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Disabled No warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the
CPU Internal Cache/External Cache
These two categories speed up memory access. However, it depends on CPU/chipset design. The
default value is disable.
Enabled
Disabled Disable cache
Quick Power On Self Test
This category speeds up Power On Self Test (POST) after you power on the computer. If it is set to
Enable, BIOS will shorten or skip some check items during POST.
Enabled
Disabled Normal POST
Boot Sequence
This category determines which drive computer searches first for the disk operating system (i.e., DOS).
Default value is A,C.
C,A
A,C
Swap Floppy Drive
Enabling this option will make Drive A as Drive B and Drive B as Drive A under DOS.
Boot Up Floppy Seek
During POST, BIOS will determine if the floppy disk drive installed is 40 or 80 tracks. 360K type is 40
tracks while 760K, 1.2M and 1.44M are all 80 tracks.
Enabled
Disabled BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number. Note
boot sector or hard disk partition table.
Enable cache
Enable quick POST
System will first search for hard disk drive then floppy disk drive.
System will first search for floppy disk drive then hard disk drive.
BIOS searches for floppy disk drive to determine if it is 40 or 80 tracks. Note
that BIOS can not tell from 720K, 1.2M or 1.44M drive type as they are all 80
tracks.
that there will not be any warning message if the drive installed is 360K.
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