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TS9000/TS9050 TouchStar Systems User Manual
3 - BASIC OPERATION
Disks
The disks menu contains settings for diskette and hard disk
configurations.
Components
The components menu contains settings for COM ports parallel
(LPT) ports, the Ethernet port and keyboard settings.
Ethernet Port
• Set to DISABLED if the onboard ethernet controller is not
in use.
• Set to ENABLED to activate controller.
BOOTING-UP
Upon receiving electrical power, the TouchStar will boot up
immediately with no action required. On power up, the
TouchStar conducts a power-on self-test, runs the hardware
initialization program, and then boots DOS. (If your system does
not boot, or does not have a factory-installed version of DOS,
refer to the following section, “Installing the DOS Operating
System”.) The system then processes the config.sys and
autoexec.bat start-up files from the boot drive, which is typically
the Flash Drive (C:\). When the boot process is completed, the
C:\ prompt is displayed on the screen. If Windows is installed,
the system will then load the Windows graphical user interface.
Please refer to Figure 4 and Table 1 for information on configura-
tion of the Flash Drive and ATA Socket.
PCMCIA cards appear as unique drives under the TouchStar
operating system. Their drive designation depends on the
PCMCIA slot in which it is installed.
REBOOT
If the system freezes or locks up during normal operation, the
system can be reset by performing a reboot. The type of reboot
will depend upon the desired state of the TouchStar system.
Perform a warm boot when you
• need to clear the system’s memory to run another
program,
• do not want the computer to perform a self-test.
