Chapter 8 System BIOS
Table 8-3. Setup Utility Functions Continued
Heading | Option | Description |
Advanced | Bus Options | Allows user to enable or disable: |
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| PCI bus mastering, which allows a PCI device |
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| to take control of the PCI bus |
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| PCI SERR# Generation. |
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| PCI VGA palette snooping, which sets the VGA |
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| palette snooping bit in PCI configuration |
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| space; this is only needed with more than |
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| one graphics controller installed |
| Device Options | Allows user to set: |
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| Printer mode |
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| output only) |
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| Num Lock state at |
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| S5 Wake On LAN (enable/disable WOL from |
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| S5 with integrated NIC only) |
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| Processor cache (enable/disable) |
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| Processor Number (enable/disable) for Pentium |
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| III processors. |
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| ACPI S3 support (enable/disable). S3 is an |
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| ACPI (advanced configuration and power |
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| interface) sleep state that some |
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| hardware options may not support. |
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| AGP Aperture size (options vary depending on |
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| platform) allows you to modify the size of |
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| your AGP aperture size window. |
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| NIC PxE Option ROM Download |
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| (enable/disable) |
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| ACPI Video Repost, HD Reset, and PS2 |
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| Mouse wake up (enable/disable) |
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| Frame Buffer Size (AUTO, 16, 32, 64, 128) |
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| Monitor Tracking (enable/disable) |
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| C1 Halt Disconnect (enable/disable) |
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| Integrated Video (enable/disable) [visible only |
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| when a PCI video card is installed] |
| PCI VGA Configuration | Appears only if there are multiple PCI video |
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| adapters in the system. Allows users to specify |
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| which VGA controller will be the “boot” or primary |
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| VGA controller. |
Featuring the AMD Athlon XP Processor
Second Edition - April 2003
