Advanced Bios Features Setup Menu - Abit AB-AT7-MAX2 Manual

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4-3. Advanced BIOS Features Setup Menu

In each item, you can press <Enter> at any time to display all the options for this item.
Advanced BIOS Features Setup Menu has already been set for maximum operation. If you do not
really understand each of the options in this menu, we recommend you use the default values.
Virus Warning:
Two options are available: Enabled or Disabled, the default setting being Disabled.
When this feature is enabled, if there is any attempt from a software or an application to access the boot
sector or the partition table, the BIOS will warn you that a boot virus is attempting to access the hard disk.
Quick Power On Self Test:
Two options are available: Enabled or Disabled, the default setting is Enabled. After the computer has
been powered on, the BIOS of the motherboard will run a series of tests in order to check the system and
its peripherals. If the Quick Power on Self-Test feature is enable, the BIOS will simplify the test
procedures in order to speed up the boot process.
First Boot Device:
When the computer boots up, the BIOS attempts to load the operating system from the devices in the
sequence selected in these items: floppy disk drive A, LS120, ZIP100 devices, hard drive C, SCSI hard
disk drive or CD-ROM. There are ten options for the boot sequence that you can choose (The default
setting is Floppy.):
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Figure 3-4A. Advanced BIOS Features Setup Screen
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