Checking System Memory

Your computer comes with 2MB or 4MB of random access memory (RAM) on SIMMs. DOS and application programs that run under DOS use the first 640KB of memory. You can use the memory above 1MB as extended memory.

When you boot your system, the system BIOS detects the type of RAM and updates the base memory size and the extended memory size automatically. You see the memory configuration displayed on this SETUP screen.

Setting the Video Display Type

The Video Card option lets you define the type of adapter you are using for your primary display. If you connected your monitor to the computer’s built-in VGA port, select EGA/VGA. If you installed an optional video card, follow the guidelines below to select the correct adapter type.

Video display type options

I Select

I If

 

 

You connected your monitor to the built-in VGA port or

 

 

you installed a VGA or enhanced graphics adapter (EGA)

 

 

card

 

 

 

 

CGA40*

You installed an optional color graphics adapter set to

 

 

40-column color graphics adapter (CGA) mode

 

 

 

 

CGA80*

You installed a CGA of a muiti-mode graphics adapter

 

 

(MGA) attached to a color monitor

 

 

 

 

MONO’

You installed a monochrome display adapter or an MGA

 

 

attached to a monochrome monitor

 

 

 

•For these options, you must change jumpers J36 and J37 on the system board to the OFF position.

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