Bios Setup; Acpi Support; Pci Bus Support - Biostar NF4 AM2G Setup Manual

NF4 AM2G / NF4 AM2L / NF4U AM2G

BIOS Setup

Introduction
The purpose of this manual is to describe the settings in the Award™ BIOS
Setup program on this motherboard. The Setup program allows users to modify
the basic system configuration and save these settings to CMOS RAM. The
power of CMOS RAM is supplied by a battery so that it retains the Setup
information when the power is turned off.
Basic Input-Output System (BIOS) determines what a computer can do without
accessing programs from a disk. This system controls most of the input and
output devices such as keyboard, mouse, serial ports and disk drives. BIOS
activates at the first stage of the booting process, loading and executing the
operating system. Some additional features, such as virus and password
protection or chipset fine-tuning options are also included in BIOS.
The rest of this manual will to guide you through the options and settings in
BIOS Setup.
Plug and Play Support
This AWARD BIOS supports the Plug and Play Version 1.0A specification and
ESCD (Extended System Configuration Data) write.
EPA Green PC Support
This AWARD BIOS supports Version 1.03 of the EPA Green PC specification.
APM Support
This AWARD BIOS supports Version 1.1&1.2 of the Advanced Power
Management
implemented via the System Management Interrupt (SMI). Sleep and Suspend
power management modes are supported. Power to the hard disk drives and
video monitors can also be managed by this AWARD BIOS.

ACPI Support

Award ACPI BIOS support Version 1.0 of Advanced Configuration and Power
interface specification (ACPI). It provides ASL code for power management
and device configuration capabilities as defined in the ACPI specification,
developed by Microsoft, Intel and Toshiba.

PCI Bus Support

This AWARD BIOS also supports Version 2.1 of the Intel PCI (Peripheral
Component Interconnect) local bus specification.
(APM) specification.
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Power management features are