Chapter 4
SA7
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4-3. Advanced BIOS Features Setup Menu
In each item, you can press <
Enter
> at any time to display all the options for this 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.
Virus Warning:
Two options are available: Enabled or Disabled, the default setting being
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:
Two options are available: Disabled or Enabled. The default setting is
Enabled
. This item is used to
enable or to disable the CPU level 1 and level 2 cache function.
Quick Power On Self Test:
Two options are available: Enabled or Disabled, the default setting is
Enabled
. 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 enable, the BIOS will simplify the test
procedures in order to speed up the boot process.
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, LS120, ZIP100 devices, hard drive C, SCSI hard
disk drive or CD-ROM. There are ten options for the boot sequence that you can choose (The default
setting is
Floppy
.):
Eleven options are available: Floppy
(
LS120
(
HDD-0
(
SCSI
(
CDROM
(
HDD-1
(
HDD-2
(
HDD-3
(
ZIP100
(
LAN
(
Disabled
(
Back to Floppy. The default setting is
Floppy
.
Second Boot Device:
Description is the same as the
First Boot Device,
the default setting is
HDD-0
.
Third Boot Device:
Description is same as the
First Boot Device,
the default setting is
LS120.
Boot Other Device:
Two options are available: Disabled or Enabled. The default setting is
Enabled
. This setting allows the
BIOS to try to boot devices other than the three which are listed in the above First, Second and Third
Boot Devices. If you set to Disabled, the BIOS will boot from only the three kinds of boot devices that
are set above.
