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BIOS Setup
First Boot Device, Second Boot Device, Third Boot Device and Boot Other
Device
Select the drive to boot first, second and third in the "First Boot Device" "Sec-
ond Boot Device" and "Third Boot Device" fields respectively. The BIOS will boot
the operating system according to the sequence of the drive selected. Set "Boot
Other Device" to Enabled if you wish to boot from another device.
Boot Up Floppy Seek
When enabled, the BIOS will check whether the floppy disk drive installed is 40
or 80 tracks. Note that the BIOS cannot distinguish between 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M
and 2.88M drive types as they are all 80 tracks. When disabled, the BIOS will not
search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number. Note that there will not
be any warning message if the drive installed is 360KB.
Boot Up NumLock Status
This allows you to determine the default state of the numeric keypad. By default,
the system boots up with NumLock on wherein the function of the numeric key-
pad is the number keys. When set to Off, the function of the numeric keypad is
the arrow keys.
Gate A20 Option
This entry allows you to select how gate A20 is handled. Gate A20 is a device
used to address memory above 1 Mbyte. Initially, gate A20 was handled via the
keyboard controller. Today, while keyboards still provide this support, it is more
common, and much faster, for the system chipset to provide support for gate
A20.
Typematic Rate Setting
Disabled
Continually holding down a key on your keyboard will cause the BIOS to re-
port that the key is down.
Enabled
The BIOS will not only report that the key is down, but will first wait for a
moment, and, if the key is still down, it will begin to report that the key has
been depressed repeatedly. For example, you would use such a feature to
accelerate cursor movements with the arrow keys. You can then select the
typematic rate and typematic delay in the "Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)" and
"Typematic Delay (Msec)" fields below.
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