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Setup 3 — BIOS Features Setup

Use Setup 3 to set a variety of BIOS feature options. Figure 2– 8 shows what can be configured on
Setup 3, and the sections that follow describe each parameter.

BIOS FEATURES Setup

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Virus Warning

: Disabled

CPU Internal Cache

: Enabled

External Cache

: Disabled

Quick Power On Self Test

: Disabled

Boot Sequence

: A,C

Swap Floppy Drive

: Disabled

Boot Up Floppy Seek

: Enabled

Boot Up NumLock Status

: Off

Typematic Rate Setting

: Enabled

Typematic Rate (chars/Sec)

: 6

Typematic Delay (Msec)

: 250

PCI/VGA Palette Snoop:

: Disabled

Assign IRQ for VGA

: Disabled

Watchdog Timer

: Disabled

Show System Status at Boot

: Enabled

OS2 Select for DRAM > 64MB

: Non-OS2

Video BIOS Shadow

: Enabled

Serial Console

: Disabled

Serial Boot Loader

: Disabled

OEM Flash (S0)

: Disabled

ESC:Quit

:Select Item

F1 :Help PU/PD/+/- :Modify
F5 :Old Values

(Shift)F2 :Color

F6 :Load BIOS Defaults
F7 :Load Setup Defaults

Figure 2– 8. Setup 3 — BIOS Features Setup

This Setup screen allows you to configure the following parameters:

!

Virus Warning — monitors for writes to the hard disk boot sector. If a write is detected, the
BIOS will display the following warning message, beep the speaker, and wait for user
confirmation.

!!! WARNING !!!

Disk Boot sector is to be modified

type "Y" to accept, any key to abort

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!

CPU Internal Cache — enable or disable the CPU internal cache.

!

Quick Power On Self Test — when enabled, the POST will skip some non-essential tests
(such as repetitive memory tests) in order to shorten the POST time.

!

Boot Sequence — determines the order in which drives should be searched by the disk
operating system. Options are [A, C], [C, A], [A, SCSI], [SCSI, A], [CD, A, C], [C only], and
[SCSI only]. (“C” refers to an IDE drive, and “CD” refers to an IDE CD-ROM drive.)

!

Swap Floppy Drive — If two floppy drives are connected to the system, drive A becomes drive
B and vice-versa.

!

Boot Up Floppy Seek — during POST, the BIOS performs a seek test to determine if the drive
is 40 or 80 tracks (360K drives have 40 tracks, other drives have 80 tracks).

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