Asus P2B-D2 - Manual (Page 44)

ASUS P2B-D2 User’s Manual 44
IV. BIOS SOFTWARE
IV. BIOS
Standard CMOS
Auto detection of hard disks on bootup
For each field: Primary Master, Primary Slave, Secondary Master, and Sec-
ondary Slave, you can select Auto under the TYPE and MODE fields. This
will enable auto detection of your IDE hard disk during bootup. This will allow
you to change your hard disks (with the power off) and then power on without
having to reconfigure your hard disk type. If you use older hard disks that do
not support this feature, then you must configure the hard disk in the stan-
dard method as described earlier by the “User” option.
NOTE: After the IDE hard disk drive information has been entered into BIOS, new
IDE hard disk drives must be partitioned (such as with FDISK) and then formatted
before data can be read from and write on. Primary IDE hard disk drives must have
its partition set to active (also possible with FDISK).
NOTE: SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading.
Drive A / Drive B (None)
These fields record the types of floppy disk drives installed in your system.
The available options for drives A and B are: 360K, 5.25 in.; 1.2M, 5.25 in.;
720K, 3.5 in.; 1.44M, 3.5 in.; 2.88M, 3.5 in.; None
To enter the configuration value for a particular drive, highlight its correspond-
ing field and then select the drive type using the left- or right-arrow keys.
Floppy 3 Mode Support (Disabled)
This is the Japanese standard floppy drive. The standard stores 1.2MB in a
3.5inch diskette. This is normally disabled but you may choose from either:
Drive A, Drive B, Both, and Disabled
Video (EGA/VGA)
Set this field to the type of video display card installed in your system. The
options are EGA/VGA, CGA 40, CGA 80, and MONO (for Hercules or MDA).
If you are using a VGA or any higher resolution card, choose EGA/VGA.
Halt On (All Errors)
This field determines which types of errors will cause the system to halt. Choose
from All Errors; No Errors; All,But Keyboard, All,But Diskette; and All,But Disk/
Key.