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On this page you can find some hardware information - BIOS settings,  stupid things, useful software written by me and hardware links

AWARD BIOS settings

Setting
Recommended
value
Problem description
Chipset features setup /
8-bit I/O Recovery Time		3If this time is too short, some devices (for example, printers) cannot work properly
Chipset features setup /
16-bit I/O Recovery Time		2Also if this time setting is too short, some devices cannot work properly
Chipset features setup /
AGP Aperture Size (MB)		between [RAM size]/2
and [RAM size]		Setting this parameter too small can cause video driver problems (example - S3 Savage4 video driver)


Some stupid things

Problem
Causes by
Computer cannot be switched ONPower plug is not plugged into socket
System cannot start #1Mouse and keyboard connectors are mixed
System cannot start #2Printer instead of parallel port is connected to 25-pin SCSI port
Magnetooptical disk cannot be formattedTry FDISK first
Computer cannot boot from IDE CD-ROMCD-ROM should be master if it is the only device attached to the IDE channel


Useful software

Software
Description
MemMngr
Downloads: 952000
Small utility which promotes swapping of rarely used data to disk if available RAM goes low, also suitable for HDD - RAM system load for testing purposes

Hardware links

SiteComments
Chris Hare Computer hardware LinksHuge collection of hardware links
HelpDriversGood collection of driver links
Tom`s Hardware GuideHardware reviews
Get wired!Connector descriptions
Standards (and Cross References)Different hardware and software standards
textDifferent information archive
EnTech TaiwanUseful utilities

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