Acnodes PC 8150 User Manual

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PC 8150 User’s Manual

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Appendix


a First/Second/Third Boot Device

These items let you select the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd devices that

the system will search for during its boot-up sequence. The

wide range of selection includes Floppy, LS120, ZIP100,

HDD0~3, SCSI, and CDROM.
a Swap Floppy Drive

This allows you to determine whether to enable Swap Floppy

Drive or not. When enabled, the BIOS swap floppy drive

assignments so that Drive A becomes Drive B, and Drive B

become Drive A. By default, this field is set to Disabled.

a Boot Other Device

This item allows the user to enable/disable the boot device

not listed on the First/Second/Third boot devices option
above. The default setting is “Enabled”.

a Boot Up Floppy Seek

During POST, BIOS will determine the floppy disk drive type,
40 or 80 tracks. 360Kb type is 40 tracks while 720Kb, 1.2MB

and 1.44MB are all 80 tracks. The default value is “Enabled”.

BIOS searches for floppy disk drive to determine if it is

Enabled

40 or 80 tracks. Note that BIOS can not tell from 720K,
1.2M or 1.44M drive type as they are all 80 tracks.

Disabled

BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by
track number. There will be no warning message
displayed if the drive installed is 360K.

a Boot Up NumLock Status

Set the the Num Lock status when the system is powered on.

The default value is “On”.

a Gate A20 Option

The default value is “Fast”.

Normal

The A20 signal is controlled by keyboard controller

or chipset hardware.

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