First/Second/Third/Other Boot Device; Swap Floppy Drive; Boot Up Floppy Seek; Boot Up Numlock Status - Advantech PCA-6005 User Manual

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3.4.4 First/Second/Third/Other Boot Device

The BIOS tries to load the OS with the devices in the sequence selected.

Choices are: Floppy, LS/ZIP, HDD, SCSI, CDROM, LAN, Disabled.

Logical name assignments of floppy drives can be swapped if there is

more than one floppy drive. The commands are "Enabled" or "Disabled."

Selection of the command "Disabled" will speed the boot up. Selection of

"Enabled" searches disk drives during boot up.

This feature selects the "power on" state for NumLock. The commands

are "Enabled" or "Disabled."

Normal The A20 signal is controlled by the keyboard controller. Fast

(Default) The A20 signal is controlled by the chipset.

The typematic rate is the rate key strokes repeat as determined by the key-

board controller. The commands are "Enabled" or "Disabled." Enabling

allows the typematic rate and delay to be selected.

BIOS accepts the following input values (characters/second) for type-

matic rate: 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 24, 30.

Typematic delay is the time interval between the appearance of two con-

secutive characters, when holding down a key. The input values for this

category are: 250, 500, 750, 1000 (msec).

This setting determines whether the system will boot up if the password is

denied. Access to Setup is, however, always limited. System The system

will not boot, and access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is

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