First, let's start with a simple look at what is the award BIOS?
Award BIOS is Award Company's Bios,award is a company name, BIOS is the basic input and output system!
The BIOS is the basic input/output system, the abbreviation of the elementary input/output systems, which plays the most basic and important role in the computer. is the most basic and most important program in the computer. Put this program in a memory (chip) that doesn't need to be powered, which is what you call the BIOS.
Today, CC small series in the online collection of some award BIOS related Settings tutorial, integration in addition to a more comprehensive, I believe that the general user can grasp the Basic award BIOS setup method, in fact, award BIOS and AMI BIOS inside a lot of things are the same, It can be said to be basically the same, although some names are different, but the actual effect is the same.
Award BIOS setup Illustrated Tutorial
First, how to enter the BIOS? USB mode boot hotkey in computer BIOS
If you feel that setting up the BIOS is more difficult, you can refer to the hotkey startup.
Depending on the type of computer, select the Hot key, directly start a button U tray System tool (important reminder: Before selecting Hot Key, please insert U disk)
Assembly Machine Board brand notebook brand desktop board brand boot button notebook brand boot button desktop brand startup key ASUS Motherboard F8 Lenovo notebook F12 Lenovo Desktop F12 gigabyte motherboard F12 acer notebook F12 HP desktop F12 MSI motherboard F11 ASUS notebook ESC Desktop F12 Yingxiu motherboard F9 hp notebook F 9 Dell Desktop ESC Soyo motherboard ESC/F12 Lenovo ThinkpadF12 Shenzhou desktop F12 seven Rainbow motherboard ESC or F11 Dell notebook F12 asus Desktop F8 Huasheng motherboard F11 Shenzhou Notebook F12 founder Desktop F12 Spartan card motherboard ESC laptop F12 Tongfang Desktop F12 Onda Master Board F11 Samsung Notebook F12 Haier desktop F12 dual-sensitive motherboard ESCIBM notebook F12 benq Desktop F8 Cheung Sheng motherboard F10 Fujitsu Notebook F12 Elite motherboard ESC or F11 Haier notebook F12 Crown leader board F11 or F12 founder notebook F12 Fuji Kang Motherboard ESC or F12 Tsinghua Tongfang notebook F12 top star motherboard F11 or F12 msi notebook F11 Ming Szeto motherboard ESC/BenQ Notebook F9 Tracker motherboard F8 gigabyte notebook F12 Tepo motherboard Escgateway Notebook F12 Intel motherboard F12emachines Notebook F12 motherboard ESC/F8 Sony notebook ESC to Ming motherboard F12 Apple notebook long Press "option" key pan English motherboard ESC main Board ESC NOTE: Other models Please try or refer to the above brands often Using the Startup Hotkey
(Note: Apple notebook, on/reboot the "option" button [IE alt key], go to select the starting mode. )
Two, set U disk to start, different BIOS settings USB disk boot method is as follows:
1, Phoenix–awardbios (computer after 2010):
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Figure 1: Press the DEL key to enter the BIOS setup interface, select advanced BIOS settings Advanced BIOS Features
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Figure 2: Advanced BIOS setup (Advanced BIOS Features) interface, first select HDD Boot priority: Hard disk boot Priority
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Figure 3: HDD Boot priority (Hard disk boot Priority) selection: Use the keypad plus minus sign "+,-" To select and mobile devices, the U disk selected on the top. Then, press ESC to exit and return to the Setup interface in Figure 2.
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Figure 4: Select the first boot Device: This version of the BIOS here does not have the "usb-hdd", "Usb-zip" options, the option to select Mobile device "Removable" can not start, but select "Hard disk" can start the computer.
2, the Old award BIOS (2009 computer motherboard):
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Figure 1-1: Press the DEL key to enter the BIOS setup interface and select Advanced BIOS settings: Advanced BIOS Features
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Figure 2-1: Advanced BIOS setup (Advanced BIOS Features) interface, first select HDD Boot priority: Hard disk boot Priority.
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Figure 3-1: HDD Boot priority (Hard disk boot Priority) selection: Use the keypad plus minus sign "+,-" To select and mobile devices, the U disk selected on the top. Then, press ESC to exit and return to the Setup interface in Figure 2-1.
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Figure 4-1: In the first boot Device here, there are usb-zip, USB-HDD, and so on, we can choose either "Hard disk" or "usb-hdd" option to start the computer.
3, 2002 computer motherboard a BIOS:
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Figure 1-2 above Select the Boot menu interface to set U disk boot
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Figure 2-2: Startup priority Device Selection (boot Device Priority) Select a U disk in the first boot device (1st boot Device).
If the hard drive "Hard disk drives" in Figure 1-2 has not yet been selected as the first boot device, then there is no USB memory disk here, as shown in Figure 2-2 above, but mobile device "removable Dev" can be selected. As the first start-up equipment;
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Figure 3-2 Hard Drive "Hard disk drives" choice: Select U disk for the first boot device "1st Drive". If first in the "Hard disk drives" inside the selection of U disk for the first boot device, as shown in Figure 3-2, then here will show a U disk, then choose U Disk for the first boot device, as shown in Figure 4-2.
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Figure 4-2: When we first select the U disk as the first boot device "1st Drive" in the hard drive "Hard disk drives" in Figure 3, the boot priority device selection (boot Device Priority) will show the U disk, Then we prefer USB disk as the first boot device (1st boot Device)