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3-3. Advanced BIOS Features Setup Menu
With each item, you can press <Enter> at any time to display all the options for that item.
ATTENTION: Advanced BIOS Features Setup Menu has already been set for maximum operation. If
you do not really understand each of the options in this menu, we recommend you use the default values.
Figure 3-5. Advanced BIOS Features Setup Screen
Virus Warning:
This item can be set to Enabled or Disabled, the default setting is Disabled .
When this feature is enabled, if there is any attempt from a software or an application to access the boot
sector or the partition table, the BIOS will warn you that a boot virus is attempting to access the hard disk.
CPU L1 & L2 Cache:
This item is used to enable or to disable the CPU level 1 cache. When the cache is set to Disabled , it is
much slower, so the default setting for this item is Enabled since it will speed up memory access. Some
old and very poorly written programs will make the computer malfunction or crash if the system speed is
too high. In this case, you should disable this feature. The default setting is
Enabled
.
Quick Power On Self Test:
After the computer has been powered on, the BIOS of the motherboard will run a series of tests in order
to check the system and its peripherals. If the Quick Power on Self-Test feature is enabled, the BIOS will
simplify the test procedures in order to speed up the boot process. The default setting is
Enabled
.
First Boot Device:
When the computer boots up, the BIOS attempts to load the operating system from the devices in the
sequence selected in these items: floppy disk drive A, LS/ZIP devices, hard drive C, SCSI hard disk drive
or CD-ROM. There are eleven options for the boot sequence that you can choose (The default setting is
Floppy
.):
Floppy
%
LS120
%
HDD-0
%
SCSI
%
CDROM
%
HDD-1
%
HDD-2
%
HDD-3
%
ZIP100
%
LAN
%
ATA133RAID
%
Disabled.
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