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Mainboard Installation
Boot Sequence
This category determines which drive computer searches first for the disk operating system (i.e., DOS).
The default setting is "A,C,SCSI", means that the system will determine the drive A before drive C.
Swap Floppy Drive
This feature allows you to enable the system swap floppy function, the default is "Disabled". When this
function enables, the system will assign the Drive A as Drive B, and vice versa.
Boot Up Floppy Seek
The default setting is "Enabled", so that the BIOS will search for floppy disk drive to determine if it is 40
or 80 tracks. If disabled, BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number. Note that
there will be no warning message if the drive installed is 360K.
Boot Up NumLock Status
It determine the Num-Lock is turned on/off Num Lock. when the system is powered on so that the end user
can use the arrow keys on both the numeric keypad and the keyboard. The default value is "On".
Boot Up System Speed
It selects the default system speed - the speed that the system will run at immediately after power up. The
default value is "High".
Gate A20 Option
The A20 signal option specify A20 controlled by keyboard controller or chipset hardware. The default is
"Fast", therefore, the A20 signal is controlled by chipset specific method.
Typematic Rate Setting
Typematic Rate sets the rate at which characters on the screen at which characters on the screen repeat. The
default setting is Disabled.
Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)
Typematic rate sets the rate at which characters on the screen repeat when a key is pressed and held down.
You can select 6-30 characters per second. The default setting is "6".
Typematic Delay (M sec)
When holding down a key, the time between the first and second character display. you specified numbers
of times of character repeat on the screen. The default setting is "250".
Security Option
This category allows you to limit access to the system and Setup or just to Setup. When you select system,
the system will not boot and access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the
prompt. If you select Setup, the system will boot but access to Setup will be denied if the correct password
is not entered at the prompt. The default setting is "Setup".
PCI/VGA Palette Snoop
This option controls the system to access the PCI VGA card palette register. In general, this option is
"Disabled". However, you may need to enable this option for some VGA cards which have incorrect color
displayed on some software application.
OS Select For DRAM > 64MB
Some the OS/2 application access the memory in different mode. Enable this option to allow the system use
another mode to access the main memory for OS/2 applications.
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