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106 Maintaining and Troubleshooting the Gateway ALR 9200 Server
The SSU is PCI-aware and complies with the ISA Plug and Play
specification; it works with any compliant configuration (.CFG) files
supplied by the peripheral device manufacturer.
The system board comes with a .CFG file describing the characteristics of
the board and the system resources it requires. The configuration registers
on PCI and ISA Plug and Play expansion cards contain the same type of
information in a .CFG file. Some ISA boards also come with a .CFG file.
The SSU uses the information provided by .CFG files, configuration
registers, flash memory, and the information that you enter, to specify a
system configuration. The SSU then writes the configuration information
to flash memory.
The configuration values in flash memory take effect when you boot the
server. POST checks the values against the actual hardware configuration;
if the values do not agree, POST generates an error message. You must then
run the SSU to specify the correct configuration before the server boots.
The SSU always includes a checksum with the configuration data so the
BIOS can detect any potential data corruption before the actual hardware
configuration takes place.
What You Need to Do
You must run the SSU from a set of DOS diskettes. You must follow the
instructions in the included README.TXT file to prepare the diskettes.
If your diskette drive is disabled or improperly configured, you must use the
flash-resident Setup utility to enable it so you can use the SSU. If necessary,
disable the drive after exiting the SSU. Information entered using the SSU
overrides any entered using Setup.
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