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Award BIOS Setup Utility 
3.1.2 BIOS Features Setup
The BIOS Features Setup allows you to configure your system for basic operation. Some entries are defaults required by the system board, while others, if enabled, will improve the performance of your system or let you set some features according to your preference.
ROM PCI/ISA BIOS
BIOS FEATURES SETUP
AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
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| Virus Warning | : Disabled | Video BIOS Shadow |
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| CPU Internal Cache | : Enabled |
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| External Cache | : Enabled |
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| Quick Power On Self Test | : Enabled | : Disabled |
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| Boot Sequence | : A, C, SCSI | : Disabled |
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| Swap Floppy Drive | : Disabled | : Disabled |
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| Boot Up Floppy Seek | : Disabled |
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| Boot Up NumLock Status | : On |
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| Memory ECC Function | : Disabled |
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| Typematic Rate Setting | : Disabled |
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| Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) | : 6 |
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| Typematic Delay (Msec) | : 250 |
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| Security Option | : Setup | ESC | : Quit | −↓→← | : | Select Item |
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| PCI/VGA Palette Snoop | : Disabled |
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| F1 | : Help | PU/PD/+/- | : Modify |
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| OS Select For DRAM > 64MB | : |
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| HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability | : Disabled | F5 | : Old Values (Shift) F2 | : | Color |
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| F6 | : Load |
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| F7 | : Load Optimal Settings |
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The settings on the screen are for reference only. Your version may not be identical to this one.
Virus Warning
This category protects the boot sector and partition table of your hard disk drive. When this item is enabled, the Award BIOS will monitor the boot sector and partition table of the hard disk drive. If an attempt is made to write to the boot sector or partition table of the hard disk drive, the BIOS will halt the system and an error message will appear.
After seeing the error message, if necessary, you will be able to run an
Many disk diagnostic programs which attempt to access the boot sector table will cause the warning message to appear. If you are running such a program, we recommend that you first disable this category. Also, disable this category if you are installing or running certain operating systems like Windows® 95/98 or the operating system may not install nor work.
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