User manual GIGABYTE GA-8ITXR

[. . . ] GA-8ITX Series P4 Titan-RDRAM Motherboard USER'S MANUAL Pentium®4 Processor Motherboard Rev. 1. 1 Second Edition 12ME-8ITX-1102 When you installing AGP card, please make sure the following notice is fully understood and practiced. If your AGP card has "AGP 4X notch"(show below), please make sure your AGP card is AGP 4X (1. 5V). Do not use AGP 2X card (3. 3V) in this motherboard. It will burn and damage the motherboard due to Intel® 850 chipset can't support AGP 2X(3. 3V). [. . . ] Status 2: If the ROM BIOS on peripherals cards(ex. SCSI Cards, LAN Cards, . . ) emits signals to request restart of the system after the user make any alteration on it, the boot up BIOS will not be changed to the Backup BIOS. 62 Technical Reference Boot From : Main BIOS (Default), Backup BIOS Status 1: The user can set to boot from main BIOS or Backup BIOS. Auto Recovery : Enabled(Default), Disabled When one of the Main BIOS or Backup BIOS occurs checksum failure, the working BIOS will automatically recover the BIOS of checksum failure. (In the Power Management Setup of the BIOS Setting, if ACPI Suspend Type is set to Suspend to RAM, the Auto Recovery will be set to Enable automatically. ) (If you want to enter the BIOS setting, please press "Del" key when the boot screen appears. ) Halt On Error : Disable(Default), Enable If the BIOS occurs a checksum error or the Main BIOS occurs a WIDE RANGE PROTECTION error and Halt On BIOS Defects set to Enable, the PC will show mes sages on the boot screen, and the system will pause and wait for the user's instruction. If Auto Recovery: Disable, it will show <or the other key to continue. > If Auto Recovery: Enable, it will show <or the other key to Auto Recover. > Copy Main ROM Data to Backup Backup message: Are you sure to copy BIOS?[Enter] to continue or [Esc] to abort. . . The means that the Main BIOS works normally and could automatically recover the Backup BIOS. Or the means that the Backup BIOS works normally and could automatically recover the Main BIOS. (This auto recovery utility is set by system automatically and can't be changed by user. ) C. What is Q-Flash Utility? Q-Flash utility is a pre-O. S. BIOS flash utility enables users to update its BIOS within BIOS mode, no more fooling around any OS. 63 GA-8ITX Series Motherboard D. Load BIOS From Floppy In the A:drive, insert the "BIOS" diskette, then Press Enter to Run. Load XXXX. XX Where XXX. XX is name of the BIOS file. Are you sure to COPY BIOS?[Enter] to Continue Or [Esc] to abort. . !!Please press any key to continue Congratulation!You have completed the flashed and now can restart system. 64 Technical Reference DualBIOSTM Technology FAQ GIGABYTE Technology is pleased to introduce DualBIOS technology, a hot spare for your system BIOS. This newest "Value-added" feature, in a long series of innovations from GIGABYTE, is available on this motherboard. Future GIGABYTE motherboards will also incorporate this innovation. What's DualBIOSTM? On GIGABYTE motherboards with DualBIOS there are physically two BIOS chips. For simplicity we'll call one your "Main BIOS" and the other we'll call your "Backup" BIOS (your "hot spare"). If your Main BIOS fails, the Backup BIOS almost automatically takes over on your next system boot. Almost automatically and with virtually zero down time!Whether the problem is a failure in flashing your BIOS or a virus or a catastrophic failure of the Main BIOS chip, the result is the same - the Backup BIOS backs you up, almost automatically. 65 GA-8ITX Series Motherboard I. Answer: DualBIOS technology is a patented technology from Giga-Byte Technology. The concept of this technology is based on the redundancy and fault tolerance theory. [. . . ] If not, please double click the CD-ROM device icon in "My computer", and execute the setup. exe. 1. Click "Promise PCI Device". 2. Refer "Driver Information" to setup your system. (1) For your reference, you can use the followingsteps to complete the Promise ATA100 Driver Installation. (2) 3. Click "Control Panel". 4. Click "System". (4) (3) "*" For GA-8ITXR only. 105 GA-8ITX Series Motherboard 5. Click here. [. . . ]