User manual TYAN TIGER 200

[. . . ] TM Tiger 200 S2505 Motherboard User's Manual Revision 1. 01 Copyright © Tyan Computer Corporation, 2000. No part of this manual may be reproduced or translated without prior written consent from Tyan Computer Corp. All registered and unregistered trademarks and company names contained in this manual are property of their respective owners including, but not limited to the following. Tiger 200 S2505 is a trademark of Tyan Computer Corporation. AwardBIOS is a trademark of Phoenix Software. [. . . ] Modern personal computers may contain up to 128, 256 MB, or more. The DOS operating system and conventional applications use this area. Early IBM personal computers could not use memory above 1MB, but current PCs and their software can use extended memory. Between 640KB and 1MB; often called high memory. DOS may load terminate-and-stay (TSR) programs in this area, such as device drivers, to free as much conventional memory as possible for applications. Lines in your config. sys file that start with loadhigh, load programs into high memory, for example. Base Memory Extended memory Other Memory 3. 3 Advanced BIOS Features This section may allow the user to alter certain settings that affect the way their computer boots up, checks CPU cache, and other advanced features. Please note that you should not alter settings in this BIOS section unless you are absolutely sure that you know what you are doing. Virus Warning Sets whether the BIOS should try to auto-detect for boot virii, etc. [Default setting is Disabled] Sets whether or not your installed CPU has internal cache [Default setting is Enabled] Sets whether or not external cache is installed. [Default is Enabled] Sets whether the CPU's L2 (Level 2) cache has ECC checking. [Default is Enabled] Sets whether BIOS should perform the quick POST during bootup. [Default is Disabled] CPU Internal Cache External Cache CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Quick Power On Self Test First Boot Device Sets the first device that the BIOS should check in order to bootup. [Default is Floppy] Sets the second device that the BIOS should check in order to boot-up. [Default is CD-ROM] Sets the third device that the BIOS should check in order to boot-up. [Default is HDD-0] Sets whether still another boot device should be checked. [Default is Enabled] Second Boot Device Third Boot Device Boot Other Device (continued on next page) 30 http://www. tyan. com (continued from previous page) Swap Floppy Drive If you have two drives and need to swap them for some reason, use this option. [Default setting is Disabled] Sets whether the BIOS should check all floppy drives during boot-up. [Default setting is Enabled] Sets whether the Num Lock key should be enabled during bootup. [Default is Enabled] Refers to the method that the system addresses memory above 1MB. [Default is Normal] Sets whether the keyboard input speed should be altered. [Default is Disabled] If above setting is Enabled, this sets the characters per second of keyboard input. [Default is 6] If above setting is Enabled, this sets the delay on character input from keyboard. [Default is 250] Boot Up Floppy Seek Boot Up Numlock Status Gate A20 Option Typematic Rate Setting Typematic Rate Typematic Delay BIOS Security Option Sets whether the password should be enabled. [. . . ] RAID level 1 also allows for faster access time and fault-tolerance, since either hard drive can be read at the same time. RAID level 0+1 is both striping and mirroring, providing fault-tolerance, striping, and faster access all at the same time. RAM (Random Access Memory): technically refers to a type of memory where any byte can be accessed without touching the adjacent data, is often used to refer to the system's main memory. This memory is available to any program running on the computer. ROM (Read-Only Memory): a storage chip which contains the BIOS; the basic instructions required to boot the computer and start up the operating system. SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic RAM): called as such because it can keep two sets of memory addresses open simultaneously. By transferring data alternately from one set of addresses and then the other, SDRAM cuts down on the delays associated with non-synchronous RAM, which must close one address bank before opening the next. Serial port: called as such because it transmits the eight bits of a byte of data along one wire, and receives data on another single wire (that is, the data is transmitted in serial form, one bit after another). SIMM (Single In-line Memory Module): formerly the most common form of RAM for motherboards. [. . . ]