Intel V09 User Manual

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BIOS Settings Dictionary – Alphabetical

V09 – March 2008

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

Options may vary
depending on
board model.

Amount of system memory available for direct access by
the graphics device.

APM

Power > APM

• Enabled
• Disabled

Disables or enables APM (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
more information, refer to
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/cs-
010502.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.

Audio

This BIOS setting is
present only on Intel®
Desktop Boards that
include onboard
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.

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