SMC Networks 1232 Series user manual Error on Keyboard, Error on Video, Error on Floppy Disks

Detect Now

Using the Detect Now option, the user can start manually the hard-disk autodetect procedure and see immediately the result, as well as the size (in Mbytes), in terms of cylinders, heads and sectors numbers.

Error Handling Page

Generally, in a normal desktop BIOS, when an error is encountered by the POST sequence, the bootstrap stops and waits for a reboot. For example a simple keyboard absence represents an irrecoverable error. This can be a serious problem in embedded systems. Using the Error Handling page, the user can decide to ignore one or more of errors that could be encountered during the boot.

Error on Keyboard

The user can decide for himself if a keyboard error must stop the boot process or not.

Option	Description	Note
Ignore	The keyboard error is ignored
Prompt User (*)	When a keyboard error occurs, the system stops and waits for the	(*) = Default
	user	setting

Error on Video

The user can decide for himself if a video error must stop the boot process or not.

Option	Description	Note
Ignore	The video error is ignored
Prompt User (*)	When a video error occurs, the system stops and waits for the user	(*) = Default
		setting

Error on Floppy Disks

The user can decide for himself if a floppy disks error must stop the boot process or not.

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