National Instruments PXI NI PXI-8105 System CMOS

Chapter 2 Installation and Configuration

•USB FDC—A USB based floppy disk drive.

•PCI SCSI—A SCSI drive (hard disk drive or CD-ROM) connected

through a SCSI controller in the PXI chassis.

•PCI LAN—A PXE Network boot device, if PXE Network Boot is

enabled on the Advanced menu.

The Exit setup menu includes all available options for exiting, saving, and

loading the BIOS default configuration. As an alternative to this screen,

press <F9> to load BIOS default settings and <F10> to save changes and

exit setup.

The Exit setup menu includes the following settings:

•Exit Saving Changes—Any changes made to BIOS settings are stored

in the battery-backed System CMOS. The setup program then exits

and reboots the controller.

•Exit Discarding Changes—Any changes made to BIOS settings

during this session of the BIOS setup program are discarded. The setup

program then exits and boots the controller without rebooting first.

•Load Setup Defaults—This setting restores all BIOS settings to the

factory default. This is useful if the controller exhibits unpredictable

behavior due to an incorrect or inappropriate BIOS setting. Notice

that any nondefault settings such as boot order, passwords, and

keyboardless operation are restored to their factory defaults. This may

produce undesirable behavior, and in heavily customized cases, may

cause the controller to malfunction or fail to boot.

•Discard Changes—Any changes made to BIOS settings during

this session of the BIOS setup program are discarded. Unlike Exit

Discarding Changes, however, the BIOS setup continues to be active.

•Save Changes—Changes made to BIOS settings during this session

are committed to battery-backed System CMOS. The setup program

remains active, allowing further changes.

System CMOS

The NIPXI-8105 contains a backed-u p memory used to store BIOS

configuration information.