BIOS Features Setup Page
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Swap Floppy
Drive
If you have two floppy diskette drives installed,
you can use this item to change the drive letter
assignments so that drive B becomes drive A.
Boot Up Floppy
Seek
If you enable this item, the system checks the
tracks on the floppy drives at boot time. Don’t
enable this item unless you have an old 360K,
5.25” floppy drive.
Boot Up
NumLock Status
This item determines if your system starts up with
the Num Lock key active or not active.
Gate A20 Option
This item determines how the system runs legacy
software written for early X86 processors. Leave
this item at the default value.
Typematic Rate
Setting
If this item is enabled, you can use the following
two items to change the operation of your
keyboard.
Typematic Rate
(Chars/Sec)
If you have enabled
Typematic Rate Setting
, you
can use this item to determine how many
characters are generated per second by a held
down key.
Typematic Delay
(Msec)
If you have enabled
Typematic Rate Setting
, you
can use this item to determine how long a key
needs to be held down before it generates a
character.
Security Option
If you have installed password protection, use
this item to determine if the password is required
at start-up or on entry to the setup utility.
PCI/VGA Pallete
Snoop
This item might be required to overcome some
problems with non-standard VGA cards.
OS Select For
DRAM > 64 MB
Enable this item if you are running OS/2 and you
have installed more than 64 MB memory.
Video BIOS
Shadow
This item allows the video BIOS to be copied to
system memory for faster execution.
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Shadow
These items allow the BIOS of other devices to
be copied to system memory for faster execution.