User manual SONY VAIO VPCCB3AFX

[. . . ] ATI® s regstered trademark of ATI Technologes, Inc. AMD® s regstered trademarks of AMD Corporaton. Intel® s regstered trademarks of Intel Corporaton. Wndows® s regstered trademarks of Mcrosoft Corporaton. [. . . ] You may also restart the system by smultaneously pressng <Ctrl>, <Alt>, and <Delete> keys. Important · The tems under each BIOS category descrbed n ths chapter are under contnuous update for better system performance. Therefore, the descrpton may be slghtly dfferent from the latest BIOS and should be held for reference only. · Upon boot-up, the 1st lne appearng after the memory count s the BIOS verson. It s usually n the format: A7599AMS V10. X 030810 where: 1st dgt refers to BIOS maker as A = AMI, W = AWARD, and P = PHOENIX. 2nd - 5th dgt refers to the model number. 6th dgt refers to the chpset as I = Intel, N = NVIDIA, A = AMD and V = VIA. 7th - 8th dgt refers to the customer as MS = all standard customers. 030810 refers to the date ths BIOS was released. 3-2 MS-7599 Control Keys <> <> <> <> <Enter> <Esc> <+/PU> <-/PD> <F1> <F6> <F8> <F10> Move to the prevous tem Move to the next tem Move to the tem n the left hand Move to the tem n the rght hand Select the tem Jumps to the Ext menu or returns to the man menu from a submenu Increase the numerc value or make changes Decrease the numerc value or make changes General Help Load Optmzed Defaults Load Fal-Safe Defaults Save all the CMOS changes and ext Chapter 3 Gettng Help After enterng the Setup menu, the first menu you wll see s the Man Menu. Man Menu The man menu lsts the setup functons you can make changes to. You can use the arrow keys ( ) to select the tem. The on-lne descrpton of the hghlghted setup functon s dsplayed at the bottom of the screen. [day] Day of the week, from Sun to Sat, determned by BIOS. [date] The date from 1 to 31 can be keyed by numerc functon keys. [year] The year can be adjusted by users. Tme (HH:MM:SS) Ths allows you to set the system tme that you want (usually the current tme). The tme format s <hour> <mnute> <second>. 3-6 MS-7599 IDE Prmary Master/ Slave & SATA1~6 Press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu, and the followng screen appears. Chapter 3 Devce / Vendor / Sze It wll show the devce nformaton that you connected to the SATA connector. LBA/Large Mode Ths allows you to enable or dsable the LBA Mode. Settng to Auto enables LBA mode f the devce supports t and the devces s not already formatted wth LBA mode dsabled. Ths allows you to actvate the S. M. A. R. T. (Self-Montorng Analyss & Reportng Technology) capablty for the hard dsks. S. M. A. R. T s a utlty that montors your dsk status to predct hard dsk falure. Ths gves you an opportunty to move data from a hard dsk that s gong to fal to a safe place before the hard dsk becomes offlne. Important IDE Prmary Master/ Slave, SATA 1~6 are appearng when you connect the HD devces to the IDE/ SATA connectors on the manboard. Floppy Drve A Ths tem allows you to set the type of floppy drves nstalled. 3-7 BIOS Setup Hold on The settng determnes whether the system wll stop f an error s detected at boot. [. . . ] · If you allocate the first LD capacty manually, you can create second LD wth remanng capacty of the selected hard drves. The LD creaton s done, the screen shows the LD nformaton as below. Press ESC key to the man screen. 8. Press ESC key to ext the utlty, a message "System s gong to REBOOT!Are You Sure?" wll dsplay, answer "Y" to ext t and the system wll reboot. B-6 MS-7599 Delete LD Menu (Deletng RAID) 1. [. . . ]