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Time
The time is displayed in standard format: hh mm ss (hours - minutes - seconds).
Date
The date is display in standard format: MMM DD YYYY (month - day - year).
Floppy disks
The floppy disks are numbered starting from one and the BIOS maps these drivers starting form the letter “A”.
Note: when the boot sequence starts from floppy disk number one (DOS letter “A”), any device selected as floppy disk 1 can be a bootable disk. Obviously this device must represent a real bootable disk, with a proper boot sector and containing a valid O.S.
All the floppy disks can be configured with the same options. The
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None | No floppy disk selected |
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360 KB | Floppy disk 5 | ¼ - size 360 | Kbytes |
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1.2 MB | Floppy disk 5 | ¼ - size 1.2 | Mbytes |
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720 KB | Floppy disk 3 | ½ - size 720 | Kbytes |
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1.44 MB | Floppy disk 3 | ½ - size 1.44 Mbytes | Common used size | |
Integrated SSD |
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Keyboard
If the keyboard is not really necessary in the system, you can disable it. In this way the system can bootstrap without error.
Option | Description | Note |
Not Present | Keyboard presence ignored | Useful for embedded systems |
Present | BIOS look for keyboard |
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Quick Boot
With quick boot enabled, the system takes less than 5 seconds for a bootstrapping. This improvement is obtained to the disadvantage of BIOS tests (the setup must be correct and the peripheral must be connected to the module and ready at the boot); in particular the following test are skipped:
System memory pattern test
Keyboard detection
Floppy disk presence (seek test)
RTC time test
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| Disabled | Normal BIOS test are used |
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| Enabled | Reduce set of BIOS test are used |
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