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These values are changed by moving to each field and typing in the desired entry. The TAB key moves from hours to minutes to seconds, or from months to days to years.
Diskette A and Diskette B
These fields identify the type of floppy disk drive installed as the A or B drives. Possible settings are Not Installed; 360 KB, 5_; 720 KB, 3_; 1.2 MB, 5_; 1.44 MB, 3_. The BIOS defaults to Not Installed for drives A and B. You will need to define drive A if you are using an external floppy disk.
IDE Adapter Master and IDE Adapter Slave Sub-Menus
These fields are headings for menus that allow entering complete disk drive information. Usually, if your hard disk has not been defined, you will press <enter> at the IDE Adapter 0 Master
Video System
This field is used to select the video type. Possible selections are: EGA/VGA; CGA 80x25; and Monochrome. The default is EGA/VGA. This field also contains the flat panel expansion token which controls the expansion ability of the VGA BIOS, ensuring that the entire display is used to show information rather than only a portion of the display.
VGA Expansion
When enabled, forces the 800 x 600 display to write to the full screen when a VGA (640 x 480) screen is used. Not available with the 1024 x 768 display.
Chapter Five: BIOS Setup 17
