User manual TYAN THUNDER LE-T

[. . . ] Thunder LE-T S2518 User's Manual Revision 1. 20 Copyright © Tyan Computer Corporation, 2003-2004. 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 owners including, but not limited to the following. Intel, Intel Pentium, combinations thereof are trademarks of Intel Corporation. [. . . ] C000 to DC00 16K Shadow Default: Disabled Act to Deact Default: 6 Clks Act to Read/Write Default: 3 Clks RAS Precharge Time Default: Fast RA Cycle Delay Default: 10 Clks Write to Deact Default: 3 Clks SDRAM CAS Latency Default: CAS 3 ISA IO Cycle Delay Default: 6 MPS 1. 4 Support Default: Disabled Cached Disabled Toggles shadowing of video ROM data into RAM for faster execution. Leave as Default. 5 Clks 6 Clks 2 Clks 3 Clks Fast Slow 10, 9, 8, 7 Clks 2 Clks 3 Clks CAS 2. 5 CAS 3 FULL Delay 1. 5 BCLK Enabled Disabled Leave as Default. Defines how many memory refreshes occur before memory can be written to or read from. Leave as Default. 38 http://www. tyan. com 3. 4 PCIPnP Options related to the Plug and Play PCI settings interface can be altered through the following. Yes No Toggles the option of letting the OS take care of IRQ routing or the BIOS. Palette Snooping can fix color problems associated with non-standard video cards such as MPEG decoders. Plug & Play OS Default: No Reset Config Data Default: No PCI Latency Timer Default: 64 Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA Default: Yes Palette Snooping Default: Disabled Yes No 32, 64, 96, 128, 160, 192, 224, 248 Yes No Enabled Disabled PCI IDE Bus Master Default: Disabled Off board PCI/ISA IDE Card Default: Auto USB Function Default: Enabled Legacy USB Support Default: Disabled Enabled Disabled Auto PCI Slot 1 to 6 Enabled Disabled Auto Enabled Disabled Available Reserved Enables IDE controller to read/write directly from system memory. If set to Reserved, ISA devices are excluded from using the IRQ in question. Sets the availability of DMA channels between PCI devices and which PCI slot can use which DMA. Leave as Default. IRQ 3 to 15 Default: Available DMA Channel 0 to 7 Default: Available Reserved Memory Size Default: Disabled Reserved Memory Address Default: Disabled Available Reserved Enabled 16K, 32K, 64K C0000 C4000 C8000 39 http://www. tyan. com (Reserved Memory Address continued) CC000 D0000 D4000 D8000 DC000 Disabled 3. 5 Boot Options related to boot devices can be altered through the following. Hard Drive ATAPI CDROM Onboard IDE FastTrak ATA-100/RAID Settings for boot priority. Boot Device Priority Boot Device Hard Disk Drive Default: Onboard IDE Changes the order of boot device. l Removable Devices 3. 6 Power Management Setup All ACPI/APM options disabled. 3. 7 Security Options related system security can be altered through the following. Change Supervisor Password Change User Password Clear User Password Boot Sector Virus Protection Default: Disabled Changes system password. Toggles protection of boot sector on the hard drive from being modified. Enabled Disabled 3. 8 Exit Options related to exiting and saving the BIOS can be altered through the following. Exit Saving Changes Exist Discarding Changes Load Optimal Defaults Load Failsafe Defaults Discard Changes OK Cancel OK Cancel OK Cancel OK Cancel OK Cancel Exit BIOS Setup and save changes. Reset all changes to previous state. 40 http://www. tyan. com 4. 0 Installing the Hard Drives The following section pertains to the onboard Promise IDE controller which is the only one that supports RAID. The other regular IDE connectors do NOT support RAID but connect the same way. If you wish to use your current bootable HDD (using Windows NT 4. x or 2000) as part of the bootable mirrored (RAID 1) array, do NOT connect the hard drive yet. First, you MUST install Windows NT 4. x or 2000 on your existing hard drive controller. Hard drives must be of the Fast ATA-2, EIDE, or UltraDMA -33/66/100 type if you want to use them with the RAID controller. For best performance, we recommend that you use drives of identical model and capacity. If you are planning to use an UDMA -66 or 100 drive, you must use an UltraDMA -66/100 cable (Tyan has included that cable with the motherboard). Also, if you are planning to use striping (RAID 0), we recommend you use two new drives. [. . . ] Standby mode: in this mode, the video and hard drives shut down; all other devices continue to operate normally. Striping: see RAID UltraDMA-33/66/100: a fast version of the old DMA channel. Without proper UltraDMA controller, your system cannot take advantage of higher data transfer rates of the new UltraDMA/UltraATA hard drives. This one port type can function as a serial, parallel, mouse, keyboard or joystick port. [. . . ]