Thunder i840 S2520
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Domain Validation
—(Default:
Enabled
) Determines what kinds of SCSI devices are connected and
reduces data transfer speed if it detects older legacy SCSI devices. Displays the resulting data
transfer rate. If you change this setting, the change automatically applies to both SCSI channels.
•
Support Removable Disks Under BIOS as Fixed Disks
—(Default:
Disabled
) Determines which
removable-media drives are supported by the SCSI controller BIOS. The options are as follows:
- Disabled
— No removable media drives are treated as hard disk drives. Software drivers are then
required from the vendor, because the drives themselves are not controlled at all by the BIOS.
LAN Information
Your motherboard has (1) onboard Intel 82559 LAN controller and (1) ICH2 82562ET LAN controller. LAN
capabilities including 10/100 MBits/s transfer speed. For more information regarding the onboard LAN
controllers, check the Intel website:
http://www.intel.com
Below are some explanations of what the LEDs mean, and how they display the LAN’s status.
2
1
Good connection @ 10 Mbps
No connection
LED (1) - Orange/Green Light
LED (2) - Yellow Light
Data being transferred
LAN Status
LED (1) is GREEN
Good connection @ 100 Mbps
LED (1) is ORANGE
ON
ON
OFF
Orange or green*
Orange (10Mbps) or
Green (100Mbps)
LED is blinking
*
Depends on last connection made. For example, if the last connection was 100 Mbps and then the
connection was broken, the light may stay orange.
SCSI
&
LAN
- Boot Only
—Only the removable media drive designated as the boot device is treated as an
HDD
- All Disks
—All removable media drives supported by the BIOS are treated as HDDs
- BIOS Support for Bootable CD-ROMs
—(Default:
Enabled
) When set to
Enabled
the SCSI
controller BIOS allows the computer to boot from a CD-ROM drive.
- BIOS Support for Int 13 Extensions
—(Default:
Enabled
) When set to
Enabled
, the SCSI
controller BIOS supports Int 13h extensions as required by Plug-and-Play. The setting can
be either enabled or disabled if your system is not Plug-and-Play
NOTE:
You may lose data
if you remove a removable-media cartridge from a SCSI drive con-
trolled by the SCSI controller BIOS while the drive is on. If you want to be able to remove the
media while the drive is on, install the removable-media software driver and set Support
Removable Disks Under BIOS as Fixed Disks to
Disabled
.
