Award BIOS Setup Guide
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Swap Floppy Drive: Choose Enabled or Disabled. This option lets end users to change the Drive
A: or B: to others.
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.
IDE HDD Block Mode: This allows your hard disk controller to use the fast block mode to
transfer data to your hard disk drive.
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.
OS Select For DRAM > 64MB: If the system memory is larger than 64MB and running OS/2,
please select OS2. However, if it use other operating system, please select Non-OS2.
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
driver S.M.A.R.T. feature (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology).
Report No FDD For WIN 95: Choose Yes or No. Yes will show a removable disk in Windows
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.
Summary of Contents for PRM-0084I VBX
Page 8: ...Introduction 3 Fig 1 Key Components of the Mainboard ...
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