3.4 Advanced BIOS Features Setup
When you select the “ADVANCED CMOS SETUP” on the main program, the screen display
will appears as:
Advanced BIOS Features Setup Screen
BIOS Setting and Terms Description
Virus Warning
The default setting of Virus Warning is “Disabled”. When it is enabled,
any attempt to write the boot sector and partition table will halt the system
and cause a warning message to appear. If this happens, you can use an
anti-virus utility on a virus free, bootable floppy diskette to reboot, to
clean and to investigate your system.
Quick Power On Self Test
The default setting is “Enabled”. This speeds up the Power On Self Test
(POST) by skipping some items that are normally checked during the full
POST. If your system is functioning normally, you can choose this
feature to speed up the booting process.
First / Second / Third /
Other Boot Device :
The BIOS attempts to load the operating system from the devices in the
sequence selected in these items. The settings are Floppy, LS/ZIP,
HDD-0/HDD-1/HDD-2/HDD-3, SCSI, CDROM, LAN, and Disabled
Swap Floppy Drive
The default setting is “Default”. If the system has two floppy drives,
choose enable to assign physical drive B to logical drive A and vice-versa.
Boot Up Numlock Status
The default setting is “On”. If set “Off”, the cursor controls will function
on the numeric keypad.
Security Option
This setting controls the password in the main screen. The options are
“Setup” and “System”. Select “Setup” and it will protect the Setup Utility
settings from being tampered with. Select “System” if you want to use
password feature every time the system boots up. The default setting is
“Setup”. You can create your password by using the
“SUPERVISOR/USER PASSWORD” utility on the main program
screen.
PS/2 Mouse Function
Control
When this option is set
Enabled
, awardbios supports a PS/2 type mouse.
The settings are
Enabled
or
Disabled
. The default setting is
Disabled
.
System Boot Up Sequence.
