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IV. BIOS SOFTWARE

IV. BIOS

(Standard CMOS)

BIOS Features Setup

BIOS Features Setup consists of configuration entries that allow you to improve

your system performance, or let you set up some system features according to your

preference. Some entries are required by the motherboard’s design to remain in

their default settings.

NOTE: SETUP Defaults are noted in parenthesis next to each function heading.

Details of BIOS Features Setup

Virus Warning (Disabled)

This field protects the boot sector and partition table of your hard disk against accidental

modifications. Any attempt to write to them will cause the system to halt and display a

warning message. If this occurs, you can either allow the operation to continue or use a

bootable virus-free floppy disk to reboot and investigate your system. This setting is rec-

ommended because of conflicts with new operating systems or some programs. Installa-

tion of these programs requires that you disable Virus Warning to prevent write errors.

CPU Internal Cache (Enabled)

Choose Disable to turn off the CPU’s built-in level 1 cache.

External Cache (Enabled)

Choose Disable to turn off the CPU’s external level 2 cache.

Quick Power On Self Test (Enabled)

This field speeds up the Power-On Self Test (POST) routine by skipping retesting a

second, third, and forth time. Setup default setting for this field is Enabled. A com-

plete test of the system is done on each test.

HDD Sequence SCSI/IDE First (IDE)

When using both SCSI and IDE hard disk drives, IDE is always the boot disk using

drive letter C (default setting of IDE). This new feature allows a SCSI hard disk

drive to be the boot disk when set to SCSI. This allows multiple operating systems to

be used on both IDE and SCSI drives or the primary operating system to boot using

a SCSI hard disk drive.

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