User manual ASUS X57SA EXPRESS GATE QUICK START GUIDE

[. . . ] · Symbios is a registered trademark of Symbios Logic Corporation. · Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. · Sound Blaster AWE32 and SB16 are trademarks of Creative Technology Ltd. · Adobe and Acrobat are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. The product name and revision number are both printed on the board itself. [. . . ] You can also restart by turning the system off and then back on again. But do so only if the first two methods fail. When you invoke Setup, the CMOS SETUP UTILITY main program screen will appear with the following options: ASUS P/I-P55T2P4S User's Manual 35 IV. BIOS SOFTWARE Load Defaults The "Load BIOS Defaults" option loads the minimized settings for troubleshooting. "Load Setup Defaults", on the other hand, is for loading optimized defaults for regular use. 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 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. Auto detection of hard disks on bootup 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. IV. BIOS (Standard CMOS) 38 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. [. . . ] You can also use afdisk to remove DOS and non-DOS partitions from a disk drive and to format removable media in standard hard disk format, OS/2 floppy format, or DOS V (Japanese) format. NOTE: Use afdisk only if the disk device is not controlled by the host adapter BIOS--that is, if the host adapter does not have a BIOS or if its BIOS is not enabled. If the disk device is controlled by the host adapter BIOS, use the DOS fdisk utility to partition and format the disk device. (See the MSDOS documentation. ) Run afdisk from the DOS prompt only, not from the Windows MSDOS prompt. [. . . ]