User manual ABIT AT7-MAX2

[. . . ] Copyright and Warranty Notice The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on part of the vendor, who assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors that may appear in this manual. No warranty or representation, either expressed or implied, is made with respect to the quality, accuracy or fitness for any particular part of this document. In no event shall the manufacturer be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages arising from any defect or error in this manual or product. Product names appearing in this manual are for identification purpose only and trademarks and product names or brand names appearing in this document are the property of their respective owners. [. . . ] Halt On: You can select which type of error will cause the system to halt. Five options are available: All Errors No Errors All, But Keyboard All, But Diskette All, But Disk/Key. You can see your system memory list in the lower right box, it shows the Base Memory, Extended Memory and total Memory size configurations in your system. Advanced BIOS Features Setup Menu In each item, you can press <Enter> at any time to display all the options for this item. Attention Advanced BIOS Features Setup Menu has already been set for maximum operation. If you do not really understand each of the options in this menu, we recommend you use the default values. Figure 3-4A. Advanced BIOS Features Setup Screen Virus Warning: Two options are available: Enabled or Disabled, the default setting being Disabled. When this feature is enabled, if there is any attempt from a software or an application to access the boot sector or the partition table, the BIOS will warn you that a boot virus is attempting to access the hard disk. Quick Power On Self Test: Two options are available: Enabled or Disabled, the default setting is Enabled. After the computer has been powered on, the BIOS of the motherboard will run a series of tests in order to check the system and its peripherals. If the Quick Power on Self-Test feature is enable, the BIOS will simplify the test procedures in order to speed up the boot process. First Boot Device: When the computer boots up, the BIOS attempts to load the operating system from the devices in the sequence selected in these items: floppy disk drive A, LS120, ZIP100 devices, hard drive C, SCSI hard disk drive or CD-ROM. There are ten options for the boot sequence that you can choose (The default setting is Floppy. ): AT7-MAX2 Introducing the BIOS 4-11 Twelve options are available: Floppy LS120 HDD-0 SCSI CDROM HDD-1 HDD-2 HDD-3 ZIP100 LAN ATA133RAID Disabled Back to Floppy. Second Boot Device: Description is the same as the First Boot Device, the default setting is HDD-0. Third Boot Device: Description is same as the First Boot Device, the default setting is CDROM. This setting allows the BIOS to try to boot devices other than the three which are listed in the above First, Second and Third Boot Devices. If you set to Disabled, the BIOS will boot from only the three kinds of boot devices that are set above. When this feature is enabled, you don't need to open the computer case to swap the position of floppy disk drive connectors. When the computer boots up, the BIOS detects if the system has a FDD or not. When this item is set to Disabled, if the BIOS detects no floppy drive, it will display a floppy disk drive error message. Boot Up NumLock Status: ® Off: At boot up, the Numeric Keypad is in cursor control mode. (Default Settings) Security Option: This option can be set to System or Setup. [. . . ] Your ABIT authorized distributor should be able to provide the fastest solution to your technical problem. We sell our products through distributors who sell to resellers and stores. Your reseller should be very familiar with your system configuration and should be able to solve your problem much more efficiently than we could. After all, your reseller regards you as an important User's Manual H-2 Appendix H customer who may purchase more products and who can urge your friends to buy from him or her as well. [. . . ]