BIOS Settings Glossary version 13 - Alphabetical

BIOS Settings Dictionary – Alphabetical
V13 – November 2009
Ambient Air
Temperature
This BIOS
setting is
present only on
certain BTX
form factor
Intel® Desktop
Boards.
Advanced >
Hardware
Monitoring
No
changeable
options
Displays the temperature near the remote thermal diode on BTX form
factor boards.
Aperture Size Advanced >
Video
Configuration
• 4MB
• 8MB
• 16MB
• 32MB
• 128MB
• 256MB
Allows you to set the amount of system memory available for direct
access by the graphics device. Available aperture sizes may vary
depending on board model.
APM Power > APM • Enabled
• Disabled
Disables or enables APM (Advanced Power Management).
For information on APM, refer to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Power_Management
ASF Support Advanced >
Peripheral
Configuration
or
Advanced >
Boot
Configuration
or
Advanced >
Management
Configuration
• Enabled
• Disabled
or
• Automatic
• Manual -
User Defined
• Disabled
Disables or enables Alert Standard Format (ASF).
For information on ASF, refer to
http://www.intel.com/design/network/papers/ASF_whitepaper.htm
ATA/IDE
Configuration
Advanced >
Drive
Configuration
• Disabled
• Legacy
• Enhanced
(or Native)
Specifies the integrated IDE controller.
Disabled disables the integrated IDE controller.
Legacy enables up to two IDE channels for OS requiring legacy IDE
operation.
Enhanced (or Native) enables all SATA and PATA resources.
ATAPI CD-ROM
Drives
Boot No
changeable
options
Opens the ATAPI CD-ROM Drive sub-menu where you may specify the
boot sequence from the available ATAPI CD-ROM drives.
For information on ATAPI, refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atapi
Audio Advanced >
Peripheral
Configuration
• Enabled
• Disabled
Enables or disables onboard audio.
Automatic Fan
Detection
Advanced >
Fan Control
• Next Boot
• Disable
• Always
Next Boot: Will detect fan(s) added to the motherboard upon next boot
only.
Disabled: Will NOT detect fan(s) added to the motherboard, new fans
may perform erratically.
Always: Will detect fan(s) added to the motherboard, may cause a slight
delay and increased noise during startup.