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BIOS Setup
Virus Warning
This field protects the boot sector and partition table of your hard disk
drive. When this field is enabled, the Award BIOS will monitor the boot
sector and partition table of the hard disk drive. If an attempt is made
to write to the boot sector or partition table of the hard disk drive,
the BIOS will halt the system and an error message will appear.
After seeing the error message, if necessary, you will be able to run
an anti-virus program to locate and remove the problem before any
damage is done.
Many disk diagnostic programs which attempt to access the boot sec-
tor table will cause the warning message to appear. If you are running
such a program, we recommend that you first disable this field. Also,
disable this field if you are installing or running certain operating sys-
tems like Windows
®
95/98/2000 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) whenever the sys-
tem is powered on. The BIOS will shorten or skip some check items
during POST. To attain the shortest POST time, select “Enabled”.
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 re-
spectively. The BIOS will boot the operating system according to the
sequence of the drive selected. Set “Boot Other Device” to Enabled
if you wish to boot from another device.
