User Guide

Introduction of BIOS 3-7
- Standard CMOS Setup Menu
This contains the basic configuration parameters of the BIOS. These
parameters include the settings of date, hour, VGA card, FDD and HDD.
Fig 3-2 Standard CMOS Setup Menu
l Set up of HDD operating mode ¡i NORMAL, LBA, LARGE ¡j
Since old operating systems were only able to support HDD whose capacity
was not bigger than 528MB, any hard disk with more than 528MB was
unusable. AWARD BIOS features a solution to this problem: you can,
according to your operating system, choose three operating modes: NORMAL,
LBA or LARGE.
The HDD AUTODETECTION option in the Main Menu will automatically
detect the parameters of your hard disk and the mode supported.
ä Normal mode:
Standard normal mode supports hard disks of 528MB or less.
This mode directly uses positions indicated by Cylinders (CYLS),
Heads, and Sectors to access data.