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Motherboard User’s Guide
Quick Power On Self Test
Enable this item to shorten the power on testing (POST) and have your system
start up faster. You might like to enable this item after you are confident that your
system hardware is operating smoothly.
First/Second/Third Boot Device
Use these three items to select the priority and order of the devices that your
system searches for an operating system at start-up time.
Boot Other Device
When enabled, the system searches all other possible locations for an operating
system if it fails to find one in the devices specified under the First, Second, and
Third boot devices.
Boot Up Floppy Seek
If this item is enabled, it checks the size of the floppy disk drives at start-up time.
You don’t need to enable this item unless you have a legacy diskette drive with
Boot Up NumLock Status
This item defines if the keyboard Num Lock key is active when your system is
started.
Typematic Rate Setting
If this item is enabled, you can use the following two items to set the typematic rate
and the typematic delay settings for your keyboard.
• Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec): Use this item to define how many charac-
ters per second are generated by a held-down key.
• Typematic Delay (Msec): Use this item to define how many milliseconds
must elapse before a held-down key begins generating repeat characters.
Security Option
If you have installed password protection, this item defines if the password is
required at system start up, or if it is only required when a user tries to enter the
Setup Utility.
APIC Mode
This item allows you to enable or disable the APIC (Advanced Programmable
Interrupt Controller) mode. APIC provides symmetric multi-processing (SMP) for
systems, allowing support for up to 60 processors.
MPS Version Control For OS
This item displays MPS version control for OS.
Gate A20 Option
This item defines how the sytem handles legacy software that was written for an
earlier generation of processors. Leave this item at the default value.