American Megatrends MAN-758 Advanced Setup, Continued, Disabled, Enabled, time to get ready again

Advanced Setup, Continued

Quick Boot Set this option to Enabled to instruct AMIBIOS to boot quickly when the computer is powered on. This option replaces the old Above 1 MB Memory Test Advanced Setup option. The settings are:

Setting

Description

Disabled	AMIBIOStestallsystemmemory.AMIBIOSwaitsupto40secondsfora
	READYsignalfromtheIDEharddiskdrive.AMIBIOSwaitsfor.5seconds
	after sending a RESET signal to the IDE drive to allow the IDE drive time to
	getreadyagain.AMIBIOSchecksfora<Del>keypressandrunsAMIBIOS
	Setup if the key has been pressed.
Enabled	AMIBIOSdoesnottestsystemmemoryabove1MB.
	AMIBIOSdoesnotwaitupto40secondsforaREADYsignalfromtheIDE
	harddiskdrive.IfaREADYsignalisnotreceivedimmediatelyfromtheIDE
	drive,AMIBIOSdoesnotconfigurethatdrive.AMIBIOSdoesnotwaitfor.5
	seconds after sending a RESET signal to the IDE drive to allow the IDE drive
	time to get ready again.
	YoucannotrunAMIBIOSSetupatsystemboot,becausethereisnodelayfor
	the Hit <Del> to run Setup message.

The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are Disabled.

1st Boot Device This option sets the type of device for the first boot drives that the AMIBIOS attempts to boot from after AMIBIOS POST completes. The settings are Disabled, Network, Floptical, SCSI, CDROM, IDE-0,IDE-1,IDE-2,or IDE-3.The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are IDE-0.

2nd Boot Device This option sets the type of device for the second boot drives that the AMIBIOS attempts to boot from after AMIBIOS POST completes. The settings are Disabled, Floppy, Floptical, CDROM, or IDE-0.The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are Floppy.

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