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Quick Power On Self Test, Swap Floppy Drive, Boot Up Floppy Seek, Boot Up NumLock Status, Gate A20

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Chapter 2 BIOS Setup Quick Power On Self Test Select Enabled to reduce the amount of time required to run the power-on self-test (POST). A quick POST skips certain steps. We recommend that you normally disable quick POST. Better to find a problem during POST than lose data during your work. Enabled (default) Enable quick POST Disabled Normal POST Swap Floppy Drive Switches the floppy disk drive between being designated as A and B. Default is 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 720K, 1.2M, and 1.44M are all 80 tracks. Enabled (default) BIOS searches for the floppy disk drive to determine if it is 40 or 80 tracks. Note that BIOS cannot 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 On (default) Off Numpad is number keys. Numpad is arrow keys. Gate A20 Option Gate A20 refers to the way the system address memory above 1 MB (extened memory). When set Fast, the system chipset controls Gate A20. When set to Normal, a pin in the Keyboard controller controls Gate A20. Setting Gate A20 to Fast improves system speed, particularly with OS/2 and Windows. Normal (default) 2-12

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Chapter 2
BIOS Setup
2-12
Quick Power On Self Test
Select Enabled to reduce the amount of time required to run the power-on self-test
(POST).
A quick POST skips certain steps.
We recommend that you normally
disable quick POST.
Better to find a problem during POST than lose data during
your work.
Enabled
(default)
Enable quick POST
Disabled
Normal POST
Swap Floppy Drive
Switches the floppy disk drive between being designated as A and B.
Default is
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 720K, 1.2M, and 1.44M are all 80 tracks.
Enabled
(default)
BIOS searches for the floppy disk drive to
determine if it is 40 or 80 tracks.
Note
that BIOS cannot 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
On
(default)
Numpad is number keys.
Off
Numpad is arrow keys.
Gate A20 Option
Gate A20 refers to the way the system address memory above 1 MB (extened
memory). When set Fast, the system chipset controls Gate A20. When set to
Normal, a pin in the Keyboard controller controls Gate A20. Setting Gate A20 to
Fast improves system speed, particularly with OS/2 and Windows.
Normal
(default)