. ; 1. 2M , 5. 25 in. ; 720K , 3. 5 in. ; 1. 44M , 3. 5 in. ; 2. 88M , 3. 5 in. ; None IV. BIOS SETUP Standard CMOS 50 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 keys. Floppy 3 Mode Support (Disabled) This is the Japanese standard floppy drive. 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 (EGA/VGA) 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 (All Errors) 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 P5S-B User's Manual IV. Boot Sequence (A, C) This field determines where the system looks first for an operating system. Options are A, C; A, CDROM, C; CDROM, C, A; CDROM A, C; D, A; E, A; F, A; C only; LS/ZIP, C; LAN, A, C; LAN, C, A; and C, A. The setup default setting, A, C, checks first the floppy disk and then the hard disk drive. Boot Up Floppy Seek (Disabled) When enabled, the BIOS will seek drive A one time. Floppy Disk Access Control (R/W) This allows protection of files from the computer system to be copied to floppy disk drives by allowing the setting of Read Only to only allow reads from the floppy disk drive but not writes. The setup default R/W allows both reads and writes. IDE HDD Block Mode Sectors (HDD MAX) This field enhances hard disk performance by making multi-sector transfers instead of one sector per transfer. Most IDE drives, except older versions, can utilize this feature. Selections are HDD MAX, Disabled, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32. capability (Disabled) This field enables or disables S. M. A. R. T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) support for S. M. A. R. T. -capable hard disk drives. [. . . ] The reversed color field is the current cursor position and the blue text are available for editing. The orange text shows auto-detected information and are not available for editing. The blue text "Press [ENTER] for detail" contains a second pop-up menu is available, use the + - (plus-minus) keys to change the settings. Enter to exit and save, ESC to exit and not save. [. . . ]