SOLTEK NF4-754RL Manual page 46

SL-NF4-754RL
CPU Internal / External
Quick Power On Self
First/Second/Third/
Boot Other Device
Swap Floppy Drive When enabled, floppy drives A and B will be ex-
Boot Up Floppy Seek When enabled, the BIOS tests (seeks) floppy drives
Boot Up NumLock
Gate A20 Option To select the Gate A20 Control.
Cache memory is additional memory that is much
Cache faster than conventional DRAM (system memory).
CPUs from 486-type up contain internal cache
memory (L1), and most, but not all, modern PCs
have additional (external) cache memory (L2).
When the CPU requests data, the system transfers
the requested data from the main DRAM into cache
memory, for faster access by the CPU.
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; LS120; ZIP100; HDD;
CDROM; USB-FDD; USB-ZIP; USB-CDROM; LAN;
Disabled
changing without any physical connection and modi-
fication 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
Status 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.
Choices: Fast; Normal
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