Acer Aspire T600 Power FV and Aspire T600 Service Guide - Page 33

Advanced BIOS Features The following screen shows the Advanced BIOS Features: Parameter Virus Warning Silent Boot Configuration Table Quick Power on Self Test First / Second / Third Boot Device Boot Other Device Boot Up NumLock Status APIC Mode Description Options When enabled, this item provides protection against viruses that try to write to the boot sector and partition table of your hard disk drive. You need to disable this item when installing an operating system. We recommend that you enable this item as soon as you have installed an operating system. Diabled Enabled This is to switch 1st screen logo (default Acer' Disabled logo) Enabled This is to select if system configuration shown Disabled by 2nd screen or not. Enabled 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 areconfident that your system hardware is operating smoothly. Disabled Enabled The items allow you to set the sequence of boot Floppy, LS120, Hard Disk, CD-ROM, device where BIOS attempts to load the disk ZIP, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USb- operating system CDROM, USB-HDD, LAN, Disabled 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. Disabled Enabled This item defines if the keyboard Num Lock key On is active when your system is started. Off This option enables/disables APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) functionality. The APIC is an Intel chip that provides symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) for its Pentium systems. Disabled Enabled 26 Chapter 2