DigiPos RB1 Manual page 68

Details Cont.
Feature
Boot Other Device
Swap Floppy Drive
Boot Up Floppy Seek
Boot Up NumLock Status
Gate A20 Option
Typematic Rate Setting
Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)
Typematic Delay (Msec)
Security Option
APIC Mode
MPS Version Control for OS
OS Select for DRAM > 64MB
D i g i P o S R e t a i l B l a d e
Options Description
Enabled
For devices installed that can act as a bootable device.
Disabled
Enabled Only valid in systems with two floppy drives. This allows the
Disabled system to swap drive A to Drive B and vice versa.
This tests to see if the floppy drive has 40 or 80 tracks. 40
Track drives are only 360Kb where 80 track drives can be
Enabled 720Kb, 1.2Mb or 1.44Mb, which is the standard today.
Disabled Because only the 1.44Mb is used in the DigiPoS, this function
can be disabled to save time during the POST (Power On Self
Test).
On
Sets the number lock to on or off after boot up.
Off
Gate A20 refers to the way the system addresses memory
above 1Mb (Extended Memory). When this is set to fast, the
Fast
chipset controls Gate A20. When set to Normal, a pin in the
Normal
keyboard controller controls Gate A20. Setting Gate A20 to
Fast improves system performance.
When enabled, you can specify the parameters for the
Enabled
typematic settings. Usually this is disabled which renders the
Disabled
next two settings irrelevant.
6
8
10
12 This is the rate at which a character is repeated when you
15 hold down a key on the keyboard.
20
24
30
250
When the typematic rate setting is enabled, you can use this
500
setting to determine how long a delay will occur before the
750
character is repeated at the typematic rate.
1000
If the password option is selected, you can use this setting to
Setup determine if the password is required every time the
System computer boots or only when some one tries to gain access
to the BIOS settings.
This BIOS feature is used to enable or disable the
Enabled motherboard's APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt
Disabled Controller). The APIC provides more IRQs and faster interrupt
handling.
This
motherboards as it specifies the version of the Multi-
1.1 Processor Specification (MPS) that the motherboard will use.
1.4 The MPS is a specification by which PC manufacturers design
and build Intel architecture systems with two or more
processors.
This BIOS feature determines how systems with more than
Non-OS2
64MB of memory are managed. A wrong setting can cause
OS2
problems like erroneous memory detection.
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feature is only applicable to multiprocessor