
L i f e B o o k B S e r i e s N o t e b o o k B I O S
Keyboard/Mouse Features Submenu of the Advanced Menu
Keyboard/Mouse Features submenu is for enabling or disabling the NumLock.
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  | [On] or [Off]  | 
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  | Numlock:  | 
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  | [Enabled]  | Numlock is On or Off.  | 
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  | Internal Pointing Device:  | [Auto Disabled]  | [On/Padlock Off]  | 
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  | Initialization on Resume:  | [Fast]  | Numlock is On, but use  | 
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  | Numlock is set to On/  | 
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  | Padlock Off when PS/2  | 
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Figure 4. Keyboard/Mouse Features Submenu
Table 4: Fields, Options and Defaults for the Keyboard/Mouse Features Submenu of the Advanced Menu
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Numlock:  | • Auto  | [Auto]  | Sets the NumLock function state when the computer completes boot-  | 
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  | ing. When [On] or [Off], Numlock is on or off. When [On/Padlock  | 
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  | Off] is selected, Numlock is on, but [Fn] key must be pressed used for  | 
  | • On/Padlock Off  | 
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  | Off when a PS/2 keyboard is connected, otherwise it is off.  | 
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  | Windows XP preserves Numlock state when the user logs off.  | 
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Hot Plug:  | • Disabled  | [Enabled]  | Enables and disables the ability to plug a mouse or keyboard into the  | 
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Internal Pointing  | • Auto Disabled  | [Auto Dis-  | Sets the device controlling the mouse cursor on the screen. Always  | 
Device:  | • Manual Setting  | abled]  | Enabled makes the pointing device always enabled whether there is  | 
  | • Always Enabled  | 
  | an external mouse or not. Always Disabled makes the pointing device  | 
  | • Always Disabled  | 
  | always disabled. Auto Disabled disables the internal pointing device  | 
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  | when an external pointing device is connected to the PS/2 port.  | 
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  | Manual Setting allows the device to be enabled or disabled using a  | 
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Initialization  | • Fast  | [Fast]  | When Fast is selected, initialization for the external PS/2 devices is  | 
on Resume:  | • Normal  | 
  | optimized to speed up on Resume. When Normal is selected, initial-  | 
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  | ization is not optimized.  | 
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