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Table of Contents Chapter 1 - Quick Installation Chapter 2 - Configuring the Tigercat Chapter 3 - Installing the Tigercat Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Chapter 4 - The BIOS Setup Utility Chapter 5 - Installing Device Drivers Appendix A - Technical Information Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Appendix B - Post Messages Appendix C - Beep and POST Codes Appendix D - Hard Disk Drive Types Appendix E - Updating the System BIOS Appendix F - Warranties and Notices Glossary Index Tigercat System Board Manual...
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List of Figures List of Tables Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Introduction Introduction ® Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Introduction Features ® ® Tigercat System Board Manual...
Chapter 1: Quick Installation Chapter Quick Installation Installing the Tigercat STATIC! Before handling the Tigercat, be properly grounded by using a special wrist or ankle strap, or touch a safely grounded object. Tigercat System Board Manual...
Chapter 2: Configuring the Tigercat Jumper Settings , l a , l a , l a , l a Table 2-1: System Speed Selection i t c n i t ) t l Table 2-2: Clear CMOS Settings Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Chapter 2: Configuring the Tigercat i t c n i t ) t l i l c Table 2-3: Soft Power On/Off Setting i t c n i t ) t l Table 2-4: Pipeline Mode Setting ) t l...
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Chapter 2: Configuring the Tigercat i t c n i t l b a ) t l l b a Table 2-6: Onboard Sound Selection i t c n i t t e v ) t l t e v...
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Chapter 2: Configuring the Tigercat i t c i s n t o l r o t ) s t t l o r e f t r o c i v e v i r o t s t r...
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Chapter 2: Configuring the Tigercat i t c ; r e r o t s i s ; r e t a t r o t u r r i s s r t n i s u e t t ;...
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Chapter 2: Configuring the Tigercat Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Chapter 3: Installing the Tigercat Installing the Tigercat Chapter Introduction System Memory Support Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Chapter 3: Installing the Tigercat Installing the Tigercat Tools Required Equipment Required Tigercat System Board Manual...
Chapter 3: Installing the Tigercat System Memory Adding Memory For long term reliability, Micronics recom- mends using DIMMs with gold-plated contacts. The use of tin-plated contacts may conflict with the gold alloy on the DIMM socket. 168-Pin DIMM Tigercat System Board Manual...
Chapter 3: Installing the Tigercat CPU Installation Installing the CPU Retention Mechanism Retention Base Support Bridge with Studs (Orient the loops toward the outer edges of the system board) Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Chapter 3: Installing the Tigercat Keyed Retention Base Installing a CPU Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Chapter 3: Installing the Tigercat Top Bar Base Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Chapter 3: Installing the Tigercat CPU Installation Overview Figure 3-2: Installing a CPU Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Chapter 3: Installing the Tigercat CPU Installation (Boxed version) Install to system board Figure 3-3: Installing a CPU (Boxed version) Tigercat System Board Manual...
Chapter 4: The BIOS Setup Utility Running the Setup Procedure → ← Setting the Main Screen ↑ ↓ Figure 4-2: CMOS Main Screen Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Chapter 4: The BIOS Setup Utility System Time and Date ↑ ↓ Diskette A or B ↑ ↓ Numlock External Cache Video BIOS Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Chapter 4: The BIOS Setup Utility System BIOS System Memory Extended Memory Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Chapter 4: The BIOS Setup Utility Figure 4-3: IDE Device Submenu Type Multiple-Sector Transfers Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Chapter 4: The BIOS Setup Utility LBA Mode Control 32-Bit I/O Transfer Mode Ultra DMA Mode Smart Monitoring Tigercat System Board Manual...
Chapter 4: The BIOS Setup Utility Setting the Advanced Screen <←/→> Figure 4-4: Advanced Screen Serial Port A Serial Port B Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Chapter 4: The BIOS Setup Utility Parallel Port Floppy Disk Controller Integrated PCI IDE Integrated Sound Card LM78 Plug & Play O/S Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Chapter 4: The BIOS Setup Utility Reset Configuration Data PCI Configuration USB Legacy Mode PS/2 Mouse Secured Setup Configuration Large Disk Access Mode Tigercat System Board Manual...
Appendix A: Technical Information Support and Information Services Technical Support Tigercat System Board Manual...
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CONTROLLER ERROR KEYBOARD A key is jammed or was Make sure the keys are ERROR nn held down during boot. not jammed or dirty. KEYBOARD Keyswitch on the front of Unlock the keyswitch. Tigercat System Board Manual...
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System battery died. Replace the system IS DEAD battery and run Setup to reconfigure the system. SYSTEM CACHE External (L2) cache System will still run, but ERROR - CACHE failed BIOS test. slower. Replace cache DISABLED at convenience. Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Appendix C: Beep and POST Codes Appendix Beep and POST Codes Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Test 512K base address lines. 3-4-3 Test 512K base memory. Test CPU bus-clock frequency. Test CMOS RAM. Initialize alternate chipset registers. Reinitialize the chipset (MB only). Shadow system BIOS ROM. Reinitialize the cache (MB only). Autosize cache. Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Set up hardware interrupt vectors. Test coprocessor if present. Disable onboard I/O ports. Detect and install external RS232 ports. Detect and install external parallel ports. Re-initialize on-board I/O ports. Initialize BIOSData Area. Initialize Extended BIOS Data Area Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Shutdown error. Extended Block Move. Shutdown 10 error. The following are for boot block in Flash ROM: Initialize the chipset. Initialize refresh counter. Check for Forced Flash. Check HW status of ROM. BIOS ROM is OK Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Appendix D: Hard Disk Drive Types Appendix Hard Disk Drive Types Type Cylinders Heads Write Sectors Size Precomp none none none none none none none none 1024 none none none Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Appendix D: Hard Disk Drive Types Type Cylinders Heads Write Sectors Size Precomp none none 1024 none 1024 none 1024 none none Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Appendix E: Updating the System BIOS Appendix Updating the System BIOS If you encounter problems during this process, or if you have questions about the procedure, please call Technical Support. Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Appendix E: Updating the System BIOS Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Appendix F: Warranties and Notices Appendix Limited Warranty Tigercat System Board Manual...
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Appendix F: Warranties and Notices Non-Warranty Service Tigercat System Board Manual...
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