User manual TYAN TSUNAMI AT

[. . . ] Tyan S1830 Tsunami AT Motherboard User's Manual Revision 1. 30 Copyright © Tyan Computer Corporation, 1999. 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 propery of their respective companies including, but not limited to the following. AMIBIOS is a trademark of American Megatrends Incorporated. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. [. . . ] If a READY signal is not received immediately from the IDE drive, AMIBIOS does not configure that drive. AMIBIOS does not wait for . 5 seconds after sending a RESET signal to the IDE drive to allow the IDE drive time to get ready again. You cannot run AMIBIOS Setup at system boot, because there is no delay for the Hit <Del> t o run Set up message. Disabled Enabled S1830 Tsunami AT 41 Chapter 4 BIOS Configuration Pri/Sec Master/Slave ARMD Emulated as ATAPI Removable Media Disks (e. g. They are removable, and can be used as floppy drives, but also have great capacity and so are sometimes used as hard drives. These four options ensure that, if you have an ARMD attached as a master or slave device, it can be properly detected by the system. The settings are Auto, Floppy, and Hard Disk. 1st Boot Device This option sets the type of device for the first boot drive that the AMIBIOS attempts to boot from after AMIBIOS POST completes. The settings are Disabled, 1st IDE-HDD, 2nd IDE-HDD, 3rd IDE-HDD, 4th IDE-HDD, Floppy, ARMD-FDD, ARMD-HDD, ATAPI CDROM, SCSI, NETWORK, and I2O. 2nd Boot Device This option sets the type of device for the second boot drive that the AMIBIOS attempts to boot from after AMIBIOS POST completes. The settings are Disabled, 1st IDE-HDD, 2nd IDE-HDD, 3rd IDE-HDD, 4th IDEHDD, Floppy, ARMD-FDD, ARMD-HDD, ATAPI CDROM, and SCSI. 3rd Boot Device This option sets the type of device for the third boot drive that the AMIBIOS attempts to boot from after AMIBIOS POST completes. The settings are Disabled, 1st IDE-HDD, 2nd IDE-HDD, 3rd IDE-HDD, 4th IDE-HDD, Floppy, ARMD-FDD, ARMD-HDD, ATAPI CDROM. Try Other Boot Devices Set this option to Yes to instruct AMIBIOS to attempt to boot from any other drive in the system if it cannot find a boot drive among the drives specified in the 1st Boot Device, 2nd Boot Device, and 3rd Boot Device options. Floppy Access Control This option specifies the read-write access that is set when booting from a floppy drive. The settings are Read-Write or Read-Only. Hard Disk Access Control This option specifies the read-write access that is set when booting from a hard disk drive. The settings are Read-Write or Read-Only. for Hard Disks Set this option to Enabled to permit AMIBIOS to use the SMART (System http://www. tyan. com 42 Management and Reporting Technologies) protocol for reporting server system information over a network. Enabling this feature allows you to back up your data when your hard disk is about to fail. Boot Up Num-Lock Set this option to Off to turn the Num Lock key off when the computer is booted so you can use the arrow keys on both the numeric keypad and the keyboard. PS/2 Mouse Support Set this option to Enabled to enable AMIBIOS support for a PS/2-type mouse. The BIOS will allocate IRQ12 for the PS/2 mouse. [. . . ] The serial port is so called 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). SYSTEM SIMM Single In-line Memory Modules are the most common form of RAM. 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. [. . . ]