AIM :- CMOS SET UP
PROCEDURE
THEORY
What is CMOS?
Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor, or CMOS,
typically refers to a battery-powered memory chip in your
computer that stores startup information. Your computer's basic
input/output system (BIOS) uses this information when starting
your computer.
CMOS-related error messages could be caused by a faulty or
discharged battery. The battery can become discharged if your
computer has been turned off for a very long time. To resolve
CMOS-related errors, check the information that came with your
computer or contact your computer manufacturer. Because your
CMOS settings are specific to your computer's hardware,
Microsoft can't provide specific instructions for changing them.
CMOS BIOS settings
There are three company BIOS chips. They are Award, Phoenix
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 options to change
settings.
These are the advanced settings. Hard disk boot priority settings
for using more than one hard drive, 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 you 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 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 all BIOS settings. if you want to
change option supervisor password is must.
Last two options are used to save or not options. Save & exit
option is saving your settings and without saving option is not
saving option.
