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| Ambient Air |
| Advanced > |
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| Aperture Size |
| Advanced > Video |
| • 4MB |
| Amount of system memory available for direct access by |
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| • 8MB |
| the graphics device. |
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| APM |
| Power > APM |
| • Enabled |
| Disables or enables APM (Advanced Power Management). |
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| ASF Support |
| Advanced > |
| • Enabled |
| Disables or enables Alert Standard Format (ASF). For |
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| Peripheral |
| • Disabled |
| more information, refer to |
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| Configuration |
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| http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/cs- |
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| Advanced > Boot |
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| • Automatic |
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| • Manual - User |
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| Management |
| • Disabled |
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| ATA/IDE |
| Advanced > Drive |
| • Disabled |
| Specifies the integrated IDE controller. |
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| Configuration |
| • Legacy |
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| • Enhanced (or |
| Disabled disables the integrated IDE controller. |
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| Legacy enables up to two IDE channels for OS requiring |
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| Enhanced (or Native) enables all SATA and PATA |
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| ATAPI |
| Boot |
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| Audio |
| Advanced > |
| • Enabled |
| Enables or disables onboard audio. |
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| Peripheral |
| • Disabled |
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| Desktop Boards that |
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| Automatic Fan |
| Advanced > Fan |
| • Next Boot |
| Next Boot : Will detect fan(s) added to the motherboard |
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| Control |
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| Disabled : Will NOT detect fan(s) added to the |
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| Always : Will detect fan(s) added to the motherboard, may |
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V09 – March 2008
