User manual GIGABYTE GA-8TM

[. . . ] 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. [. . . ] Manual: HDD type is user-definable; Auto will automatically detect HDD type. Note that the specifications of your drive must match with the drive table. The hard disk will not work properly if you enter improper information for this category. If you select User Type, related information will be asked to enter to the following items. Enter the information directly from the keyboard and press <Enter>. Such information should be provided in the documentation form your hard disk vendor or the system manufacturer. Number of cylinders HEADS number of heads PRECOMP write precomp LANDZONE Landing zone SECTORS number of sectors If a hard disk has not been installed select NONE and press <Enter>. · Floppy Drive A / Drive B The category identifies the type of floppy disk drive A or drive B that has been installed in the computer. 5. 25 inch PC-type standard drive; 360K byte capacity. 5. 25 inch AT-type high-density drive; 1. 2M byte capacity (3. 5 inch when 3 Mode is Enabled). 3. 5 inch double-sided drive; 720K byte capacity. 3. 5 inch double-sided drive; 1. 44M byte capacity. 3. 5 inch double-sided drive; 2. 88M byte capacity. 49 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. 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 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. 50 8TM 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 Floppy Drive Seek : Disabled BootUp Num-Lock : On Password Check : Setup S. M. A. R. T. for Hard Disks : Disabled 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 Floppy ZIP A:/LS-120 CDROM SCSI NETWORK IDE-0~IDE-3 Disabled ATAPI ZIP C: Set your boot device priority to Floppy. [. . . ] It can help you check out which kind of motherboard and which brand of Flash ROM are supported. In method I, if it shows two or more motherboard's model names to be selected, please make sure your motherboard's model name again. Sellecting name will cause the system unbooted. In method II, be sure that motherboard's model name in BIOS unzip file are the same as your motherboard's. [. . . ]