Ampro Corporation P5X manual Floppy Drives, Video, Error Halt, Dram Memory

Little Board/P5x Technical Manual

Once you have set the system’s configuration memory, the IDE drive(s) can be formatted and otherwise prepared normally. Refer to your operating system and disk drive documentation for specific procedures and requirements.

Floppy Drives

The ROM BIOS supports all of the popular DOS-compatible floppy disk formats. This includes all the 5-1/4 inch and 3-1/2 inch floppy formats — 360K, 720K, 1.2M, and 1.44M.

Drive Parameter Setup

Enter the number and type of floppy drives in the system. If the drives connected to the system do not match the parameters in the configuration memory, POST displays an error message. To eliminate the error message, set the drive parameters to match your floppy drives.

Video

Specify the initial video mode. Select Mono, CGA40, CGA80, or EGA/VGA. If your video display card is VGA, super VGA, or any other high resolution standard, specify EGA/VGA no matter how it is configured to come up.

Error Halt

Select which kinds of errors will halt the Power-On Self Test (POST). If you plan to use the module without a keyboard, be sure to set this option to not halt on keyboard error.

DRAM Memory

The ROM BIOS automatically detects the amount of memory during POST and stores the result when you save the configuration values when exiting Setup. This Setup page displays the amount of memory found in the system.

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