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Swap Floppy Drive When enabled, floppy drives A and B will be exchang-
ing status without any physical connection and modi-
fication on the cables.
Boot Up Floppy Seek When enabled, the BIOS tests (seeks) floppy drives
to determine whether they have 40 or 80 tracks. Only
360-KB floppy drives have 40 tracks; drives with
270KB, 1.2MB, and 1.44MB capacity all have 80
tracks. Because very few modern PCs have 40-track
floppy drives, we recommend that you set this field to
a disabled to save time.
Boot Up NumLock
Toggle between On or Off to control the state of the
Status
NumLock key when the system boots. When toggled
On, the numeric keypad generates numbers instead
of controlling cursor operations.
Gate A20 Option Gate A20 refers to the way the system addresses
memory above 1 MB (extended memory). When set
to Fast, the system chipset controls Gate A20. When
set to Normal, a pin in the keyboard controller con-
trols Gate A20. Setting Gate A20 to Fast improves
system speed, particularly with OS/2 and Windows.
Typematic Rate Setting When Disabled, the following two items (Typematic
Rate and Typematic Delay) are irrelevant. Keystroke
repeats at a rate determined by the keyboard con-
troller in your system.
When Enabled, you can select a typematic rate and
typematic delay.
Typematic Rate (Chars
When the typematic rate setting is enabled, you can
/ Sec)
select a typematic rate (the rate at which character
repeats when you hold down a key) of 6, 8, 10, 12,
15, 20, 24, or 30 characters per second.
Typematic Delay
Choices: 250; 500; 750; 1000. This option sets the
(Msec)
time interval for displaying the first and the second
characters. If enabled, the time interval is optional.
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