User Guide

3-8 Chapter3
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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:
This item can be set to Enabled or Disabled, the default setting being
Disabled
.
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 Level 1 Cache:
This item is used to enable or to disable the CPU level 1 cache. When the cache is set to
Disabled
it is
much slower, so the default setting for this item is
Enabled
since it will speed up memory access. Some
old and very poorly written programs will make the computer malfunction or crash if the system speed is
too high. In this case, you should disable this feature. The default setting is
Enabled
.
CPU Level 2 Cache:
This item is used to enable or to disable the CPU level 2 cache. When the external cache is e
nabled
, it
will speed up memory access, and the system will work faster. The default setting is
Enabled
.
CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking:
This item is used to enable or to disable the CPU level 2 cache ECC checking function. The default
setting is
Enabled
.
Processor Number Feature:
This feature can let the program read the serial number inside your processor. This feature only works