Industrial ATX Motherboard User's Manual

IMB200 LGA775 ATX MB User Manual

Award BIOS Utility

Most people enable this setting to speed up the boot process,

but you should realize that you do increase the chance of the

POST missing an error if you use this. Fortunately (or

unfortunately) the POST memory test is virtually useless to

detect

transient memory errors (as opposed to hard errors that

you would discover the first time you powered up the machine

with the new memory in it), so once your system is running and

stable, you can in most cases enable this setting safely. It's

still safest to leave it disabled, which is what I recommend

unless you have truly monstrous amounts of RAM. After all,

how often do you boot the system during normal use.

First/Second/Third Boot Device

These items allow the selection of the 1

, 2

, and 3

devices that the system will search for during its boot-up

sequence. The wide range of selection includes Floppy,

LS120, ZIP100, HDD0~3, SCSI, and CDROM.

z Boot Other Device

This item allows the user to enable/disable the boot device

not listed on the First/Second/Third boot devices option

above. The default setting is enabled.

z Swap Floppy Drive

This allows you to determine whether to enable Swap

Floppy Drive or not. When enabled, the BIOS swap floppy

drive assignments so that Drive A becomes Drive B and

Drive B become Drive A. By default, this field is set to

Disabled.

z Boot Up Floppy Seek

During POST, BIOS will determine the floppy disk drive

type, 40 or 80 tracks, installed in the system. 360Kb type is

40 tracks while 720Kb, 1.2MB and 1.44MB are all 80 tracks.

The default value is “Enabled”.

Enabled

BIOS searches for floppy disk drive to determine if it is

40 or 80 tracks. Note that BIOS can not tell from 720K,

1.2M or 1.44M drives type as they are all 80 tracks.

Disabled

BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by

track number. There will be no warning message

displayed if the drive installed is 360K.