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Floppy Drive Seek
During POST, BIOS will determine the floppy disk drive installed is 80 tracks. 720 K, 1.2 M and
1.44 M are all 80 tracks.
Enabled
Disabled
Password Check
Please refer to the detail on P.49
Always
Setup
BIOS Flash Protection
This field lets you determine the states that flash BIOS
Auto
Enabled
APIC Interrupt Mode
APIC
PIC
When you already have IOAPIC enable system and want to upgrade the system please note, since
running an IOAPIC enabled OS (like Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP...) system with none
IOAPIC HW support will cause the system to hang. Following are some situations users might run into:
1.An IOAPIC enabled OS and change the BIOS setting from IOAPIC to PIC, this will cause your system
to hang.
BIOS searches for floppy disk drive to determine it is 80 tracks. Note
that BIOS can not tell from 720 K, 1.2 M or 1.44 M drive type as they are all
80tracks.
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 360 K.
(Default value)
The user must enter correct password in order to access the system and/or
BIOS Setup.
The user must enter correct password in order to access BIOS setup utility.
(Default Value)
BIOS enables flash write access automatically when updating BIOS data/DMI/
ESCD. (Default Value)
During POST, DMI/ESCD would not be updated. But flash tools can update BIOS
always.
Through IOAPIC generate more IRQ for system use. (Default Value)
Use AT standard IRQ controllers to generate IRQ.
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