Asus P4P8X: 2.3 Main menu

2.3 Main menu

When you enter the BIOS Setup program, the Main menu screen appears giving

you an overview of the basic system information.

Refer to section “2.2.1 BIOS menu screen” for information on the menu screen

items and how to navigate through them.

System Time [11:10:19]

Use [ENTER], [TAB]

System Date [Thu 03/27/2003]

or [SHIFT-TAB] to

Legacy Diskette A [1.44M, 3.5 in]

select a field.

Primary IDE Master :[ST320413A]

Use [+] or [-] to

Primary IDE Slave :[ASUS CD-S340]

configure system time.

Secondary IDE Master :[Not Detected]

Secondary IDE Slave :[Not Detected]

Third IDE Master :[Not Detected]

Fourth IDE Master :[Not Detected]

IDE Configuration

Select Screen

System Information

Select Item

+- Change Field

Tab Select Field

F1 General Help

F10 Save and Exit

ESC Exit

2.3.1 System Time [xx:xx:xxxx]

This item allows you to set the system time.

2.3.2 System Date [Day xx/xx/xxxx]

This item allows you to set the system date.

2.3.3 Legacy Diskette A [1.44M, 3.5 in.]

Sets the type of floppy drive installed. Configuration options: [Disabled] [360K, 5.25

in.] [1.2M , 5.25 in.] [720K , 3.5 in.] [1.44M, 3.5 in.] [2.88M, 3.5 in.]

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2.3.5 Primary/Secondary/Third/Fourth

IDE Master/Slave

While entering Setup, BIOS auto-detects the presence of IDE devices. There is a

separate sub-menu for each IDE device. Select a device item then press Enter to

display the IDE device information.

Primary IDE Master

Select the type

Device : Hard Disk

of device connected

Vendor : ST320413A

to the system.

Size : 20.0GB

LBA Mode : Supported

Block Mode : 16 Sectors

PIO Mode : 4

Async DMA : MultiWord DMA-2

Ultra DMA : Ultra DMA-5

SMART Monitoring: Supported

Type

[Auto]

Select Screen

LBA/Large Mode

[Auto]

Select Item

Block (Multi-sector Transfer)

[Auto]

+- Change Option

PIO Mode

[Auto]

F1 General Help

DMA Mode

[Auto]

F10 Save and Exit

Smart Monitoring

[Auto]

ESC Exit

32Bit Data Transfer

[Disabled]

The values opposite the dimmed items (Device, Vendor, Size, LBA Mode, Block

Mode, PIO Mode, Async DMA, Ultra DMA, and SMART monitoring) are auto-

detected by BIOS and are not user-configurable. These items show N/A if no IDE

device is installed in the system.

Type [Auto]

Selects the type of IDE drive. Configuration options: [Not Installed] [Auto]

[CDROM] [ARMD]

LBA/Large Mode [Auto]

Enables or disables the LBA mode. Setting to Auto enables the LBA mode if the

device supports this mode, and if the device was not previously formatted with LBA

mode disabled. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Auto]

Block (Multi-sector Transfer) [Auto]

Enables or disables data multi-sectors transfers. When set to Auto, the data

transfer from and to the device occurs multiple sectors at a time if the device

supports multi-sector transfer feature. When set to Disabled, the data transfer from

and to the device occurs one sector at a time. Configuration options: [Disabled]

[Auto]

PIO Mode [Auto]

Selects the PIO mode. Configuration options: [Auto] [0] [1] [2] [3] [4]

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DMA Mode [Auto]

Selects the DMA mode. Configuration options: [Auto] [SWDMA0] [SWDMA1]

[SWDMA2] [MWDMA0] [MWDMA1] [MWDMA2] [UDMA0] [UDMA1] [UDMA2]

[UDMA3] [UDMA4] [UDMA5]

SMART Monitoring [Auto]

Sets the Smart Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology. Configuration

options: [Auto] [Disabled] [Enabled]

32Bit Data Transfer [Disabled]

Enables or disables 32-bit data transfer. Configuration options: [Disabled]

[Enabled]

2.3.6 IDE Configuration

The items in this menu allows you to change the settings for the IDE devices

installed in the system. Select an item then press Enter if you wish to configure the

item.

IDE Configuration

Onboard IDE Operate Mode [Enhanced Mode]

Enhanced Mode Support On [S-ATA]

IDE Detect Time Out (Sec) [35]

Select Screen

Select Item

+- Change Option

F1 General Help

F10 Save and Exit

ESC Exit

Onboard IDE Operate Mode [Enhanced Mode]

Allows selection of the IDE operation mode depending on the operating system

(OS) that you installed. Set to Enhanced Mode if you are using native OS, such as

Windows 2000/XP. Set to Compatible Mode if you are using legacy OS including

MS-DOS, Windows ME/98/NT4.0.

Configuration options: [Compatible Mode] [Enhanced Mode]

Refer to the section “Parallel ATA and Serial ATA device configurations” on page

1-22 for the appropriate settings of the IDE Configuration items under different

operating systems.

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Enhanced Mode Support On [S-ATA]

The default setting S-ATA allows you to use native OS on Serial ATA and

Parallel ATA ports. We recommend that you do not change the default setting

for better OS compatibility. In this setting, you may use legacy OS on the

Parallel ATA ports only if you did not install any Serial ATA device.

The P-ATA+S-ATA and P-ATA options are for advanced users only. If you set to

any of these options and encounter problems, revert to the default setting

S-ATA. Configuration options: [P-ATA+S-ATA] [S-ATA] [P-ATA]

The Enhanced Mode Support On appears only when the item Onboard IDE

Operate Mode is set to Enhanced Mode.

IDE Port Settings [Primary P-ATA+S-ATA]

Allows selection of the IDE ports to activate if you are using a legacy operating

system. Set to [Primary P-ATA+S-ATA] if you wish to use the primary Parallel

ATA and Serial ATA ports, or set to [Secondary P-ATA+SATA] to enable the

secondary P-ATA port instead. Setting to [P-ATA Ports Only] disables the two

Serial ATA ports supported by ICH5. Configuration options: [Primary P-ATA+S-

ATA] [Secondary P-ATA+S-ATA] [P-ATA Ports Only]

The IDE Port Settings appears only when the item Onboard IDE Operate

Mode is set to Compatible Mode.

IDE Detect Time Out [35]

Selects the time out value for detecting ATA/ATAPI devices. Confgiuration options:

[0] [5] [10] [15] [20] [25] [30] [35]

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2.3.7 System Information

This menu gives you an overview of the general system specifications. The items

in this menu are auto-detected by BIOS.

AMI BIOS

Version : 08.00.09

Build Date : 05/13/03

ID : P4P8X063

Processor

Type : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz

Speed : 1800 MHz

Count : 1

System Memory

Size : 256MB

Select Screen

Select Item

+- Change Option

F1 General Help

F10 Save and Exit

ESC Exit

AMI BIOS

This item displays the auto-detected BIOS information.

Processor

This item displays the auto-detected CPU specification.

System Memory

This item displays the auto-detected system memory.

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