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Security Option
This category allows you to limit access to the system and Setup or just to
Setup. When you select system, the system will not boot and access to Setup
will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt. If you
select Setup, the system will boot but access to Setup will be denied if the cor-
rect password is not entered at the prompt. The default setting is "Setup".
PCI/VGA Palette Snoop
This option controls the system to access the PCI VGA card palette register.
In general, this option is "Disabled". However, you may need to enable this
option for some VGA cards which have incorrect color displayed on some
software application.
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.
Report No Floppy Disk For Windows 95
The system will report floppy disk status to Windows95 if setting is Yes.
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.
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Quick Power On Self Test
This category speeds up Power On Self Test (POST) after you power on the
computer. If it is set to "Enabled", BIOS will shorten or skip some check items
during POST. The default value is "Disabled".
Boot Sequence
This category determines which drive computer searches first for the disk
operating system (i.e., DOS). The default setting is "A,C,SCSI", means that
the system will determine the drive A before drive C.
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 to determine if it is 40 or 80 tracks. If disabled, BIOS will not search for
the type of floppy disk drive by track number. Note that there will be no warn-
ing message if the drive installed is 360K.
Boot Up NumLock Status
It determine the Num-Lock is turned on/off Num Lock. 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".
Boot Up System Speed
It selects the default system speed - the speed that the system will run at
immediately after power up. The default value is "High".
Typematic Rate Setting
Typematic Rate sets the rate at which characters on the screen at which char-
acters 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".
Typematic Delay (M sec)
When holding down a key, the time between the first and second character
display. you specified numbers of times of character repeat on the screen.
The default setting is "250".
