Advanced BIOS Features
Selecting "Advanced BIOS Features" from the Advanced Options menu displays the following screen:
The following table describes the parameters found in the sub- menu. Settings in boldface are the default and
suggested settings
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Parameter
CPU L1 & L2 Cache
Swap Floppy Drive
Boot Up Flopppy Seek
Boot Up NumLock Status
Gate 20 Option
Typematic Rate Setting
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Description
CPU L1 & L2 cache enabled
If the system has two floopy drives, choose enabled to
assign physical drive B to logical drive A and vice versa.
If the item is enabled, BIOS will test floppy drives to
determine whether they have 40 or 80 tracks.
Selects power on state for NumLock.
Fast: Lets chipset control Gate A20
Normal: A pin in the keyboard controller, controls Gate 20.
Default is fast.
Keystrokes repeat at a rate determined by the keyboard
controller-- when enabled, the typematic rate and typematic
delay can be selected.
*
Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) 6
*
Typematic Delay (MSec) 250
Options
Enabled/ Disabled
Disabled/Enabled
Disabled/Enabled
On/ Off
Fast/Normal
Disabled/Enabled
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