Advanced Power Management; Language Support; Boot Options - Intel TE430VX Technical Product Specification

TE430VX MotherboardMotherboard Technical Product Specification

3.7 Advanced Power Management

The BIOS has support for Advanced Power Management (APM version 1.1). The energy saving
Stand By mode can be initiated by a keyboard hot key sequence set by the user, a time-out period
set by the user, or by a suspend/resume button tied to the front panel sleep connector.
When in Stand-by mode, the motherboard reduces power consumption by utilizing the Pentium
processor's System Management Mode (SMM) capabilities and also spinning down hard drives
and turning off VESA DPMS compliant monitors. The user may select which DPMS mode (Stand
By, Suspend, or Off) send to the monitor in setup. The ability to respond to external interrupts is
fully maintained while in Stand-by mode allowing the system to service requests such as in-coming
Fax's or network messages while unattended. Any keyboard or mouse activity brings the system
out of the energy saving Stand By mode. When this occurs the monitor and IDE drives are turned
back on immediately.
APM is enabled in BIOS by default, however, the system must be configured with an APM driver
in order for the system power saving features to take effect. Windows 95 will enable APM
automatically upon detecting the presence of the APM BIOS.

3.8 Language Support

The BIOS setup screen and help messages are supported in 32 languages. There are 5 languages
translated at this time for use; American English, German, Italian, French, and Spanish.
Translations of other languages will available at a later date.
With a 1 Mb Flash BIOS, only one language can be resident at a time. The default language is
American English, and will always be present unless another language is programmed into the
BIOS using the Flash Language Update Program (FLUP) available on the Intel BBS.

3.9 Boot Options

Booting from CD-ROM is supported in adherence to the "El Torito" bootable CD-ROM format
specification developed by Phoenix Technologies and IBM. Under the Boot Options field in setup,
CD-ROM is one of four possible boot devices which are defined in priority order. The default
setting is for floppy to be the primary boot device and hard drive to be the secondary boot device.
If CD-ROM is selected, it must be the first device. The third and fourth devices are set to disabled
in the default configuration.. The user can add also select network as a boot device. The network
option allows booting from a network add-in card with a remote boot ROM installed.
NOTE
A copy of "El Torito" is available on Phoenix Web page (http://www.ptltd.com/techs/specs.html).
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