Specifications

DigiPoS Retail Blade
™
Manual
Details Cont.
Feature Options Description
Boot Other Device
Enabled
Disabled
For devices installed that can act as a bootable device.
Swap Floppy Drive
Enabled
Disabled
Only valid in systems with two floppy drives. This allows the
system to swap drive A to Drive B and vice versa.
Boot Up Floppy Seek
Enabled
Disabled
This tests to see if the floppy drive has 40 or 80 tracks. 40
Track drives are only 360Kb where 80 track drives can be
720Kb, 1.2Mb or 1.44Mb, which is the standard today.
Because only the 1.44Mb is used in the DigiPoS, this function
can be disabled to save time during the POST (Power On Self
Test).
Boot Up NumLock Status
On
Off
Sets the number lock to on or off after boot up.
Gate A20 Option
Fast
Normal
Gate A20 refers to the way the system addresses memory
above 1Mb (Extended Memory). When this is set to fast, the
chipset controls Gate A20. When set to Normal, a pin in the
keyboard controller controls Gate A20. Setting Gate A20 to
Fast improves system performance.
Typematic Rate Setting
Enabled
Disabled
When enabled, you can specify the parameters for the
typematic settings. Usually this is disabled which renders the
next two settings irrelevant.
Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)
6
8
10
12
15
20
24
30
This is the rate at which a character is repeated when you
hold down a key on the keyboard.
Typematic Delay (Msec)
250
500
750
1000
When the typematic rate setting is enabled, you can use this
setting to determine how long a delay will occur before the
character is repeated at the typematic rate.
Security Option
Setup
System
If the password option is selected, you can use this setting to
determine if the password is required every time the computer
boots or only when some one tries to gain access to the BIOS
settings.
APIC Mode
Enabled
Disabled
This BIOS feature is used to enable or disable the
motherboard's APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt
Controller). The APIC provides more IRQs and faster interrupt
handling.
MPS Version Control for OS
1.1
1.4
This feature is only applicable to multiprocessor motherboards
as it specifies the version of the Multi-Processor Specification
(MPS) that the motherboard will use. The MPS is a
specification by which PC manufacturers design and build
Intel architecture systems with two or more processors.
OS Select for DRAM > 64MB
Non-OS2
OS2
This BIOS feature determines how systems with more than
64MB of memory are managed. A wrong setting can cause
problems like erroneous memory detection.
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