Epson MR Series Technical Reference Manual page 148

Table A-3 Advanced BIOS Features menu (continued)
Items
Boot Other
Device
Boot Up Floppy
Seek
Boot Up
NumLock Status
Gate A20
Option
Typematic Rate
Setting
Typematic Rate
(Chars/Sec)
Typematic
Delay (Msec)
5-8 BIOS Functions
Description
Even if a device search is performed in the order of First/Second/Third Boot Devices, and a
device that is capable of performing the startup is not found, this setting can be used to
execute/not execute the Boot Other Device function. The default setting is set as "Enabled".
Change the setting so that it is compatible with the system configuration.
Enabled:This setting is used to search for another device that is capable of performing the
startup.
Disabled:This setting is used to disable the search for another device that is capable of
performing the startup.
Reference: Information concerning the boot sequence
If bootable SCSI drives (e.g., HDD and CD-ROM) are connected, some products give priority to
such SCSI Drives regardless of the First Boot Device, Second Boot Device, Third Boot Device,
and Boot Other Device settings. This is due to the specifications of the SCSI BIOS (adapters) in
question.
This setting is used to enable/disable the head seek test (either execute or not execute the
head seek command) for floppy drive A during the startup. The default setting is "Enabled".
Enabled:This setting is used to execute the head seek test. If the Standard CMOS Features: Drive
is set as "None" and the Integrated Peripherals: Onboard FDC Controller is changed to
"Disabled", then if the Standard CMOS Features: Halt On is set as "All Errors" or the All,
But Keyboard setting is used, system errors will halt.
Disabled:This setting is used to disable the head seek test. Although this setting will reduce the
amount of time required to perform the head seek for the floppy during startup, it does
not perform an accurate error detection of FDD errors.
This setting turns the NumLock on the keyboard On or OFF (executes or does not execute the
NumLock command). The default setting is "OFF".
Off: This setting is used to turn the NumLock Off.
On: This setting is used to turn the NumLock On.
This setting is used to set the access method for a memory space of more than 1MB. The default
setting should be "Normal" for Fail-Safe and "Fast" for Optimized.
Normal: This setting is used only for access methods (real mode access) Pertaining to the
conventional AT transposing apparatus which use a keyboard controller.
Fast: This setting is used for the Gate A20 function for the chip set. This is the original setting
used to perform automatic switching between the real mode and the protect mode.
This setting is used to enable/disable changes to the repeat conditions. The default setting is
"Disabled".
Disabled:This setting is used when the apparatus is to be used at a fixed setting, without
changing the number of repetitions or the intervals between repetitions. For the fixed
setting, a repetition occurs once every 6 seconds with intervals of 250 msec. This is the
normal setting.
Enabled:This setting is used when the number of repetitions and the intervals between
repetitions is changed. For details, refer to Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec.) and
Typematic Delay (Msec).
This setting is used by to determine how many times an entry is made in a one-second period
when a key is held down. The fixed setting is 6 times per second. Additional settings are 8, 10, 12,
15, 20, 24 and 30.
This setting is used to set the number of Msec for the intervals between data when a key is held
down. The fixed setting is 250 Msec. Additional settings are 500, 750 and 1000.
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