VIA Technologies A7F129 Manual page 46

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Virus Warning: When enabled, any attempt to write to the boot sec-
tor or partition table will halt the system and cause a warning
message to appear. If this happens, you can use an anti-virus utility
on a virus free, bootable floppy diskette to reboot and clean your sys-
tem. The default setting is Disabled.
CPU Internal Cache: This Setting enables the CPU internal cache.
The default setting is Enabled.
External Cache: This setting enables the Level 2 cache. The default
setting is Enabled.
CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking: This item enables or disables ECC
(Error Correction Code) error checking on the CPU cache memory.
The default setting is Enabled.
Quick Power On Self Test: This will skip some diagnostic checks
during the Power On Self Test (POST) to speed up the booting proc-
ess. The default setting is Enabled.
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and order of the devices that your system searches for an operating
system at start-up time. The default settings are Floppy, HDD-0, and
LS120, respectively.
Boot Other Device: If you enable this item, the system will search
all other possible locations for an operating system if it fails to find
one in the devices specified under the first, second, and third boot
devices. The default setting is Disabled.
Swap Floppy Drive: 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. The default
setting is Disabled.
Boot Up Floppy Seek: If this item is enabled, it checks the geometry
of the floppy disk drives at start-up time. You don't need to enable
this item unless you have an old diskette drive with 360K capacity.
The default setting is Disabled.
Boot Up Numlock Status: If set to Off, the cursor controls will
function on the numeric keypad. The default setting is On.
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Boot Device: Use these three items to select the priority
Advanced BIOS Features

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