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Contents
Chapter 2: BIOS setup
2.1 Managing and updating your BIOS ............................................ 2-2
2.1.1 Creating a bootable oppy disk .......................................
2-2
2.1.2 ASUS EZ Flash utility ......................................................
2-3
2.1.3 AFUDOS utility ................................................................
2-4
2.1.4 ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2 utility ......................................
2-6
2.1.5 ASUS Update utility ........................................................
2-8
2.2 BIOS setup program
.................................................................. 2-11
2.2.1 BIOS menu screen ........................................................
2-12
2.2.2 Menu bar .......................................................................
2-12
2.2.3 Navigation keys .............................................................
2-12
2.2.4 Menu items ...................................................................
2-13
2.2.5 Sub-menu items ............................................................
2-13
2.2.6 Conguration elds .......................................................
2-13
2.2.7 Pop-up window .............................................................
2-13
2.2.8 Scroll bar .......................................................................
2-13
2.2.9 General help .................................................................
2-13
2.3 Main menu
.................................................................................. 2-14
2.3.1 System Time .................................................................
2-14
2.3.2 System Date .................................................................
2-14
2.3.3 Legacy Diskette A ........................................................
2-14
2.3.4 Primary and Secondary IDE Master/Slave ..................
2-15
2.3.5 SATA1 and SATA2 ........................................................
2-17
2.3.6 IDE Conguration ..........................................................
2-18
2.3.7 System Information .......................................................
2-19
2.4 Advanced menu
......................................................................... 2-20
2.4.1
USB Conguration ........................................................ 2-20
2.4.2 CPU Conguration ........................................................ 2-22
2.4.3 Chipset ..........................................................................
2-23
2.4.4 Onboard Devices Conguration ....................................
2-28
2.4.5 PCI PnP ........................................................................
2-29
2.5 Power menu
................................................................................ 2-30
2.5.1 Suspend Mode ..............................................................
2-30
2.5.2 ACPI Version Support ...................................................
2-30
2.5.3 ACPI APIC Support .......................................................
2-30