Chapter 6 Bios And System Setup - TMC TI6NBF+ User Manual

Chapter 6 BIOS and System Setup

This chapter describes the different settings available in the Award
BIOS. The topics covered in this chapter are as follows:
6.1 BIOS Introduction ................................................................... 32
6.2 BIOS Setup.............................................................................. 32
6.3 Standard CMOS Setup ............................................................ 34
Date ........................................................................................ 34
Time........................................................................................ 35
Primary HDDs / Secondary HDDs ......................................... 35
Drive A / Drive B ................................................................... 36
Video ...................................................................................... 36
Halt On ................................................................................... 36
6.4 BIOS Features Setup ............................................................... 37
Virus Warning ........................................................................ 38
CPU Internal Cache / External Cache..................................... 38
CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking ............................................... 38
Memory Parity / ECC Check .................................................. 38
Processor Number Feature...................................................... 38
Quick Power On Self Test ...................................................... 38
Boot Sequence ........................................................................ 38
Swap Floppy Drive ................................................................. 39
Boot Up Floppy Seek ............................................................. 39
Boot Up NumLock Status....................................................... 39
Boot Up System Speed ........................................................... 39
IDE HDD Block Mode........................................................... 39
Gate A20 Option..................................................................... 39
Typematic Rate Setting........................................................... 39
Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) ................................................... 39
Typematic Delay (Msec) ........................................................ 39
Security Option....................................................................... 40
PCI/VGA Palette Snoop ......................................................... 40
OS Select for DRAM > 64MB ............................................... 40
HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability .................................................. 40
Report No FDD For WIN 95.................................................. 40
Video BIOS Shadow .............................................................. 40
C8000 - CBFFF Shadow/DC000 - DFFFF Shadow ............... 40
6.5 Chipset Features Setup ............................................................ 41
SDRAM RAS-to-CAS Delay.................................................. 41
SDRAM RAS Precharge Time ............................................... 42
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