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Boot From Other Devices This item allows user to enable or disable
to boot from other device
Enabled
Disabled
Swap Floppy Drive This field is effective only in systems with
two floppy drives. Selecting Enabled
assigns physical drive B to logical drive A,
and physical drive A to logical drive B.
Enabled
Disabled
Boot Up Floppy 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.
Enabled
BIOS searches for floppy disk
drive to determine if is 40 or 80
tracks. Note that BIOS can not tell
from 720K, 1.2M or 1.44M drive
type as they are all 80 tracks.
Disabled
BIOS will not search for the type of
floppy disk drive by track number.
Note that there will not be any
warning message if the drive
installed is 360K.
Boot Up NumLock Status This item allows user to enable or disable
to set keyboard is number keys or arrow
keys
Enabled
Disabled
Gate A20 Option This item allows user to select if chipset or
keyboard controller should control
GateA20. The gate A20 is a device used
to address memory above 1 Mbyte.
Initially, the gate A20 was handled via a
pin on the keyboard. Today, while
keyboards still provide this support, it is
more common, and much faster, for the
system chipset to provide support for gate
A20.
Normal (keyboard)
Fast (chipset)
Typematic Rate Setting This determines if the typematic rate is to
be used. When the typematic rate is
enabled, this selection allows you select
the rate at which the keys are accelerated.
When the typematic rate is enabled, this
selection allows you to select the delay
between when the key was first depressed
and when the acceleration begins.
Enabled
Disabled
Security Option This category allows you to limit access to
the system and Setup, or just to Setup.
System
Setup
APCI Mode This option is used to set up enable or
disable the APCI function
Enabled
Disabled
MPS Version Control for
OS
The BIOS supports versions 1.1 and 1.4 of
the Intel multiprocessor specification.
Select the version supported by the
operating system running on this
computer.
OS Select For DRAM
>64MB
Select OS2 only if you are running OS/2
operating system with greater than 64 MB
of RAM on your system.
HDD S.M.A.R.T.
Capability
S.M.A.R.T which allows your hard disk to
report any read/write errors and issue a
warning when LDCM installed
Enabled
Disabled
Parameter Description Options