User Guide

BIOS Setup 3-9
3-3. Advanced BIOS Features Setup Menu
With each item, you can press <Enter> at any time to display all the options for that item.
ATTENTION: Advanced BIOS Features Setup Menu has already been set for maximum operation. If
you do not really understand each of the options in this menu, we recommend you use the default values.
Figure 3-5. Advanced BIOS Features Setup Screen
Virus Warning:
When this feature is enabled, if there is any attempt from a software or an application to access the boot
sector or the partition table, the BIOS will warn you that a boot virus is attempting to access the hard disk.
CPU Hyper-Threading
Leave this item to its default setting to enable the simultaneous multi-threaded (SMT) processor so as to
make one physical processor looks like two logical processors to the OS and applications.
This option is for CPU with Hyper-Threading Technology only. For more information on
“Hyper-Threading Technology”, please visit Intel Web site at
http://www.intel.com/homepage/land/hyperthreading.htm
, http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/ht/.
Quick Power On Self Test:
After the computer has been powered on, the BIOS of the motherboard will run a series of tests in order
to check the system and its peripherals. If the Quick Power on Self-Test feature is enabled, the BIOS will
simplify the test procedures in order to speed up the boot process. The default setting is Enabled.
First Boot Device:
When the computer boots up, the BIOS attempts to load the operating system from the devices in the
sequence selected in these items: floppy disk drive A, LS/ZIP devices, hard drive C, SCSI hard disk drive
or CD-ROM. There are eleven options for the boot sequence that you can choose (The default setting is
Floppy.):
Floppy  LS120  HDD-0  SCSI  CDROM  HDD-1  HDD-2  HDD-3  ZIP100  LAN
 ATA133RAID  Disabled.
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