Boot Up Floppy Seek; Boot Up Numlock Status; Gate A20 Option; Typematic Rate Setting - Advantech PCA-6168 Manual

Full-size socket 370 intel celeron® processor-based pci/isa-bus cpu card
Table of Contents

Advertisement

3.4.4 Boot Up Floppy Seek

During Power-On Self Test (POST), BIOS will determine if the
floppy disk drive installed is 40 or 80 tracks. A 360 KB type drive is
40 tracks; while 720 KB, 1.2 MB, and 1.44 MB type drives are all 80
tracks.
Enabled
Disabled BIOS will not search for the floppy drive type by track

3.4.5 Boot Up NumLock Status

The default is "On".
On
Off

3.4.6 Gate A20 Option

Normal
Fast (Default)

3.4.7 Typematic Rate Setting

The typematic rate determines the characters per second accepted by
the computer. Typematic Rate Setting enables or disables the typemat-
ic rate.

3.4.8 Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)

BIOS accepts the following input values (characters/second) for
typematic rate: 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 24, 30.
PCA-6168 User's Manual
38
BIOS searches the floppy drive to determine if it is 40 or
80 tracks. Note that BIOS cannot differentiate 720 KB, 1.2
MB, and 1.44 MB type drives. This is because they are all
80 tracks.
number. Note that there will not be any warning message if
the drive installed is 360 KB.
Keypad boots up to number keys.
Keypad boots up to arrow keys.
The A20 signal is controlled by the keyboard
controller or chipset hardware.
The A20 signal is controlled by Port 92 or the
chipset specific method.

Advertisement

Table of Contents
loading

Table of Contents