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Chapter 4

NEX732L2G User Manual

4.8 Advanced BIOS Features

Selecting Advanced BIOS Feature on the main program screen displays this menu, which allows you to

define advanced information about your system. You can make modifications to most of these items to

improve your system performance or set up system features according to your preference, without causing

fatal errors to your system.

Figure 4-3: BIOS – Advanced BIOS Features

The following explains the options for each feature:

Hard Disk Boot Priority:

Press < Enter> to enter a sub menu which shoes every current hard drive installed. Use or

key to select the first boot hard disk.

Virus Warning

Allow you to choose the Virus Warning feature for IDE Hard Disk boot sector protection. If this function is

enabled and someone attempts to write data into this area, BIOS will show a warning message on screen

and an alarm will beep.

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Enabled: Activates automatically when the system boots up causing the following warning

message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table:

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Disabled: No warning message will appear when an attempt is made to access the boot sector or

hard disk partition table.

Note:

This function is available only for DOS and other operating systems that do not trap INT13. For

complete protection against viruses, install virus software in your operating system and update the

virus definitions regularly.

Many disk diagnostic programs that access the boot sector table can trigger the virus warning