BIOS Settings

Not much of the BIOS should be altered by un-qualified people but a few items need to be changed for customisation purposes. Most of the options we will be changing is in the Standard BIOS features setup. So when booting up the computer press the appropriate key to get into the BIOS, if your BIOS doesn't have a soft menu for CPU setup then the standard BIOS features should be the second option on the list.  

The first Item we will change is the Boot sequence, here you can change the order in which the computer searches for boot devices. Most people will have floppy or (A) as the first boot device and the hard disk (C) as the second then any other devices that are bootable. Because not everyone's computer is the same there will be many different ways to set this up. Some BIOS' let you set 4 boot devices in order others only 2 or 3.

           Tip

It is not a good idea to set your hard disk that you have windows on as the 1st boot device because if windows has a problem it will keep trying to boot. The best idea is to set the floppy drive as boot device 2 and the hard disk as boot device 2

Set the boot order that you like, if you can boot from the CD-ROM and you have a bootable CD-ROM then you may set this before the hard disk, if you can boot of the SCSI then again set this up as well. Anything that can be booted off should be setup just in case you have to use it. You may also come across an option that says try other boot devices, you may as well set this to yes so you don't have to worry about it later. remember that this option will not help you if you have set the hard disk before your boot devices as it will still boot on the hard disk. If windows is corrupt the PC will still boot into it. 

Next on the list is the Quick Boot option. This basically asks whether or not you want the computer to run a full test on each boot. If you would rather have a quick boot then set this to yes, if you want a full system test then set this to no.

Now look down the list for anything that refers directly to your computer such as PS/2 support, if you have PS/2 devices make sure this is turned on, the same with USB devices. 

You may have to alter a few things in the chipset features but be careful as some things in there if set incorrectly will cause your computer to function in-correctly. You should read your motherboard documentation on what is available to be touched.  

You should now have a fully functional machine, any problems try asking for help in our forum

 
 
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