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Award BIOS Setup Utility

3.1.2 Advanced BIOS Features

The Advanced BIOS Features 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.

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Advanced BIOS Features

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Virus Warning

 

Disabled

 

Item Help

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CPU L1 Cache

 

Enabled

 

Menu Level

 

 

CPU L2 Cache

 

Enabled

 

 

 

CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking

 

Enabled

 

Allows you to choose

 

 

Processor Serial Number

 

Disabled

 

 

 

Quick Power On Self Test

 

Enabled

 

the VIRUS warning

 

 

First Boot Device

 

Floppy

 

feature for IDE Hard

 

 

Second Boot Device

 

HDD-0

 

Disk boot sector

 

 

Third Boot Device

 

LS/ZIP

 

protection. If this

 

 

Boot Other Device

 

Enabled

 

function is enabled and

 

 

Swap Floppy Drive

 

Disabled

 

someone attempt to

 

 

Boot Up Floppy Seek

 

Disabled

 

write data into this

 

 

Boot Up NumLock Status

 

Off

 

area, BIOS will show a

 

 

Typematic Rate Setting

 

Disabled

 

warning message on

 

 

X Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)

 

6

 

screen and alarm beep

 

 

X Typematic Delay (Msec)

 

250

 

 

 

 

Security Option

 

Setup

 

 

 

 

OS Select For DRAM > 64MB

 

Non-OS2

 

 

 

 

HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability

 

Disabled

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

−↓→← Move Enter:Select

+/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save

ESC:Exit F1:General Help

 

 

F5:Previous Values

F6:Fail-Safe Defaults

F7:Optimized Defaults

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 anti-virus program to locate and remove the problem before any damage is done.

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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