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The BIOS Companion: The book that doesnt come with your motherboard

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Inside your computer are several smaller ones, which must work together for best performance. Getting them to do this, rather than pulling against each other, can make quite a difference to how your machine behaves, but most come out of their boxes inadequately set up because there isn't enough time or incentive for the manufacturers to do it for you - they mostly choose standard CMOS settings to suit the widest circumstances (and keep BIOS problems to a minimum), which are often the slowest. The BIOS Companion explains those secret settings in the CMOS Setup and contains a wealth of data for troubleshooting, including Nasty Noises, Error and POST Codes (for your diagnostic card), and more - there are over 500 pages. It helps you cope with CMOS problems and reduces the need to call for tech support

* The PC and how it works
o The BIOS
o BIOS ID Strings
o The Motherboard
* Memory And Its Management
o Static RAM
o Dynamic RAM
o Cacheing
o Base Memory
* Expansion Cards
o Interrupts
o DMA
o I/O Addresses
* Standard CMOS Setup
o Utilities
* Advanced CMOS Setup
o Fast Gate A 20 Option
o Gate A 20 Emulation
o Password Checking Option
o Memory Parity Check
o Video ROM Shadow
* Advanced Chipset Setup
o AGP Aperture Size (64 Mb)
o AGP Fast Write Transaction
o AGP Sideband Support
o S2K I/O Compensation
o Memory Termination
o DOS Flat Mode
o ISA 14.318MHz Clock
o Decoupled Refresh Option
o AT Cycle Wait State
o AT Bus Clock Source
o Single ALE Enable
o E000 ROM Belongs to AT Bus
o IDE Multi-Block Mode
o Cache Read Hit Burst
o MA Drive Capacity
o Spread Spectrum Modulated
o Speculative Leadoff
o Cyrix A20M Pin
* Power Management
* Plug and Play/PCI
* Nasty Noises - beeps, etc
* Error Messages
* POST Codes and Procedures (over 100 pages!)
Acer
ALR
AMI
Arche
AST
AT&T
Award
Chips & Technologies
Compaq
Dell
DTK
Eurosoft/Mylex
Faraday A-Tease
HP
IBM
Intel
Landmark
Microid/MR
NCR
Olivetti
Philips
Phoenix
Quadtel
Supersoft
Tandon
Zenith
* Fixed Disk Parameter Tables
* Chipsets
* Memory Chip Listings

There is also much background knowledge about PC performance to help you make the best of what you've got, and to help make sense of it all.

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