User manual TYAN TRINITY ATX

[. . . ] Tyan S1598 Trinity ATX Motherboard User's Manual Revision 1. 00 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. S1598 Trinity ATX is a trademark of TYAN Computer Corporation. Information contained in this publication has been carefully checked for accuracy and reliability. In no event will Tyan Computer be held liable for any direct or indirect, incidental or consequential damage, loss of use, loss of data, or other malady resulting from errors or inaccuracies of information contained in this manual. [. . . ] Monochrome adpater, includes high resolution monochrome adapters. BIOS Halt On During the power-on self-test (POST), the computer stops if the BIOS detects a hardware error. You can tell the BIOS to ignore certain errors during POST and continue the boot-up process. These are the selections: N o errors All errors All, But K eyboard All, But Diskette All, But Disk/K ey PO ST does not stop for any errors. If the BIO S detects any non- fatal error, PO ST stops and prompts you to take corrective action. PO ST does not stop for a keyboard error, but stops for all other errors. PO ST does not stop for diskette drive errors, but stops for all other errors. PO ST does not stop for a keyboard or disk error, but stops for all other errors. S1598 Trinity ATX 37 Chapter 3 BIOS Configuration 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. Early IBM personal computers could not use memory above 1 MB, but current PCs and their software can use extended 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. BIOS Features Setup The screen (shown on the following page) contains industry-standard options additional to the core PC AT BIOS. This section describes all fields offered by Award Software in this screen. Your system board designer may omit or modify some fields. http://www. tyan. com 38 ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A5LET59) 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 Gate A20 Option Memory Parity/ECC Check Typematic Rate Setting Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) Typematic Delay (Msec) Security Option PCI/VGA Palette Snoop OS Select For DRAM > 64MB : Disabled : Enabled : Enabled : Enabled : A, C, SCSI : Disabled : Enabled : On : Normal : Enabled : Disabled :6 : 250 : Setup : Disabled : 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 Cyrix 6x86/MII CPU ID : Enabled ESC : Quit : Select Item F1 : Help PU/PD/+/- : Modify F5 : Old Values (Shift)F2 : Color F6 : Load BIOS Defaults F7 : Load Setup Defaults BIOS BIOS Feature Setup - Default Settings Chart Setting Option Virus Warning CPU Internal Cache External Cache Quick Pow er On Self Test Boot Sequence Sw ap Floppy Drive Boot Up Floppy Seek Boot Up NumLock Status Gate A20 Option Memory Parity / ECC Check Typematic Rate Setting Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) Typematic Delay (Msec) Security Option PCI / VGA Palette Snoop OS Select For DRAM > 64MB Video BIOS Shadow C8000-CBFFF Shadow CC000-CFFFF Shadow D0000-D3FFF Shadow S1598 Trinity ATX BIOS Default Disabled Enabled Enabled Disabled A, C, SCSI Disabled Enabled On Normal Enabled Disabled 6 250 Setup Disabled Non-OS2 Enabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Se tup Default Disabled Enabled Enabled Enabled A, C, SCSI Disabled Enabled On Fast Disabled Disabled 6 250 Setup Disabled Non-OS2 Enabled Disabled Disabled Disabled 39 Chapter 3 BIOS Configuration Settings Chart (Continued) Setting Option D4000-D7FFF Shadow D8000-DBFFF Shadow DC000-DFFFF Shadow Cyrix 6x86 / MII CPU ID BIOS Default Disabled Disabled Disabled Enabled Setup Default Disabled Disabled Disabled Enabled 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. 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. If you plan to run such a program, we recommend that you first disable the virus warning. CPU Internal Cache/External Cache Cache memory is additional memory that is much faster than conventional DRAM (system memory). CPUs from 486-type on up contain internal cache memory, and most, but not all, modern PCs have additional (external) cache memory. When the CPU requests data, the system transfers the requested data from the main DRAM into cache memory, for even faster access by the CPU. The External Cache field may not appear if your system does not have external cache memory. [. . . ] 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. SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic RAM) is so-called because it can keep two sets of memory addresses open simultaneously. [. . . ]