PC 6170 User’s Manual

First/Second/Third Boot Device

These items allow the selection of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd devices that the system will search for during its boot-up sequence. The wide range of selection includes Floppy, LS120, ZIP100, HDD0~3, SCSI, and CDROM.

Boot 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.

Swap 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.

Boot 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.

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 drives type as they are all 80

 

tracks.

Disabled

BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk dri ve

by track number. There will be no warning message

 

displayed if the drive installed is 360K.

Boot Up NumLock Status

This option enables and disables the number lock function of the keypad. The default value is On.

On

Keypad functions confine with numbers

 

Off

Keypad functions convert to special functions (i.e.,

 

 

left/right arrow keys)

 

 

 

Gate A20 Option

The default value is Fast.

Normal

The A20 signal is controlled by keyboard controller or

 

 

 

chipset hardware.

 

 

 

 

Fast

Default: Fast. The A20 signal is controlled by Port

 

 

 

92 or chipset specific method.

 

 

 

 

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Acnodes PC 6170 First/Second/Third Boot Device, Boot Other Device, Swap Floppy Drive, Boot Up Floppy Seek, Gate A20 Option

PC 6170 specifications

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