User manual GIGABYTE GA-7ZM

[. . . ] 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. 35 BIOS Setup · 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. 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 Extended Memory 36 7ZM Motherboard 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 ESC : Quit : Select Item F1 : Help PU/PD+/-/ : Modify F5 :Old Values (Shift)F2:Color F6 : Load BIOS Defaults F7 : Load SETUP Defaults Figure 3: BIOS Features Setup · 1st / 2nd / 3rd Boot Device The default value is Floppy or LS-120 / ZIP A: or ATAPI ZIP C: or CDROM or SCSI or NET WORK / I20 or IDE-0~IDE-3 or Disabled. Floppy LS-120 / ZIP A: CDROM SCSI NETWORK IDE-0~IDE-3 Disabled ATAPI ZIP C: Boot Device by Floppy. Boot Device by ATAPI ZIP C:. 37 BIOS Setup · S. M. A. R. T. for Hard Disks Enable Disable 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. [. . . ] You may also press <Esc> to abort the selection and not enter a password. To disable password, just press <Enter> when you are prompted to enter password. A message "PASSWORD DISABLED" will appear to confirm the password being disabled. Once the password is disabled, the system will boot and you can enter Setup freely. [. . . ]