The following fields display your hard drive specifications. If you wish to enter the parameters manually, refer to the information on the hard drive.

Capacity

Approximate capacity of the currently installed hard drive.

Cylinder

Number of cylinders.

Head

Number of heads.

Precomp

Write precompensation cylinder.

Landing Zone

Landing zone.

Sector

Number of sectors.

Drive A

Allows you to selects the type of floppy disk drive installed in your system. If you do not install a floppy disk drive, set this item to None. Options are: None, 360K/5.25", 1.2M/5.25", 720K/3.5", 1.44M/3.5", 2.88M/3.5".

Floppy 3 Mode Support

Allows you to specify whether the installed floppy disk drive is 3-mode floppy disk drive, a Japanese standard floppy disk drive. Options are: Disabled (default), Drive A.

Halt On

Allows you to determine whether the system will stop for an error during the POST.

No Errors

The system boot will not stop for any error.

All Errors

Whenever the BIOS detects a non-fatal error the system boot will stop.

All, But Keyboard

The system boot will not stop for a keyboard error but stop for all other

 

errors. (Default)

All, But Diskette

The system boot will not stop for a floppy disk drive error but stop for all

 

other errors.

All, But Disk/Key

The system boot will not stop for a keyboard or a floppy disk drive error but

 

it will stop for all other errors.

Memory

These fields are read-only and are determined by the BIOS POST.

Base Memory Also called conventional memory. Typically, 640 KB will be reserved for

 

the MS-DOS operating system.

Extended Memory The amount of extended memory.

Total Memory

The total amount of memory installed on the system.

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