3: BIOS Setup Utility
Quick Boot If you enable this item, the system starts
up more quickly be elimination some of
the power on test routines.
1
st
Boot Device
2
nd
Boot Device
3
rd
Boot Device
Use these items to determine the device
order the computer uses to look for an
operating system to load at start-up time.
Try Other Boot
Device
If you enable this item, the system will
also search for other boot devices if it
fails to find an operating system from the
first two locations.
S.M.A.R.T. for
Hard Disks
Enable this item if any IDE hard disks
support the S.M.A.R.T. (Self-
Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting
Technology) feature.
BootUp Num-
Lock
This item determines if the Num Lock
key is active or inactive at system start-
up time.
Floppy Drive
Swap
If you have two diskette drives installed
and you enable this item, drive A
becomes drive B and drive B becomes
drive A.
Floppy Drive
Seek
If you enable this item, your system will
check all floppy disk drives at start up.
Disable this item unless you are using an
old 360KB drive.
Password Check If you have entered a password for the
system, use this item to determine, if the
password is required to enter the Setup
Utility (Setup) or required both at start-
up and to enter the Setup Utility
(Always).
Boot to OS/2 >
64MB
Enable this item if you are booting the
OS/2 operating system and you have
more than 64MB of system memory
installed.
L2 Cache Leave these items enabled since all the
processors that can be installed on this
board have internal L2 cache memory.
System BIOS If you enable this item, a segment of the
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