Asus P5B-VM Computer Hardware User Manual


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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 2 utility ...................................................
2-3
2.1.3 AFUDOS utility ................................................................
2-4
2.1.4 ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 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 .......................................................................
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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, Secondary, Third, Fourth IDE Master/Slave ............
2-15
2.3.5 IDE Conguration ..........................................................
2-16
2.3.6 System Information .......................................................
2-17
2.4 Advanced menu .........................................................................
2-18
2.4.1 CPU Conguration ........................................................
2-18
2.4.2 Chipset .........................................................................
2-19
2.4.3 Onboard Devices Conguration ....................................
2-24
2.4.4 PCI PnP ........................................................................
2-26
2.5 Power menu ................................................................................
2-27
2.5.1 ACPI 2.0 Support .........................................................
2-27
2.5.2 ACPI APIC Support .......................................................
2-27
2.5.3 APM Conguration ........................................................
2-28
2.5.4 Hardware Monitor .........................................................
2-29
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