User manual ASUS UL30JT

[. . . ] · Intel, LANDesk, and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. · IBM and OS/2 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines. · Symbios is a registered trademark of Symbios Logic Corporation. · Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. [. . . ] It is recommended that you save PFLASH and the BIOS file to a bootable floppy diskette. Update BIOS Main Block From File This option updates the BIOS from a file on the disk. The file can be either a new file or a backup file created by the "Save Current BIOS To File" option. If the boot block in the file is different from the current boot block, this option will not update the main block. Instead, it will display the following messages. 34 ASUS UL30JT User's Manual IV. Advanced Features This option displays the Advanced Features screen for clearing the PnP configuration record and updating the motherboard BIOS. Advanced Features Menu 1. Clear PNP ESCD Parameter Block This option erases the Plug-and-Play (PnP) configuration record. Update BIOS Including Boot Block and ESCD This option updates the boot block, the baseboard BIOS, and the PnP extended system configuration data (ESCD) parameter block from a new BIOS file. ASUS UL30JT User's Manual 35 IV. BIOS SOFTWARE Managing & Updating your Motherboard's BIOS Upon first use of the computer system, you should: 1. Create a bootable system floppy diskette by typing [FORMAT A:/S] from the DOS prompt without creating "AUTOEXEC. BAT" and "CONFIG. SYS" files. Run PFLASH. EXE from your new diskette and select option 1 "Save Current BIOS to File. " Enter the "Current BIOS Revision:" for the file name. All computer motherboards provide a Setup utility program for specifying the system configuration and settings. If your motherboard came in a computer system, the proper configuration entries may have already been made. If so, invoke the Setup utility, as described later, and take note of the configuration settings for future reference; in particular, the hard disk specifications. If you are installing the motherboard, reconfiguring your system or you receive a Run Setup message, you will need to enter new setup information. This section describes how to configure your system using this utility. The BIOS ROM of the system stores the Setup utility. When you turn on the computer, the system provides you with the opportunity to run this program. This appears during the Power-On Self Test (POST). Press <Delete> to call up the Setup utility. If you are a little bit late pressing the mentioned key(s), POST will continue with its test routines, thus preventing you from calling up Setup. If you still need to call Setup, reset the system by pressing <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <Delete>, or by pressing the Reset button on the system case. [. . . ] Internal devices connect to the ASUS PCI-SC200 or ASUS PCI-SC860 with a fifty-pin flat ribbon cable. External devices connect to the external port with a SCSI-2 cable. If there are more than one internal or external devices, additional devices are connected with cables to form a "daisy chain. " Terminating the devices on the ends of the SCSI Bus "chain" is necessary for SCSI devices to work properly. Termination of the devices between the ends must be Disabled. ASUS UL30JT User's Manual VI. [. . . ]