User manual TYAN TIGER 100

[. . . ] Tyan S1832DL Tiger 100 Motherboard User's Manual Revision 2. 20 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 property of their respective companies including, but not limited to the following. INTEL, Pentium II, Pentium III, Celeron, Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation. S1832 Tiger 100 is a trademark of TYAN Computer Corporation. Information contained in this publication has been carefully checked for accuracy and reliability. [. . . ] 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. 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 IDE-HDD, 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. Hard Disk Access Control This option specifies the read-write access that is set when booting from a hard disk drive. for Hard Disks Set this option to Enabled to permit AMIBIOS to use the SMART (System http://www. tyan. com 46 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. Primary Display This option configures the type of monitor attached to the computer. Password Check This option enables password checking every time the system boots or when you run AMIBIOS Setup. If Always is chosen, a user password prompt appears every time the computer is turned on. If Setup is chosen, the password prompt appears if AMIBIOS is executed. Boot To OS/2 Set this option to Yes if you are running an OS/2 operating system and using more than 64 MB of system memory on the motherboard. Internal Cache This option sets the type of caching algorithm used by the L1 internal cache memory on the CPU. System BIOS Cacheable When set to Enabled, the contents of the F0000h system memory segment can be read from or written to cache memory. The contents of this memory segment are copied from the BIOS ROM to system RAM for faster execution. [. . . ] 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. ROM (Read-Only Memory) is a storage chip which contains the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), the basic instructions required to boot the computer and start up the operating system. [. . . ]