Epson Apex 386/40 Canadian Product User Manual - Page 63

BIOS Utility and Setup, System BIOS

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3-5 BIOS Utility and Setup This chapter will acquaint you with the DTK BIOS on your motherhoard. If you are an AMI BIOS or any other BIOS user, skip this chapter and refer to its respective BIOS manual. The BIOS is composed of two portions. • system BIOS • setup program 3-6 System BIOS Your system BIOS is fully compatible with IBM BIOS that contains a POST (Power-on Self Test). In addition, this system BIOS supports the following: • device drivers for standard AT system components such as fixed disks, monitors, keyboards and coprocessor-s • 360KB, 1.2MB, 720KB and 1.44MB floppy drives • a low-level fixed disk format utility • three system utilities (a calculator, a hard disk park, and a timer) • system password • user-defined hard disk types • shadow RAM Chapter 3: Operating Your System 9

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3-5 BIOS Utility and Setup
This chapter will acquaint you with the DTK BIOS on your mother-
hoard. If you are an AMI BIOS or any other BIOS user, skip this chapter
and refer to its respective BIOS manual.
The BIOS is composed of two portions.
• system BIOS
• setup program
3-6
System BIOS
Your system BIOS is fully compatible with IBM BIOS that contains a
POST (Power-on Self Test).
the following:
In addition, this system BIOS supports
device drivers for standard AT system components such as
fixed disks, monitors, keyboards and coprocessor-s
360KB, 1.2MB, 720KB and 1.44MB floppy drives
a low-level fixed disk format utility
three system utilities (a calculator,
a
hard disk park, and a
timer)
• system password
• user-defined hard disk types
• shadow RAM
Chapter 3: Operating Your System
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