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Boot Other Device
If BIOS can't load O.S. from First/Second/Third boot device you select
above, BIOS will search other devices and attempt to load O.S..
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The choice: Enabled or Disabled.
Swap Floppy Drive
If you have two floppy diskette drives in your system, this item allows you
to swap the assigned drive letters so that drive A becomes drive B, and
drive B becomes drive A.
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The choice: Enabled or Disabled.
Boot Up Floppy Seek
Seeks disk drives during boot-Up. Disabling speed boots up.
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The choice: Enabled or Disabled.
Boot Up NumLock Status
Selects power-on state for NumLock.
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The choice: Off or On.
Gate A20 Option
This entry allows you to select how the Gate A20 is handled. The gate
A20 is a device used for above 1MByte of address memory. Initially, the
gate A20 was handled via a pin on the keyboard. Today, while a key-
board still provides this support, it is more common and much faster in
setting to fast for the system chipset to provide support for gate A20.
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The choice: Normal or Fast.
Typematic Rate Setting
Keystrokes repeat at a rate determined by the keyboard controller. When
this controller enabled, the typematic rate and typematic delay can be
selected.
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The choice: Enabled or Disabled.
Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)
This item sets how many times the keystroke will be repeat in a second
when you hold the key down.
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The choice: 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 24, or 30.
Typematic Delay (Msec)
Sets the delay time after the key is held down before it begins to repeat the
keystroke.
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The choice: 250, 500, 750, or 1000.