Award BIOS Setup Guide
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Boot Sequence: With the default setting the BIOS first attempts to boot from drive A: and then, if
unsuccessful, from hard disk C:. User can select other boot up sequence. Available sequences are
“A,C,SCSI”, “C,A,SCSI”, “C,CDROM,A”, “CDROM,C,A”, “D,A,SCSI”, “E,A,SCSI’,
“F,A,SCSI”, “SCSI,A,C”, “SCSI,C,A”, “C Only”, “LS/ZIP,C”.
Swap Floppy Drive: Choose Enabled or Disabled. This option lets end users to change the Drive
A: or B: to others.
Boot Up Floppy Seek: Choose Enabled or Disabled. Disabled provides a fast boot and reduces
the possibility of damage to the heads.
Boot Up NumLock Status: Choose On or Off. On puts numeric keypad in Num Lock mode at
boot-up. Off puts numeric keypad in arrow key mode at boot-up.
Boot Up System Speed: Choose High or Low. Set the CPU timing at Boot Up, the default is
high.
Gate A20 Option: Choose Fast (chipset handled) or Normal (keyboard handled). The gate A20 is
a device used to address memory above 1Mbytes. Initially, the gate A20 was handled via a pin on
the keyboard. Today, while keyboards still provide this support, it is more common, and much
faster, for the system chipset to provide support for gate A20.
Memory Parity/ECC Check: Choose Enabled or Disabled. If memory modules with Parity of
ECC is installed.
Typematic Rate Setting: Choose Enabled or Disabled. Enabled will determines the typematic
rate defined by following two options.
Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec): The number selected 6,8,10... indicates how fast the number of
characters can response in one second.
Typematic Delay (Msec): The number selected indicates the time period between two identical
keys appear.
Security Option: Choose Setup or System. If system is selected, the password should be set.
PCI/VGA Palette Snoop: Select Disabled or Enabled. If Enabled the MPEG Card can
synchronised with PCI/VGA.
OS Select For DRAM > 64MB: Select Disabled or Enabled. If the system memory is larger than
64MB and running OS/2, please enable this item. However, if it use other operating system,
please disable this feature. Furthermore, if the system memory is less than 64MB, the BIOS will
ignore this function.
