User manual ABIT KN8 ULTRA-SOTES

[. . . ] Introduction KN8 Ultra-SOTES KN8 Ultra KN8 Motherboard AMD Socket 939 Hardware Setup User's Manual BIOS Setup Driver & Utility CD AMD Socket 939 K8 Dual Core ATX Motherboard NVIDIA Chipset: NF4 Ultra/NF4 Single Chip 2GHz HT Dual DDR 400 DIMM Slots GbE LAN w/Firewall 4x SATA 3Gb/s with RAID 0/1/0+1 ABIT Silent OTESTM Technology 7. 1 Channel Audio * See the "Features & Specifications" of each model in this manual for details. Appendix About this Manual: This user's manual contains all the information you may need for setting up this motherboard. To read the user's manual of PDF format (readable by Adobe Reader), place the "Driver & Utility CD" into the CD-ROM drive in your system. The auto-run screen will appear, click the "Manual" tab to enter its submenu. If not, browse the root directory of the CD-ROM via the File Manager, and double click the "AUTORUN" file. KN8 Ultra-SOTES, KN8 Ultra, KN8 User's Manual English, 2nd Edition May, 2006 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. [. . . ] Leave this item to its default [Auto] setting to detect the access mode of your HDD automatically. Capacity: This item displays the approximate capacity of the disk drive. Usually the size is slightly greater than the size of a formatted disk given by a disk-checking program. 3-6 KN8 Ultra-SOTES, KN8 Ultra, KN8 Cylinder: This item configures the number of cylinders. Precomp: This item displays the number of cylinders at which to change the write timing. Landing Zone: This item displays the number of cylinders specified as the landing zone for the read/write heads. Sector: This item configures the number of sectors per track. Back to Standard CMOS Features Setup Menu: Drive A & Drive B: This item sets the type of floppy drives (usually only Drive A) installed. BIOS Setup Floppy 3 Mode Support: This item allows you to use "3 Mode Floppy Drive" in Japanese computer system by selecting drive A, B, or both. Leave this item to its default [Disabled] setting if you are not using this Japanese standard floppy drive. Halt On: This item determines whether the system stops if an error is detected during system boot-up. [All Errors]: The system-boot will stop whenever the BIOS detect a non-fatal error. [All, But Keyboard]: The system-boot will stop for all errors except a keyboard error. [All, But Diskette]: The system-boot will stop for all errors except a diskette error. [All, But Disk/Key]: The system-boot will stop for all errors except a diskette or keyboard error. Base Memory: This item displays the amount of base memory installed in the system. The value of the base memory is typically 640K for system with 640K or more memory size installed on the motherboard. Extended Memory: This item displays the amount of extended memory detected during system boot-up. KN8 Ultra-SOTES, KN8 Ultra, KN8 3-7 Total Memory: This item displays the total memory available in the system. 3-8 KN8 Ultra-SOTES, KN8 Ultra, KN8 3. 3 Advanced BIOS Features Phoenix ­ Award WorkstationBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Advanced BIOS Features Quick Power on Self Test Enabled Item Help Hard Disk Boot Priority Press Enter First Boot Device Floppy Second Boot Device Hard Disk Third Boot Device CDROM Boot Other Device Enabled Boot Up Floppy Seek Disabled Boot Up NumLock Status On Security Option Setup MPS Version Ctrl For OS 1. 4 OS Select For DRAM > 64MB None-OS2 Delay For HDD (Secs) 0 Full Screen Logo Show Enabled :Move Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit F1:General Help F5: Previous Values F6: Fail-Safe Defaults F7: Optimized Defaults BIOS Setup Quick Power On Self Test: When set to [Enabled], this item speeds up the Power On Self Test (POST) after powering on the system. Hard Disk Boot Priority: This item selects the hard disks booting priority. By pressing <Enter> key, you can enter its submenu where the hard disks detected can be selected for the booting sequence to boot up system. This item functions only when there is the option of [Hard Disk] in any one of the First/Second/Third Boot Device items. First Boot Device / Second Boot Device / Third Boot Device / Boot Other Device: Select the drive to boot first, second and third in the [First Boot Device], [Second Boot Device], and [Third Boot Device] items respectively. The BIOS will boot the operating system according to the sequence of the drive selected. Set [Boot Other Device] to [Enabled] if you wish to boot from another device other than these three items. Boot Up Floppy Seek: When the computer boots up, the BIOS detects if the system has a FDD or not. [. . . ] (You can find it on the screen during the POST sequence. ) · · 5-2 KN8 Ultra-SOTES, KN8 Ultra, KN8 · CPU: Type in the brand name and the speed (MHz) of your CPU. (Illustrate the over-clocking status if you had done so. ) Example: Intel 650 3. 4GHz (OC FSB=220MHz) Memory brand: Type in the brand and model name of your memory module. Example: Memory brand: Kingston (KVR533D2N4/1G) Memory size: Type in the size of your memory module. Example: 512M* 4PCS Memory configuration: Type in the memory configuration in BIOS setting. [. . . ]