User manual ASUS VB198T

[. . . ] Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies, and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners' benefit, without intent to infringe. · 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. [. . . ] BIOS Flash Memory Writer IMPORTANT: If "unknown" is displayed after Flash Type -- , the memory chip is not programmable or is not supported with the PnP BIOS and therefore cannot be programmed by the Flash Memory Writer utility. Main Menu 1. Save Current BIOS To File This option allows you to copy the contents of the flash memory onto a floppy disk. This gives you a backup copy of the original motherboard BIOS in case you need to reinstall it. Create a bootable DOS diskette without AUTOEXEC. BAT and CONFIG. SYS and save both PFLASH. EXE and the BIOS file(s) to it. Note: BIOS FEATURES SETUP Boot Sequence needs to be set to A first in order to boot from your disk drive A. 34 ASUS VB198T 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 VB198T User's Manual 35 IV. BIOS SOFTWARE Managing and Updating Your Motherboard's BIOS Upon First Use of the Computer System 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. 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. You can also restart by turning the system off and then back on again. But do so only if the first two methods fail. When you invoke Setup, the CMOS SETUP UTILITY main program screen will appear with the following options: ASUS VB198T User's Manual 37 IV. BIOS SOFTWARE Load Defaults The Load BIOS Defaults option loads the minimum settings for troubleshooting. [. . . ] See the following example which illustrates this concept. ASUS VB198T User's Manual VI. ASUS SCSI Cards SCSI ID Numbers · · 62 SCSI Device 1 Termination Required (JP5 Open) SCSI Device 2 Termination Required (End Device) SCSI Device 3 No Termination Required (JP5 Short) SCSI Device 4 Termination Required (End Device) Termination Required (End Device) SCSI Device 2 SCSI Device 1 SCSI ID Numbers for SCSI Devices All SCSI devices, including the ASUS PCI-SC200 and ASUS PCI-SC860 interface card must have a SCSI identification number that is not in use by any other SCSI device. There are eight possible ID numbers, 0 through 7. The ASUS PCI-SC200 and ASUS PCI-SC860 cards have fixed SCSI IDs of 7. [. . . ]