Little Board/P5x Technical Manual
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! Boot Up NumLock Status — sets the default state of the keyboard’s numeric keypad. On sets
the keypad to numbers, Off sets the keypad to arrows.
! Typematic Rate Setting — enable or disable the typematic function (automatic keyboard key
repeat).
! Typematic Rate (chars/S) — set the typematic rate. This is the rate at which a h eld- dow n key
is repeated.
! Typematic Delay (mS) — set the time a key must be pressed before ty pem atic rep eating
begins.
! PCI/VGA Palette Snoop — enables PCI- or ISA-based graphics adapters which are not VGA-
compatible to monitor writes to the VGA palette registers so the y may upd ate the ir ow n palette
registers accordingly. Note that when PCI/VGA Palette Snoop is enabled, graphic screens may
be distorted when booting Windows 95.
! Assign IRQ for PCI VGA — Enables auto assignment of VGA IRQ.
! Watchdog Timer — sets the timeout delay period for the watchdog timer, or disables it.
! Show System Status at Boot — when enabled (the default), some messages about detected
hardware features are displayed on the console during the Power-On Self Test.
! OS Select for DRAM > 64MB — if you are running OS/2, set to OS/2. Otherwise set to Non-
OS/2. This parameter limits reporting memory above 64 MB, as some operating systems fail
when more than 64 MB is reported. Some versions of OS/2 have this problem.
! Video BIOS Shadow — The on-board video and SCSI BIOS always run from shadow RAM.
PCI devices with on-board ROM are always shadowed. These are not affected by this setting.
! Serial Console — enables or disables use of a serial console connected to a serial port. When
used as a serial console, the serial port does not appear in the BIOS COM port table. This
means that it will not be COM1, COM2, etc. Select the serial port and its BAUD rate, such as
Serial 1@2400, Serial 2@9600, and so forth. Other communication parameters are fixed at 8-
bit words, 1 start bit, 1 stop bit, and no parity. Default setup of the serial co nsole p ort is
Disabled.
! Serial Boot Loader — enables or disables the serial boot loader function. When you enable the
boot loader, select either COM1 or COM2. Other communication parameters are fixed at 9600
BAUD, 8-bit words, 1 start bit, 1 stop bit, and no parity.
Serial Console Operation During Setup
When Setup is being run using the serial console interface, keyboard arrow keys and function keys
must be simulated. The following simulations are used for these keys:
Arrow Keys — arrow keys may be entered as shown on the screen. Use the following substitutes
for the arrow keys. Note that there are both standard keys and control key sequences for each
command:
^, Ctrl-e Up arrow >, Ctrl-d Right arrow
v, Ctrl-x Down arrow <, Ctrl-s Left arrow
Ctrl-r Page up Ctrl-c Page down
Note that these keys simulate the arrow keys only during Setu p, not d uring nor mal com puter
operation.