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BIOS Features Setup Menu
This screen (Figure 3) contains industry-standard options additional to the core PC AT BIOS.
This section describes all fields offered by Award Software in this screen. Some fields may
vary from those in your Setup program. Your system board designer may omit or modify
some fields.
ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A59IB3G)
BIOS FEATURES SETUP
AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
Virus Warning
: Disabled
Video BIOS Shadow
:
Enabled
External Cache
: Enabled
C8000-CBFFF Shadow
:
Disabled
CC000-CFFFF Shadow
:
Disabled
Quick Power On Self Test
: Enabled
D0000-D3FFF Shadow
:
Disabled
Boot Sequence
: C,A
D4000-D7FFF Shadow
:
Disabled
Swap Floppy Drive
: Disabled
D8000-DBFFF Shadow
:
Disabled
Boot Up Floppy Seek
: Enabled
D8000-DFFFF Shadow
:
Disabled
Boot Up Numlock Status
: On
Typematic Rate Setting
: Disabled
Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)
: 6
Typematic Delay (Msec)
: 250
Security Option
: Setup
Assign IRQ For VGA
: Disabled
ESC : Quit
↑↓→←
: Select Item
F1 : Help
PU/PD/+/- : Modify
OS Select For DRAM > 64MB
: Non-OS2
F5
: Old Values
(Shift)F2 : Color
F7
: Load Setup Defaults
Figure 3
4.4.1
Virus Warning
When enabled, you receive a warning message if a program (specifically, a virus) attempts to
write to the boot sector or the partition table of the hard disk drive. You should then run an
anti-virus program. Keep in mind that this feature protects only the boot sector, not the entire
hard drive.
NOTE: Many disk diagnostic programs that access the boot sector table can trigger the virus
warning message. If you plan to run such a program, we recommend that you first disable the
virus warning.
4.4.2
External Cache
Cache memory is additional memory that is much faster than conventional DRAM (system
memory). When the CPU requests data, the system transfers the requested data from the main
DRAM into cache memory, for even faster access by the CPU. The External Cache field may
not appear if your system does not have external cache memory.
4.4.3
Quick Power On Self Test
Select Enabled to reduce the amount of time required to run the power-on self-test (POST). A
quick POST skips certain steps. We recommend that you normally disable quick POST.
Better to find a problem during POST than lose data during your work.
