User manual TYAN THUNDER 2400

[. . . ] Thunder 2400 Motherboard Users Manual Revision 1. 10 Tyan S2257 Copyright Tyan Computer Corporation, 2000. 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. Information contained in this publication has been carefully checked for accuracy and reliability. [. . . ] One solution is to change the Method of Memory Detection in the Advanced Chipset Setup of the BIOS to the Auto Only setting. EEPROM INSTALL 168-pin DIMM Q: My system sometimes becomes unstable. A: The first thing to do is to check and see if you have any device conflict in I/ O address, IRQ, or DMA. If you are using Windows 95, the Device Manager is a good place to start. Second of all, slowing down the memory timing in the BIOSs chipset setup section will help the situation, as well. 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 Intel. Please check with your graphics vendor for more details. S2257 Thunder 2400 49 Chapter 2 Board Installation Q: How do I install the onboard NIC drivers for WinNT 4. 0?A: The Ethernet driver can not be installed directly from the Tyan Driver CD. Before installing the Intel 82559 Ethernet drivers, the complete 82559 directory and ALL its components must first be copied from the Tyan CD onto your hard drive. The 82559 installation program can then be copied normally from your hard drive. 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: 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. 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 S2257 or are installing with LSI Symbios 53C896 with 53C896 chip then you must install NT 4. 0 with a standard 1. 44MB floppy disk. A: You will find the drivers located in the Tyan Drivers CD under the http://www. tyan. com ONBOARD 50 subdirectory LAN82559. [. . . ] 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 systems 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. 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. [. . . ]