Technical information

CMOS Memory Battery Support
The Setup program’s configuration
record is stored in CMOS memory which
is maintained by a battery backup. If
the record is lost or corrupted, or if you
change your system hardware configu-
ration, you need to redo the record. The
configuration record can be lost or cor-
rupted if the onboard battery fails.
There are five main sections to the Setup program:
• Standard CMOS Setup
Date, time, disk drive, video display and error han-
dling settings.
• BIOS Features Setup
System operation customization features and
video display function settings.
• Chipset Features Setup
Automatic or required settings for the PR5’ s
chipset. Memory configuration feature for special-
ized add-on cards requiring custom address space.
• Power Management Setup
Sets up the “ green” power management features.
• PCI & Onboard I/O Setup
PCI expansion bus and drive controller settings;
serial, parallel and IR port settings.
The other main menu items interact with these main
sections:
• Load BIOS Defaults
Loads minimum settings from the BIOS ROM.
• Load Setup Defaults
Loads standard settings from the BIOS ROM.
• Password Setting
Sets system password which is configured by the
Security Option item in BIOS Features Setup.
• IDE HDD Auto Detection
Automatically detects the drive parameters of any
installed IDE hard disk drives and enters them
automatically in the Standard CMOS Setup.
• HDD Low Level Format
Hard disk drive low level format program. See the
warning in the section about using this.
• Save & Exit Setup
Saves the current settings and exits the program.
• Exit Without Saving
Discards any changes made during the current ses-
sion and exits the program.
To enter a section of the Setup program, highlight the
menu item and press the Enter key.
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