MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP
MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP
P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual
P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual
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Boot Up NumLock Status -
When
On
, the NumLock key will be automatically enabled
when the system boots.
Typematic Rate Setting -
Determines if the typematic rate is to be used. When disabled,
continually holding down a key on your keyboard will generate only one instance. In other
words, the BIOS will only report that the key is down. When the typematic rate is enabled,
the BIOS will report as before, but it will then wait a moment, and, if the key is still down,
it will begin to report that the key has been depressed repeatedly. This feature is used to
accelerate cursor movements with the arrow keys.
Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)
-
When the typematic rate is enabled, this selection allows
you to select the rate at which the keys are accelerated: Options are 6 (default), 8, 10, 12,
15, 20, 24 and 30.
Typematic Delay (Msec)
-
When the typematic rate is enabled, this selection allows you to
select the delay (in msec) between when the key was first depressed and when the
acceleration begins.
Options are 250 (default), 500, 750 and 1000.
Security Option
-
This option enables password checking every time the computer is
powered on
or
every time BIOS Setup is executed. If
System
is chosen, a user password
prompt appears every time the computer is turned on. If
Setup
is chosen, the password
prompt appears only when the BIOS Setup program is executed. Refer to the section
Supervisor Password
for more information.
PCI / VGA Palette Snoop
-
This option must be set to
Enabled
if any ISA MPEG card
installed requires VGA palette snooping. The settings are
Disabled
or
Enabled
.
Assign IRQ For VGA
-
The
Enabled
option allows the BIOS to auto-route an IRQ for use
by a VGA card. While most of the VGA cards do not need an IRQ assignment, certain VGA
cards may need it.
MPS Version Control For OS -
Normally your
OS should support
M
ultiple
P
rocessor
S
pecifications version 1.4. If your OS only support version 1.1, set this option to 1.1.
OS Select For DRAM > 64MB -
This should be set to
OS2
if you are running IBM OS/2
with more than 64MB of RAM in the system. Otherwise, the setting should be
Non-OS2
.
HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability -
The default is
Disabled
. If you are using hard drives that
support S.M.A.R.T., set this field to
Enabled
. SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and
Reporting Technology) is a reliability prediction technology for ATA/IDE and SCSI drives.
The drive will provide sufficient notice to the system or user to backup data prior to the
drive’s failure. SMART is supported in ATA-3 or later hard drives.
Report No FDD For WIN95 -
While the FDD in “STANDARD CMOS SETUP” is set to
NONE, set this option to
No
to release IRQ6 for passing Win95 logo. This option is
irrelevant under normal operation.
