User manual GIGABYTE GA-8TRS300M

[. . . ] When you installing AGP card, please make sure the following notice is fully understood and practiced. If your AGP card has "AGP 4X/8X (1. 5V) notch"(show below), please make sure your AGP card is AGP 4X/8X (1. 5V). AGP 4X/8X notch Caution: AGP 2X card is not supported by ATi RS300(9100 IGP). You might experience system unable to boot up normally. Example 1: Diamond Vipper V770 golden finger is compatible with 2X/4X mode AGP slot. [. . . ] The BIOS Setup program allows you to specify two separate passwords: SUPERVISOR PASSWORD and a USER PASSWORD. When disabled, anyone may access all BIOS Setup program function. When enabled, the Supervisor password is required for entering the BIOS Setup program and having full configuration fields, the User password is required to access only basic items. If you select " System" at "Password C heck" in Advance BIOS Features Menu, you will be prompted for the password every time the system is rebooted or any time you try to enter Setup Menu. If you select "Setup" at "Password Check" in Advance BIOS Features Menu, you will be prompted only when you try to enter Setup. GA-8TRS300M Motherboard - 54 - English Save & Exit Setup CMOS Setup Utility -Copy right (C) 1984-2003 Aw ard Softw are }Standard CMOS Features }Adv anced BIOS Features }Integrated Peripherals }Pow er Management Setup }PnP/PCI Configurations }PC Health Status Top Performance Load Fail-Safe Defaults Load Optimized Defaults Set Superv isor Passw ord Set User Passw ord Sav e & Ex it Setup Ex it Without Sav ing higf:Select Item F10:Sav e & Ex it Setup Sav e Data to CMOS Figure 13: Sav e & Ex it Setup Save to CMOS and EXIT (Y/N)?Y }Frequency /Voltage Control ESC:Quit F8: Q-Flash Type "Y" will quit the Setup Utility and save the user setup value to RTC CMOS. Type "N" will return to Setup Utility. - 55 - BIOS Setup English Exit Without Saving CMOS Setup Utility -Copy right (C) 1984-2003 Aw ard Softw are }Standard CMOS Features }Adv anced BIOS Features }Integrated Peripherals }Pow er Management Setup }PnP/PCI Configurations }PC Health Status Top Performance Load Fail-Safe Defaults Load Optimized Defaults Set Superv isor Passw ord Set User Passw ord Sav e & Ex it Setup Ex it Without Sav ing higf:Select Item F10:Sav e & Ex it Setup Abandon all Data Figure 14: Ex it Without Sav ing Quit Without Saving ( Y/N)?N }Frequency /Voltage Control ESC:Quit F8: Q-Flash Type "Y" will quit the Setup Utility without saving to RTC CMOS. Type "N" will return to Setup Utility. GA-8TRS300M Motherboard - 56 - English - 57 - BIOS Setup English GA-8TRS300M Motherboard - 58 - Revision History Chapter 4 Technical Reference @ BIOSTM Introduction Gigabyte announces @ BIOS Windows BIOS live update utility Have you ever updated BIOS by yourself?Or like many other people, you just know what BIOS is, but always hesitate to update it?Because you think updating newest BIOS is unnecessary and actually you don'know how to update it. t Maybe not like others, you are very experienced in BIOS updating and spend quite a lot of time to do it. But of course you don't like to do it too much. First, download different BIOS from website and then switch the operating system to DOS mode. Secondly, use different flash utility to update BIOS. The above process is not a interesting job. Besides, always be carefully to store the BIOS source code correctly in your disks as if you update the wrong BIOS, it will be a nightmare. Certainly, you wonder why motherboard vendors could not just do something right to save your time and effort and save you from the lousy BIOS updating work?Now Gigabyte announces @BIOS-- the first Windows BIOS live update utility. It could help you to download the BIOS from internetand update it. Not like the other BIOS update software, it's a Windows utility. With the help of "@BIOS", BIOS updating is no more than a click. [. . . ] No Insert and push the memory module vertically into the DIMM slot. Check if the memory install properly into the DIMM slot. Yes Failure has been excluded. Insert the VGA card. Then plug in ATX power cable and turn on the system. A - 93 - Appendix English A The problem could be caused by power supply, CPU, memory or CPU/memory socket itself. Is memory LED on and CPU fan running? No Yes Failure has been excluded. No Check if there is display. Perhaps your VGA card / VGA slot or monitor is defective. Yes Turn off the system. [. . . ]