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Mainboard User's Manual
Boot Other Device
This feature allows you to system to select other boot device automatically.
Swap Floppy Drive
This feature allows you to enable the system swap floppy function, the default is “Disabled”. When this
function enables, the system will assign the Drive A as Drive B, and vice versa.
Boot Up Floppy Seek
The default setting is “Enabled”, so that the BIOS will search for floppy disk drive during boot up. If disabled,
BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number. Note that there will be no warning
message if the drive installed is 360K.
Boot Up NumLock Status
It determines the Num-Lock LED on keyboard is turned on/off. When the system is powered on so
that the end user can use the arrow keys on both the numeric keypad and the keyboard. The default
value is “On”.
Gate A20 Option
This entry allows you to enable the A20 address line access. The default is "FAST".
Typematic Rate Setting
Typematic Rate sets the rate at which characters on the screen repeat. The default setting is Disabled.
Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)
Typematic rate sets the rate at which characters on the screen repeat when a key is pressed and held down.
You can select 6-30 characters per second. The default setting is “6”
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Typematic Delay (M sec)
When holding down a key, the time between the first and second character display, this option specifies the
numbers of times of character repeat on the screen. The default setting is “250”.
Security Option
This option limits the access to the system and Setup or just to Setup. When you select "System",
the system will not boot and access to CMOS Setup. A correct password must be entered at
the prompt. The default setting is “Setup”.
OS Select For DRAM > 64MB
Some the OS/2 application access the memory in different mode. Enable this option to allow the
system use another mode to access the main memory for OS/2 applications.
VIDEO BIOS Shadow
The system BIOS is automatically shadowed. The default setting for the “Video BIOS Shadow” is
“Enabled”. It determines whether video BIOS will be copied to RAM. However, it is optional from
chipset design. Video Shadow will increase the video speed.
C8000 - CFFFF Shadow/E8000 - EFFFF Shadow
These categories determine whether optional ROM will be copied to RAM by 16K byte. You can
enable the optional shadow or you can disable it. The default setting is disabled.
