Advanced Power Control; Language Support; Boot Options; Flash Logo Area - Intel VS440FX Technical Specification

3.9 Advanced Power Control

The BIOS supports Advanced Power Control (APC) through the Super I/O controller. Two
features include:
Auto Start On AC Loss, which sets the control for returning to the last known state of the
system or powering down the system if the motherboard detects that the power supply has lost
AC power.
Power-On COM1 Ring, which sets the control that allows the system to be powered on when
an incoming POTS call is received on a telephony device configured for operation on COM1.

3.10 Language Support

The BIOS Setup utility and help messages are supported in 32 languages. Five languages are
available at this time for use: American English, German, Italian, French, and Spanish.
Translations of other languages may become available at a later date.
With a 2 Mb Flash BIOS, only two languages can be resident at a time. The default language is
American English, which is always present unless another language is programmed into the BIOS
using the Flash Memory Update Program (FMUP.EXE). Refer to Section 5.2 for information
about downloading FMUP and other utilities.

3.11 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 the floppy drive to be the primary boot device and the hard drive to be the
secondary boot device. (By default the third and fourth devices are disabled.) If you select
CD-ROM as the boot device, it must be the first device.
NOTE
A copy of "El Torito" is available on the Phoenix Web site http://www.ptltd.com/techs/specs.html.
In Setup you can also select the network as a boot device, which allows booting from a network
add-in card with a remote boot ROM installed.

3.12 Flash LOGO Area

The motherboard supports a 4 KB programmable Flash user area located at E8000-E8FFF. You
can use this area to display a custom OEM logo. The BIOS accesses the user area just after
completing POST. A utility is available from Intel to assist with installing a logo into Flash for
display during POST. Contact your local Intel Sales office for further information.
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