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Award BIOS Setup Utility
sector and partition table of the hard disk drive. If an attempt is made
to write to the boot sector or partition table of the hard disk drive,
the BIOS will halt the system and an error message will appear.
After seeing the error message, if necessary, you will be able to run
an anti-virus program to locate and remove the problem before any
damage is done.
Many disk diagnostic programs which attempt to access the boot
sector table will cause the warning message to appear. If you are
running such a program, we recommend that you first disable this field.
Also, disable this field if you are installing or running certain operating
systems like Windows
install nor work.
CPU L1 & L2 Cache
This field speeds up the memory access. The default value is enabled.
Quick Power On Self Test
This field speeds up Power On Self Test (POST) after you power on
the system. When Enabled, the BIOS will shorten or skip some check
items during POST.
RAID Chip Boot Device
If you want the system to boot from a drive that is connected to
the RAID IDE connector or SCSI add-in card, you must first select
"SCSI" in the "First Boot Device" field.
If there are drives connected to both the RAID IDE connector and
SCSI add-in card, you must then select which drive you want the
system to boot from.
RAID
SCSI
If the drive is connected to either one of them only, you don't need
to particularly select an option in this field because the system will
automatically detect for the existing drive.
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The drive is connected to the RAID IDE connector
that is on the system board.
The drive is connected to the SCSI add-in card that is
installed in a PCI slot.
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