Technical information

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Advanced BIOS Features
Selecting “Advanced BIOS Features” from the Advanced Options menu displays the following screen:
The following table describes the parameters found in the sub- menu. Settings in boldface are the default and
suggested settings
.
Parameter Description Options
CPU L1 & L2 Cache CPU L1 & L2 cache enabled
Enabled
/ Disabled
Swap Floppy Drive If the system has two floopy drives, choose enabled to
assign physical drive B to logical drive A and vice versa.
Disabled/
Enabled
Boot Up Flopppy Seek If the item is enabled, BIOS will test floppy drives to
determine whether they have 40 or 80 tracks.
Disabled/
Enabled
Boot Up NumLock Status Selects power on state for NumLock.
On
/ Off
Gate 20 Option Fast: Lets chipset control Gate A20
Normal: A pin in the keyboard controller, controls Gate 20.
Default is fast.
Fast
/Normal
Typematic Rate Setting Keystrokes repeat at a rate determined by the keyboard
controller-- when enabled, the typematic rate and typematic
delay can be selected.
*
Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) 6
*
Typematic Delay (MSec) 250
Disabled/
Enabled