Anti-Virus Protection

Common Options : Enabled, Disabled, ChipAway

Quick Review

This BIOS feature controls the motherboard's virus protection features..

When enabled, the BIOS will protect the boot sector and partition table by halting the system and flashing a warning message whenever there's an attempt to write to these areas.

This feature can also cause problems with software that need to access the boot sector, e.g. the installation routine of all versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onwards. When enabled, this BIOS feature causes the installation routine to fail. Many disk diagnostic utilities also access the boot sector and therefore will likely trigger the system halt and error message as well. Therefore, you should disable this feature before running such software.

Alternatively, you can select the internal rule-based anti-virus code, e.g. ChipAway. Enabling ChipAway provides better anti-virus protection by scanning for and detecting boot viruses before they have a chance to infect the boot sector of any hard disk drive. However, please note that both anti-virus solutionswill not affect any hard disk drives that run on external controllers because these controllers have their own BIOS.

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