d.
Boot Sequence
This option sets the sequence of boot drives (either floppy drive A:
or hard disk drive C that BIOS attempts to boot from after
POST completes.
CD-ROM driver is becoming a standard device on computer
systems. It has a large storage capacity advantage to store different
operating system on it and will need boot-up of the system via CD-
ROM. Now, we provides CD-ROM boot-up function that allows
the user to select booting from drive A, C, or CD-ROM. No matter
if the CD-ROM is IDE or SCSI, the system will look for the first
available bootable device for the operating system.
Swap Floppy Drive:
Enabled - The system will swap the floppy
drive assignment so that drive A will function as drive B, drive B
will function as drive A.
Boot Up Floppy Seek:
During POST, BIOS will determine if the
floppy disk drive installed is 40 or 80 tracks. (360K type drive is
40 tracks and the 720K, 1.2M and 1.44M are 80 tracks).
Boot Up NumLock Status:
Define the keyboard as number keys
or arrow keys.
Boot-Up System Speed:
This option selects the speed of CPU at
system boot time.
e. Keyboard Interface
Typematic Rate Setting
: When enabled, you can set the two
typematic controls listed next, default setting is “Disabled”.
3. BIOS SOFTWARE
3-4 BIOS Features Setup (Continue…)
Typematic Rate
(chars/sec): The typematic rate is set at the
rate at which characters on the screen repeat when a key is
pressed and held down.
Typematic Delay
(msec): Choose how long after you press a
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