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4. BIOS Setup
4.4.8 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
4.4.9 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.
4.4.10 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.
4.4.11 Memory Parity Check
Leave it on default setting.
4.4.12 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.
4.4.13 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.
4.4.14 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.
4.4.15 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.
4.4.16 PCI/VGA Palette Snoop
Some display cards that are not standard VGA such as graphics accelerators or MPEG cards
may not show the correct colors, the setting can correct this problem once you set it to
Enable, To default setting leave at Disabled.
