VIA 82C693
MAINBOARD
AWARD BIOS SETUP
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Enable this feature will tell the system to seek and check on the floppy drive when boot
up the system.
Boot Up NumLock Status :
( default setting: On )
Select "ON' in this field will light the "
NumLock LED
" when boot up the system.
When select "Off", the Numlock LED will be darkened.
IDE HDD BLOCK Mode :
(default setting: Enabled)
This allows your hard disk controller to use the fast block mode to transfer data to and
from your hard disk drive (HDD).
Enabled
IDE controller uses block mode.
Disabled IDE controller uses standard
mode.
Memory Parity/ECC Check :
( default setting: Enabled )
When select "Enabled", the system board will use the parity bit to check the memory
sub-system. When select "Disabled", the system board will not check the parity bit.
PS/2 mouse function control :
( default setting: Enabled )
This mainboard built-in a PS/2™ mouse port, In case that you prefer to connect your
mouse to the serial port instead of using the PS/2™ mouse, you may choose “Disable”
in this field so that the IRQ12 can be released for the other devices; If you are using the
PS/2™ mouse, leave this field “Enabled”.
PCI/VGA Palette Snoop :
( default setting: Disabled )
Some display cards are non-standard VGA card (such as graphics accelerator or MPEG
Card) which may not display color properly on your screen. “Enable” the setting in this
field may correct this problem. Please leave it “Disabled” as the default setting shown
above if you are using the normal display card.
OS Select For DRAM > 64MB :
( default setting: Non-OS/2 )
When you are using the “OS/2™” operating system and the system memory is more
than 64MB, you will have to select the setting to “OS2”, otherwise, leave this on the
default setting “Non-OS2” for all other operating systems.
