BIOS ROM

 

 

Table 8-3

 

 

Setup Utility

 

 

 

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Option

Description

 

 

 

Advanced*

Power-On Options

Allows you to set: (continued)

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• ACPI/USB Buffers @ Top of Memory (enable/disable).

*For

 

 

Enabling this feature places USB memory buffers at the top

advanced

 

of memory. The advantage is that some amount of memory

users only

 

below 1 MB is freed up for use by option ROMs. The

 

 

disadvantage is that a popular memory manager, HIMEM.SYS,

 

 

does not work properly when USB buffers are at top of memory

 

 

AND the system has 64 MB or less of RAM.

 

 

• Hyper-threading (enable/disable).

 

 

• Limit CPUID Maximum Value to 3 - Restricts the number of

 

 

CPUID functions reported by the microprocessor. Enable this

 

 

feature if booting to WinNT.

 

 

 

 

BIOS Power-On

Allows you to set the computer to turn on automatically at a time you

 

 

specify.

 

 

 

 

Onboard Devices

Allows you to set resources for or disable onboard system devices

 

 

(diskette controller, serial port, or parallel port).

 

 

 

 

PCI Devices

• Lists currently installed PCI devices and their IRQ settings.

 

 

• Allows you to reconfigure IRQ settings for these devices or to

 

 

disable them entirely. These settings have no effect under an

 

 

APIC-based operating system.

 

 

 

 

Bus Options*

On select models, allows you to enable or disable:

•PCI SERR# Generation.

•PCI VGA palette snooping, which sets the VGA palette snooping bit in PCI configuration space; only needed when more than one graphics controller is installed.

✎Support for specific Computer Setup options may vary depending on the hardware configuration.

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