Arcom SBC104, Technical Manual

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When booting from the utilities disk a menu is displayed giving the choice of formatting the on-
board flash (note: the board is shipped formatted) or re-installing the factory loaded files which scan
for a VGA card. The functions can be carried out with or without a VGA card being fitted as the
utilities disk runs FINDVGA.EXE when it boots. This re-directs the output to COM1 if there is no VGA
card.
The utilities disk is intended to provide a fall back solution should the pre-installed files on the Flash
get accidentally deleted or the flash gets corrupted. In such a case a floppy drive should be
connected to the SBC104 and the utilities disk inserted. About twenty seconds after re-booting the
SBC104 output will be re-directed to COM1 if running in Remote mode. A menu will appear giving
the option to copy the factory fitted files back onto the on-board Flash or to format the Flash and
install ROMDOS. Select an option and wait a few seconds. When formatting the Flash read the on-
screen instructions carefully.
SAVECMOS Utility
The SBC104 utilities disk includes the file
SAVECMOS.EXE
. This utility is used to safe-guard the
CMOS settings in case of a battery back-up failure. If the battery fails, the SBC104 will start using the
default BIOS settings. If the system had been configured to use a hard drive, for example, these
settings would be lost. By running SAVECMOS, the BIOS settings stored in the CMOS memory will
be written to a file on the FlashFile

drive
.
If the SBC104 looses the CMOS settings, the SAVECMOS
utility (in AUTOEXEC.BAT) will detect this, reload the CMOS settings from the file and reboot the
SBC104. For help on how to use
SAVECMOS.EXE
place the utilities disk in the floppy drive and type:
a:\savecmos /?
.
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