Advanced BIOS Features

 

 

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Advanced BIOS Features

 

 

 

 

 

First

Boot

Device

[Floppy]

 

 

 

Item

Help

Second

Boot

Device

[HDD-0]

 

 

Menu

Level}

 

Third

Boot

Device

[CDROM]

 

 

Select Boot

Device

Boot Up Floppy Seek

[Disabled]

 

priority

 

 

Password Check

[Setup]

 

 

 

 

 

 

CPU Hyper-Threading #

[Enabled]

 

[Floppy]

 

 

Init Display First

[AGP]

 

 

Boot

from

floppy

 

 

 

 

 

 

[LS120]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boot

from

LS120

 

 

 

 

 

 

[HDD-0]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boot

from

First HDD

 

 

 

 

 

 

[HDD-1]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boot

from

Second HDD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

higf: Move

Enter: Select

+/-/PU/PD: Value

F10: Save

ESC: Exit

F1: General Help

 

F5: Previous Values

F6: Fail-Save Default

F7: Optimized Defaults

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"# " System will detect automatically and show up when you install the Intel® Pentium ® 4 processor with HT Technology.

First / Second / Third Boot Device

Floppy

Select your boot device priority by Floppy.

LS120

Select your boot device priority by LS120.

HDD-0~3

Select your boot device priority by HDD- 0~3.

SCSI

Select your boot device priority by SCSI.

CDROM

Select your boot device priority by CDROM .

ZIP

Select your boot device priority by ZIP.

USB- FDD

Select your boot device priority by USB- FDD.

USB- ZIP

Select your boot device priority by USB- ZIP.

USB-CDROM

Select your boot device priority by USB- CDROM .

USB-HDD

Select your boot device priority by USB- HDD.

LAN

Select your boot device priority by LAN.

Disabled

Select your boot device priority by Disabled.

Boot Up Floppy Seek

During POST, BIOS will determine the floppy disk drive installed is 40 or 80 tracks. 360K type is 40 tracks 720K, 1.2M and 1.44M are all 80 tracks.

Enabled

BIOS searches for floppy disk drive to determine it is 40 or 80 tracks. Note that

 

BIOS can not tell from 720K, 1.2M or 1.44M drive type as they are all 80 tracks.

Disabled

BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number. Note that

 

there will not be any warning message if the drive installed is 360K. (Default value)

PasswordCheck

System

The system can not boot and can not access to Setup page will be denied if the

 

correct password is not entered at the prompt.

Setup

The system will boot, but access to Setup will be denied if the correct password

 

is not entered at the prompt. (Default value)

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Intel 8S648-RZ-C Advanced Bios Features, First / Second / Third Boot Device, Boot Up Floppy Seek, PasswordCheck

8S648-RZ-C, 8S648-RZ specifications

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