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

500 specifications

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