Quick Power On Self Test; First/Second/Third Boot Device; Swap Floppy Drive; Boot Up Floppy Seek - Advantech AIMB-740 Series User Manual

3.4.4 Quick Power On Self Test

Allows the system to skip certain tests while booting. This will decrease
the time needed to boot the system.

3.4.5 First/Second/Third Boot Device

The BIOS tries to load the OS with the devices in the sequence selected.
Choices are: "Floppy", "LS120", "HDD-0", "SCSI", "CDROM", "HDD-
1", "HDD-2", "HDD-3", "ZIP100", "USB-FDD", "USB-ZIP", "USB-
CDROM", "USB-HDD", "LAN", "Disabled".

3.4.6 Swap Floppy Drive

If the system has two floppy drives, choose "Enabled" to assign physical
drive B to logical drive A and vice-versa. The commands are "Enabled"
or "Disabled."

3.4.7 Boot UP Floppy Seek

Selection of the command "Disabled" will speed the boot up. Selection of
"Enabled" searches disk drives during boot up.

3.4.8 Boot Up NumLock Status

This feature selects the "power on" state for NumLock. The commands
are "Enabled" or "Disabled."

3.4.9 Gate A20 Option

"Normal":
"Fast" (Default):

3.4.10 Typematic Rate Setting

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.

3.4.11 Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)

BIOS accepts the following input values (characters/second) for type-
matic rate: 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 24, 30.

3.4.12 Typematic Delay (msec)

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).
A pin in the keyboard controller controls GateA20.
Lets chipset control GateA20.
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