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Virus protection
Values
Meaning
Enabled
The BIOS will give a beep and a warning whenever an attempt
is made to write to the boot sector of the HDD.
Virus
Warning
Disabled
The BIOS will allow write attempts to the boot sector
CPU Cache settings
Values
Meaning
Disabled
CPU L1 &
L2 Cache
Enabled
Enabled
This will enable CPU Internal L2 cache of your CPU.
CPU L2
Cache ECC
Checking
Disabled
(Not recommended)
Quick Power On Self Test
Values
Meaning
Enabled
The BIOS will execute test routines that test most parts of the
motherboard during boot up.
Quick
Power On
Self Test
Disabled
The BIOS will skip the tests, speeding up the boot process.
Errors will on the other hand not be detected.
Floppy Drive Settings
Values
Meaning
Enabled
This will swap floppy A and B. Most systems not even have 2
floppy drives, so this item is irrelevant .
Swap Floppy
Drive
Disabled
Floppy A and B are not swapped
Enabled
The BIOS will test whether the floppy has 40 or 80 tracks
during boot up. All new floppy drives are 80 tracks.
Boot-up
Floppy Seek
Disabled
The BIOS will not test the amount of tracks.
Boot Devices
The first to third boot device items allow you to select what device the system should boot
from. If the BIOS fails to boot from the first boot device, it will attempt to boot from the
second boot device, if that fails too, the third boot device is tried. If you set the
boot other
device
item to enabled, the BIOS will try to boot from other devices if the first to third
choices all fail. If you set this item to disabled, the BIOS will not boot if the first to third
devices all fail to boot.
