BIOS Settings Dictionary – Alphabetical

A

BIOS Setting

Appears on BIOS

Options

Description / Purpose

 

Screen…

 

 

 

 

 

 

Access Level

Maintenance

No changeable

Displays the current user's access level.

 

 

options

 

 

 

 

 

Access Mode

Advanced > Drive

• CHS

Allows you to select the sector addressing mode.

 

Configuration

• LBA

 

 

 

• Large

CHS (cylinder, head, sector) mode supports up to 528 MB

 

 

• Auto

hard disks.

 

 

 

LBA (logical block addressing) mode supports hard disks

 

 

 

up to 128 GB in size.

 

 

 

Large mode supports hard disks above 528 MB in size, but

 

 

 

does not support LBA mode.

 

 

 

 

ACPI

Power

No changeable

Opens the sub-menu for ACPI (Advanced Configuration

 

 

options

and Power Interface).

 

 

 

 

ACPI Suspend Mode

Power > ACPI

• S1 State

Specifies the ACPI sleep state.

(or ACPI Suspend

 

• S3 State

 

State)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional System

Main

No changeable

Displays information such as System Information, Desktop

Information

 

options

Board Information, Chassis Information, etc.

 

 

 

 

AddOn ROM Display

Boot

• Enabled

Enabled : the logo screen will be followed by the “AddOn

Mode

 

• Disabled

ROM” initial screen (the screen showing the add-on card

 

 

 

BIOS message).

 

 

 

Disabled: no “Add-On ROM” screen is followed.

 

 

 

 

After Power Failure

Power

• Stay Off

Determines the mode of operation if a power loss occurs.

 

 

• Last State

 

 

 

• Power On

Stay Off keeps the power off until the power button is

 

 

 

pressed.

 

 

 

Last State restores the previous power state before power

 

 

 

loss occurs.

 

 

 

Power On restores power to the computer.

 

 

 

 

Agent

Manageability

• Enable

By default, Intel® Platform Administrator Agent is disabled.

 

 

• Disable

To enable the agent, select Enable .

 

 

 

 

AGP/PCI Burn-in

Advanced >

• Default

Enables the selection of specific AGP/PCI clock

Mode

Chipset

• 63.88/31.94 MHz

frequencies. The host clock (system bus speed) is not

 

Configuration >

• 68.05/34.02 MHz

changed.

 

Burn-in Mode

• 69.44/34.72 MHz

 

 

 

• 70.83/35.41 MHz

If this option is set to anything other than Default, the Host

 

 

• 72.22/36.11 MHz

and I/O Burn-In Mode is automatically set to Default.

 

 

• 73.60/36.80 MHz

 

 

 

 

 

Alternate DNS

Intel® ME > Intel®

User defined

Enter the address in dot-decimal notation.

Address

Active

 

 

 

Management

 

 

 

Technology

 

 

 

Configuration >

 

 

 

TCP/IP

 

 

 

Configuration

 

 

V09 – March 2008

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Intel V09 manual Chs, Lba, Acpi, Tcp/Ip