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BIOS Features Setup Menu
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LABEL |
SUGGESTED SETTINGS
|
NOTES |
|
Virus Warning |
Disabled |
Not
that useful at the BIOS level |
| CPU
Level 1 Cache |
Enabled |
Must be enabled or you'll get 486 level speed |
| CPU
Level 2 Cache |
Enabled |
Disable to test if the L2 cache is the limiting factor for overclocking, but
for general use, enabled gives much better speed |
| CPU
L2 Cache ECC Checking |
Disabled |
ECC
cache is not required for non-server or mission critical type applications |
|
Quick Power On Self Test |
Enabled |
This will speed up the boot process |
|
Boot Sequence |
C,A,SCSI |
This speeds up the boot slightly by bypassing the floppy drive in the bootup
search sequence in favor of the hard drive |
|
Swap Floppy Drive |
Disabled |
|
|
Boot Up Floppy Seek |
Disabled |
Speeds up boot and makes floppy drive last longer |
|
Boot Up NumLock Status |
No
difference |
|
| IDE
HDD Block Mode |
Disabled |
Unnecessary with setup |
|
Typematic Rate Setting |
No
difference |
|
|
Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) |
No
difference |
|
|
Typematic Delay (Msec) |
No
difference |
|
|
Security Option |
No
difference |
|
| PCI/VGA
Palette Snoop |
Disabled |
Unnecessary unless you're having a problem with an Mpeg card |
| OS
Select For DRAM > 64MB |
Non-OS2 |
No
one here's using OS2, right? =) |
|
Report No FDD For WIN 95 |
No |
|
|
Delay for HDD (SEC) |
0 |
If
you have problems with your HD not being initialized properly, raise delay |
|
Video BIOS Shadow |
Enabled |
Faster for most video cards, if you run into problems, disable |
|
Shadow address ranges |
Disabled for all |
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