CMOS BIOS settings

There are three company BIOS chips. They are Award, Phonix and AMI. when you press Del or F2
or F10 key at system startup. These CMOS BIOS settings will be opened.
Marked the keys and options. These are the keys to open BIOS settings at startup.

This is the Award BIOS options. they are Standard CMOS features, Advanced BIOS features,
Advanced Chipset features, Integrated Peripherals, Power Management Setup, PnP/PCI
configurations, PC Health Status, Frequency/Voltage Control, Load Fail-safe Defaults, Load
Optimized Defaults, Set Supervisor Password, Set User Password, Save & Exit Setup and Exit
Without Saving, and below the shortcut keys Esc to Quit, F10 to Save & Exit setup, Arrow keys to
select Items.

This is the standard CMOS setting, in these settings, Date, Time settings, disk drive settings, how
many drives have detected or not. in this motherboard, Hard drives connected to IDE channel 0
Master, that means Primary Master and DVD RW connected to IDE channel 4 Master. Floppy drive
settings, if your system has floppy disk drives, you must enable Drive A, just like this. bottom of
this window, There are some option to change settings.
These are the Advanced settings. Hard disk boot priority settings for using more than one hard
drives, select hard drive for boot. at the same CD-ROM boot priority. important options are first
boot and second boot devices. first boot always in Hard disk, but whenever you format your
system, you must change first boot device as CD drive to boot from bootable CD.

These are the Advanced Chipset settings. These settings for Graphics purpose. your system has
Installed AGP cards, These settings are automatically enabled. but your have to select or change
card memory here.
These are the power management settings. These are all default settings. Don't change these
settings.

PnP stands for Plug and Play. these are the Pnp/PCI configuration settings. These are also default
settings. no need to change the settings. It will automatically take the settings, when you insert or
install PCI cards.

These are the PC health status settings. these are also default settings. no need to change the
settings.

These are Load fail safe defaults settings. load fail safe default settings are used to restore the
default settings of a BIOS.
Supervisor password is used to set password to all BIOS settings. to create password, just select
the option and enter password and conformation. user password is used to login. this option is to
view the all BIOS settings. if you want to change option supervisor password is must.

Last two option are used to save or not options. save & exit option is saving your settings and
without saving option is not saving option.