Award MB8100, User Manual

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BIOS SETUP
36 MB8100 User’s Manual
Phoenix - AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility
2
nd
Super IO Device
Onboard Serial Port 3
2B0h ITEM HELP
Serial Port 3 Use IRQ
IRQ11 Menu Level >
Onboard Serial Port 4
2B8h
Serial Port 4 Use IRQ
IRQ10
IDE HDD Block Mode
This field allows your hard disk controller to use the fast block mode to
transfer data to and from your hard disk drive.
IDE DMA Transfer Access
This field, by default, is enabled
On-chip Primary PCI IDE Enabled
This field, by default, is enabled
OnChip Primary/Secondary PCI IDE
The integrated peripheral controller contains an IDE interface with
support for two IDE channels. Select
Enabled to activate each channel
separately.
IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave PIO
These fields allow your system hard disk controller to work faster. Rather
than have the BIOS issue a series of commands that transfer to or from
the disk drive, PIO (Programmed Input/Output) allows the BIOS to
communicate with the controller and CPU directly.
The system supports five modes, numbered from 0 (default) to 4, which
primarily differ in timing. When Auto is selected, the BIOS will select the
best available mode.
IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave UDMA
These fields allow your system to improve disk I/O throughput to
33Mb/sec with the Ultra DMA/33 feature. The options are
Auto and
Disabled .
On-Chip Serial ATA Setting
The fields under the SATA setting includes SATA Mode (IDE), On-Chip
Serial ATA (Auto), PATA IDE Mode (Secondary) and SATA Port (PO,
P2 is Primary).
USB Controller
The options for this field are Enabled and Disabled . By default, this field
is set to Enabled .