4. BIOS SETUP
4.4
BIOS Features Setup Menu
This screen (Figure 3) contains industry-standard options additional to the core PC AT
BIOS. This section describes all fields offered by Award Software in this screen. Some
fields may vary from those in your Setup program. Your system board designer may
omit or modify some fields.
Virus Warning
When enabled, you will receive a warning message if a program (specifically, a virus)
attempts to write to the boot sector or the partition table of the hard disk drive. You
should then run an anti-virus program. Keep in mind that this feature protects only the
boot sector, not the entire hard drive.
NOTE:
Many disk diagnostic programs that access the boot sector table can trigger
the virus warning message. If you plan to run such a program, we recommend that you
first disable the virus warning.
External Cache
Cache memory is additional memory that is much faster than conventional DRAM
(system memory). When the CPU requests data, the system transfers the requested data
from the main DRAM into cache memory, for even faster access by the CPU. The
External Cache field may not appear if your system does not have external cache
memory.
Quick Power On Self Test
This enables your system to do a “Quick Self Test” after Power on.
ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A5IIG5D)
BIOS FEATURES SETUP
AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
Esc : Quit
↑→ ← ↓
: Select Item
F1 : Help PU/PD/+/- : Modify
F5 : Old value (Shift) F2 : Color
F7 : Load Setup Defaults
Move to items
Exit to Main
Menu
Modify values
Enter Sub-Menu
: Disabled
: Enabled
: Enabled
: C,A,SCSI
: Disabled
: Enabled
: On
: Disabled
: 6
: 250
: Setup
: Disabled
: Non-OS2
Video BIOS Shadow
C8000-CBFFF Shadow
CC000-CFFF Shadow
D0000-D3FFF Shadow
D4000-D7FFF Shadow
D8000-DBFFF Shadow
DC000-DFFFF Shadow
Virus Warning
External Cache
Quick Power On Self Test
Boot Sequence
Swap Floppy Drive
Boot Up Floppy Seek
Boot Up NumLock Status
Typematic Rate Setting
Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)
Typematic Delay (Msec)
Security Option
PCI/VGA Palette Snoop
OS Select For DRAM > 64MB
: Enabled
: Disabled
: Disabled
: Disabled
: Disabled
: Disabled
: Disabled
Figure 3: BIOS Features Setup Menu