Operation Manual

Quick Power On Self Test [Enabled] Press <+> to move the

Boot up Floppy Seek [Enabled] Device up the list, or

Full Screen Logo [Enabled] <-> to move it down

the list

F1 Help ↓ Select Item -/+ Change Values F5 Setup Defaults

Esc Exit ←→ Select Menu Enter Select Sub-Menu F10 Save and Exit

After setting the specified parameters, use the Left or Right keys to select the Exit

menu item. Reply positively to the prompt on saving the specified parameters.

For AwardBIOS for motherboards for Pentium, Pentium Pro processors (i.e the ones

older than those described above) and AMD-K5/K6, the standard CMOS setup

screen looks like this:

ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A69JA2A)

STANDARD CMOS SETUP

AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.

Date (mm:dd:yy) : Fri, May 15 1998

Time (hh:mm:ss) : 11: 33: 53

HARD DISKS : TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE

Primary Master : Auto 0 0 0 0 0 0 Auto

Primary Slave : Auto 0 0 0 0 0 0 Auto

Secondary Master : None 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Secondary Slave : None 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Drive A : 1.44 M

Drive B : None Base Memory: 0K

Extended Memory: 0K

Video : EGA/VG Other Memory: 512K

Halt On: All Errors Total Memory: 512K

ESC : Quit ↓→←: Select Item PU/PD/+/- : Modify

F1 : Help (Shift) F2 Change Color

The Type parameter can have Auto, Not Installed or User Defined values. In the

latter case, you have to specify the values of other parameters manually (except

MODE) according to the information on the case of the hard disk.

he purpose of the MODE and LANDZ parameters is described in the note above. The

PRECOMP parameter is the so-called precompensation parameter and is important only for

the older hard disks (MFM and RLL). IDE disks ignore this parameter.

In earlier BIOS versions, the boot sequence was set in the BIOS FEATURES setup

section in the Boot Sequence line where you could select the most typical boot

sequences, for example C:; A:;CD-ROM: or CD-ROM:; C:; A:, and other.

B.2.5 Hard disk initialization errors

Devices are usually initialized successfully, but sometimes errors can happen.

Typical errors related to hard disks are reported by the following messages: