IMB200 LGA775 ATX MB User Manual
Most people enable this setting to speed up the boot process, but you should realize that you do increase the chance of the POST missing an error if you use this. Fortunately (or unfortunately) the POST memory test is virtually useless to detect transient memory errors (as opposed to hard errors that you would discover the first time you powered up the machine with the new memory in it), so once your system is running and stable, you can in most cases enable this setting safely. It's still safest to leave it disabled, which is what I recommend unless you have truly monstrous amounts of RAM. After all, how often do you boot the system during normal use.
zFirst/Second/Third Boot Device
These items allow the selection of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd devices that the system will search for during its
zBoot 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.
zSwap 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.
zBoot Up Floppy Seek
During POST, BIOS will determine the floppy disk drive type, 40 or 80 tracks, installed in the system. 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 drives type as they are all 80 tracks. |
| BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by |
Disabled | track number. There will be no warning message |
| displayed if the drive installed is 360K. |
44 | Award BIOS Utility |