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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.