User manual

BIOS Setup

The Celeron / Pentium III mainboard comes with a Phoenix BIOS chip that

contains the ROM Setup information of your system. This chip serves as an

interface between the processor and the rest of the mainboard’s components.

This section explains the information contained in the Setup program and tells

you how to modify the settings according to your system configuration.

Even if you are not prompted to use the Setup program, you might want to

change the configuration of your system in the future. For example, you may

want to enable the Security Password Feature or make changes to the power

management settings. It will then be necessary to reconfigure your system using

the BIOS Setup program so that the system can recognize these changes and

record them in the CMOS RAM or the FLASH ROM.

The BIOS ROM of the system holds the Setup utility. When you turn on the

system, it will provide you with the opportunity to run this program. This appears

during the Power-On Self Test (POST). Press <F2> to call the Setup utility. If

you are a little bit late pressing the mentioned key, POST will continue with its

test routines, thus preventing you from calling Setup. If you still need to call

Setup, reset the system by pressing <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <Delete>. You can also

restart by turning the system off and then on again. But do so only if the first

method fails.

The Setup program has been designed to make it to use as easy as possible. It

is a menu-driven program, which means you can scroll through the various sub-

menus and make your selections among the predetermined choices.

When you invoke Setup, the main program screen will appear. On the following

pages you will read more information about the Setup entries.

Î NOTE: Because the BIOS software is constantly being updated, the

following BIOS screens and descriptions are for reference purposes only

and may not reflect your BIOS screens exactly.