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B7A-F
Quick Power On Self
First/Second/Third/
Other Boot Device
Swap Floppy Drive When enabled, floppy drives A and B will be exchanging
Boot Up Floppy Seek When enabled, the BIOS tests (seeks) floppy drives
Boot Up NumLock
Status
Gate A20 Option
Typematic Rate Setting When Disabled, the following two items (Typematic
Select Enabled to reduce the amount of time required to
Test
run the power-on self-test (POST). A quick POST skips
certain steps. We recommend that you normally enable
quick POST.
The BIOS attempts to load the operating system from
the devices in the sequence selected in these items.
The choices: Floppy; LS/ZIP; HDD; SCSI; CDROM;
without any physical connection and modification on the
cables.
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 disabled to save time.
Toggle between On or Off to control the state of
the NumLock key when the system boots. If On,
the numeric keypad is in numeric mode. If off, the
numeric keypad is in cursor control mode.
Gate A20 refers to the way the system addresses
memory above 1MB (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.
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.
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Disabled
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