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Boot Up Floppy Seek
When you select “Enabled”, the BIOS tests (seeks) floppy drives to determine whether
they have 40 or 80 tracks. Only 360-KB floppy drives have 40 tracks; drives with 720KB,
1.2MB, and 1.44MB capacity all have 80 tracks. Because very few modern PCs have 40-
track floppy drives, we recommend that you set this field to “Disabled” to save time.
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Boot Up NumLock Status
Toggle between “On” and “Off” to control the state of the NumLock key when the system
boots. When toggled “On”, the numeric keypad generates numbers instead of controlling
cursor operations.
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Gate A20 Option
Choose “Fast” (default) or “Normal”. “Fast” allows RAM access above 1MB to use the
fast Gate A20 line.
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Typematic Rate Setting
When this function is disabled, the following two items (Typematic Rate and Typematic
Delay) are irrelevant. Keystrokes repeat at a rate determined by the keyboard controller
in your system. When this function is enabled, you can select a typematic rate and typematic
delay.
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Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)
When the Typematic Rate setting is enabled, you can select a typematic rate (the rate at
which characters repeat) to “6”, “8”, “10”, “12”, “15”, “20”, “24” or “30” characters per second.
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Typematic Delay (Msec)
When the Typematic Delay setting is enabled, you can select a typematic delay (the delay
before key strokes begin to repeat) of “250”, “500”, “750” or “1000” milliseconds.
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Security Option
If you have set a password, you can select whether the password is required while the
system boots, or only when you enter “Setup”.
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