Ampro Corporation P5X manual Setup Help, Menu Name Functions

Setup

Many options provided on the Little Board/P5x are controlled by the Setup function. The parameters are displayed on several screens, selected from a main menu screen. To configure the board, you modify the fields in these screens and save the results in the on-board configuration memory.

The configuration memory consists of portions of the CMOS RAM in the battery-backed real-time clock chip and an Ampro-unique configuration EEPROM. To enhance embedded-system reliability, the contents of the EEPROM mirror the contents of the CMOS memory. The EEPROM retains your configuration information even if the clock’s backup battery fails.

The Setup information is retrieved from configuration memory when the board is powered up or when it is rebooted with a CTL-ALT-DEL key combination. Changes made to the Setup parameters (with the exception of the real-time clock time and date settings) do not take effect until the system is rebooted.

The Setup program is located in the ROM BIOS. To access Setup, press DEL while the computer is in the Power On Self Test (POST), just prior to booting. This is called hot key access. The screen will display a message indicating when entering DEL will access Setup.

Some Setup fields, for example, the amount of DRAM memory installed on the board, are read-only fields, intended for informational purposes only.

The following figures are samples of what the BIOS setup pages look like. They may not exactly match your screen.

Setup Help

You can access help information for many of the Setup options by pressing F1. The information is displayed in a popup window. Some help screens list all the available option settings, while others display additional information.

Table 2– 41 summarizes the choices found on each Setup page.

Table 2– 41. Functions on Each Setup Page

Page	Menu Name	Functions
		Select various Setup screens
1	Main Menu	Load Setup defaults
		Save and/or Exit Setup
		Set date and time
2	Standard CMOS Setup	Enter IDE hard disk parameters
		Set type and number of floppy disks
		Set default video state
		Configure BIOS error handling
		Displays amount of installed DRAM memory

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