2.4.3 Virus Warning
Enables or
disables the virus warning.
2.4.4 CPU L1 & L2 Cache
Enabling this feature speeds up memory access. The
commands are
“Enabled” or
“Disabled.”
2.4.5 Hyper-Threading Technology
While
using a
CPU with Hyper-Threading technology,
you can select
“Enabled” to
enable Hyper-Threading
Technology in
an
OS which sup- ports
Hyper-Threading Technology or select “Disabled” for other OSs which do not
support Hyper-Threading
technology.
2.4.6 Quick Power On Self Test
This allows the system to skip certain tests to speed up the boot-up procedure.
2.4.7 First/Second/Third Boot Device
The BIOS
tries to load
the OS
from
the devices
in
the sequence set
here. The
options
are: “Floppy”, “LS120”,
“HDD-0”, “SCSI”, “CDROM”,
“HDD-1”,
“HDD-2”, “HDD-3”, “ZIP100”, “USB-FDD”, “USB-ZIP”,
“USBCDROM”, “USB-HDD”, “LAN”, and “Disabled”.
2.4.8 Boot
Other Device
Use this
to boot another device. The options are “Enabled”
and
“Disabled”.
2.4.9 Swap Floppy Drive
If the
system has
two floppy
drives, choose “Enabled” to assign physical drive B to
logical
drive A and
vice-versa. The
commands are
“Enabled” or “Disabled”.
2.4.10
Boot Up Floppy
Seek
Selection of the command “Disabled”
will speed the boot up. Selection of
“Enabled” searches disk
drives
during boot up.
2.4.11 Boot Up NumLock Status
Sets the boot up status
Num Lock. The
options are “On” and “Off”.
3.4.12
Gate A20 Option
“Normal”:
A
pin in the
keyboard controller controls
GateA20. Fast
(Default) lets chipset
control GateA20.
2.4.13 Typematic Rate
Setting
The typematic rate is the rate key strokes
repeat as determined
by the
keyboard
controller. The
commands are
“Enabled” or
“Disabled”. Enabling allows the
typematic
rate
and
delay to be selected.
2.4.14 Typematic Rate
(Chars/Sec)
The
BIOS accepts the following
input values
(characters/second) for typematic
rate: 6,
8, 10, 12, 15, 20,
24,
and
30.
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