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Virus Warning
When this item is enabled, the Award BIOS will monitor the
boot sector and partition table of the hard disk drive for any
attempt at modification. If an attempt is made, the BIOS will
halt the system and the following error message will appear.
Afterwards, if necessary, you will be able to run an antivirus
program to locate and remove the problem before any damage
is
done.
! WARNING !
Disk boot sector is to be modified
Type ‘Y’ to accept write or ‘N’ to abort write
Award Software, Inc.
Enabled
Activates automatically when the system
boots up, if anything attempts to access
the boot sector or hard disk partition
table will cause a warning message to
appear.
Disabled No warning message will appear when
anything attempts to access the boot
sector or hard disk partition table.
Many disk diagnostic programs which attempt to
access the boot sector table can cause the above warning
message. If you will be running such a program, we
recommend that you first disable Virus Protection beforehand.
CPU
These two categories speed up memory access.
Internal Cache
However, it depends on CPU/chipset design.
External Cache
The default value is ‘enabled‘.
Quick Power On
This category speeds up Power On Self Test
Self Test
after you power up the computer. If you set
Enabled, BIOS will shorten or skip some checked
items during POST.