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4.9 Miscellaneous Features
4.9.1 BIOS ROM
It depends on the platform design architecture (sharer ROM or Non-Sharer ROM,
Intel ME SKU and so on).
Non-Sharer ROM: SBIOS and EC BIOS have each SPI ROM chip separately, the
EEPROM is inside EC BIOS area, BIOS will copy a full set of EEPROM data to
SBIOS ROM at the first POST or EEPROM data is updated to speed up the
EEPROM access.
Sharer ROM: The EC BIOS, EEPROM and SBIOS are all inside one SPI ROM chip.
4.9.2 USB Support
This feature allows the use of a USB keyboard to access BIOS Setup and to be used
in DOS without additional drivers. USB floppy boot and Crisis Recovery from USB
floppy is also supported. The driver provides other USB devices support after loading
the operating system.
4.9.3 Flash utility – one BIOS file only
The flash utility can be used to program both system and keyboard BIOS at the same
time. Before flash BIOS you must make sure that AC exists. Or you will be forbidden
to flash BIOS.
4.9.4 Crisis Recovery
This feature provides an opportunity for system that cannot boot up. With a crisis
floppy diskette, the system can perform crisis recovery by using internal PS2
keyboard.
To perform crisis recovery using keyboard, do the following:
Power off the system.
Plug-out AC adapter and Battery.
Plug-in the USB floppy drive with crisis floppy diskette inserted.
Hold down Fn + B keys.
Plug-in AC adapter and make sure it is powered.
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Страница 15: ...15 Chapter 1 Introducing Your Notebook ...
Страница 16: ...16 Top Side The following picture shows the top side of your notebook 1 Web Camera 2 Microphone 3 Power Button ...
Страница 23: ...23 Chapter 2 Caring for Your Notebook ...
Страница 30: ...30 Chapter 3 Peripherals ...
Страница 31: ...31 3 1 SD MMC Cards Installing a SD MMC Card Removing a SD MMC Card ...
Страница 33: ...33 Chapter 4 The BIOS Setup Program ...
Страница 38: ...38 4 5 Thermal management Please refer to Keyboard BIOS specification ...
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