User manual TYAN THUNDER 100

[. . . ] Tyan S1836 Thunder 100 Motherboard User's Manual Revision 2. 30 Copyright © Tyan Computer Corporation, 1998. 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. S1836 Thunder 100 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. [. . . ] Many memory modules are not suitable for high performance systems and are probably the main source of your problem. A: AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is a new bus architecture for 3D graphics. The AGP slot eliminates the PCI bandwidth bottleneck by bypassing the PCI interface and accessing the system memory directly. Currently, the AGP supports 1X and 2X modes, which yield bandwidths of 266MB/s (at 33MHz bus speed) and 533MB/s (at 66MHz bus speed), respectively. Compare this with the mere 132MB/s (at 33MHz bus speed) that you get from the PCI bus. A: Currently, only Windows 98 and Windows 2000 will have built-in support for AGP. Some AGP cards require Windows 95 OSR2. 1 or a special driver from S1836 Thunder 100 51 Chapter 3 Onboard Resource Settings Intel. A: The Ethernet driver can not be installed directly from the Tyan Driver CD. Before installing the Intel 82558 Ethernet drivers, the complete 82558 directory and ALL its components must first be copied from the Tyan CD onto your hard drive. The 82558 installation program can then be copied normally from your hard drive. A: All S1836Ds will support the RAIDport as long as the RAIDport card has BIOS version 3. 1 or above. It is recommended that you purchase your RAIDport card from one of Tyan's distributors. Tyan motherboards have been qualified to use ARO-1130CA or ARO-1130SA for best results. Q: I get a memory test failure or sequencer error when I install the RAIDport card into the S1836 even though the memory is good. A: The RAIDport BIOS will report a memory or sequencer failure on the S1836 if you are using RAIDport BIOS version 3. 0. A: Currently, RAID levels 0 and 1 are supported on the ARO-1130CA and RAID 0, 1, 0/1, and 5 are supported when using the ARO-1130SA. A: You need to enable the Quick Boot option in CMOS - then the BIOS will not check for a keyboard. Q: I cannot install Windows NT when I use an LS/120-type floppy disk drive. A: SYMPTOM - When you are trying to install Windows NT, you may experience any of the following symptoms: 1) When you boot from the installation disks, the following error message may be displayed when disk 2 is inserted: http://www. tyan. com 52 Stop 0x0000007B Inaccessible Boot Device (0xFF109C50, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) 2) When you are attempting to create a set of installation disks using the WINNT /ox or WINNT32 /ox command, the following error message may be displayed: This floppy disk is not formatted as high-density, not formatted with a standard Windows NT or MS-DOS format, or is corrupted. CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM: You are using a LS/120-type floppy disk drive. ONBOARD RESOLUTION - To work around this issue, install Windows NT Worksta tion with the /b switch. This causes Windows NT Workstation Setup to run without requiring the installation disks. If you are using the S1836D or are installing with Adaptec 3940 with AIC7895 chip then you must install NT 4. 0 with a standard 1. 44MB floppy disk. [. . . ] SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic RAM) is so-called 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. 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). They must be installed in pairs, and do not have the carrying capacity or the speed of DIMMs. [. . . ]