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Chapter 3 BIOS Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Entering Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Product Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Disk Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Onboard Peripherals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Onboard Device Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Boot Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Date and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
System Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Setting a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Changing or Removing the Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Bypassing the Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Advanced Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Memory/Cache Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
PnP/PCI Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Load Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Abort Settings Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Exiting Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Chapter 4 Upgrading the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Installation Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
ESD Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Preinstallation Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Post-installation Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Opening the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Removing the Housing Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Replacing the Housing Cover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Installing Additional Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Installing a DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Removing a DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Reconfiguring the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Upgrading the CPU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Removing the CPU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Installing the Upgrade CPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Replacing the Hard Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Installing and Removing a PCI Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Installing a PCI Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Removing a PCI Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
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