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4. BIOS Setup
4.4.4 Third Boot Device
This option sets the type of device for the third boot drives that the AMIBIOS attempts to
boot from after AMIBIOS Post completes.
4.4.5 Boot Up NumLock
Toggle between “
On”
or
“Off”
to control the state of the NumLock key when the system
boots. When toggled
on
, the numeric keypad generates numbers instead of controlling cursor
operations.
4.4.6 Floppy Drive Swap
This field is effective only in systems with two floppy drives. Switch the floppy disk drives
between being designated as A and B. Default is “Disabled”. Selecting Enabled assigns
physical drive B to logical drive A, and physical drive A to logical drive B.
4.4.7 Floppy Drive Seek
During POST, BIOS will determine if the floppy disk drive installed is 40 or 80 tracks.
360K type is 40 tracks while 760K, 1.2M and 1.44M are all 80 tracks.
4.4.8 Primary Display
This option configures the type of monitor attached to the computer. The settings are
Mono
,
CGA40x25
,
CGA80x25
,
VGA/EGA
or
Absent
. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are
VGA/EGA
.
4.4.9 Password Check
This option enables password checking every time the system boots or when you run
AMIBIOS Setup. If
Always
is chosen, a user password prompt appears every time the
computer is turned on. If
Setup
is chosen, the password prompt appears if AMIBIOS is
executed. See the Advanced Setup chapter for instructions on changing a password. The
Optimal and Fail-Safe defaults are
Setup.
4.4.10 System BIOS Cacheable
When set to Enabled, the contents of the F0000h system memory segment can be read from
or written to cache memory. The contents of this memory segment are always copied from
the BIOS ROM to system RAM for faster execution. The settings are
Enabled
or
Disabled
.
The Optimal default setting is “
Enabled”
. The Fail-Safe default setting is “
Disabled”
.
4.4.11 C000 Shadow (64K)
These options specify how the 64 KB of video ROM at C0000h is treated. The settings are:
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