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Award BIOS Setup Utility
field. Also, disable this field if you are installing or running certain
operating systems like Windows
®
95/98 or the operating system
may not install nor work.
CPU Internal Cache and External Cache
These fields speed up the memory access. The default is Enabled,
which provides better performance by enabling cache.
Quick Power On Self Test
This field speeds up Power On Self Test (POST) after you power on
the system. When Enabled, the BIOS will shorten or skip some check
items during POST.
First Boot Device, Second Boot Device, Third Boot Device and
Boot Other Device
Select the drive to boot first, second and third in the First Boot
Device Second Boot Device and Third Boot Device fields
respectively. The BIOS will boot the operating system according to
the sequence of the drive selected. The options are: Floppy, LS/ZIP,
HDD-0, SCSI, CDROM, HDD-1, HDD-2, HDD-3, LAN and
Disabled. Set Boot Other Device to Enabled if you wish to boot
from another device.
Swap Floppy Drive
If the system has two floppy drives, choose Enabled to assign
physical drive B to logical drive A and vice versa.
Boot Up Floppy Seek
When enabled, the BIOS will check whether the floppy disk drive
installed is 40 or 80 tracks. 360K type is 40 tracks while 760K, 1.2M
and 1.44M are all 80 tracks.
Boot Up NumLock Status
This allows you to determine the default state of the numeric
keypad. By default, the system boots up with NumLock on wherein
the function of the numeric keypad is the number keys. When set to
Off, the function of the numeric keypad is the arrow keys.
