User manual TYAN TOMCAT I815EF

[. . . ] Tomcat i815ef S2425 User's Manual Revision 1. 00 Copyright © TYAN Computer Corporation, 2001. No part of this manual may be reproduced or translated without prior written consent from TYAN Computer Corp. All registered and unregistered trademarks and company names contained in this manual are property of their respective owners including, but not limited to the following. Intel, Intel Pentium, i815, combinations thereof are trademarks of Intel Corporation. Portable Document Format (PDF) is a trademark of Adobe Corporation. Information contained in this document is furnished by TYAN Computer Corporation and has been reviewed for accuracy and reliability prior to printing. [. . . ] For best performance, we recommend that you use drives of identical model and capacity. If you are planning to use an UDMA-66 or 100 drive, you must use an UltraDMA-66/100 cable (Tyan has included that cable with the motherboard). Step 1: The first step is to set the hard drive to Master, Slave, or Cable Select setting, and install them according to the table below. Note: Sometimes the Master drive with no Slave attached is called "single". The Master/Slave setting differentiates two drives connected on the same cable. NOTE: Check your HDD documentation for master, slave, and cable select settings. Jumper Settings (see your HDD documentation for jumper settings) # of Drives 1 2 3 4 IDE Channel 1 M M M&S M&S M=Master, S=Slave IDE Channel 2 M M M&S Step 2: Next, you should install the drives into your system, and connect the power. Attach one UltraDMA cable (black connector) to each drive (if you have a Slave drive, connect that drive to the second connector (grey connector) on the UltraDMA cable). Make sure that Pin 1 on the cable (indicated by the colored stripe) is connected to Pin 1 of the hard drive. See Figure I-1 (to the right) for an example. Step 3: The blue end of the cable (see Figure I-2 to the right for an example) goes to the Primary or Secondary connector on the motherboard (see p. Make sure Pin 1 of the ATA-100/66 cable connects to Pin 1 of the Primary IDE connector (see p. Check all connections after completing this step, before you continue to the next part of the installation. Blue end of the ATA-66/100 cable Figure I-2 36 http://www. tyan. com Chapter 5: System Resources Note: if you experience problems with setting up your system, always check the following things in the following order: Memory, Video, CPU By checking these items, you will most likely find out what the problem might have been when setting up your system. For more information on troubleshooting, check the Tyan website at: http://www. tyan. com. 5. 1 Beep Codes Fatal errors, which halt the boot process are communicated through a series of audible beeps. For example, if the BIOS POST can initialize the video but an error occurs, an error message will be displayed. If it cannot display the message, it will report the error as a series of beeps. If you hear one long beep followed by two short beeps, then a video problem has probably occurred and the BIOS is having difficulty initializing the video display. Any other beep sequences that may or may not occur are probably due to memory problems. If calling Tyan Tech Support, be sure that you know how many beeps your board made, and how long the beeps were. Also have other information such as your attached add-in cards, drives and OS to help speed up the support process and come to a possible solution faster. 5. 2 Flash Utility Every BIOS file is unique for the motherboard it was designed for. For Flash Utilities, BIOS downloads, and information on how to properly use the Flash Utility with your motherboard, you must check the Tyan website: http://www. tyan. com/ NOTE Please be aware that by flashing your BIOS, you agree that in the even of a BIOS flash failure, you must contact your dealer for a replacement BIOS. Tyan does not have a policy of replacing BIOS chips directly with end users. [. . . ] Standby mode: in this mode, the video and hard drives shut down; all other devices continue to operate normally. Striping: see RAID UltraDMA-33/66/100: a fast version of the old DMA channel. Without proper UltraDMA controller, your system cannot take advantage of higher data transfer rates of the new UltraDMA/UltraATA hard drives. This one port type can function as a serial, parallel, mouse, keyboard or joystick port. [. . . ]