Advanced Bios Features - Acer Power SP Service Manual

Advanced BIOS Features

The following screen shows the Advanced BIOS Features:
The following table describes the parameters found in this menu. Settings in boldface are the default and
suggested settings.
Parameter
Virus Warning
Quick Power On Self Test
Hard Disk Boot Priority
First/Second/Third Boot
Device
Boot Other Device
Swap Floppy Drive
Boot Up Floppy Seek
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Description
Allows you to set the virus warning feature for
IDE Hard Disk boot sector protection. If the
function is enabled and any attempt to write
data into this area is made, BIOS will display a
warning message on screen and beep.
This parameter speeds up POST by skipping
some items that are normally checked.
The items allow you to set the sequence of boot
device where BIOS attempts to load the disk
operating system.
This parameter allows you to specify the system
boot up search sequence.
Setting to Enabled will swap floppy drive a: and
b:.
Setting to Enabled will make BIOS seek floppy
drive a: before booting the system.
Options
Enabled
Disabled
Enabled
Disabled
Floppy, LS120, HDD-0, SCSI,
CDROM, HDD-1, HDD-2, HDD-3, ZIP,
LAN, Disabled (Disable this sequence
).
The sequence following the order of
HDD, Floppy and CD-ROM is
recommended.
Enabled
Disabled
Enabled
Disabled
Enabled
Disabled
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