User manual QDI ADVANCE 10B

[. . . ] 5/F Somerset House, TaiKoo Place 979 Kings Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong declares that the product Mainboard Advance 10B/Advance 10F is in conformity with (reference to the specification under which conformity is declared in accordance with 89/336 EEC-EMC Directive) EN 55022 EN 50081-1 EN 50082-1 Limits and methods of measurements of radio disturbance characteristics of information technology equipment Generic emission standard Part 1: Residential, commercial and light industry Generic immunity standard Part 1: Residential, commercial and light industry European Representative: QDI COMPUTER ( UK ) LTD QDI SYSTEM HANDEL GMBH QDI COMPUTER (FRANCE) SARL QDI COMPUTER (ESPANA) S. A. Signature : QDI COMPUTER ( SCANDINAVIA ) A/S QDI COMPUTER ( NETHERLANDS) B. QDI COMPUTER HANDELS GMBH QDI COMPUTER (SWEDEN) AB Place / Date : HONG KONG/2000 Printed Name : Lv Yan Position/ Title : Assistant President Declaration of conformity Trade Name: Model Name: Responsible Party: Address: Telephone: Facsimile: Equipment Classification: Type of Product: Manufacturer: Address: QDI Computer ( U. 41456 Christy Street Fremont, CA 94538 (510) 668-4933 (510) 668-4966 FCC Class B Subassembly Mainboard Quantum Designs (HK) Inc. [. . . ] Before doing so, please note: l l We strongly recommend you only upgrade BIOS when encounter problems. Before upgrading your BIOS, review the description below to avoid making mistakes, destroying the BIOS and resulting in a non-working system. When you encounter problems, for example, you find your system does not support the latest CPU released after our current mainboard, you may therefore upgrade the BIOS, please don't forget to set JAV as close and disable the "Flash Write Protect" item in AWARD BIOS CMOS Setup first . Create a bootable system floppy diskette by typing Format A:/s from the DOS prompt under DOS6. xx or Windows 9x environment. Copy AWDFLASH. EXE from the directory \Utility located on QDI Mainboard Utility CD onto your new bootable diskette. Download the updated BIOS file from the Website (http://www. qdigrp. com). Uncompress the file download, copy the BIOS file (xx. bin) onto the bootable diskette, and note the checksum of this BIOS which is located in readme file. Then run the AWDFLASH utility at the A:\ prompt as shown below: A:\AWDFLASH xxxx. bin Follow the instruction through the process. Don't turn off power or reset the system until the BIOS upgrade has been completed. If you require more detailed information concerning AWDFLASH Utility, for example, the different usage of parameters, please type A:\>AWDFLASH /?Note: Because the BIOS Software will be updated constantly, the following BIOS screens and descriptions are for reference purposes only and may not reflect your BIOS screens exactly. Manual for Advance 10B/Advance 10F 2 5 Award BIOS Description AWARD BIOS Description Entering Setup Power on the computer, when the following message briefly appears at the bottom of the screen during the POST (Power On Self Test), press <Del> key or simultaneously press the <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <Esc> keys, to enter the AWARD BIOS CMOS Setup Utility. Press <Del> to enter SETUP Once you have entered, the Main Menu (Figure 1) appears on the screen. The main menu allows you to select from eleven setup functions and two exit choices. Use the arrow keys to select among the items and press the <Enter> key to accept or enter the submenu. Figure-1 Main Menu Load Fail-Safe Defaults The Fail-Safe Defaults are secure and useful for system. It is recommended users load the Fail -Safe Defaults when the system is in trouble. Load Optimized Defaults The Optimized Defaults are common and efficient. It is recommended users load the optimized defaults first, then modify the needed configuration settings. Standard CMOS Features Setup The basic CMOS settings included in "Standard CMOS Features" are Date, Time, Hard Disk Drive Types, Floppy Disk Drive Types, and VGA etc. Use the arrow keys to highlight the item, then use the <PgUp> or <PgDn> keys to select the value desired in each item. 26 Manual for Advance 10B/Advance 10F Chapter 3 Figure-2 Standard CMOS Setup Menu For the items marked, press enter, a window will pop up as shown below. You can view detailed information or make modifications. Figure-2-1 IDE Primary Master Setup Menu Hard Disk Primary Master/Primary Slave/Secondary Master/Secondary Slave These categories identify the HDD types of 2 IDE channels installed in the computer system. There are three choices provided for the Enhanced IDE BIOS: None, Auto, and User. `None' means no HDD is installed or set; `Auto' means the system can auto-detect the hard disk when booting up; by choosing `user', the related information should be entered regarding the following items. Enter the information directly from the keyboard and press < Enter>: CYLS PRECOMP SECTOR number of cylinders write pre-compensation number of sectors HEAD LANDZ MODE number of heads landing zone HDD access mode 2 7 Manual for Advance 10B/Advance 10F Award BIOS Description The Award BIOS supports 3 HDD modes: CHS, LBA and LARGE. NORMAL Generic access mode in which neither the BIOS nor the IDE controller will make any transformation during accessing. The maximum number of cylinders, heads and sectors for NORMAL mode are 1024, 16 and 63. If the user sets his HDD to CHS mode, the maximum accessible HDD size will be 528 megabytes even though its physical size may be greater than that. LBA (Logical Block Addressing) mode A new HDD accessing method to overcome the 528 Megabyte bottleneck. [. . . ] During Windows 98 installation, the installation program will write to MBR (Master Boot Record) which is protected by RecoveryEasy, therefore the installation will be terminated. To avoid this problem, a "ATTRIB PAR" button is provided in Recovery User Interface. Enable this switch before installing Windows 98, then the installation will be successfully completed. In order to remove the yellow question mark before IDE devices in Device Manager, enable this switch once more after system reboot. 10. Why does the converting of FAT16->FAT32 in PQ Magic go wrong? [. . . ]