User manual TYAN TIGERCUB ATX

[. . . ] What's New? We have added a glossary to our manuals and have expanded our installation guide. We think you will find both more thorough, and thoroughly helpful. Our simple but accurate glossary explanations make it possible for the most novice of end users to understand the technical jargon that pops up in these pages. The numerous pictures in the stepby-step installation guide make it easy for you to put together your system without help from technical support personnel. [. . . ] You can tell the BIOS to ignore certain http://www. tyan. com 46 errors during POST and continue the boot-up process. These are the selections: No errors All errors All, But Keyboard All, But Diskette All, But Disk/Key POST does not stop for any errors. If the BIOS detects any non- fatal error, POST stops and prompts you to take corrective action. POST does not stop for a keyboard error, but stops for all other errors. POST does not stop for diskette drive errors, but stops for all other errors. POST does not stop for a keyboard or disk error, but stops for all other errors. Memory You cannot change any values in the Memory fields; they are only for your information. The fields show the total installed random access memory (RAM) and amounts allocated to base memory, extended memory, and other (high) memory. RAM is counted in kilobytes (KB: approximately one thousand bytes) and megabytes (MB: approximately one million bytes). RAM is the computer's working memory, where the computer stores programs and data currently being used, so they are accessible to the CPU. Modern personal computers may contain up to 64 MB, 128 MB, or more. The DOS operating system and conventional applica tions use this area. Extended Memory: Above the 1-MB boundary. Early IBM personal computers could not use memory above 1 MB, but current PCs and their software can use extended memory. Other Memory: Between 640 KB and 1 MB; often called High memory. DOS may load terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) programs, such as device drivers, in this area, 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. http://www. tyan. com BIOS 47 Chapter 4 BIOS Configuration BIOS Features Setup This screen contains industry-standard options additional to the core PC AT BIOS. This section describes all fields offered by Award Software in this screen. The example screen below may vary from the one in your Setup program. Your system board designer may omit or modify some fields. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A69JT50) BIOS FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. Virus Warning CPU Internal Cache External Cache Quick Power On Self Test Boot Sequence Swap Floppy Drive Boot Up Floppy Seek Boot Up NumLock Status Boot Up System Speed Gate A20 Option Typematic Rate Setting Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) Typematic Delay (Msec) Security Option PCI/VGA Palette Snoop Assign IRQ For VGA OS Select For DRAM > 64MB : Disabled : Enabled : Enabled : Disabled : A, C, SCSI : Disabled : Enabled : On : High : Fast : Disabled :6 : 250 : Setup : Disabled : Enabled : Non-OS2 Video BIOS Shadow : Enabled C8000-CBFFF Shadow : Disabled CC000-CFFFF Shadow : Disabled D0000-D3FFF Shadow : Disabled D4000-D7FFF Shadow : Disabled D8000-DBFFF Shadow : Disabled DC000-DFFFF Shadow : Disabled ESC : Quit -¯ ®¬ : Select Item F1 : Help PU/PD/+/- : Modify F5 : Old Values (Shift)F2 : Color F6 : Load BIOS Defaults F7 : Load Setup Defaults Virus Warning When enabled, you receive a warning message if a program (specifically, a virus) attempts to write to the boot sector or the partition table of the hard disk drive. You should then run an anti-virus program. Keep in mind that this feature protects only the boot sector, not the entire hard drive. Note: Many disk diagnostic programs that access the boot sector table can trigger the virus warning message. [. . . ] Plug and Play devices require little set-up to use. Novice end users can simply plug them into a computer that is running on a Plug and Play-aware operating system (such as Windows 95), and go to work. Devices and operating systems that are not Plug and Play require you to reconfigure your system each time you add or change any part of your hardware. The term RAM (Random Access Memory), while technically referring 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. [. . . ]