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Chapter 4: BIOS
WHEA Support
Use this setting to Enable or DISABLE WHEA (Windows Hardware Error
Architecture) support. WHEA provides a common infrastructure for reporting
hardware errors on Windows platforms and was designed to improve recovery
following fatal hardware errors.
Power Button Mode
Allows the user to change the function of the power button. Options are On/Off
and S
USPEND.
Watch Dog Timer
Select
This setting is used to ENABLE or Disable the Watch Dog Timer function. It must
be used in conjunction with the Watch Dog jumper (see Chapter 2 for details). To
enable, choose from 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 15 or 30
MIN.
Restore on AC Power
Loss
This setting allows you to choose how the system will react when power returns
after an unexpected loss of power. The options are P
OWER OFF, POWER ON and
Last State.
MPS Revision
This setting allows the user to select the MPS (MultiProcessor Specification)
revision level. The options are 1.1 and 1.4.
Table 4-2. SATA Configuration Submenu
Menu Item Description
Serial ATA Devices
This setting is used to determine if SATA drives will be used and how many.
Options are D
ISABLED, DEVICE 0 and Device 0/1.
nVidia RAID Function
This setting is used to ENABLE or Disable the nVidia ROM. If enabled, the setting
below will appear.
SerialATA 0/1
Primary/Secondary
Channel
This setting is used to E
NABLE or Disable the SATA0 Primary, SATA0 Secondary,
SATA1 Primary and SATA1 Secondary, channels (four settings total). If enabled,
the following settings will appear:
LBA/Large Mode
LBA (Logical Block Addressing) is a method of addressing data on a disk drive.
The options are D
ISABLED and Auto.
Block
(Multi-Sector
Transfer)
Block mode boosts IDE drive performance by increasing the amount of data
transferred. Only 512 bytes of data can be transferred per interrupt if block mode
is not used. Block mode allows transfers of up to 64 KB per interrupt. Select
D
ISABLED to allow the data to be transferred from and to the device one sector at
a time. Select Auto to allows the data transfer from and to the device occur
multiple sectors at a time if the device supports it. The options are Auto and
D
ISABLED.
Table 4-1. BIOS Features Submenu (Continued)
Menu Item Description