Chapter 2: WinBIOS Setup
Manual Number: 41209-103-1
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Password Check
This option enables password checking every time the computer is powered on or every time
WINBIOS Setup is executed. If
Always
is chosen, a user password prompt appears every time the
computer is turned on. If
Setup
is chosen, the password prompt appears if WINBIOS is executed.
The Optimal and Power-On defaults are
Setup.
Parity Check
The setting are
Disabled
or
Enabled.
The defaults are
Disabled
OS/2 Compatible Mode
Set this option to
Enabled
to permit AMIBIOS to run with IBM OS/2. The settings are
Enabled
or
Disabled.
The default settings are
Disabled.
Internal Cache
This option specifies the caching algorithm used for L1 internal cache memory. The settings are:
Disabled
or
Write Thru
(default).
External Cache
This option specifies the caching algorithm used for L2 secondary (external) cache memory. The
settings are:
Disabled
,
WriteThru
or
WriteBack
. The optimal default setting is
Disabled
. The Fail-
Safe default setting is
WriteThru
.
System BIOS Shadow Cacheable
When this option is set to
Enabled,
the contents of the F0000h system memory segment can be read
from or written to L2 secondary cache memory. The contents of the F0000h memory segment are
always copied from the BIOS ROM to system RAM for faster execution. The settings are
Enabled
or
Disabled
. The Optimal default setting is
Enabled
. The Fail-Safe default is
Disabled.
C000,32k Shadow
C800,16k Shadow
CC00,16k Shadow
D000,64k Shadow
These options control the location of the contents of the 16KB of ROM beginning at the specified
memory location. If no adaptor ROM is using the named ROM area, this area is made available to
the local bus. The settings are:
Enabled
or
Disabled
.
C0000-FFFFF, Shadow Cacheability
The settings are
Disabled
or
Enabled.
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