Chapter 3
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BIOS FEATURES SETUP
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Virus Warning
: Disabled
Video BIOS Shadow : Enabled
CPU Internal Cache
: Enabled
C8000
~
CBFFF Shadow : Disabled
External Cache
: Enabled
CC000
~
CFFFF Shadow : Disabled
Quick Power On Self Test
: Disabled
D0000
~
D3FFF Shadow : Disabled
Boot Sequence
: C,CDROM,A
D4000
~
D7FFF Shadow : Disabled
Swap Floppy Drive
: Disabled
D8000
~
DBFFF Shadow : Disabled
Boot Up Floppy Seek
: Enabled
DC000
~
DFFFF Shadow : Disabled
Boot Up Numlock Status
: On
Delay for HDD (Secs) : 0
Typematic Rate Setting
: Disabled
TypematicRate (Chars/Sec)
: 6
ESC: Quit
↑↓→←
: Select Item
Typematic Delay(Msec)
: 250
F1 : Help PU/PD/+/- : Modify
Security Option
: Setup
F5 : Old Values (Shift)F2: Color
PCI/VGA Palette Snoop
: Disabled
F7 : Load Setup Defaults
OS Select For DRAM>64MB
: Non-OS2
Report No FDD ForWIN95
: Yes
Figure-4 BIOS Features Setup
The following pages indicates the options of each item and describe their
meaning.
Item
Option
Description
•
Virus Warning
Enabled
Activates automatically when the system
boots up causing a warning message to
appear when anything attempts to access the
boot sector or hard disk partition table.
Disabled
No warning message appears when anything
attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk
partition table.
Note: This function is available only for DOS
and other OSes that do not trap INT13.
•
CPU L1/L2
Enabled
Enables CPU internal Level1/ Level2 cache.
Internal Cache
Disabled
Disables CPU internal Level1/ Level2 cache.
•
Quick Power
On Self Test
Enabled
Enables quick POST. BIOS will shorten or
skip some check items during POST to speed
up POST after you power on the computer.
Disabled
Normal POST.
•
Boot Sequence
C, CD-ROM,A
... SCSI, C, A
Any search sequence can be chosen for
bootup.
•
Swap Floppy
Drive
Enabled
Exchanges the assignment of A&B floppy
drives.
Disabled
The assignment of A&B floppy drives are
normal.
