8. BIOS Setup

80 SPI-8451-LLVA, SPI-8452-LLVA, SPI-8451-LVA

Item Options Description
Halt On
All Errors
No Errors
All, but Keyboard
All, but Diskette
All, but Disk/Key
Select the situation in which you
want the BIOS to stop the POST
process and notify you
Base Memory N/A Displays the amount of conventional
memory detected during boot up
Extended Memory N/A Displays the amount of extended
memory detected during boot up
Total Memory N/A Displays the total memory available
in the system
IDE Adapters

The IDE adapters control the hard disk drive. Use a separate sub menu to configure each hard disk

drive.

Use the legend keys to navigate through this menu and exit to the main menu.

Item Options Description
IDE HDD
Auto-detection Press Enter
Press Enter to auto-detect the HDD on this channel.
If detection is successful, it fills the remaining fields
on this menu.
IDE Primary Master
None
Auto
Manual
Selecting ‘manual’ lets you set the remaining fields
on this screen. Selects the type of fixed disk. "User
Type" will let you select the number of cylinders,
heads, etc. Note: PRECOMP=65535 means NONE !
Capacity Auto Display your disk
drive size
Disk drive capacity (Approximated). Note that this
size is usually slightly greater than the size of a
formatted disk given by a disk checking program.
Access Mode
CHS
LBA
Large
Auto
Choose the access mode for this hard disk
The following options are selectable only if the ‘IDE Primary Master’ item is set to ‘Manual’
Cylinder Min = 0
Max = 65535 Set the number of cylinders for this hard disk.
Head Min = 0
Max = 255 Set the number of read/write heads
Precomp Min = 0
Max = 65535 Hard disk
Landing zone Min = 0
Max = 65535 ****
Sector Min = 0
Max = 255 Number of sectors per track