Chapter 4: BIOS
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Menu Item | Description | |
| Use this setting to Enable or DISABLE WHEA (Windows Hardware Error | |
WHEA Support | Architecture) support. WHEA provides a common infrastructure for reporting | |
hardware errors on Windows platforms and was designed to improve recovery | ||
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| following fatal hardware errors. | |
Power Button Mode | Allows the user to change the function of the power button. Options are On/Off | |
and SUSPEND. | ||
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Watch Dog Timer | This setting is used to ENABLE or Disable the Watch Dog Timer function. It must | |
be used in conjunction with the Watch Dog jumper (see Chapter 2 for details). To | ||
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enable, choose from 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 15 or 30 MIN. | ||
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Restore on AC Power | This setting allows you to choose how the system will react when power returns | |
Loss | after an unexpected loss of power. The options are POWER OFF, POWER ON and | |
Last State. | ||
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MPS Revision | This setting allows the user to select the MPS (MultiProcessor Specification) | |
revision level. The options are 1.1 and 1.4. | ||
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Menu Item | Description | |
Serial ATA Devices | This setting is used to determine if SATA drives will be used and how many. | |
Options are DISABLED, DEVICE 0 and Device 0/1. | ||
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nVidia RAID Function | This setting is used to ENABLE or Disable the nVidia ROM. If enabled, the setting | |
| below will appear. | |
SerialATA 0/1 | This setting is used to ENABLE or Disable the SATA0 Primary, SATA0 Secondary, | |
Primary/Secondary | SATA1 Primary and SATA1 Secondary, channels (four settings total). If enabled, | |
Channel | the following settings will appear: | |
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LBA/Large Mode | LBA (Logical Block Addressing) is a method of addressing data on a disk drive. | |
The options are DISABLED and Auto. | ||
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| Block mode boosts IDE drive performance by increasing the amount of data | |
Block | transferred. Only 512 bytes of data can be transferred per interrupt if block mode | |
is not used. Block mode allows transfers of up to 64 KB per interrupt. Select | ||
DISABLED to allow the data to be transferred from and to the device one sector at | ||
Transfer) | a time. Select Auto to allows the data transfer from and to the device occur | |
| multiple sectors at a time if the device supports it. The options are Auto and | |
| DISABLED. |