User manual ARIMA RIOWORKS SDVIC

[. . . ] SDVIC SDVIC User's Guide Troubleshooting BIOS Flash Utility BIOS Setup Hard ware Installation Overview The information in this document is subject to change without notice Arima Computer Corp. makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this material, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of this material. assumes no responsibility for the use or reliability of its software on equipment that is not furnished by Arima Computer Corp. [. . . ] Each sub-category may include more than one setup items. Use the arrow keys to highlight the item and then use the <Enter> keys to select the value you want in each item. BIOS Setup 2 -8 BIOS Setup Item Date Options MM:DD:YY Time HH:MM:SS Floppy Mode Support Video 3 Halt On None 360K, 5. 25 in 720K, 3. 5 in 1. 2M, 3. 5 in 1. 44M, 3. 5 in (Default) 2. 88M, 3. 5 in Disabled (Default) Drive A Drive B Both EGA/VGA (Default) CGA 40 CGA 80 Mono All Errors No Errors All, But Keyboard (Default) All, But diskette All, But Disk/Key Select the type of floppy disk drive installed in your system Set which floppy drive support 3 mode floppy disk installed in your system Select the type of Video device installed in your system. This option allows a user to set if enable the control of system stops in case of the Power-On Self Test (POST) Error BIOS Setup 2 -9 BIOS Setup IDE Primary/Seco ndary Master/Slave Drive A/B Auto Manual None Description Set the system date. Note that the "Day" automatically update after you set this value. Note that the "Time" automatically update after you set this value. Press <PgUp> or <PgDn> key to select. Press <Enter> to enter sub-menu Base Memory/ Extended Memory/ Total Memory Display information only BIOS Setup Item IDE HDD Detection Auto- Selection Descriptions Press the <Enter> key to let BIOS auto-detect the type and capacity of the hard disk in this channel. If select "Manual", system will fill in all remaining fields such as type, cylinder, Precomp, head, landing zone. . If the item "Auto" is set, only the access mode can be set manually and IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave Auto (Default) Manual None 2 -10 BIOS Setup Access Mode CHS LBA Large Auto (Default) Capacity Cylinder Min=0 Max=65535 other will remain "0". "None" means no any ATAPI and IDE hard disk device is in the channel. Mode "CHS" if for IDE hard disk is smaller than 528MB; Mode "LBA" is for IDE hard disk over 528MB that supports the function of Logical Block Addressing (LBA); Mode "Large" is for IDE hard disk over 528MB that does not support LBA and uncommon. If operating system is SCO UNIX, the mode need to set to "Normal". The capacity of hard disk in this channel. Please refer to the document of the hard disk in this channel. Set the number of cylinders for the hard disk. Please refer to the document of the hard disk in this channel. Please refer to the document of the hard disk in this channel. Please refer to the document of the hard disk in this channel. Head Min=0 Max=255 Precomp Min=0 Max=65535 BIOS Setup 2 - 11 BIOS Setup Landing Zone Min=0 Max=65535 Sector Min=0 Max=255 Set the number of landing zone. Please refer to the document of the hard disk in this channel. Please refer to the document of the hard disk in this channel. Note q BIOS Setup This option may only need to re-setup when installing a new hardware in your computer or losing the system configurations of CMOS because of unpredictable events. If the motherboard is installed in the working system, a user will not need to configure data in this option again. 2 -12 BIOS Setup Section 3 Advanced Menu Advanced BIOS Features Advanced Chipset Features Integrated Peripherals Power Management Setup PnP/ PCI Configurations BIOS Setup This section " Advanced: will be divided by five sub-menus. q q q q q 3-1:Advancd BIOS Features With this section, allows a user to configure your system for basic operation. A user can change the system's default boot-up sequence, keyboard operation, shadowing and security, and so on. BIOS Setup 2 - 13 Virus Warning This option allows a user to choose the Virus Warning feature for IDE hard disk boot sector protection. [. . . ] : Show the Messages py : Program Flash Memory pn: No Flash Programming sy : Backup Original BIOS To Disk File sn: No Original BIOS Backup sb : Skip BootBlock programming sd: Save DMI data to file cp : Clear PnP(ESCD) Data After Programming cd : Clear DMI Data After Programming cc : Clear CMOS Data After Programming R : RESET System After Programming Tiny : Occupy lesser memory E : Return to DOS When Programming is done F : Use Flash Routines in Original BIOS For Flash Programming LD : Destroy CMOS Checksum And No System Halt For First Reboot After Programming Example: AWDFLASH 2a59i000. bin /py/sn/cd/cp Flash BIOS Utility Save/Update /P /S Program (update) BIOS; switch y or n. Save old BIOS; switch y or n. 3 -4 BIOS Flash Utility Example 1 To program a new BIOS and save the old BIOS, enter the following at the command line: awdflash newbios. bin /Py oldbios. bin /Sy The program saves the old BIOS to the file as named and updates it with the new BIOS. Example 2 To program a new BIOS without saving the old BIOS, enter the following at the command line: awdflash newbios. bin /Sn After executing this command, the program prompts you: Are you sure to program (y/n) Type y in response. Example 3 To save the old BIOS to a file without updating it, enter the following at the command line: awdflash /Pn oldbios. bin After executing this command, the program prompts you: Do You Want to Save BIOS (Y/N) Type Y in response. Clear Data The Award flash utility version 7. 08 and above has three additional command line parameters: /CC Clear CMOS. [. . . ]