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AWARD BIOS Description
3 - 6
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Swap Floppy
Drive
Enabled It will exchange the assignment of A&B
floppy drives.
Disabled The assignment of A&B floppy drives are
normal.
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Boot Up Floppy
Seek
Enabled
BIOS searches for floppy disk drive to
determine if drive is ready for diskette
read/write during booting.
Disabled skip drive seeking to speed up system booting.
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Boot Up
On Keypad is used as number keys.
Numlock Status
Off
Keypad is used as arrow keys.
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Gate A20
Option
Normal
The A20 signal is controlled by keyboard
controller or chipset hardware.
Fast It is default. The A20 signal is controlled by
Port 92 or chipset specific method.
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Typematic Rate
Setting
Enabled
Enable typematic rate and typematic delay
programming.
Disabled Disable typematic rate and typematic delay
programming. The system BIOS will use
default value of these two items.
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Typematic Rate
Chars/Sec)
6
~
30 Set the speed of the typematic rate (characters
per second).
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Typematic
Delay (Msec)
250 ~ 1000 Set the time of the typematic delay.
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Security Option System
The system will not boot and access to Setup
will be denied if the correct password is not
entered when prompting.
Setup The system will boot up, but access to Setup
will be denied if the correct password is not
entered when prompting.
Note:
To disable security, select Password
Setting (refer to page 3-14) at Main Menu and then
you will be asked to enter password. Do not type
anything and just press <Enter>, it will disable
security. Once the security is disabled, the
system will boot and you can enter Setup freely.
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OS Select For
DRAM>64MB
Non-OS2
If your operating system is not OS/2, please
select this item.
OS2
If system DRAM is more than 64MB and
operating system is OS/2, please select this item.
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Report No FDD
For WIN95
Yes
No
Release IRQ6 to WIN95 if no FDD in
connection
Not release IRQ6 to WIN95
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Video BIOS
Shadow
Enabled
Video BIOS will be copied to RAM. Video
Shadow will increase the video speed.
Disabled Video shadow is disabled.