User manual TYAN TSUNAMI AT

[. . . ] Tyan S1830 Tsunami AT Motherboard User's Manual Revision 1. 30 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. S1830S/SL Tsunami AT 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. [. . . ] Optimal Defaults The Optimal default values provide optimum performance settings for all devices and system features. Fail-Safe Defaults The Fail-Safe default settings consist of the safest set of parameters. They should always work but do not provide optimal system performance characteristics. AMI BIOS EASY SETUP UTILITY Ver. 1. 16 (c)1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserved Exit Exit Saving Changes Exit Discarding Changes Load Optimal Settings Load Fail Safe Settings Load Original Values [ [ [ [ [ Enter Enter Enter Enter Enter ] ] ] ] ] Setup Help Load configuration settings giving highest performance. BIOS - Previous Item ¯ Next Item ¬ Select Menu ® ESC:Exit Enter:Select F5:Setup Defaults F6:Original Values F10:Save & Exit S1830 Tsunami AT 39 Chapter 4 BIOS Configuration Advanced CMOS Setup The Advanced Setup options included in the AMIBIOS Setup for the Tsunami AT are described in this chapter. Select Advanced Setup from the AMIBIOS Setup main menu to display the Advanced Setup options. AMI BIOS EASY SETUP UTILITY Ver. 1. 16 (c)1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserved Advanced Advanced CMOS Setup Advanced Chipset Setup Power Management Setup Plug and Play Setup Peripheral Setup Change Language Setting [ Enter ] [ Enter ] [ Enter ] [ Enter ] [ Enter ] English Setup Help Advanced CMOS setup for configuring system options - Previous Item ¯ Next Item ¬ Select Menu ® ESC:Exit Enter:Select F5:Setup Defaults F6:Original Values F10:Save & Exit Advanced CMOS Setup Default Settings Chart Setting Option Quick B oot P rimary Mas ter AR MD E mulated as P rimary S lave AR MD E mulated as S econdary Mas ter AR MD E mulated as S econdary S lave AR MD E mulated as 1 t B oot Device s 2nd B oot Device 3rd B oot Device T ry Other B oot Devices F loppy Acces s Control H ard Dis k Acces s Control Optimal Default Fail-Safe Default Dis abled Auto Auto Auto Auto F loppy 1 t IDE -H DD s AT AP I CDR OM Yes R ead-Write R ead-Write Dis abled Auto Auto Auto Auto F loppy 1 t IDE -H DD s AT AP I CDR OM Yes R ead-Write R ead-Write http://www. tyan. com 40 Settings Chart (Continued) Setting Option S . M. A. R . T . for H ard Dis ks B oot Up Num-Lock P S /2 Mous e S upport P rimary Dis play P as s word Check B oot T o OS /2 Internal Cache S ys tem B IOS Cacheable Cache B us E CC Default P rimary Video C000, 16K S hadow C400, 16K S hadow C800, 16K S hadow CC00, 16K S hadow D000, 16K S hadow D400, 16K S hadow D800, 16K S hadow DC00, 16K S hadow Optimal Default Fail-Safe Default Dis abled On E nabled VGA/E GA S etup No WriteB ack E nabled E nabled AGP Cached Cached Dis abled Dis abled Dis abled Dis abled Dis abled Dis abled Dis abled On E nabled VGA/E GA S etup No WriteB ack Dis abled E nabled AGP Cached Cached Dis abled Dis abled Dis abled Dis abled Dis abled Dis abled BIOS Advanced Setup Quick Boot Set this option to Enabled to instruct AMIBIOS to boot quickly when the computer is powered on. This option replaces the old Above 1 MB Memory Test Advanced Setup option. The settings are: Se tting De s cription AMIBIOS tests all system memory. AMIBIOS waits up to 40 seconds for a READY signal from the IDE hard disk drive. AMIBIOS waits for . 5 seconds after sending a RESET signal to the IDE drive to allow the IDE drive time to get ready again. AMIBIOS checks for a <Del> key press and runs AMIBIOS Setup if the key has been pressed. AMIBIOS does not wait up to 40 seconds for a READY signal from the IDE hard disk drive. If a READY signal is not received immediately from the IDE drive, AMIBIOS does not configure that drive. AMIBIOS does not wait for . 5 seconds after sending a RESET signal to the IDE drive to allow the IDE drive time to get ready again. You cannot run AMIBIOS Setup at system boot, because there is no delay for the Hit <Del> t o run Set up message. Disabled Enabled S1830 Tsunami AT 41 Chapter 4 BIOS Configuration Pri/Sec Master/Slave ARMD Emulated as ATAPI Removable Media Disks (e. g. They are removable, and can be used as floppy drives, but also have great capacity and so are sometimes used as hard drives. 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 IDEHDD, Floppy, ARMD-FDD, ARMD-HDD, ATAPI CDROM, and SCSI. [. . . ] A pipeline can be likened to an assembly line, with a given part of the pipeline repeatedly executing a set part of an operation on a series of instructions. PM timers (Power Management timers) are software timers that count http://www. tyan. com 70 down the number of seconds or minutes until the system times out and enters sleep, suspend, or doze mode. PnP is an acronym for Plug and Play, a design standard that has become ascendant in the industry. 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. [. . . ]