P4X MAINBOARD SERIES
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Boot Up Floppy Seek
When 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 720
KB, 1.2 MB, and 1.44 MB capacity all have 80 tracks. Very few modern PCs have
40-track floppy drives so we therefore recommend that you set this field to
Disabled to save time.
Boot Up NumLock Status
This controls the state of the NumLock key when the system boots. This field is
toggled between On or Off. When it is on the numeric keypad generates numbers
instead of controlling the cursor operations. When it is off the numeric keypad
controls cursor operations and does not generate numbers.
Typematic Rate Setting
The keyboard controller determines the rate at which the keystrokes from the
keyboard are repeated. If you enable this option then the typematic rate and the
typematic delay can be selected.
Typematic Rate
This is the rate a character will repeat itself on the screen when you hold down a
key.
Typematic Delay
This is the delay time (Msec) before the repetition of characters starts.
Security Option
This field allows you to select the “Setup” or “System” security option. It works
concurrently with the “ Set Supervisor Password” in the main menu.
When the "Setup" option is selected, you will be prompted to enter your
"Password" before you can start the BIOS CMOS Setup Utility. When you select
"System" option, you will be prompted to enter your password in order to load
the Operating System.
TIP: Forgot your password then clear the RTC RAM
If you happen to forget your password you can use Jumper 13 (JP13) to clear the password
by erasing the CMOS Real Time Clock (RTC) Ram. For further details on how to do this
please see section 2.9.4 on page 24.
PS/2 Mouse Function Control
If you have installed a serial pointing device and your system has a PS/2 mouse
port you should disable this option.
Managing The PC BIOS
