IBM 500 manual Bios and software description, Setup, Functional Standards, Standard Bios Features

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SurePOS 500 4846-XX5 Technical Reference

3.0 BIOS and software description

This section provides an overview of BIOS, SETUP, and system software.

3.1Setup

The POST CMOS Setup Utility program provides menus for querying and configuration the system. The menus can be navigated using touch OR a keyboard attached to a USB or PS/2 port.

The CMOS Setup Configuration Utility has optional password protection. The password can be entered through on screen keypad or keyboard, and can only be numerical. If the password is forgotten, it can be cleared using the CMOS Clear Jumper located on the main card.

3.2Functional Standards

BIOS Boot Specification, v1.01, January 11, 1996

Plug and Play BIOS Specification, v1.0A, May 5, 1994

Plug and Play BIOS MODIFICATION Paper for Plug and Play BIOS Specification, v1.0A, October 4, 1994

ATAPI Removable Media Device BIOS Specification, v1.0, January 30, 1997

PCI Local Bus Specification, Revision 2.1, June 1, 1995

PCI BIOS Specification, Revision 2.3, March 29, 2002

El Torito Bootable CD-ROM Format Specification, v1.0, January 25, 1995

Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) Specification, Version 2.1.

Advanced Power Management Specification, v1.2

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification, Revision 1.0b, February 2, 1999

DMI Specifications, v2.0

SMBIOS Specification, v2.4

Simple Boot Flag Specification, Version 2.1

PC 2001 System Design Guide

Wired for Management Baseline 2.0 Review Request 77 Remote Lockout API

3.3Standard BIOS Features

BIOS supports the following features:

Display checkpoints during POST on top-right corner

WfM Remote Lockout

Power-On Self Test (POST)

Warm Boot support

Memory Auto-detection

Hard Disk Auto-detection

Fast A20 Interface

Advanced Storage Features

SATA support

48-bit LBA (Logical Block Addressing) support with Int 13h extensions for drives>528MB

UDMA (Ultra DMA)

Storage Auto-detection

Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) Support

USB Legacy Support

USB 2.0 support

USB Keyboard/mouse for non-USB enabled OS’s

USB Keyboard support in Setup

Simple Boot Flag support

APM 1.2 Support

ACPI 1.0b Support

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500 specifications

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