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 . Such information should be provided in the documentation form your hard disk vendor or the system manufacturer. CYLS. 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 . Floppy Drive A / Drive B The category identifies the types of floppy disk drive A or drive B that has been installed in the computer. None No floppy drive installed 360K, 5.25 in. 5.25 inch PC-type standard drive; 360K byte capacity. 1.2M, 5.25 in. 5.25 inch AT-type high-density drive; 1.2M byte capacity (3.5 inch when 3 Mode is Enabled). 720K, 3.5 in. 3.5 inch double-sided drive; 720K byte capacity 1.44M, 3.5 in. 3.5 inch double-sided drive; 1.44M byte capacity. 2.88M, 3.5 in. 3.5 inch double-sided drive; 2.88M byte capacity. 31 GA-8ITX3 Motherboard 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. You can run anti-virus program to locate the problem. 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 Disabled No warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table (Default Value) 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. Other Memory This refers to the memory located in the 640 K to 1024 K address space. This is memory that can be used for different applications. 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. 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. 32 BIOS Setup BIOS Features Setup AMIBIOS SETUP - BIOS FEATURES SETUP ( C ) 2001 American Megatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserved BIOS Flash Protection : Auto 1st Boot Device : Floppy 2nd Boot Device : IDE-0 3rd Boot Device : CDROM Floppy Drive Seek : Disabled BootUp Num-Lock : On Password Check : Setup S.M.A.R.T. for Hard Disks : Disabled ESC: Quit : Select Item F1 : Help PU/PD/+/- : Modify F5 : Old Values (Shift)F2: Color F6 : Fail-Safe F7 : Optimized F8: Flash Utility Figure 3: BIOS Features Setup BIOS Flash Protection This field lets you determine the states that flash BIOS Auto BIOS enables flash write access automatically when updating BIOS data/DMI/ ESCD. (Default Value) Enabled During POST, DMI/ESCD would not be updated. But flash tools can update BIOS always 1st / 2nd / 3rd Boot device Floppy Select your boot device priority by Floppy. ARMD-FDD Select your boot device priority by ARMD-FDD. ARMD-HDD Select your boot device priority by ARMD-HDD. CDROM Select your boot device priority by CDROM. SCSI Select your boot device priority by SCSI. NETWORK Select your boot device priority by NETWORK. BBS-0 Select your boot device priority by BIOS Boot Specification-0. BBS-1 Select your boot device priority by BIOS Boot Specification-1. BBS-2 Select your boot device priority by BIOS Boot Specification-2. BBS-3 Select your boot device priority by BIOS Boot Specification-3. 33 GA-8ITX3 Motherboard USB FDD Select your boot device priority by USB FDD. USB CDROM Select your boot device priority by USB CDROM. USB HDD Select your boot device priority by USB HDD. USB LS120 Select your boot device priority by USB LS120. USB ZIP/MO Select your boot device priority by USB ZIP/MO. Disabled Disable this function. IDE-0~3 Select your boot device priority by IDE-0~3. Floppy Drive Seek During POST, BIOS will determine the floppy disk drive installed is 40 or 80 tracks. 360 K type is 40 tracks 720 K, 1.2 M and 1.44 M are all 80 tracks. Enabled BIOS searches for floppy disk drive to determine it is 40 or 80 tracks. Note that BIOS can not tell from 720 K, 1.2 M or 1.44 M drive type as they are all 80tracks. Disabled BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number. Note that there will not be any warning message if the drive installed is 360 K. (Default value) Boot Up NumLock On Keypad is number keys. (Default value) Off Keypad is arrow keys. Password Check Please refer to the detail on P.53 . Always The user must enter correct password in order to access the system and/or ...
