
Award BIOS Setup Guide
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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.
Typematic Rate Setting: Choose Enabled or Disabled. Enabled will determines the typematic
rate defined by following two options.
Typematic Rate: 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.
Assign IRQ to VGA: Choose Enabled or Disabled. Enabled will assign an IRQ to Graphic
Controller.
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.
HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability: Choose Enabled or Disabled. Enabled will support the hard disk
S.M.A.R.T. feature (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology).
Report No FDD For Win95: Choose Yes or No. Yes will show a removable disk in Window 95
when the floppy drive is set as None.
Video BIOS Shadow: ROM Shadow copies Video BIOS code from slower ROM to faster RAM.
Video BIOS can then execute from RAM.
C8000-DFFFF Shadow: If enabled and BIOS is present in this segment, then the BIOS is
shadowed.