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BIOS SETUP
the BIOS now offers 10 different boot sequences options of three drive each.
In addition to the traditional drives A and C, options include IDE hard drives
D, E, and F; plus a SCSI hard drive and a CD-ROM drive.
5.4.4.
Swap Floppy Drive
This field is effective only in systems with two floppy drives. Selecting
Enabled assigns physical drive B to logical drive A, and physical drive A to
logical drive B.
or 80 tracks. Only 360-KB floppy drives have 40 tracks; drives with 720 KN<
1.2MB, and 1.44MB capacity all have 80 tracks. Because very few modern
PCs have 40-track
5.4.5.
Boot Up Floppy Seek
When Enabled , the BIOS tests (seeks) floppy drives to determine whether
they have 40 floppy drives, we recommend that you set this field to Disabled
to save time.
5.4.6. Boot Up NumLock Status
Toggle between On or off to control the state of the NumLock key when the
system boots. When toggled on , the numeric keypad generates numbers
instead of controlling cursor operations.
5.4.7.
Typematic Rate Setting
When Disabled , the following two items (Typematic Rate and Typematic
Delay) are
irrelevant. Keystrokes repeat at a rate determined by the keyboard controller
in your system. When
Enabled , you can select a typematic a\rate and
typematic delay.
5.4.8.
Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)
When the typematic rate setting is enabled, you can select a typematic rate
(the rate at which character repeats when you hold down a key) of
6,8,10,12,15,20,24, or 30 characters per second.
5.4.9. Typematic Delay (Msec)
When the typematic rate setting is enabled, you can select a typematic delay
(the delay before keystrokes begin to repeat) of 250, 500, 750 or 1000
milliseconds.
5.4.10. Security Option
If you have set a password, select whether the password is required every
time the System boots, or only when you enter Setup.