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Experiment:-6: Standard CMOS Features

The document discusses the BIOS/CMOS setup configuration and its various options. It explains that the BIOS setup allows configuring options like the date, time, hard drives, boot order, voltages and more. If the system becomes unstable after changes, the fail-safe and optimized default options can reload optimal or minimal performance settings to restore stability. Making changes to the chipset or IRQ settings is not recommended for most users.

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Experiment:-6: Standard CMOS Features

The document discusses the BIOS/CMOS setup configuration and its various options. It explains that the BIOS setup allows configuring options like the date, time, hard drives, boot order, voltages and more. If the system becomes unstable after changes, the fail-safe and optimized default options can reload optimal or minimal performance settings to restore stability. Making changes to the chipset or IRQ settings is not recommended for most users.

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COMPUTER MAINTENANCE & TROUBLESHOOTING

EXPERIMENT:- 6
AIM :- Demonstrate BIOS/CMOS Setup/Configuration.

BIOS/CMOS Setup/Configuration:-
Whatever BIOS you have, this setup guide should give you an idea about how to setup a
BIOS. If you decide to make changes to certain options it is safer to make a note of what
you have changed. Then restart the system to see how it performs. If the system behaves
abnormally or becomes unstable you can revert back to your previous settings.

Click on any of the BIOS setup options below to setup that feature.

Softmenu III Setup PC Health Status


Standard CMOS Features Load Fail-Safe Defaults
Advanced BIOS Features Load Optimized Defaults
Advanced Chipset Features Set Password
Integrated Peripherals Save & Exit Setup
Power Management Setup Exit Without Saving
PnP/PCI Configurations

Softmenu III :-
Softmenu III is where you can setup up the CPU without setting jumpers on the
motherboard. You can setup the CPU simply by selecting the speed. This ensures that the
CPU bus, multiplier, voltage etc, is correctly set for that particular CPU. However you can
manually setup each feature if required. Once you have finished with the setup press ESC
to return the previous menu

Standard CMOS Features :-

Here you can setup the basic BIOS features such as date, time, type of floppy etc. Use the
arrow keys to move around and press enter to select the required option. You can specify
what IDE devices you have such as Hard drive, CD-ROM, ZIP drive etc. The easiest way
to setup the IDE devices is by leaving it set to auto. This allows the BIOS to detect the
devices automatically so you don't have to do it manually. At the bottom, it also displays
the total memory in your system

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Advanced BIOS Features:-

there are numerous advance settings which you can select if required. For most cases
leaving the default setting should be adequate. If your first boot device is floppy drive, This
ensures that the floppy disk is read first when the system boots, and therefore can boot from
windows boot disk. The second boot device is the Hard disk and third is set to CD/DVD.
If you want to boot from a bootable CD then you can set the third boot device to CD/DVD-
ROM.

Advanced Chipset Features:-

Here you can setup the contents of the chipset buffers. It is closely related to the hardware
and is therefore recommended that you leave the default setting unless you know what you
are doing. Having an incorrect setting can make your system unstable. If you know that
your SDRAM can handle CAS 2, then making changes can speed up the memory timing.
If you have 128MB SDRAM then the maximum amount of memory the AGP card can use
is 128MB.

Integrated Peripherals:-

This menu allows you to change the various I/O devices such as IDE controllers, serial
ports, parallel port, keyboard etc. You can make changes as necessary.

Power Management Setup:-

The power management allows you to setup various power saving features, when the PC
is in standby or suspend mode

PnP/PCI Configurations:-

This menu allows you to configure your PCI slots. You can assign IRQ's for various PCI
slots. It is recommended that you leave the default settings as it can get a bit complicated
messing around with IRQ's.

PC Health Status:-

This menu displays the current CPU temperature, the fan speeds, voltages etc. You can set
the warning temperature which will trigger an alarm if the CPU exceeds the specified
temperature.

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Load Fail-Safe Defaults:-

If you made changes to the BIOS and your system becomes unstable as a result, you can
change it back to default. However if you made many changes and don't know which one
is causing the problem, your best bet is to choose the option "Load Fail Safe Mode
Defaults" from the BIOS menu. This uses a minimal performance setting, but the system
would run in a stable way. From the dialog box Choose "Y" followed by enter to load Fail-
Safe Defaults.

Load Optimized Defaults:-

Like the Fail-Safe mode above, this option loads the BIOS default settings, but runs the
system at optimal performance. From the dialog box Choose "Y" followed by enter to load
Optimized Defaults.

Set Password:-

To password protect your BIOS you can specify a password. Make sure you don't forget
the password or you can not access the BIOS. The only way you can access the BIOS is by
resetting it using the reset jumper on the motherboard.

Save and Exit Setup:-

To save any changes you made to the BIOS you must choose this option. From the dialog
box choose "Y".

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Exit without Saving:-

If you don't want to save changes made to the BIOS, choose "N" from the dialog box.

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