Afterwards, if necessary, you will be able to run an anti-virus program to locate and remove the problem before any damage is done.

 

Activates automatically when the system boots up causing a warning mes-

Enabled

sage to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard

 

disk partition table.

 

 

Disabled

No warning message will appear when anything attempts to access the

boot sector or hard disk partition table.

 

 

 

Note:

Many disk diagnostic programs that attempt to access the boot sector table can cause the above warning message. If you are running such a program, you can avoid the virus warning by disabling the virus protection before you run the program. After running the program, remember to re-enable virus protection.

Quick Power-On Self Test

This setting causes the computer to run a shortened power-on self test (POST). The shortened POST takes less time to complete, but does not test the computer as thoroughly as the normal POST.

Enabled

Enable quick POST

 

 

Disabled

Normal POST

 

 

Boot Up Floppy Seek

This setting determines whether or not the computer will check for the presence of a diskette drive at startup.

Boot Up NumLock Status

This setting determines the default state of the numeric keypad. By default, the system boots up with NumLock on.

On

Off

The numeric keypad provides numeric functions.

The numeric keypad provides arrow-key, Home, PgUp, PgDn, End, Insert, and Delete functions.

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