FPC 8084 User’s Manual

Swap Floppy Drive

This allows you to determine whether to enable Swap Floppy Drive or not. W hen enabled, the BIOS swaps floppy drive assignments so that Drive A becomes Drive B, and Drive B becomes Drive A. By default, this field is set to ￿Disabled￿.

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￿.

Enabled

Disabled

BIOS sea rches fo r flopp y disk drive to dete rmin e if i t is 40 or 8 0t ra cks . Not e that BIO S can no t tell f r om 7 2 0 K, 1.2 M o r 1 . 44M drivetype as they are all 80 tracks .

BIOS will not sea rch fo r the type of flo pp y disk drive by tra cknu mbe r. Th ere will b e no w a rnin g messa ge displaye d if t he d riveinst alled is 360 K .

Boot Up NumLock Status

This option enables and disables the numberlock function of the keypad. The default value is ￿On￿.

On

Off

Key pad functions confine wi th n u mb e rs

K e y p a d fu ncti on s convert to special fu nctions (i .e., left/ right a rro w keys)

Gate A20 Option

The default value is ￿Fast￿.

Normal

Fast

The A20 sig nal is controlle d by keyb o ard c ontroller or chipset ha rd wa re.

Default: Fa st. T he A2 0 sign al is con trolle d b y P ort 92 or chips et s pecific m ethod .

Typematic Rate Setting

This determines the typematic rate of the keyboard. The default value is ￿Disabled￿.

Enabled

Disabled

Enable type m atic rate and typ e matic del ay progra mming

Di sa ble type matic r ate a nd typ e matic delay p ro gram ming . Th e syste m BIOS will use d e fault valu e of these 2 ite m s and the default is c o ntrolled by k eyboard.

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Acnodes FPC 8084 Swap Floppy Drive, Boot Up Floppy Seek, Boot Up NumLock Status, Gate A20 Option, Typematic Rate Setting

FPC 8084 specifications

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