Table 31. Items under the Boot menu (continued)

Item

Sub-item

Option

Description

 

 

 

 

Hard Disk Drives

1st Drive

 

Based on the

 

2nd Drive

 

installed hard disk

 

...

 

drives.

 

 

 

 

CD/DVD Drives

1st Drive...

 

Based on the

 

 

 

installed optical

 

 

 

drives.

 

 

 

 

Note: The settings in [ ] are the default settings in the Setup Utility program.

Table 32. Items under the Security menu

 

Item

Description

 

 

 

 

Change Supervisor Password

Set or change the supervisor password. The

 

 

 

password can be any combination of up to 6

 

 

 

(1 to 6) alphabetic and numeric characters.

 

 

 

 

Change User Password

Set or change the user password. The

 

 

 

password can be any combination of up to 6

 

 

 

(1 to 6) alphabetic and numeric characters.

 

 

 

 

Note: The settings in [ ] are the default settings in the Setup Utility program.

 

 

 

 

Table 33. Items under the Chipset menu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item

 

Sub-item

Option

Description

 

 

 

 

 

CPU Bridge

 

QPI Frequency

[Auto]

Standard transferring

Configuration

 

 

4.800GT

rate of the QPI bus.

 

 

 

5.866GT

 

 

 

 

6.400GT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

QPI L0s and L1

Disabled

Enable or disable the

 

 

 

[Enabled]

QPI L0s and L1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Memory Frequency

[Auto]

Set the frequency of

 

 

 

Force DDR-800

the memory module.

 

 

 

Force DDR-1066

Make sure that the

 

 

 

Force DDR-1333

mandatory memory

 

 

 

 

frequency setting is

 

 

 

 

less than the

 

 

 

 

maximum frequency

 

 

 

 

that the memory

 

 

 

 

module can support.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Memory Mode

[Independent]

Set the memory

 

 

 

Channel Mirroring

channel mode to

 

 

 

Lockstep

improve reliability or

 

 

 

 

efficiency.

 

 

 

 

 

South Bridge

 

Restore on AC Power

Power Off

If the power is

Configuration

 

Loss

Power On

recovered after

 

 

 

[Last State]

outage, the system

 

 

 

 

will be at the state

 

 

 

 

that you set under

 

 

 

 

Restore on AC

 

 

 

 

Power Loss.

 

 

 

 

 

Note: The settings in [ ] are the default settings in the Setup Utility program.

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RD230 specifications

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