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Diamond Systems Rhodeus-LC LX800 PC/104 User Manual

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BIOS

The Award BIOS provides a Setup utility program for specifying the system

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utility.

When you turn on the computer, the Award BIOS is immediately activated.

Pressing the key immediately allows you to enter the Setup utility.

If you a little bit late press the key, POST (Power On Self Test) will

continue with its test routines, thus preventing you from invoking the Setup.

If you still wish to enter Setup, restart the system by pressing the ”Reset”

button or simultaneously pressing the , and keys. You

can also restart by turning the system Off and back On again.

The following message will appear on the screen:

Press to Enter Setup

In general, you press the arrow keys to highlight items, to select, the

and keys to change entries, for help and to

quit. When you enter the Setup utility, the Main Menu screen will appear on

the screen. The Main Menu allows you to select from various setup functions

and exit choices.

3.2 BIOS Setup

The Award BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) installed in your computer sys-

tem’s. The BIOS provides for a standard device such as disk drives, serial

ports and parallel ports. It also adds password protection as well as special

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3.1 BIOS Introduction