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Boot Other Device [Enabled]
When enabled, the system searches all other possible locations for an operating
system if it fails to find one in the devices specified under the First, Second, and
Third boot devices.
Swap Floppy Drive [Disabled]
If you have two floppy diskette drives in your system, this item allows you to swap
the assigned drive letters so that drive A becomes drive B, and drive B becomes
drive A.
Boot Up Floppy Seek [Disabled]
If this item is enabled, it checks the size of the floppy disk drives at start-up time.
You don’t need to enable this item unless you have a legacy diskete drive with 360K
capacity.
Boot Up NumLock Status [On]
This item defines if the keyboard Num Lock key is active when your system is
started.
Typematic Rate Setting [Disabled]
If this item is enabled, you can use the following two items to set the typematic rate
and the typematic delay settings for your keyboard.
Security Option [Setup]
If you have installed password protection, this item defines if the password is
required at system start up, or if it is only required when a user tries to enter the
Setup Utility.
APIC Mode [Enabled]
This item allows you to enable or disable the APIC (Advanced Programmable
Interrupt Controller) mode. APIC provides symmetric multi-processing (SMP) for
systems, allowing support for up to 60 processors.
HDD S.M.A.R.T Capability [Disabled]
The S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) system is a
diagnostics technology that monitors and predicts device performance S.M.A.R.T.
software resides on both the disk drive and the host computer.
The disk drive software monitors the internal performance of the motors, media,
heads and electronics of the drive. The host software monitors the overall reliability
status of the drive. If a device failure is predicted, the host software, through the
Client WORKS S.M.A.R.T applet, warns the user of the impending condition and
advises appropriate action to protect the data.
searches for an operating system at start-up time.
♦ Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec): Use this item to define how many characters
per second are generated by a held-down key.
♦ Typematic Delay (Msec): Use this item to define how many milliseconds
.
must elapse before a held-down key begins generating repeat characters
Video BIOS Shadow (Enabled)
This item determines whether the BIOS will be copied to RAM for faster execution.
Small Logo (EPA) Show [Disabled]
Enables or disables the display of the EPA logo during boot.