User manual MSI MS-6501 V1.X ATX VERSION 1.1

[. . . ] MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL MSI K7D Master K7D Master-L MS-6501 (v1. X) ATX Mainboard Version 1. 1 G52-MA00571 i Manual Rev: 1. 1 Release Date: March 2002 FCC-B Radio Frequency Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference, in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense. [. . . ] Enabled Enable quick POST Disabled Normal POST First/Second/Third Boot Device The BIOS attempts to load the operating system from the devices in the sequence selected in these items. The settings are Floppy, LS120, HDD-0/HDD1/HDD-2/HDD-3, SCSI, CDROM, LAN, ZIP100, and Disabled. Boot Other Device This option allows you to enable/disable the booting of other additional device. Swap Floppy Drive If the system has two floppy drives, choose Enabled to assign physical drive B to logical drive A and vice-versa. Boot Up Floppy Seek When this item is enabled during POST, BIOS will determine if the floppy disk drive installed is 40 or 80 tracks. Floppy Disk Access Control You can select R/W to read and add data to the floppy disk or Read Only to read data from the floppy disk. Boot Up NumLock Status This option allows you to select the power on state for NumLock. When the default value Fast is selected, the Gate A20 is controlled by Port 92 or chipset specific method resulting in faster system performance. When Normal is selected, A20 is controlled by a keyboard controller or chipset hardware. 3-9 Chapter 3 Typematic Rate Setting Key strokes repeat at a rate determined by the keyboard controller. Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) Sets the number of times a second to repeat a key stroke when you hold the key down. Typematic Delay (Msec) Sets the delay time after the key is held down before it begins to repeat the keystroke The settings are: 250, 500, 750, 1000. Security Option This option allows you to select whether the password is required every time the system boots or only when you enter setup. System The system will not boot and access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt Setup The system will boot, but access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt. MPS Version Control For OS This option allows you to control the MPS version for OS. OS Select For DRAM > 64MB This allows you to run the OS/2® operating system with DRAM greater than 64MB. Video BIOS Shadow Shadowing is a technique used to increase a computer's speed by using highspeed RAM memory in place of slower ROM memory. This setting enables/ disables the video BIOS to shadow into memory area C0000-C7FFF. Small Logo(EPA) Show This item allows you to show the company logo on the bootup screen. Settings are: Disabled (shows the POST messages at boot) and Enabled (shows a still logo on the full screen at boot). 3-10 AWARD® BIOS Setup Advanced Chipset Features The Advanced Chipset Features Setup option is used to change the values of the chipset registers. Choose the "ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES" from the Main Menu and the following screen will appear. System BIOS Cacheable System BIOS ROM at F000h-F0000h is always copied to RAM for faster execution. Selecting Enabled allows the contents of F0000h RAM memory segment to be written to and read from cache memory, resulting in better system performance. However, if any program writes to this memory area, a system error may result. [. . . ] IEEE 1394 A new, high speed external bus standard, also known as FireWire or iLink, which supports data transfer rates of up to 400 Mbps for connecting up to 63 external devices. IrDA (Infrared Data Association) A group of device vendors, including computer, component and telecommunications, who have developed a standard for transmitting data via infrared light waves. This enables you to transfer data from one device to another without any cables. LAN (local area network) A computer network that covers a relatively smaller area, such as in a building or an enterprise. [. . . ]