What are the standard settings for BIOS

[Balamani]

Hi friends, I am Compaq Presario desktop computer. I was installing a windows vista so I have made a some changes in BIOS. But I forget to remember that settings and I don't know what are is standard setting I want to it standard settings. I want set my mother boards BIOS setting for standard settings can you tell how to set it?

[Amd Athlon]

IDE Primary Master is where the parameters of the hard disk which are entered in the primary master IDE/ATA drive, the first hard drive in a latest IDE computer. View the hard drive section for information on what are the meaning of this terms and how these devices are set up. The different settings for the hard disk are discussed in detail in the IDE Setup / Autodetection. The standard setting for this on a computer with IDE autodetection, are generally "Auto".

[gygabite]

IDE Secondary Master are the hard disk parameters are going to entered for the secondary master IDE component, generally the third drive in a newest IDE machine. Watch the hard disk part for details on what these word means and how this components are going to fix. The companies standard settings for this on a computer with IDE autodetection, is usually "Auto".

[Joshua]

Standard settings for Floppy Drive A
You can normally choose this type of floppy drives.

1. 1.44 MB: A normal 3.5" drive.
2. 1.2 MB: A normal 5.25" drive.
3. 2.88 MB: A high-density 3.5" drive, found on some newer systems.
4. 720 KB: A low-density 3.5" drive.
5. 360 KB: A low-density 5.25" drive.

[Russell]

Halt On

• All Errors: The process of boot will going to halt on all errors. And then you will be going to prompted for the action in the event of recoverable errors.
  
• No Errors: The POST will not going to stop for any type of error. There are recommended type except for very specific cases.
  
• All But Keyboard: The process of boot will going to stop for any kind of error except for a keyboard error. And this can be a very useful for setting up a system without a keyboard.
  
• All But Diskette/Floppy: There are all errors will able halt the computer except diskette errors.

[MattyBoy]

Sequence for booting:

This is the setting for controls the order which the BIOS uses to view for a booting drive through which to boot the operating system at the time the DOS boot process. Older systems do not have this type setting; and they view at the floppy drive first (A and then for the drive (C. Most of the systems will at least make you have a selection between "A:, C:" (the default) and "C:, A:".

[sid0972]

you can go to BIOS and click on "Load Fail safe settings"

those are the default which comes