User manual GIGABYTE GA-7ZXE

[. . . ] FCC Compliance Statement: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in residential installations. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy, and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. [. . . ] 3. 5 inch double-sided drive; 2. 88M byte capacity. 42 7ZXE Motherboard · Boot Sector Virus Protection If it is set to enable, the category will flash on the screen when there is any attempt to write to the boot sector or partition table of the hard disk drive. The system will halt and the following error message will appear in the mean time. You can run anti-virus program to locate the problem. Enabled Activate automatically when the system boots up causing a warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table No warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table. (Default Value) Disabled · Memory The category is display-only which is determined by POST (Power On Self Test) of the BIOS. Base Memory The POST of the BIOS will determine the amount of base (or conventional) memory installed in the system. The value of the base memory is typically 512 K for systems with 512 K memory installed on the motherboard, or 640 K for systems with 640 K or more memory installed on the motherboard. Extended Memory The BIOS determines how much extended memory is present during the POST. This is the amount of memory located above 1 MB in the CPU's memory address map. Other Memory This refers to the memory located in the 640 K to 1024 K address space. This is memory that can be used for different applications. DOS uses this area to load device drivers to keep as much base memory free for application programs. Most use for this area is Shadow RAM. 43 BIOS Setup BIOS Features Setup AMIBIOS SETUP ­ BIOS FEATURES SETUP ( C ) 1999 American Megatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserved 1st Boot Device Floppy 2nd Boot Device IDE-0 3rd Boot Device CDROM S. M. A. R. T. for Hard Disks Disabled BootUp Num-Lock On Floppy Drive Seek Enabled Password Check Setup : Select Item ESC: Quit F1 : Help PU/PD+/-/ : Modify F5 : Old Values (Shift)F2:Color F6 : Load Fail-Safe F8:Flash Utility F7 : Load Optimized Figure 3: BIOS Features Setup · 1st / 2nd / 3rd Boot Device Floppy ZIP A: / LS-120 CDROM SCSI NETWORK IDE-0~IDE-3 Disabled USB FDD ATAPI ZIP C: Boot Device by Floppy. Boot Device by ATAPI ZIP C:. 44 7ZXE Motherboard · S. M. A. R. T. for Hard Disks Enabled Disabled Enable S. M. A. R. T. (Default Value) · Boot Up Num-Lock On Off Keypad is number keys. (Default Value) Keypad is arrow keys. · Floppy Drive Seek During POST, BIOS will determine if the floppy disk drive installed is 40 or 80 tracks. 360 type is 40 tracks while 720 , 1. 2 and 1. 44 are all 80 tracks. Enabled BIOS searches for floppy disk drive to determine if it is 40 or 80 tracks. Note that BIOS can not tell from 720, 1. 2 or 1. 44 drive type as they are all 80 tracks. (Default Value) BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number. Note that there will not be any warning message if the drive installed is 360. Disabled · Password Check Setup Always Set Password Check to Setup. (Default Value) Set Password Check to Always. 45 BIOS Setup Chipset Features Setup AMIBIOS SETUP ­ CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP ( C ) 1999 American Megatrends, Inc. [. . . ] Check out supported motherboard and Flash ROM: In the very beginning, there is "About this program" icon shown in dialog box. It can help you check out which kind of motherboard and which brand of Flash ROM are supported. In method I, if it shows two or more motherboard's model names to be selected, please make sure your motherboard's model name again. Sellecting name will cause the system unbooted. [. . . ]