User manual ASUS P55TP4N

[. . . ] P/I-P55TP4N Motherboard USER'S MANUAL USER'S NOTICE No part of this product, including the product and software may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form by any means without the express written permission of ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (hereinafter referred to as ASUS) except documentation kept by the purchaser for backup purposes. ASUS provides this manual "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties or conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall ASUS be liable for any loss or profits, loss of business, loss of use or data, interruption of business, or for indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any kind, even if ASUS has been advised of the possibility of such damages arising from any defect or error in this manual or product. For updated BIOS, drivers, or product release information you may visit ASUSTeK's home page at: http://www. asus. com. tw/ Products mentioned in this manual are mentioned for identification purposes only. [. . . ] If the motherboard is already installed in a working system, you will not need to select this option anymore. However, if the configuration stored in the CMOS memory on the board gets lost or damaged, or if you change your system hardware configuration, you will need to respecify the configuration values. The configuration values usually get lost or corrupted when the power of the onboard CMOS battery weakens. The above screen provides you with a list of options. At the bottom of this screen are the control keys for use on this screen. Take note of these keys and their respective uses. P/I-P55TP4N User's Manual 27 IV. If you need information on the selected field, press the <F1> key. The help menu will then appear to provide you with the information you need. The memory display at the lower right-hand side of the screen is read-only and automatically adjusts accordingly. Details of Standard CMOS Setup: Date To set the date, highlight the "Date" field and then press the page up/page down or +/- keys to set the current date. Valid values for month, day and year are: Month: Day: Year: 1 to 12 1 to 31 up to 2099 Time To set the time, highlight the "Time" field and then press the page up/page down or +/- keys to set the current time. Valid values for hour, minute and second are: Hour: Minute: Second: 00 to 23 00 to 59 00 to 59 IV. BIOS (Standard CMOS) time, just press the <Enter> key twice if you do not want to modify the current You can bypass the date and time prompts by creating an AUTOEXEC. BAT file. For information on how to create this file, please refer to the MS-DOS manual. Hard Disks This field records the specifications for all non-SCSI hard disk drives installed in your system. The onboard PCI IDE connectors provide Primary and Secondary channels for connecting up to four IDE hard disks or other IDE devices. Each channel can support up to two hard disks; the first of which is the "master" and the second is the "slave". Specifications for SCSI hard disks need not to be entered here since they operate using device drivers and are not supported by any the BIOS. If you install the optional PCI-SC200 SCSI controller card into the motherboard (see page 55 for instructions). If you install other vendor's SCSI controller card, please refer to their respective documentations on how to install the required SCSI drivers. 28 P/I-P55TP4N User's Manual IV. BIOS SOFTWARE To enter specifications for a hard disk drive, you must select first a "type". You can select "User" and specify the specifications yourself manually, or you can select from the provided predefined drive specifications. To select, simply press the <Page Up> or <Page Down> key to change the option listed after the drive letter. For an IDE hard disk drives, you can: · · · Use the Auto setting for detection during boot-up (see below) Use the IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION in the main menu to automatically enter the drive specifications, or you can: Enter the specifications yourself manually by using the "User" option The entries for specifying the hard disk type include CYLS (number of cylinders), HEAD (number of read/write heads), PRECOMP (write precompensation), LANDZ (landing zone), SECTOR (number of sectors) and MODE. [. . . ] For information about these drivers and their usage, see the Readme files included in the driver packages. You can print out the contents of these files using any text editor program. The next few pages will instruct you on the installation of the PCI-SC200 Fast SCSI Card. PCI-SC200 (NCR SCSI BIOS) P/I-P55TP4N User's Manual 55 VI. [. . . ]