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running such a program, we recommend that you first disable this
field. Also, disable this field if you are installing or running cer tain
operating systems like Windows
®
98/2000/ME/XP or the operating
system may not install nor work.
3.1.2.2 CPU L1 & L2 Cache
These fields speed up the memory access.
3.1.2.3 Quick Power On Self Test
This field speeds up Power On Self Test (POST) after you power on
the system. It allows the system to skip cer tain tests while booting,
therefore decreasing the time needed to boot the system.
3.1.2.4 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.
3.1.2.5 Swap Floppy Drive
When this field is enabled and the system is booting from the floppy
drive, the system will boot from drive B instead of drive A. When
this option is disabled and the system is booting from the floppy
drive, the system will boot from drive A. You must have two floppy
drives to use this function.
3.1.2.6 Boot Up Floppy Seek
When enabled, the BIOS will check whether the floppy disk drive in-
stalled is 40 or 80 tracks. Note that the BIOS cannot distinguish be-
tween 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88M drive types as they are all 80
tracks. When disabled, the BIOS will not search for the type of floppy
disk drive by track number. Note that there will not be any warning
message if the drive installed is 360KB.