Setup Utilities and Diagnostics Features

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Option

Description

 

 

 

Power

After AC Power Loss

Allows you to select:

Management

 

• Last State

Setup

 

 

• On

(continued)

 

 

• Off

 

 

 

 

 

 

PowerOn by PCI Card

Enables/disables capability of powering on by PCI card.

 

 

 

 

AMD Cool’n’Quiet

Allows you to set the AMD Cool’n’Quiet to auto or to

 

 

disable it.

 

 

 

 

RTC Alarm Resume

Enables/disables resumption of RTC alarm.

 

 

 

 

Date (of Month)

If RTC Alarm Resume is enabled, allows you to select the

 

 

day of the month for resumption of RTC alarm.

 

 

 

 

Resume Time (hh:mm:ss)

If RTC Alarm Resume is enabled, allows you to select

 

 

what time the RTC alarm will resume.

 

 

 

PnP/PCI

Reset Configuration Data

Enables/disables automatic reconfiguration.

Configurations

 

Default is Disabled. Select Enabled to reset Extended

 

 

System Configuration Data (ESCD) when you exit Setup,

 

 

if you have installed a new add-on and the system

 

 

reconfiguration has caused such a serious conflict that the

 

 

OS cannot boot.

 

 

 

 

Resources Controlled By

Allows you to select whether resources are controlled

 

 

automatically or manually.

 

 

BIOS can automatically configure all the boot and

 

 

Plug-and-Play-compatible devices. If you choose Auto,

 

 

you cannot select IRQ DMA and memory base address

 

 

fields, since BIOS automatically assigns them.

 

 

 

 

IRQ Resources

When resources are controlled manually, allows you to

 

IRQ-3 assigned to

assign each system interrupt a type, depending on the

 

type of device using the interrupt.

 

IRQ-4 assigned to

 

Legacy ISA for devices compliant with the original PC AT

 

IRQ-5 assigned to

 

bus specification, PCI/ISA PnP for devices compliant with

 

IRQ-7 assigned to

the Plug and Play standard whether designed for PCI or

 

IRQ-10 assigned to

ISA bus architecture.

 

 

 

IRQ-11assigned to

 

 

IRQ-12assigned to

 

 

IRQ-14assigned to

 

 

IRQ-15assigned to

 

 

 

 

 

Assign IRQ for VGA

Enables/disables capability of assigning IRQ for VGA.

 

 

 

 

Assign IRQ for USB

Enables/disables capability of assigning IRQ for USB.

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

 

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