User`s manual

BIOS User's Manual
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1st Boot Device
2nd Boot Device
3rd Boot Device
The options for 1st Boot Device are Disabled, 1st IDE-HDD, 2nd IDE-
HDD, 3rd IDE-HDD, 4th IDE-HDD, Floppy, ARMD-FDD, ARMD-HDD,
ATAPI CD ROM, SCSI, Network or I
2
0 . The options for 2nd Boot Device
are Disabled, 1st IDE-HDD, 2nd IDE-HDD, 3rd IDE-HDD, 4th IDE-HDD,
Floppy, ARMD-FDD, ARMD-HDD or ATAPI CD ROM . The options for
3rd Boot Device are Disabled, 1st IDE-HDD, 2nd IDE-HDD, 3rd IDE-
HDD, 4th IDE-HDD, Floppy, ARMD-FDD, ARMD-HDD or ATAPI CDROM .
1st IDE-HDD, 2nd IDE-HDD, 3rd IDE-HDD and 4th IDE-HDD are the four
hard disks that can be installed by the BIOS. 1st IDE-HDD is the first
hard disk installed by the BIOS, 2nd IDE-HDD is the second hard disk, and
so on. For example, if the system has a hard disk connected to Primary
Slave and another hard disk to Secondary Master, then 1st IDE-HDD will
be referred to as the hard disk connected to Primary Slave and 2nd IDE-
HDD will be referred to as the hard disk connected to the Secondary
Master. 3rd IDE-HDD and 4th IDE-HDD are not present. Note that the
order of the initialization of the devices connected to the primary and
secondary channels are Primary Master first, Primary Slave second,
Secondary Master third, and Secondary Slave fourth.
The BIOS will attempt to read the boot record from 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th
boot device in the selected order until it is successful in reading the
booting record. The BIOS will not attempt to boot from any device which
is not selected as the boot device.
Try Other Boot Device
This option controls the action of the BIOS if all the selected boot devices
failed to boot. The settings for this option are Yes or No . If Yes is
selected and all the selected boot devices failed to boot, the BIOS will try
to boot from the other boot devices (in a predefined sequence) which are
present but not selected as boot devices in the setup (and hence not yet
been tried for booting). If selected as No and all selected boot devices
failed to boot, the BIOS will try not to boot from the other boot devices
which may be present but not selected as boot devices in setup.
Initial Display Mode
This option determines the display screen with which the POST is going
to start the display. The settings for this option are BIOS or Silent . If
selected as BIOS, the POST will start with the normal sign-on message
screen. If Silent is selected, the POST will start with the silent screen.