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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 Updating the BIOS ...................................................
2-3
2.1.3 Saving the current BIOS le ....................................
2-5
2.1.4 ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2 utility ................................
2-6
2.1.5 ASUS EZ Flash utility ...............................................
2-8
2.1.6 ASUS Update utility ................................................
2-9
2.2 BIOS setup program ............................................................
2-12
2.2.1 BIOS menu screen .................................................
2-13
2.2.2 Menu bar ...............................................................
2-13
2.2.3 Legend bar ............................................................
2-14
2.2.4 Menu items ...........................................................
2-14
2.2.5 Sub-menu items ....................................................
2-14
2.2.6 Conguration elds ...............................................
2-14
2.2.7 Pop-up window ......................................................
2-15
2.2.8 General help ..........................................................
2-15
2.3 Main menu ...........................................................................
2-16
2.3.1 System Time ........................................................
2-16
2.3.2 System Date .......................................................
2-16
2.3.3 Legacy Diskette A ..............................................
2-16
2.3.4 Primary and Secondary IDE Master/Slave .............
2-17
2.3.5 First, Second, Third, Fourth SATA Master ............
2-19
2.3.6 HDD SMART Monitoring .........................................
2-20
2.3.7 Installed Memory ...................................................
2-20
2.3.8 Usable Memory ......................................................
2-20
2.4 Advanced menu ..................................................................
2-21
2.4.1 JumperFree Conguration .....................................
2-21
2.4.2 CPU Conguration .................................................
2-26
2.4.3 Chipset ..................................................................
2-28
2.4.4 PCIPnP ...................................................................
2-30
2.4.5 Onboard Devices Conguration .............................
2-30
2.4.6 USB Conguration .................................................
2-34
2.5 Power menu ........................................................................
2-35
2.5.1 ACPI Suspend Type .............................................
2-35
2.5.2 ACPI APIC Support ..............................................
2-35