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USB Read Requests From
Options: non-ISO Queue/ISO Queue
Flash BIOS Protection
The motherboard manufacturer developed BIOS protection technology that protects
the System BIOS from accidental corruption by unauthorized users or computer
viruses. When enabled, the BIOS data cannot be changed when attempting to update
BIOS with the FLASH utility. When disabled, the BIOS data can be updated by using
the FLASH utility.
3-4 Integrated Peripherals
This section provides information on setting peripheral devices. By choosing the
Integrated Peripherals option from the CMOS Setup Utility menu (Figure 3-1), the
screen below is displayed. This sample screen contains the manufacturer's default
values for the motherboard.
IDE Function Setup
Press [
Enter
] to enter the sub-menu, which contains the following items for advanced
control:
1.
RAID Config
2.
On-Chip Primary IDE Channel 0/1:
You can set this to disable the On Chip IDE controller if you are going to add
an extra higher performance IDE board.
3.
IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave PIO:
The four IDE PIO (programmed Input/Output) fields let you set a PIO mode
(0-4) for each IDE device that the internal PCI IDE interface supports. Modes
0 through 4 provide successively increased performance. In Auto mode, the
system automatically determines the best mode for each device.
4.
IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave UDMA:
Ultra DMA implementation is possible only if your IDE device supports it
and your operating environment contains a DMA driver. If both your hard
drive and software support Ultra DMA, select [
Auto
] to enable BIOS support.
5.
IDE Prefetch Mode:
The onboard IDE drive interfaces supports prefetching, for faster drive
accesses. Set to [
Disabled
] if this primary or secondary.
6.
IDE DMA transfer access
7.
Serial-ATA
Options: Enabled/Disabled
