User manual GIGABYTE GA-6VX7B-4X

[. . . ] FCC Compliance Statement: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in residential installations. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy, and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. [. . . ] User type is user-definable; Auto type which will automatically detect HDD type. Note that the specifications of your drive must match with the drive table. The hard disk will not work properly if you enter improper information for this category. If you select User Type, related information will be asked to enter to the following items. Enter the information directly from the keyboard and press <Enter>. Such information should be provided in the documentation form your hard disk vendor or the system manufacturer. Number of cylinders HEADS number of heads PRECOMP write precomp LANDZONE Landing zone SECTORS number of sectors If a hard disk has not been installed select NONE and press <Enter>. · Floppy Drive A / Floppy Drive B The category identifies the types of floppy disk drive A or drive B that has been installed in the computer. No floppy drive installed 5. 25 inch PC-type standard drive; 360K byte capacity. 5. 25 inch AT-type high-density drive; 1. 2M byte capacity (3. 5 inch when 3 Mode is Enabled). 3. 5 inch double-sided drive; 720K byte capacity 3. 5 inch double-sided drive; 1. 44M byte capacity. 3. 5 inch double-sided drive; 2. 88M byte capacity. 48 6VX7B-4X Motherboard · Boot Sector Virus Protection If it is set to enable, the category will flash on the screen when there is any attempt to write to the boot sector or partition table of the hard disk drive. The system will halt and the following error message will appear in the mean time. Enabled Activate automatically when the system boots up causing a warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table No warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table. (Default Value) Disabled · Memory The category is display-only which is determined by POST (Power On Self Test) of the BIOS. Base Memory The POST of the BIOS will determine the amount of base (or conventional) memory installed in the system. The value of the base memory is typically 512 K for systems with 512 K memory installed on the motherboard, or 640 K for systems with 640 K or more memory installed on the motherboard. Extended Memory The BIOS determines how much extended memory is present during the POST. This is the amount of memory located above 1 MB in the CPU's memory address map. Other Memory This refers to the memory located in the 640 K to 1024 K address space. DOS uses this area to load device drivers to keep as much base memory free for application programs. Most use for this area is Shadow RAM 49 BIOS Setup BIOS Features Setup AMIBIOS SETUP ­ BIOS FEATURES CMOS SETUP ( C ) 1999 American Megatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserved 1st Boot Device 2nd Boot Device 3rd Boot Device S. M. A. R. T for Hard Disks BootUp Num-Lock Floppy Drive Seek Password Check Process Serial Number :Floppy :IDE-0 :CDROM :Disabled :On :Disabled :Setup :Disabled ESC : Quit : Select Item F1 : Help PU/PD/+/- : Modify F5 : Old Values (Shift)F2 :Color F6 : Load BIOS Defaults F7 : Load Setup Defaults Figure 3: BIOS Features Setup · 1st / 2nd / 3rd Boot Device Floppy LS-120 / ZIP A: CDROM SCSI NETWORK IDE-0~IDE-3 Disabled ATAPI ZIP C: Boot Device by Floppy. (Default Value) 50 6VX7B-4X Motherboard · Boot Up Num-Lock On Off Keypad is number keys. (Default Value) Keypad is arrow keys. · Floppy Drive Seek During POST, BIOS will determine if the floppy disk drive installed is 40 or 80 tracks. Enabled BIOS searches for floppy disk drive to determine if it is 40 or 80 tracks. [. . . ] The password typed now will clear the previously entered password from CMOS memory. You may also press <Esc> to abort the selection and not enter a password. To disable password, just press <Enter> when you are prompted to enter password. A message "PASSWORD DISABLED" will appear to confirm the password being disabled. [. . . ]