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Chapter 2
Board Installation
Q:
Can I use EDO DIMMs on this motherboard?
A:
No. The ServerWorks ServerSet does not support EDO memory.
Q:
What is AGP?
A:
AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is a new bus architecture for 3D graphics. The AGP
slot eliminates the PCI bandwidth bottleneck by bypassing the PCI interface and accessing
the system memory directly. Currently, the AGP supports 1X and 2X modes, which yield
bandwidths of 266MB/s (at 33MHz bus speed) and 533MB/s (at 66MHz bus speed),
respectively. Compare this with the mere 132MB/s (at 33MHz bus speed) that you get
from the PCI bus.
Q:
Does my operating system support AGP?
A:
Currently, only Windows 98 and Windows 2000 will have built-in support for AGP.
Some AGP cards require Windows 95 OSR2.1 or a special driver from
Intel. Please check with your graphics vendor for more details.
Q:
How do I install the onboard NIC drivers for WinNT 4.0?
A:
The Ethernet driver can not be installed directly from the Tyan Driver CD. Before
installing the Intel 82559 Ethernet drivers, the complete 82559 directory and ALL its
components must first be copied from the Tyan CD onto your hard
drive. The 82559 installation program can then be copied normally from your hard drive.
Q:
How can I disable the keyboard detection in the BIOS?
A:
You need to enable the Quick Boot option in CMOS - then the BIOS will not check for
a keyboard.
Q:
I cannot install Windows NT when I use an LS/120-type floppy disk drive. What
should I do?
A:
SYMPTOM - When you are trying to install Windows NT, you may
experience any of the following symptoms:
1) When you boot from the installation disks, the following error message
may be displayed when disk 2 is inserted:
Stop 0x0000007B Inaccessible Boot Device
(0xFF109C50, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
2) When you are attempting to create a set of installation disks using the
WINNT /ox or WINNT32 /ox command, the following error message may be
displayed:
This floppy disk is not formatted as high-density, not formatted
with a standard Windows NT or MS-DOS format, or is corrupted.
Setup is unable to use this disk.
CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM: You are using a LS/120-type floppy disk drive.
RESOLUTION - To work around this issue, install Windows NT Workstation with the
/b switch. This causes Windows NT Workstation Setup to run
without requiring the installation disks.
