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SBC8440 3.5 Form Factor SBC User’s Manual If the controller of HDD interface is CD-ROM, the selection shall be “None”. If a hard disk has not been installed select NONE and press <Enter>. NOTE: The specifications of your drive must match with the drive table.
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SBC8440 3.5 Form Factor SBC User’s Manual !" Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) When the typematic rate is enabled, the system registers repeated keystrokes speeds. You can select speed range from 6 to 30 characters per second. By default, this item is set to 6.
SBC8440 3.5 Form Factor SBC User’s Manual !" PCI/VGA Palette Snoop Some non-standard VGA display cards may not show colors properly. This field allows you to set whether MPEG ISA/VESA VGA Cards can work with PCI/VGA or not. When this field is enabled, a PCI/VGA can work with a MPEG ISA/VESA VGA card.
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SBC8440 3.5 Form Factor SBC User’s Manual Item Options Descriptions The system BIOS will only blank Blank Screen OFF the screen when disabling D. Video Off video Method This function is enabled only for DPMS VGA cards supporting DPMS Supported...
SBC8440 3.5 Form Factor SBC User’s Manual Item Options Descriptions System will never enter STANDBY Disable mode. Defines the continuous idle time 10, 20, 30, before the system enters STANDBY H. Standby 40 Secs., 1, mode. Mode 3, 5, 10, 15,...
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SBC8440 3.5 Form Factor SBC User’s Manual Remark 1: All items marked with (*) in this menu are loaded with predefined values long as the item Power Management is not configured as User Defined. These items are: System Doze, System Standby, and System Suspend.
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SBC8440 3.5 Form Factor SBC User’s Manual Item Options Descriptions PCI-AUTO: The BIOS will scan for PCI IDE devices & determine the location of the PCI IDE device. (See item below.) PCI-SLOT1 PCI-SLOT2 PCI-AUTO PCI-SLOT3 PCI-SLOT1 PCI-SLOT4 PCI-SLOT2 − assigns IRQ 14 for primary E.
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SBC8440 3.5 Form Factor SBC User’s Manual POST (hex) Description 1. Verify the RTC time is valid or not 2. Detect bad battery 3. Read CMOS data into BIOS stack area 4. PnP initializations including (PnP BIOS only) -Assign CSN to PnP ISA card -Create resource map from ESCD 5.
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SBC8440 3.5 Form Factor SBC User’s Manual POST (hex) Description If EISA NVM checksum is good, execute EISA initialization (EISA BIOS only) Reserved 1F-29 Detect Base Memory & Extended Memory Size 1. Test Base Memory from 256K to 640K 2. Test Extended Memory from 1M to the top of memory 1.
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SBC8440 3.5 Form Factor SBC User’s Manual POST (hex) Description 1. If password is needed, ask for password 2. Clear the Energy Star Logo (Green BIOS only) Write all CMOS values currently in the BIOS stack area back into the CMOS Reserved 1.
SBC8440 3.5 Form Factor SBC User’s Manual POST (hex) Description 1. If there is any changes in the hardware configuration, update the ESCD information (PnP BIOS only) 2. Clear memory that have been used 3. Boot system via INT 19H System Booting.
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