User manual QDI K7T

[. . . ] 5/F Somerset House, TaiKoo Place 979 Kings Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong declares that the product Mainboard KinetiZ 7T is in conformity with (reference to the specification under which conformity is declared in accordance with 89/336 EEC-EMC Directive) þ þ þ 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 : Anders Cheung Position/ Title : 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. [. . . ] It is recommended that 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 that 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. Manual for KinetiZ 7T 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 Manual for KinetiZ 7T BIOS Description The Award BIOS supports 3 HDD modes: NORMAL, 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 NORMAL 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. The number of cylinders, heads and sectors shown in setup may not be the number physically contained in the HDD. During HDD accessing, the IDE controller will transform the logical address described by sector, head and cylinder number into its own physical address inside the HDD. LARGE mode Some IDE HDDs contain more than 1024 cylinder without LBA support (in some cases, users do not want LBA). The Award BIOS provides another alternative to support these kinds of HDD. BIOS tricks DOS (or other OS) into divising the number of cylinders is less than 1024 by dividing it by 2. A reverse transformation process will be made inside INT13h in order to access the right HDD address. If using Auto detect, the BIOS will automatically detect the IDE hard disk mode and set it as one of the three modes. Remark To support LBA or LARGE mode of HDDs, there must be some softwares involved which are located in Award HDD Service Routine(INT13h). It may fail to access a HDD with LBA (LARGE) mode selected if you are running under an Operating System which replaces the whole INT 13h. Manual for KinetiZ 7T Chapter 3 Video Set this field to the type of video display card installed in your system. EGA/ VGA CGA 40 CGA 80 MONO Enhanced Graphics Adapter / Video Graphic Array. Monochrome adapter, including high resolution monochrome adapters. Halt On This category determines whether or not the computer will stop if an error is detected during powering up. No errors All errors All, But Keyboard All, But Diskette All, But Disk/Key The system boot will not stop for any errors that may be detected. Whenever the BIOS detects a non-fatal error, the system will stop and you will be prompted. The system boot will not stop for a keyboard error; but it will stop for all other errors. The system boot will not stop for a disk error; but it will stop for all other errors. The system boot will not stop for a keyboard or disk error, but it will stop for all other errors. Memory This is a Display-Only Category, determined by POST (Power On Self Test) of the BIOS. [. . . ] However the disk tools bundled in the OS such as Windows NT, Windows 2000, Unix and OS2 could change the mirror partition. 7. 8. 9. Why does it happen that a prompt "installation can not continue" pops up when installing Windows98 or a yellow exclamation mark shown beside IDE device in system properties?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. [. . . ]