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Boot Sector Virus Protection
This option protects the boot sector and partition table of your hard disk against accidental modifications. Any
attempt to write to them will cause the system to halt and display a warning message. If this occurs, you can either
allow the operation to continue or use a bootable virus-free floppy disk to reboot and investigate your system. The
default setting is <
Disabled
>
. This setting is recommended because it conflicts with new operating systems.
Installation of a new operating systems requires that you disable this to prevent write errors.
5-3. ADVANCED CMOS SETUP
The <Advanced CMOS Setup> option consists of configuration entries that allow you to improve your
system performance, or let you set up some system features according to your preference. Some entries
here are required by the CPU board’s design to remain in their default settings.
AMIBIOS SETUP – ADVANCED CMOS SETUP
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Quick Boot Enabled
1st Boot Device IDE-1
2nd Boot Device CDROM
3rd Boot Device Disabled
4th Boot Device Disabled
Try Other Boot Devices Yes
Floppy Access Control Read-Write
Hard Disk Access Control Read-Write
S.M.A.R.T. for Hard Disks Disabled
BootUp Num- Lock On
Floopy Drive Swap Disabled
Floopy Drive Seek Disabled
PS/2 Mouse Support Enabled
Typematic Rate Fast
System Keyboard Absent
Primary Display VGA/ EGA
PASSWORD Check Setup
Boot TO OS/ 2 > 64 MB No
Wait For ‘F1’ If Error Disabled
Hit ‘DEL’ Message Display Enabled
Available Options:
Disabled
$
Enabled
ESC: Exit
↑↓
: Sel
PgUp/ PgDn: Modify
F1: Help F2/F3: Color
Advanced CMOS Setup
Quick Boot
This category speeds up the <Power On Self Test> (POST) after you power on the computer. If it is set to
Enabled
, the BIOS will shorten or skip some check items during POST.
1st Boot Device
2nd Boot Device
3rd Boot Device
4th Boot Device
These options determine where the system looks first for an operating system.
Try Other Boot Devices
If you have other bootup device other than the above mentioned devices, such as IDE-0, IDE-1, IDE-3, IDE-
4, Floppy.