Acer Aspire E360 Aspire T160/Aspire E360 Service Guide - Page 41

Parameter Description Options Boot From Other Devices This item allows user to enable or disable Enabled to boot from other device Disabled Swap Floppy Drive This field is effective only in systems with two floppy drives. Selecting Enabled assigns physical drive B to logical drive A, and physical drive A to logical drive B. Enabled Disabled Boot Up Floppy Seek During POST BIOS will determine if the floppy disk drive installed is 40 or 80 tracks. 360K type is 40 tracks while 760K, 1.2M and 1.44M are all 80 tracks. Enabled BIOS searches for floppy disk drive to determine if is 40 or 80 tracks. Note that BIOS can not tell from 720K, 1.2M or 1.44M drive type as they are all 80 tracks. Disabled BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number. Note that there will not be any warning message if the drive installed is 360K. Boot Up NumLock Status This item allows user to enable or disable Enabled to set keyboard is number keys or arrow Disabled keys Gate A20 Option This item allows user to select if chipset or keyboard controller should control GateA20. The gate A20 is a device used to address memory above 1 Mbyte. Initially, the gate A20 was handled via a pin on the keyboard. Today, while keyboards still provide this support, it is more common, and much faster, for the system chipset to provide support for gate A20. Normal (keyboard) Fast (chipset) Typematic Rate Setting This determines if the typematic rate is to be used. When the typematic rate is enabled, this selection allows you select the rate at which the keys are accelerated. When the typematic rate is enabled, this selection allows you to select the delay between when the key was first depressed and when the acceleration begins. Enabled Disabled Security Option This category allows you to limit access to System the system and Setup, or just to Setup. Setup APCI Mode This option is used to set up enable or disable the APCI function Enabled Disabled MPS Version Control for OS The BIOS supports versions 1.1 and 1.4 of the Intel multiprocessor specification. Select the version supported by the operating system running on this computer. OS Select For DRAM >64MB Select OS2 only if you are running OS/2 operating system with greater than 64 MB of RAM on your system. HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability S.M.A.R.T which allows your hard disk to report any read/write errors and issue a warning when LDCM installed Enabled Disabled Chapter 2 32