User manual ABIT SA7

[. . . ] Copyright and Warranty Notice The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on part of the vendor, who assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors that may appear in this manual. No warranty or representation, either expressed or implied, is made with respect to the quality, accuracy or fitness for any particular part of this document. In no event shall the manufacturer be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages arising from any defect or error in this manual or product. Product names appearing in this manual are for identification purpose only and trademarks and product names or brand names appearing in this document are the property of their respective owners. [. . . ] Video: You can select the VGA modes for your video adapter, four options are available: EGA/VGA ( CGA 40 ( CGA 80 ( MONO. Halt On: You can select which type of error will cause the system to halt. Five options are available: All Errors ( No Errors ( All, But Keyboard ( All, But Diskette ( All, But Disk/Key. The default setting is All, But Keyboard. You can see your system memory list in the lower right box, it shows the Base Memory, Extended Memory and total Memory size configurations in your system. It is detected by the system during boot-up procedure. User's Manual 4-8 Chapter 4 4-3. Advanced BIOS Features Setup Menu In each item, you can press <Enter> at any time to display all the options for this item. Attention Advanced BIOS Features Setup Menu has already been set for maximum operation. If you do not really understand each of the options in this menu, we recommend you use the default values. Virus Warning: Two options are available: Enabled or Disabled, the default setting being Disabled. When this feature is enabled, if there is any attempt from a software or an application to access the boot sector or the partition table, the BIOS will warn you that a boot virus is attempting to access the hard disk. CPU L1 & L2 Cache: Two options are available: Disabled or Enabled. This item is used to enable or to disable the CPU level 1 and level 2 cache function. Quick Power On Self Test: Two options are available: Enabled or Disabled, the default setting is Enabled. After the computer has been powered on, the BIOS of the motherboard will run a series of tests in order to check the system and its peripherals. If the Quick Power on Self-Test feature is enable, the BIOS will simplify the test procedures in order to speed up the boot process. First Boot Device: When the computer boots up, the BIOS attempts to load the operating system from the devices in the sequence selected in these items: floppy disk drive A, LS120, ZIP100 devices, hard drive C, SCSI hard disk drive or CD-ROM. There are ten options for the boot sequence that you can choose (The default setting is Floppy. ): Eleven options are available: Floppy ( LS120 ( HDD-0 ( SCSI ( CDROM ( HDD-1 ( HDD-2 ( HDD-3 ( ZIP100 ( LAN ( Disabled ( Back to Floppy. Second Boot Device: Description is the same as the First Boot Device, the default setting is HDD-0. Third Boot Device: Description is same as the First Boot Device, the default setting is LS120. Boot Other Device: Two options are available: Disabled or Enabled. This setting allows the BIOS to try to boot devices other than the three which are listed in the above First, Second and Third Boot Devices. [. . . ] If you feel that you need to contact ABIT directly you can send email to the ABIT technical support department. First, please contact the support team for the branch office closest to you. They will be more familiar with local conditions and problems and will have better insight as to which resellers offer what products and services. Due to the huge number of emails coming in every day and other reasons, such as the time required for problem reproduction, we will not be able to reply to every email. [. . . ]