ECS EVEm Series User Manual page 29

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Quick Power
You can enable this item to shorten the power on
testing (POST) and have your system start up a
On Self Test
little faster. You might like to enable this item
after you are confident that your system
hardware is operating smoothly.
rd
1st/2nd/3
Use these three items to select the priority and
Boot Device
order of the devices that your system searches
for an operating system at start-up time.
Boot Other
If you enable this item, the system will search all
Device
other possible locations for an operating system
if it fails to find one in the devices specified
under the first, second, and third boot devices.
Swap Floppy
If you have two floppy diskette drives in your
Drive
system, this item allows you to swap the
assigned drive letters so that drive A becomes
drive B, and drive B becomes drive A.
Boot Up
If this item is enabled, it checks the geometry of
Floppy Seek
the floppy disk drives at start-up time. You
don't need to enable this item unless you have an
old diskette drive with 360K capacity.
Boot Up
This item defines if the keyboard Num Lock key
NumLock
is active when your system is started.
Status
Gate A20
This item defines how the system handles legacy
Option
software that was written for an earlier
generation of processors. Leave this item at the
default value.
Typematic
If this item is enabled, you can use the following
Rate Setting
two items to set the typematic rate and the
typematic delay settings for your keyboard.
Typematic
If the item Typematic Rate Setting is enabled,
Rate
you can use these items to define how many
(Chars/Sec)/
characters per second are generated by a held-
Delay (Msec)
down key and how many milliseconds must
elapse before a held-down key begins generating
repeat characters.
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