Gigabyte GA-8S661GXMP user manual Boot Up Floppy Seek, Password Check, CPU Hyper-Threading

Boot Up Floppy Seek

During POST, BIOS will determine if the installed floppy disk drive is 40 or 80 tracks. 360K type is 40 tracks 720K, 1.2M and 1.44M are all 80 tracks.

Disabled	BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number. Note
	that there will not be any warning message if the drive installed is 360K.
	(Default value)
Enabled	BIOS searches for floppy disk drive to determine if it is 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.

Password Check

Setup	The system will boot but will not access to Setup page if the correct
	password is not entered at the prompt. (Default value)
System	The system will not boot and will not access to Setup page if the correct
	password is not entered at the prompt.

If you want to cancel the setting of password, please just press ENTER to make [SETUP] empty.

CPU Hyper-Threading

This option appears only when the processor you install supports Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology.

Enabled	Enable CPU Hyper-Threading feature. Please note that this feature only works
	for operating system with multiprocessors mode supported. (Default value)
Disabled	Disable CPU Hyper-Threading.

Limit CPUID Max. to 3

This option is available only when you install an Intel® Prescott processor

Enabled	Limit CPUID Maximum value to 3 when using older OS like NT4.
Disabled	Disable CPUID Limit for Windows XP.(Defaults value)

Init Display First

Select the first initiation of the monitor display from AGP or PCI VGA card.

PCI	Set Init Display First to PCI VGA card.
AGP	Set Init Display First to AGP VGA card.(Default value)

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