User manual ASUS VS229N

[. . . ] 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. · Adobe and Acrobat are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. · AMD, K6, Super7, and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. · Cyrix, M II, and combinations thereof are trademarks of National Semiconductor Corporation. · IBM is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation. [. . . ] Drive A / Drive B (None) These fields record the types of floppy disk drives installed in your system. The available options for drives A and B are: 360K , 5. 25 in. ; 1. 2M , 5. 25 in. ; 720K , 3. 5 in. ; 1. 44M , 3. 5 in. ; 2. 88M , 3. 5 in. ; None IV. BIOS SETUP Standard CMOS 42 To enter the configuration value for a particular drive, highlight its corresponding field and then select the drive type using the left- or right-arrow keys. Floppy 3 Mode Support (Disabled) This is the Japanese standard floppy drive. The standard stores 1. 2MB in a 3. 5inch diskette. This is normally disabled but you may choose from either: Drive A, Drive B, Both, and Disabled Video (EGA/VGA) Set this field to the type of video display card installed in your system. The options are EGA/VGA, CGA 40, CGA 80, and MONO (for Hercules or MDA). If you are using a VGA or any higher resolution card, choose EGA/VGA. Halt On (All Errors) This field determines which types of errors will cause the system to halt. Choose from All Errors; No Errors; All, But Keyboard; All, But Diskette; and All, But Disk/Key. ASUS VS229N User's Manual IV. BIOS SETUP BIOS Features Setup BIOS Features Setup consists of configuration entries that allow you to improve your system performance, or let you set up some system features according to your preference. Options are A, C; A, CDROM, C; CDROM, C, A; CDROM A, C; D, A; E, A; F, A; C only; LS/ZIP, C; LAN, A, C; LAN, C, A; and C, A. The setup default setting, A, C, checks first the floppy disk and then the hard disk drive. Boot Up Floppy Seek (Disabled) When enabled, the BIOS will seek drive A one time. Floppy Disk Access Control (R/W) This allows protection of files from the computer system to be copied to floppy disk drives by allowing the setting of Read Only to only allow reads from the floppy disk drive but not writes. The setup default R/W allows both reads and writes. IDE HDD Block Mode Sectors (HDD MAX) This field enhances hard disk performance by making multi-sector transfers instead of one sector per transfer. Most IDE drives, except older versions, can utilize this feature. Selections are HDD MAX, Disabled, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32. capability (Disabled) This field enables or disables S. M. A. R. T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) support for S. M. A. R. T. -capable hard disk drives. This technology requires an application that can display S. M. A. R. T. [. . . ] UltraDMA/ 33 IDE devices can achieve up to 33MB/Sec transfer. LPT Port (Line Printer Port) Logical device name reserved by DOS for the computer parallel ports. Each LPT port is configured to use a different IRQ and address assignment. APPENDIX Glossary 94 ASUS VS229N User's Manual VII. [. . . ]