American Megatrends AMI 386SX, Preliminary Manual, Page: 20 / 52

The BIOS will ask you to RUN SETUP UTILITY when any number of the following
conditions exist:
a. CMOS battery state low
b. CMOS system options not set
c. CMOS checksum failure
d. CMOS memory size mismatch
e. CMOS time & date not set
f. CMOS display type mismatch
g. C:drive failure
If any of these errors are found by the BIOS, a message will appear on the
display:
RUN SETUP UTILITY
Press <F1> to RESUME
in which case pressing
F1
key will allow you to select any of the following
options:
EXIT FOR BOOT
RUN CMOS SETUP
RUN DIAGNOSTICS
FOR ANY OF THE ERRORS MENTIONED, IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU ALWAYS CHOOSE THE
OPTION TO "RUN CMOS SETUP" BEFORE ANY OTHER OPTION OTHERWISE THE SYSTEM MAY
BEHAVE UNPREDICTABLY.
If you choose the option
EXIT FOR BOOT
the system will attempt boot from any
bootable (e.g, FLOPPY, HARD DISK) device if the CMOS SETUP will recognize the
device.
Choosing
RUN CMOS SETUP
will take you through the "SETUP" procedure discussed
in the next section. Choosing
RUN DIAGNOSTICS
will take you through "DIAGS"
option which is discussed in Section 4 of this manual.