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Advanced BIOS Features
The “Advanced BIOS Features” category includes all the items of your system’s
special enhanced features.
The followings describe in sequence all the items of this category.
Virus Warning
This item helps prevent computer viruses by monitoring the boot sector and
partition table of the hard disk drive. If an attempt is made to modify the boot
sector and partition table, the system will halt and the following error message
will appear. Afterwards, if necessary, you can run an anti-virus program to locate
and remove the problem before any damage is done.
NOTE:
1.
Disable this item before installing an operating system.
2.
Many disk diagnostic programs can cause this warning message
because they attempt to access the boot sector table. If you will be
running such a program, you may want to disable this item
beforehand.
CPU Internal Cache, External Cache
This item enables or disables the cache of your system. The cache feature
enhances system performance because the most frequently-used data is
accessed from and written to the high-speed cache memory.
Quick Power On Self Test
This item, when enabled, speeds up the booting procedure by shortening or
skipping some check items during POST.
First/Second/Third Boot Device, Boot Other Device
This item sets the sequence of booting, i.e., which drive to search first for the
operating system.
Swap Floppy Drive
This feature allows you to exchange the drive names of the two floppy disk
drives, if installed. Make sure that
Drive A
and
Drive B
item in the Standard
CMOS Features menu are updated accordingly.
