Advanced Chipset Features - Nexcom EBC575 Series Manual

HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability
Built in problem-detection capability (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) of hard disk drives
signals warning of any foreseen problem. The choices are: Enable, Disable.
For using the S.M.A.R.T. feature you would require an operating system that supports the S.M.A.R.T. feature
i.e. Windows 95 or higher.
Summary Screen Show
This item allows you to enable/ disable the summary screen. Summary screen means system configuration
and PCI device listing. The Choices: Enabled, Disabled.
Spread Spectrum Modulated
This item allows you to enable/disable the spread spectrum modulate to reduce EMI. The choices are En-
abled and Disabled.
After you have made your selections in the Advanced BIOS Features setup, press <ESC> to go back to the
main screen.

4.9 Advanced Chipset Features

Since the features in this section are related to the chipset in the CPU board and all are optimized, you are not
recommended to change the default settings in the setup table, unless you understand the chipset features.
This section allows you to configure the system based on the specific features of the installed chipset. This
chipset manage bus speeds and access to system memory resources, such as DRAM and the external
cache. It also coordinates communications between the conventional ISA bus and the PCI bus. The default
settings have been chosen because they provide the best operating conditions for your system. The only
time you might consider making any changes would be if you discovered that data was being lost while using
your system.
The first chipset settings deal with CPU access to dynamic random access memory (DRAM). The default
timings have been carefully chosen and should only be altered if data is being lost. Such a scenario might
well occur if your system has mixed speed DRAM chips installed so that greater delays may be required to
preserve the integrity of the data held in the slower memory chips.
Selecting Advanced Chipset Features on the main program screen displays this menu:
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