Acer Aspire series User Manual page 34

Drive A Allows you to configure floppy
drive A.
Drive B Allows you to configure floppy
drive B (if one is present).
Floppy 3 Allows your floppy drive(s) to
Mode Support run in three modes including
2.88 MB mode.
Video Specifies the type of video card
in use. The default setting is
EGA/VGA. Since current PCs use
VGA only, this function may be
disregarded in the future.
Halt On
Enables you to control the sys-
tem stops in case of Power-on
self-test (POST) errors.
Base Memory Refers to the portion of memory
that is available to standard DOS
programs. DOS systems have an
address space of
1 MB, but the top 384 KB (called
high memory) is reserved for sys-
tem use. This leaves 640 KB of
conventional memory. Every-
thing above 1 MB is either
extended or expanded memory.
Extended Refers to memory above and
Memory beyond the standard 1 MB base
memory that DOS supports.
Extended memory is only avail-
able in PCs with an Intel 80286 or
later microprocessor. Extended
memory is not configured in any
special manner and is therefore
unavailable to most DOS pro-
grams. However, Windows and
OS/2 can use extended memory.
1.44 MB, 3.5-
inch
None
360 KB, 5.25-inch
1.2 MB, 5.25-inch
720 KB, 3.5-inch
2.88 MB, 3.5-inch
None
360 KB, 5.25-inch
1.2 MB, 5.25-inch
720 KB, 3.5-inch
1.44 MB, 3.5-inch
2.88 MB, 3.5-inch
Both
Drive A
Drive B
Disabled
EGA/VGA
CGA 40
CGA 80
Mono
All Errors
No Errors
All, But Keyboard
All, But Diskette
All, But Disk/Key
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