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Acnodes PC 6170 User Manual

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PC 6170 User’s Manual

First/Second/Third Boot Device

These items allow the selection of the 1

st

, 2

nd

, and 3

rd

devices that the

system will search for during its boot-up sequence. The wide range of
selection includes Floppy, LS120, ZIP100, HDD0~3, SCSI, and CDROM.

Boot Other Device

This item allows the user to enable/disable the boot device not listed on
the First/Second/Third boot devices option above. The default setting is
Enabled.

Swap Floppy Drive

This allows you to determine whether to enable Swap Floppy Drive or not.
When enabled, the BIOS swap floppy drive assignments so that Drive A
becomes Drive B, and Drive B become Drive A. By default, this field is
set to Disabled.

Boot Up Floppy Seek

During POST, BIOS will determine the floppy disk drive type, 40 or 80
tracks, installed in the system. 360Kb type is 40 tracks while 720Kb,
1.2MB and 1.44MB are all 80 tracks. The default value is “Enabled”.

Enabled

Disabled

BIOS searches for floppy disk drive to determine if it is

40 or 80 tracks. Note that BIOS can not tell from

720K, 1.2M or 1.44M drives type as they are all 80

tracks.
BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk dri ve

by track number. There will be no warning message

displayed if the drive installed is 360K.

Boot Up NumLock Status

This option enables and disables the number lock function of the keypad.
The default value is “On”.

On

Keypad functions confine with numbers

Off

Keypad functions convert to special functions (i.e.,

left/right arrow keys)

Gate A20 Option

The default value is “Fast”.

Normal

The A 20 signal is controlled by keyboard controller or

chipset hardware.

Fast

Default: Fast. The A20 signal is controlled by P ort

92 or chipset specifi c method.

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SBC83810 BIOS Setup