User manual TYAN S8236-S8236WGM3NR-IL

[. . . ] Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. IBM, PC, AT, PS/2 are trademarks of IBM Corporation. Duron and Athlon are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices. Trinity KT is a trademark of Tyan Computer Corporation. [. . . ] This section does not show information about other IDE devices, such as a CD-ROM drive, or about other hard drive types, such as SCSI drives. Note: We recommend that you select type auto for all drives. The BIOS can automatically detect the specifications and optimal operating mode of almost all IDE hard drives. When you select type auto for a hard drive, the BIOS detects its specifications during POST, every time the system boots. If you do not want to select drive type auto, other methods of selecting the drive type are available: 1. Match the specifications of your installed IDE hard drive(s) with the preprogrammed values for drive types 1 through 45. Select User and enter values into each drive parameter field. Use the IDE HDD Auto Dectection function in Setup. S2390 Trinity KT 33 w w w w w BIOS Chapter 3 BIOS Configuration The following is a brief explanation of drive specifications: Type: The BIOS contains a table of pre-defined drive types. Each defined drive type has a specified number of cylinders, number of heads, write precompensation factor, landing zone, and number of sectors. Drives whose specifications do not accommodate any pre-defined type are classified as type user. Note that this size is usually slightly greater than the size of a formatted disk given by a diskchecking program. The External Cache field may not appear if your system does not have external cache memory. CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Enables Error Checking and correction (ECC) on the L2 cache onboard the CPU. Quick Power On Self Test Select Enabled to reduce the amount of time required to run the power-on self-test (POST). We recommend that you normally disable quick POST. Better to find a problem during POST than lose data during your work. Boot Sequence The original IBM PCs loaded the operating system from drive A (floppy disk), so IBM PC-compatible systems are designed to search for an operating system first on drive A, and then on drive C (hard disk). However, modern computers usually load the operating system from the hard drive, and may even load it from a CD-ROM drive. The BIOS now offers a large number of boot devices and boot sequence options. Swap Floppy Drive This option allows you to swap the floppy drives if more than one is installed. It allows you to switch the A: and B: to make B: become A: . Boot Up Floppy Seek When Enabled, the BIOS tests (seeks) floppy drives to determine whether they have 40 or 80 tracks. [. . . ] They must be installed in pairs, and do not have the carrying capacity or the speed of DIMMs. SIMM bank/socket SIMM sockets are the physical slots into which you stick SIMM modules. A pair of SIMM sockets form a SIMM bank, and act as a unit. If only one socket is filled, the bank will not operate. [. . . ]