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Chapter 4: BIOS Setup

1st Boot : (BAID) [None]

This field allows you to select a BIOS Aware IPL Devices (BAID) to boot
from. A BAID is any device that can boot on an operating system but
requires a specific BIOS code for support. Bootable FDDs, ATA HDD,
ATAPI CD-ROM, ATA ZIP, and ATA MO drives are classified as BAID. The
drives present in the system will appear as options for this field.

2nd Boot : (Legacy) [Disabled]

This field reserves the boot sequence selection only to legacy devices
including FDD, HDD, CD-ROM, SCSI, and LAN. This mode does not allow
booting from a boot device on an add-on card or controller. If you wish to
assign a device as a 1st Boot device for a specific application, you must
set that legacy device at the 1st Boot sequence.

For this motherboard, the following options are present onboard:
[Disabled] [Floppy] [HDD] [CD-ROM] [LAN Option ROM] [SCSI]

3rd Boot : (BCV) [None]

This field allows you to select a Boot Connection Vector (BCV) device to
boot from. BCV devices include SCSI controllers or SCSI cards, RAID
cards, and other devices on add-on cards with option ROM that hooks INT
13 to BIOS. The BCV devices present in the system will appear as options
for this field. The field shows [None] if no BCV device is installed.

4th Boot : (BEV) [<0> Intel Corporation]

This field allows you to select a Bootstrap Entry Vector (BEV) device to
boot from. BEV devices include network controllers or cards. The BEV
devices present in the system will appear as options for this field. For this
motherboard, the following options are present onboard: [None]

Boot From Other Device [Enabled]

This field allows you to enable or disable booting from an unselected
device. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

Assigned HD Drive No. [With CMOS]

This field allows you to select the algorithm of assigning drive numbers for
hard disk drives. Configuration options: [With CMOS] [In Sequence]