User manual ABIT AW8D

[. . . ] Introduction AW8D Motherboard Intel Pentium 4 Socket 775 Hardware Setup User's Manual BIOS Setup LGA775 ATX Motherboard NB: Intel 975X Chipset SB: Intel ICH7R Chipset 1066MHz FSB Dual DDR2 800 DIMM Slots Dual PCI-E X16 Graphics Slots Dual GbE LAN IEEE 1394 About this Manual: This user's manual contains all the information you may need for setting up this motherboard. To read the user's manual of PDF format (readable by Adobe Reader), place the "Driver & Utility CD" into the CD-ROM drive in your system. The auto-run screen will appear, click the "Manual" tab to enter its submenu. If not, browse the root directory of the CD-ROM via the File Manager, and double click the "AUTORUN" file. Driver & Utility CD 6x SATA 3Gb/s 7. 1 Channel HD Audio Silent OTESTM Technology uGuruTM Technology Appendix AW8D User's Manual English, 1st Edition March 2006 Copyright and Warranty Notice The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on part of the vendor, who assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors that may appear in this manual. [. . . ] DC Fan Voltage High/Low These items set the high and low voltage limit that you want to provide the fan with. The value of high limit must be set above the one of low limit. 3-10 AW8D 3. 2 Standard CMOS Features Date (mm:dd:yy) This item sets the date you specify (usually the current date) in the format of [Month], [Date], and [Year]. Time (hh:mm:ss) This item sets the time you specify (usually the current time) in the format of [Hour], [Minute], and [Second]. BIOS Setup IDE Channel 1 Master/Slave, IDE Channel 2 Master/Slave, IDE Channel 3 Master/Slave, IDE Channel 4 Master/Slave Click <Enter> key to enter its submenu: The items "IDE Channel 3 Master/Slave" and "IDE Channel 4 Master/Slave" appear only when the item "On-Chip SATA" in the "On-Chip IDE Device" menu is set to [Enhanced Mode], or set to [Auto] when SATA ports are connected with devices. AW8D 3-11 IDE HDD Auto-Detection This item allows you to detect the parameters of IDE drives by pressing <Enter> key. IDE Channel 1 Master/Slave, IDE Channel 2 Master/Slave, Extended IDE Drive When set to [Auto], the BIOS will automatically check what kind of IDE drive you are using. If you want to define your own drive by yourself, set it to [Manual] and make sure you fully understand the meaning of the parameters. Please refer to the instruction manual provided by the device's manufacturer to get the setting right. Leave this item to its default [Auto] setting to detect the access mode of your HDD automatically. Capacity This item displays the approximate capacity of the disk drive. Usually the size is slightly greater than the size of a formatted disk given by a disk-checking program. Precomp This item displays the number of cylinders at which to change the write timing. Landing Zone This item displays the number of cylinders specified as the landing zone for the read/write heads. Sector This item configures the numbers of sectors per track. Back to Standard CMOS Features Setup Menu Drive A & Drive B This item sets the type of floppy drives (usually only Drive A) installed. Floppy 3 Mode Support This item allows you to use "3 Mode Floppy Drive" in Japanese computer systems by selecting drive A, B, or both. Leave this item to its default [Disabled] setting if you are not using this Japanese standard floppy drive. 3-12 AW8D Halt On This item determines whether the system stops if an error is detected during system boot-up. [All Errors]: The system-boot will stop whenever the BIOS detect a non-fatal error. [All, But Keyboard]: The system-boot will stop for all errors except a keyboard error. [All, But Diskette]: The system-boot will stop for all errors except a diskette error. [All, But Disk/Key]: The system-boot will stop for all errors except a diskette or keyboard error. Base Memory This item displays the amount of base memory installed in the system. The value of the base memory is typically 640K for system with 640K or more memory size installed on the motherboard. Extended Memory This item displays the amount of extended memory detected during system boot-up. Total Memory This item displays the total memory available in the system. BIOS Setup AW8D 3-13 3. 3 Advanced BIOS Features CPU L3 Cache This item is used to enable the L3 cache (default setting), and appears only for certain CPU (Intel Pentium 4 processor with HT Technology Extreme Edition) that possesses L3 cache. [. . . ] (You can find it on the screen during the POST sequence. ) CPU: Type in the brand name and the speed (MHz) of your CPU. (Illustrate the over-clocking status if you had done so. ) Example: Intel 650 3. 4GHz (OC FSB=220MHz) Memory brand: Type in the brand and model name of your memory module. Example: Memory brand: Kingston (KVR533D2N4/1G) · · · · 5-6 AW8D · · · · · · · · Memory size: Type in the size of your memory module. Example: 512M* 4PCS Memory configuration: Type in the memory configuration in BIOS setting. [. . . ]