Advanced Bios Features - ECS K7VTA3 Manual

Advanced BIOS Features

This option defines advanced information about your system.
Phoenix – AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility
Hard Disk Boot Priority
Hyper-Threading Technology
Quick Power On Self Test
First Boot Device
Second Boot Device
Third Boot Device
Boot Other Device
Swap Floppy Drive
Boot Up Floppy Seek
Boot Up NumLock Status
Gate A20 Option
Typematic Rate Setting
x Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)
x Typematic Delay (Msec)
Security Option
APIC Mode
OS Select For DRAM > 64MB
↑ ↓ → ← : Move
Enter : Select
F5:Previous Values
Hard Disk Boot Priority (Press Enter)
Use this option to select the hard disk boot priority.
Hyper-Threading Technology (Enabled)
This item is only available when the chipset supports Hyper-Threading and
you are using a Hyper-Threading CPU.
Quick Power On Self Test (Enabled)
Enable this item to shorten the power on testing (POST) and have your sys-
tem start up faster. You might like to enable this item after you are confident
that your system hardware is operating smoothly.
First/Second/Third Boot Device (Floppy/Hard Disk/CD-ROM)
Use these three items to select the priority and order of the devices that your
system searches for an operating system at start-up time.
Boot Other Device (Enabled)
When enabled, the system searches all other possible locations locations for
an operating system if it fails to find one in the devices specified under the
First, Second, and Third boot devices.
Swap Floppy Drive (Disabled)
If you have two floppy diskette drives in your system, this item allows you to
swap the assigned drive letters so that drive A becomes drive B, and drive B
becomes drive A.
Advanced BIOS Features
[Press Enter]
[Enabled]
[Enabled]
[Floppy]
[Hard Disk]
[CD-ROM]
[Enabled]
[Disabled]
[Disabled]
[On]
[Fast]
[Disabled]
6
250
[Setup]
[Enable]
[Non-OS2]
+/-/PU/PD:Value: F10: Save ESC: Exit
F6:Fail-Safe Defaults
30
Item Help
Menu Level
Allows you to choose
the VIRUS warning
feature for IDE Hard
Disk boot sector
protection. If this
function is enabled
and someone attempts
to write data into this
area, BIOS will show a
warning message on
screen and alarm beep
F1:General Help
F7:Optimized Defaults