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3.4.5 Quick Power On Self Test
This setting allows the system to skip certain tests while booting. This
will decrease the time needed to boot the system.
3.4.6 First/Second/Third Boot Device
The BIOS will load the OS with the devices in the sequence selected. The
sequence includes: Floppy, LS120, HDD-0, SCSI, CDROM, HDD-1,
HDD-2, HDD-3, ZIP100, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USBCDROM, USB-
HDD, LAN, and Disabled.
3.4.7 Boot Other Device
Use this option to choose another device to boot. The choices are
Enabled or Disabled.
3.4.8 Swap Floppy Drive
If the system has two floppy drives, choose Enabled to assign physical
drive B to logical drive A and vice-versa. The choices are Enabled or Dis-
abled.
3.4.9 Boot UP Floppy Seek
Select the command Disabled to speed the boot up. Select Enabled to
search disk drives during boot up.
3.4.10 Boot Up NumLock Status
This feature selects the power on state for NumLock. The choices are Off
and On.
3.4.11 Gate A20 Option
Normal: A pin in the keyboard controller controls Gate A20.
Fast (Default): The chipset controls GateA20.
3.4.12 Typematic Rate Setting
The typematic rate is the rate key strokes repeat as determined by the key-
board controller. The commands are Enabled and Disabled. Enabling
allows the typematic rate and delay to be selected.
3.4.13 Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)
BIOS accepts the following input values (characters/second) for type-
matic rate: 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 24, 30.
3.4.14 Typematic Delay (msec)
Typematic delay is the time interval between the appearance of two con-
secutive characters, when holding down a key. The input values for this
category are: 250, 500, 750, 1000 (milliseconds).