Bios Utility And Setup; System Bios - DTK Computer Apex 386/40 User Manual

3-5 BIOS Utility and Setup

This chapter will acquaint you with the DTK BIOS on your mother-
hoard. If you are an AMI BIOS or any other BIOS user, skip this chapter
and refer to its respective BIOS manual.
The BIOS is composed of two portions.

• system BIOS

• setup program
3-6 System BIOS
Your system BIOS is fully compatible with IBM BIOS that contains a
POST (Power-on Self Test).
the following:
• device drivers for standard AT system components such as
fixed disks, monitors, keyboards and coprocessor-s
• 360KB, 1.2MB, 720KB and 1.44MB floppy drives
• a low-level fixed disk format utility
• three system utilities (a calculator,
timer)
• system password
• user-defined hard disk types
• shadow RAM
In addition, this system BIOS supports
a
hard disk park, and a
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