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ROM

Read Only Memory.

RS-232C

A standard for asynchronous serial communication.

SCSI

Small Computer Systems Interface. A multimedia bus
and interface specification for fast Hard Disks, Tape
Backup Units, CD ROMs and other Devices.

SIMM

Single

In-Line

Memory

Module.

Software

Another name for a computer program.

SRAM

Static RAM. Synchronous Transmission of data between
devices which are maintaining the same frequency
relationship. Contrasts with asynchronous.

TPI

Tracks Per Inch.

TTL

Transistor

Logic.

TUV

Technischer Uberwachungs-Verein. Organisation which
tests and certifies electronic equipment.

Underwriter Laboratories. American Organisation
specifying standards for safety of electronic equipment.

USB

Universal

Serial

Bus

Volt. Unit of measurement of potential difference.

VAC

Volts

(Alternating

Current).

VDE

Verband Deutscher Electrotechniker. German
organisation specifying EMI suppression.

Video

Computer data or graphics displayed on a monitor or
screen.

Watt.

Watt

Basic unit of measurement of electrical power.

Summary of Contents for CX135

Page 1: ... C O M P U T E R S N E T W O R K S S O L U T I O N S M i n d s T h i n k G r e a t Viglen CX135 Server User Manual VIG705P ...

Page 2: ...ds To ensure the computer system maintains compliance throughout its functional life it is essential you follow these guidelines Install the system according to Viglen s instructions If you open up your Viglen Keep internal cabling in place as supplied Ensure the lid is tightly secured afterwards Do not remove drive bay shields unless installing a CE marked peripheral in its place The clips or bum...

Page 3: ...chaser for backup Copyright 2003 Viglen Limited All Rights Reserved Viglen CX135 Server System User Guide Version 1 0 Printed in the United Kingdom Liability No warranty or representation either expressed or implied is made with respect to this documentation its quality performance merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose As a result the documentation is licensed as is and you the licen...

Page 4: ... O Ports and Features 15 Chassis Features Summary 15 Chassis Guide 16 3 Safety Precautions 27 Electrical Safety Precautions 27 General Safety Precautions 28 ESD Precautions 28 Operating Precautions 29 4 CX135 Server Board Installations 30 Warning and cautions 30 Precautions 31 Upgrading the CPU 31 Installing Heatsinks 33 Installing Memory DIMMs 34 Motherboard Layout 36 I O Port Connectors 37 Front...

Page 5: ...Connections 50 Installing Software Drivers 53 5 System BIOS 54 BIOS Features 55 Running Setup 55 The Main BIOS Menu 56 Advanced BIOS Setup Menu 57 Boot Setup Menu 69 Security Setup Menu 72 Exit Setup Menu 73 6 Appendices 74 Appendix A BIOS Error Beep Codes 74 Appendix B BIOS Checkpoint Codes 75 Appendix C Glossary 82 Appendix D Notes 87 Appendix F Suggestions 91 ...

Page 6: ...on options optimized for communications presentation storage computation or database applications The Intel E7320 Lindenhurst VS chipset consists of the following components the E7320 Lindenhurst VS Memory Controller Hub MCH the I O Controller Hub 6300ESB ICH and THE PCI X Hub PXH The E7320 Lindenhurst VS MCH supports single or dual Nocona processors with Front Side Bus speeds of up to 800 MHz Its...

Page 7: ...ents or suggestions about how we could improve the format then please fill out the form at the back of the manual and send it to us Above all we hope that you enjoy using your Viglen CX135 Server Motherboard features CPU Single or dual Intel 604 pin 32 bit Ext EM64T Nocona TM upto 3 6 GHz processors at 800 MHz front side bus speed Memory Six 240 Pin DIMM sockets supporting up to 12 GB Registered E...

Page 8: ...itching voltage regulator for CPU core System overheat LED and control Chassis intrusion detection System resource alert via Super Doctor III TM2 Feature Fan Control VRM Protection Feature 88 C 98 C 108 C Default ACPI Features optional Microsoft On Now Slow blinking LED for suspend state indicator Main switch override mechanism Onboard I O LSI Logic Single Channel 53C1020 Ultra 320 SCSI One IPMI 2...

Page 9: ...r Lost Control setting in the Advanced BIOS Setup section Peripheral Device Configuration to change this setting The default setting is Always On PC Health Monitoring This section describes the PC health monitoring features of the VIG705P Both have an onboard System Hardware Monitor chip that supports PC health monitoring Onboard Voltage Monitors for the CPU Cores Chipset Voltage 3 3V 5V 12V 12V a...

Page 10: ... define an overheat temperature Auto Switching Voltage Regulator for the CPU Core The auto switching voltage regulator for the CPU core can support up to20A current and auto sense voltage IDs ranging from 8375V to 1 6V This will allow the regulator to run cooler and thus make the system more stable TM2 CPU VRM Overheat When the CPU reaches 70 C and above Overheat the CPU will slow down and CPU Vol...

Page 11: ...and Windows Server 2003 Microsoft OnNow The OnNow design initiative is a comprehensive system wide approach to system and device power control OnNow is a term for a PC that is always on but appears to be off and responds immediately to user or other requests Slow Blinking LED for Suspend State Indicator When the CPU goes into a suspend state the chassis power LED will start blinking to indicate th...

Page 12: ...st 400W of power and includes the additional 12V 8 pin power connector an even higher wattage power supply is recommended for high load configurations Also your power supply must supply 1 5A for the Ethernet ports NOTE An additional 12v power 8 pin power connector PW2 is required to support Intel Xeon CPUs Failure to provide this extra power will result in instability of the CPUs after only a few ...

Page 13: ...tes of 250 K 500 K or 1 Mb s which support higher speed modems The Super I O supports one PC compatible printer port SPP Bi directional Printer Port BPP Enhanced Parallel Port EPP or Extended Capabilities Port ECP The Super I O provides functions that comply with ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface which includes support of legacy and ACPI power management through an SMI or SCI functio...

Page 14: ...plied complete with a pair of industry standard 19 Rails handles and all of the necessary nuts and bolts Physical Specifications Specifications Height 425 mm Width Rackmount Height 220 mm Depth 620 mm Weight 28 kg typical configuration Chassis Features The galvanised metal chassis minimises EMI and radio frequency interference RFI The removable access cover is attached to the chassis with two thum...

Page 15: ...Version 1 0 14 Chassis Front Controls and Indicators Figure 1 Chassis Front Controls and Indicators 1 1 x 3 5 Bay 6 USB Cover 2 3 x 5 25 Bays 7 Keylock 3 Power Button 8 FootStand 4 RESET button 5 Failure Alarm Mute Unavailable ...

Page 16: ...ree 5 25 inch wide bays that are externally accessible designed to hold half height standard removable media devices the bays can be converted into a single full height bay Baseboard Viglen VIG705P Server Motherboard Power supply 600W ATX power supply with integrated cooling fan Expansion slot covers Six fully functional expansions slots can be used every slot opening that does not have an add In ...

Page 17: ...Viglen CX135 User Guide Version 1 0 16 Removing the Front Panel Figure 3 Removing the Front Panel Figure 4 Front view without Front Panel ...

Page 18: ... the three thumb screws a Remove the front bezel b Loosen the three thumbscrews 1 of the side cover c Slide the side cover towards the front until it stops 2 then lift upwards taking it off from the chassis body See Figure 6 Figure 6 Removing the Side Panel ...

Page 19: ...Viglen CX135 User Guide Version 1 0 18 Figure 7 Internal Chassis View ...

Page 20: ...Viglen CX135 User Guide Version 1 0 19 Figure 8 Serial ATA Backplane ...

Page 21: ...Viglen CX135 User Guide Version 1 0 20 Figure 9 Hard Disk Drive Connectors ...

Page 22: ...Viglen CX135 User Guide Version 1 0 21 Figure 10 Ultra 320 SCSI Backplane ...

Page 23: ...Viglen CX135 User Guide Version 1 0 22 Figure 11 80 pin SCA Connectors ...

Page 24: ...Viglen CX135 User Guide Version 1 0 23 Figure 12 Pin Configurations Figure 13 Installing HDD and HDD Cage ...

Page 25: ...ng Hard Disk Cage a Loosen the four thumbscrews which secure the HDD cage to the chassis body b Pull out the HDD cage slightly c Disconnect the SCSI or Serial ATA and Power cables and also the SCSI terminator d Continue to pull out the HDD cage until it is totally out of the drive bay ...

Page 26: ...carrier b Insert the hooks show above in red arrows into mounting holes of the floppy drive c Push FDD down into the carrier and then secure FDD with the two screws you have removed earlier e Insert the drive carrier with FDD in the drive bay until you hear a click Figure 17 Figure 17 Installing the Floppy Drive Carrier into the Chassis ...

Page 27: ...rive a Take out a pair of slide rails from the side panel of the drive cage frame b Insert both guide pins circled above on the slide rails into the CD ROM drive and then secure them with screws side by side c Insert the CD ROM drive in the drive bay until you hear a click ...

Page 28: ...d electrical circuits another person who is familiar with the power off controls should be nearby to switch off the power if necessary Use only one hand when working with powered on electrical equipment This is to avoid making a complete circuit which will cause electrical shock Use extreme caution when using metal tools which can easily damage any electrical components or circuit boards they come...

Page 29: ...ntact with printed circuit boards or areas where power is present After accessing the inside of the system close the system back up and secure it to the rack unit with the retention screws after ensuring that all connections have been made ESD Precautions Electrostatic discharge ESD is generated by two objects with different electrical charges coming into contact with each other An electrical disc...

Page 30: ...urposes make sure your computer chassis provides excellent conductivity between the power supply the case the mounting fasteners and the motherboard Operating Precautions Care must be taken to assure that the chassis cover is in place when the Viglen CX135 is operating to assure proper cooling Out of warranty damage to the Viglen CX135 system can occur if this practice is not strictly followed ...

Page 31: ...equired for using and modifying electronic equipment Do not operate the system with the cover removed Always replace the cover before turning on the system As the colours of the wires in the mains lead of this computer may not correspond with the coloured markings identifying the terminals in your plug precede as follows The wire that is coloured green and yellow must be connected to the terminal ...

Page 32: ...e the BIOS battery and prevent the system from booting up Important Always connect the power cord last and always remove it before adding removing or changing any hardware components Make sure that you install the processor into the CPU socket before you install the heatsink The VIG705P can support either one or two Intel Xeon 1MB L2 cache processors of 3 6 GHz If installing one processor only ins...

Page 33: ... sink by pushing down an out the retention mechanism to free it from the socket 5 The CPU is clamped into place using a lever Gently lift this lever which is located at the side of the socket 604 This will free the CPU and allow you to lift it clear of the socket Do not attempt to remove the CPU with the lever in the down position 6 You can now fit the additional or replacement processor and heats...

Page 34: ...hown below is not the Viglen VIG705P however the heatsink location and installation procedure is identical 1 Do not apply any thermal grease to the heatsink or the CPU die the required amount of thermal grease has already been applied 2 Place the heatsink on top of the CPU so that the four mounting holes are aligned with those on the retention mechanism 3 Screw in two diagonal screws i e the 1 and...

Page 35: ...upport two way interleaving which means memory does not need to be installed in identical pairs DIMM Installation Removal See Figure 22 23 1 Insert the desired number of DIMMs into the memory slots starting with Bank 1 2 Insert each DIMM module vertically into its slot Pay attention to the notch along the bottom of the module to prevent inserting the DIMM module incorrectly 3 Gently press down on ...

Page 36: ... Pay attention to the alignment notch at the bottom Figure 23 Removing DIMMs To Remove Use your thumbs to gently push near the edge of both ends of the module This should release it from the slot Memory Support The Viglen CX135 supports up to six 240 Pin DIMM sockets supporting up to 12 GB Registered ECC DDR II 400 ...

Page 37: ... 1 2 Enabled JPA2 Note SCSI Channel Term Enable Off Enable JPF Power Force on Open Disabled JPG1 VGA Enable Pins 1 2 Enabled JPL1 JPL2 LAN1 LAN 2 Enable Disable Pins 1 2 Enabled JPR1 Power Fail Alarm Reset Open Disabled JWD Watch Dog Enable Pins 1 2 Enabled Note Jumpers not noted are for test purposes only Connector Description ATX PWR PW1 Primary 24 pin ATX PWR Connector Required 8 pin PWR PW2 12...

Page 38: ... Ex4 2GB sec PCI 5 PCI 6 J9B1 J8B1 Slot 5 64 bit PCI X 100 Slot 6 64 bit PCI X 133 slot PW3 Power SMB System Management Bus PW4 PWR Fail LED SATA0 1 JS0 JS1 Serial ATA0 Header JS0 Serial ATA1 Header JS1 WOL JWOL Wake on LAN Header WOR JWOL Wake on Ring Header USB 0 1 J3 Back Panel Universal Serial Bus Ports USB 2 3 Front Panel Universal Serial Bus Headers Note for Vig705P Motherboard only Front Co...

Page 39: ...ese connectors are for use with Viglen CX135 server chassis See Figure 26 for the descriptions of the various control panel buttons and LED indicators Refer to the following section for descriptions and pin definitions Figure 26 JF1 Header Pins Connector Definitions ATX Power Connection The power supply connector on the VIG705P meets the SSI EPS 12V specification See the table below for pin defini...

Page 40: ...n maskable interrupt button header is located on pins 19 and 20 of JF1 Refer to the table below for pin definitions Power LED The Power LED connection is located on pins 15 and 16 of JF1 Refer to the table below for pin definitions Hard Disk Drive LED The HDD LED connection is located on pins 13 and 14 of JF1 Attach the hard drive LED cable here to display disk activity for any hard drives on the ...

Page 41: ...ow Overheat LED OH Connect an LED to the OH connection on pins 7 and 8 of JF1 to provide advanced warning of chassis overheating Refer to the table below for pin definitions Power Fail Button The Power Fail Button connection is located on pins 5 and 6 of JF1 Refer to the table below for pin definitions Reset Button The Reset Button connection is located on pins 3 and 4 of JF1 Attach it to the hard...

Page 42: ... the table below for pin definitions Chassis Intrusion A Chassis Intrusion header is located at JL1 Attach the appropriate cable to inform you of a chassis intrusion Universal Serial Bus USB0 1 There are two Universal Serial Bus ports USB 0 1 located on the I O panel and additional two USB ports USB 2 3 next to the IDE1 on the motherboard These two FP USB ports can be used to provide front side ch...

Page 43: ...e below for pin definitions FAN Headers The VIG705P has six fan headers Fan 1 to Fan 6 These fan headers are 4 pin fans Pin 1 3 of the fan headers are backward compatible with the traditional 3 pin fans Speaker Power LED Keylock JF2 On the JF2 header pins 1 3 5 7 are for the Speaker and Pins 2 4 6 are for the Power LED and pins 8 10 are for the Keylock Note The speaker connector pins are for use w...

Page 44: ...must also have a LAN card with a Wake on LAN connector and cable Overview of Jumper Settings The system motherboard inside your computer contains headers and jumpers Different pin and jumper configurations make it possible to change how the computer functions This section of the manual should give you all the information you will require making any changes Changes you can make in this way are as f...

Page 45: ...operation of the motherboard jumpers can be used to choose between optional settings Jumpers create shorts between two pins to change the function of the connector Pin 1 is identified with a square solder pad on the printed circuit board See the motherboard layout pages for jumper locations NOTE On two pin jumpers Closed means the jumper is on and Open means the jumper is off the pins Figure 27 Se...

Page 46: ...jumper settings Watch Dog Enable Disable JWD controls Watch Dog a system monitor that takes action when a software application freezes the system Pins 1 2 will have WD reset the system if a program freezes Pins 2 3 will generate a non maskable interrupt for the program that has frozen requires software implementation Watch Dog must also be enabled in the BIOS SMB Data SMB CLK to PCI Jumpers J13 J1...

Page 47: ...s you to enable or disable termination for the SCSI connector The default setting is open to enable the termination of the SCSI Controller Note In order for the SCSI drives to function properly please do not change the default setting set by the manufacturer See the table below for jumper settings ...

Page 48: ...d not connect anything to this header JPR1 to prevent false alarms See the table below Power Force ON Jumper JPF allows you to enable or disable the function of Power Force On If enabled the power will always stay on automatically If this function is disabled the user needs to press the power button to power on the system Onboard Indicators GLAN LEDs The G bit Ethernet LAN ports located beside the...

Page 49: ...serial ATA LED header is located at JSLED See the table below Onboard LED Indicators DS1 DS5 DS7 DS8 In addition to the LAN LEDs and the SATA LED there are other LED indicators DS1 DS5 DS7 DS8 on the VIG705P DS7 and DS8 are PSOY Codes LEDs See the table below ...

Page 50: ...ive cables The floppy disk drive cable has seven twisted wires A red mark on a wire typically designates the location of pin 1 A single floppy disk drive ribbon cable has 34 wires and two connectors to provide for two floppy disk drives The connector with twisted wires always connects to drive A and the connector that does not have twisted wires always connects to drive B Parallel Printer Port Con...

Page 51: ...y Connector The floppy connector is located on J24 See the table below for pin definitions IDE Connectors There are no jumpers to configure the onboard IDE 1 and IDE 2 connectors at J44 and J38 respectively See the table below for pin definitions ...

Page 52: ...Viglen CX135 User Guide Version 1 0 51 Ultra 320 SCSI Connectors Refer to the table below for the pin definitions of the Ultra320 SCSI connectors located at J28 ...

Page 53: ...in Figure 29 should appear If this display does not appear click on the My Computer icon and then on the icon representing your CD ROM drive Finally double click on the S Setup icon Figure 29 Driver Tool Installation Display Screen Click the icons showing hand writing on paper to view the Readme files for each item The bottom icon with a CD on it allows you to view the entire contents of the CD Pl...

Page 54: ...en the computer is turned off a back up battery provides power to the BIOS ROM enabling it to retain the system parameters Each time the computer is powered on the computer is then configured with the values stored in the BIOS ROM by the system BIOS which gains control when the computer is powered on How to Change the Configuration Data The configuration data that determines the system parameters ...

Page 55: ...ve AMIBIOS supports PC Health Monitoring chips When a failure occurs in a monitored activity AMIBIOS can sound an alarm and display a message The PC Health Monitoring chips monitor CPU temperature Chassis intrusion detector Five positive voltage inputs Three fan speed monitor inputs Running Setup Note Optional default settings are in bold text unless otherwise noted The BIOS setup options describe...

Page 56: ... and System Date are highlighted type in the correct time date in the time field and then press Enter The date must be entered in MM DD YY format The time is entered in HH MM SS format The time is in also 24 hour format For example 5 30 a m appears as 05 30 00 and 5 30 p m as 17 30 00 Press the ESC key to exit the Main Menu and use the Left Right arrow keys to enter the other categories of BIOS se...

Page 57: ...ng the option using the arrow keys All Advanced BIOS Setup options are described in this section Figure 31 Advanced BIOS Setup Menu Use the Up Down arrow keys to select the Super I O Configuration line When the Super IO Configuration line is highlighted hit ENTER to display its menu The following Super IO Configuration screen will appear Here you can select your options for the computer s I O Inpu...

Page 58: ... allows the user to enable the function of Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch The options are Enabled and Disabled Hyper Threading Function This setting allows you to Enable or Disable the function of hyper threading Enabling hyper threading results in increased CPU performance Intel Speed Step Tech This setting allows you to enable the function of Intel Speedstep Tech to set the CPU speeds The options ...

Page 59: ...ndary third and fourth IDE master and slave drives Use this screen to select options for the Primary and Secondary IDE drives Use the up and down Arrow keys to select an item Use the Plus and Minus keys to change the value of the selected option TYPE Select the type of device connected to the system The options are Not Installed Auto CDROM and ARMD LBA Large Mode LBA Logical Block Addressing is a ...

Page 60: ...ransfer rate of 16 6 MBs This setting generally works with all hard disk drives manufactured after 1999 For other disk drives such as IDE CD ROM drives check the specifications of the drive S M A R T For Hard disk drives Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology SMART can help predict impending drive failures Select Auto to allow BIOS to auto detect hard disk drive support Select Disabled ...

Page 61: ...figure all devices in the system PCI Latency Timer This option sets the latency of all PCI devices on the PCI bus The default setting is 64 Select 32 to set the PCI latency to 32 PCI clock cycles Select 64 to set the PCI latency to 64 PCI clock cycles Select 96 to set the PCI latency to 96 PCI clock cycles Select 128 to set the PCI latency to 128 PCI clock cycles Select 160 to set the PCI latency ...

Page 62: ...hannel specified is reserved for a Legacy ISA device Reserved Memory Size This feature specifies the size of memory block to be reserved for Legacy ISA devices The options are Disabled 16K 32K 64K Super IO Configuration Sub Menu Serial Port Address This option specifies the base I O port address and Interrupt Request address of serial port 1 Select Disabled to prevent the serial port from accessin...

Page 63: ... Parallel Port IRQ Select the IRQ interrupt request for the parallel port The options are IRQ5 and IRQ7 Advanced Chipset Settings This item allows the user to configure the Advanced Chipset settings for the system NorthBridge Configuration This feature allows the user to configure the settings for Intel Lindenhurst NorthBridge chipset Memory Remap Feature Select Enabled to allow remapping of overl...

Page 64: ...ser to set the maximum PCI bus speed to be programmed The options are Auto 33MHz PCI 66MHz PCI 66MHz PCI X M1 100MHz PCI X M1 and 133MHz PCI X M1 The default setting for PCI X CHA is 100MHz PCI X M1 The default setting for PCI X CHB is 133MHz PCI X M1 I O Port decode Select the decode range for IO The options are 4K Decode and 1K Decode RAS Sticky Error Handling Select the method for AMI BIOS to h...

Page 65: ...e included in the RSDP pointer list The options are Enable and Disabled AMI OEMB Table Select Enabled to allow the OEMB Table Pointer to be included in the R x SDT pointer lists The options are Enabled and Disabled Headless Mode Select Enabled to activate the Headless Operation Mode through ACPI The options are Enabled and Disabled Power Configuration This feature allows the user to configure PnP ...

Page 66: ...u to enable or disable Hub Interface Event logging The options are Enabled or Disabled System Bus Event Logging This setting allows you to enable or disable System Bus Error Event logging The options are Enabled or Disabled Memory Buffer Event Logging This setting allows you to enable or disable Memory Buffer Event logging The options are Enabled or Disabled PCI PCI Express Error Logging This sett...

Page 67: ...d PCI Express Port3 Slot 4 This feature allows the user to configure the PCI Express slot The options are Auto Enabled and Disabled PCI Express Compliance Mode Select Enabled to enable MCH to activate PCI Express Compliance Mode The options are Disabled and Enabled Spread Spectrum Select Enabled to enable Spread Spectrum The options are Disabled and Enabled Remote Access Configuration You can use ...

Page 68: ...enable 2 USB Ports or 4 USB Ports The options are Disabled 2 USB Ports and 4 USB Ports System Health Monitor This feature allows AMI BIOS to automatically display the status of the following items System Health Function Select Enabled to enable the function of Hardware Health Monitoring Device The Options are Enabled and Disabled CPU Temperature The feature allows the user to set the CPU temperatu...

Page 69: ...this feature Select 3 pin if your chassis came with 3 pin fan headers Select 4 pin if your chassis came with 4 pin fan headers Select Workstation if your system is used as a Workstation Select Server if your system is used as a Server Select Disable to disable the fan speed control function to allow the onboard fans to run at the full speed 12V at all time The Options are 1 Disable 2 3 pin Server ...

Page 70: ...ct Keep Current to allow the computer system to display the BIOS information during system boot The options are Force BIOS and Keep Current Boot up Num Lock Set this value to allow the Number Lock setting to be modified during boot up The default setting is On The options are On and Off PS 2 Mouse Support Set this value to allow the PS 2 mouse support to be modified The options are Auto Enabled an...

Page 71: ...ve 2nd Drive 3rd Drive Specify the boot sequence for 1st Hard Drive 2nd Hard Drive and 3rd Hard Drive The options are HDD and Disabled Removable Drives This feature allows the user to specify the Boot sequence from available Removable Drives 1st Drive Specify the boot sequence for 1st Removable Drive The Options are 1st Floppy Drive and Disabled CD DVD Drives This feature allows the user to specif...

Page 72: ... or when AMIBIOS Setup is executed using either or both the Supervisor password or User password The Supervisor and User passwords activate two different levels of password security If you select password support you are prompted for a 1 6 character password Type the password on the keyboard The password does not appear on the screen when typed Make sure you write it down If you forget it you must...

Page 73: ...ion allows you to enable or disable a virus detection program to protect the boot sector of your hard disk drive The settings for this option Disabled and Enabled If Enabled AMIBIOS will display a warning when any program or virus issues a Disk Format command or attempts to write to the boot sector of the hard disk drive Exit Setup Menu Choose Exit Setup from the AMIBIOS Setup main menu All Exit S...

Page 74: ...ogram and then exit Your system should then continue with the boot up procedure Load Optimal Defaults Highlighting this setting and then pressing Enter provides the optimum performance settings for all devices and system features Load Failsafe Defaults Highlighting this setting and then pressing Enter provides the safest set of parameters for the system Use them if the system is behaving erratical...

Page 75: ...with your system manufacturer for possible repairs These fatal errors are usually communicated through a series of audible beeps The numbers on the fatal error list on the following page correspond to the number of beeps for the corresponding error All errors listed with the exception of Beep Code 8 are fatal errors POST codes may be read on the debug LEDs located beside the LAN port on the mother...

Page 76: ...e computer to read I O port 0080h B 1 Uncompressed Initialization Codes Checkpoint Code Description D0h The NMI is disabled Power on delay is starting Next the initialization code checksum will be verified D1h Initializing the DMA controller performing the keyboard controller BAT test starting memory refresh and entering 4 GB flat mode next D3h Starting memory sizing next D4h Returning to real mod...

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Page 83: ...ock can occur at any time during this interval Contrasts with synchronous AUTOEXEC BAT A special batch file which contains a series of commands that are to be executed when the computer is started up BASIC Beginner s All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code This is a simple programming language Battery Backed RAM A type of memory that holds information even when the computer is switched off Baud A te...

Page 84: ...iven to the serial communications ports in COM3 COM4 DOS CONFIG SYS A special purpose file which has the configuration details for the computer to set itself to when powered up CPS Characters per second CSA Canadian Standards Association Cursor A bar on the screen that indicates where the input from the keyboard will be displayed DC Direct current Normally associated with battery current Digital P...

Page 85: ...ard disk interface FCC Federal Communications Commission Firmware A program that is resident in Read Only Memory ROM Floppy Disk A storage device consisting of a flexible magnetic disk inside a protective cover G A symbol used to represent the prefix Giga i e GB Giga Byte GB Gigabyte represents 1 073 741 824 bytes 1024MB Hard Disk A disk of rigid magnetic material used for mass storage Hardware Th...

Page 86: ...oft Expanded Memory Manager specification LED Light Emitting Diode These are normally used as the lights on a computers front panel LPT1 LPT2 LPT3 Names given to the printer ports by DOS M Prefix mega Equivalent to 1024K mA Milliampere 0 001 Ampere MB Abbreviation for Mega Byte i e 1024K Bytes Mb Abbreviation for Mega Bits i e 1024K bits Memory An electronic component which remembers data stored i...

Page 87: ...g the same frequency relationship Contrasts with asynchronous TPI Tracks Per Inch TTL Transistor Transistor Logic TUV Technischer Uberwachungs Verein Organisation which tests and certifies electronic equipment UL Underwriter Laboratories American Organisation specifying standards for safety of electronic equipment USB Universal Serial Bus V Volt Unit of measurement of potential difference VAC Volt...

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Page 92: ...you may like to answer and return to Viglen This will help Viglen help to keep and improve the standard of their manuals 1 Is the information provided in this and other manuals clear enough 2 What could be added to the manual to improve it 3 Does the manual go into enough detail 4 Would you like an on line version of this manual 5 How do you rate the Viglen Technical support and Service Department...

Page 93: ... 6 Are there any technological improvements that could be made to the system 1 Other points you would like to mention Please return this slip to Product Development Department Viglen Ltd Viglen House Alperton Lane Alperton Middlesex HA0 1DX ...

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