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Chapter 2. BIOS Setup
Introduction
This section describes PHOENIX-AWARD™ BIOS Setup program which resides in the BIOS
firmware. The Setup program allows users to modify the basic system configuration. The
configuration information is then saved to CMOS RAM where the data is sustained by
battery after power-down.
The BIOS provides critical low-level support for standard devices such as disk drives, serial
ports and parallel ports. As well, the BIOS controls the first stage of the boot process,
loading and executing the operating system.
The PHOENIX-AWARD
TM
of an industry standard BIOS. This means that it supports the BIOS of Intel
processors.
This version of the PHOENIX-AWARD
password protection as well as special configurations for fine-tuning the system chipset.
The defaults for the BIOS values contained in this document may vary slightly with the
version installed in your system.
Plug and Play Support
This PHOENIX-AWARD™ BIOS supports the Plug and Play Version 1.0A specification as well as
ESCD (Extended System Configuration Data) write.
EPA Green PC Support
This PHOENIX-AWARD™ BIOS supports Version 1.03 of the EPA Green PC specification.
APM Support
This PHOENIX-AWARD™ BIOS supports Version 1.1 & 1.2 of the Advanced Power
Management (APM) specification. These features include system sleep and suspend
modes in addition to hard disk and monitor sleep modes. Power management features
are implemented using the System Management Interrupt (SMI).
PCI/ PCI-Express Bus Support
This PHOENIX-AWARD™ BIOS also supports Version 2.3 of the Intel PCI (Peripheral
Component Interconnect) local bus specification and the PCI-Express v1.0a specification.
DRAM Support
DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) is supported.
BIOS installed in your computer system's ROM is a custom version
TM
BIOS includes additional features such as virus and
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