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BIOS Setup
3.1.2.2 Virus Warning
This field protects the boot sector and partition table of your hard disk
drive. When this field is enabled, the Award BIOS will monitor the boot
sector and partition table of the hard disk drive. If an attempt is made
to write to the boot sector or partition table of the hard disk drive,
the BIOS will halt the system and an error message will appear.
After seeing the error message, if necessary, you will be able to run
an anti-virus program to locate and remove the problem before any
damage is done.
Many disk diagnostic programs which attempt to access the boot
sector table will cause the warning message to appear. If you are
running such a program, we recommend that you first disable this field.
Also, disable this field if you are installing or running certain operating
systems like Windows
®
98SE/2000/ME/XP or the operating system
may not install nor work.
3.1.23 CPU L1 & L2 Cache
These fields speed up the memory access. The default value is
enabled. Enable the external cache for better performance.
3.1.2.4 Hyper-Threading Technology (for Intel
®
Pentium
®
4 Processor
with Hyper-Threading Technology only)
This field is used to enable the functionality of the Intel
®
Pentium
®
4
Processor with Hyper-Threading Technology and will appear only
when using this processor.
3.1.2.5 Quick Power On Self Test
This field speeds up Power On Self Test (POST) whenever the
system is powered on. The BIOS will shorten or skip some check
items during POST. To attain the shortest POST time, select “Fast”.
