Managing The PC BIOS
Virus Warning
When you enable the virus warning you will receive a warning message whenever a program (specifically, a virus) attempts to write to the boot sector or the partition table of the hard disk drive. If you receive such a message you should immediately run an
Disk diagnostic programs that access the boot sector table can trigger the
CPU L1 & L2 Cache
This field can be used to enable or disable the system’s primary (L1) or secon- dary (L2) cache.
CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking
When you select Enabled, the ECC checking will ensure that the data stored on the L2 cache is accurate.
Quick Power On Self Test
If enabled the amount of time required to run the
First / Second / Third Boot Device
These fields allow you to decide the boot sequence of your bootable devices such as Floppy Drive, Hard Drive, CD ROM...etc
Boot Other Device
When this field is enabled you will be able Boot your computer from a different device, not your HDD or FDD.
Swap Floppy Drive
This field is effective only in systems with two floppy drives. When Enabled is selected physical drive B is assigned to logical drive A, and physical drive A is assigned to logical drive B.
Boot Up Floppy Seek
When enabled, the BIOS tests (seeks) floppy drives to determine whether they have 40 or 80 tracks. Only
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