Athena III User Manual Rev A.03
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Advanced
Installed O/S: Select the operating system.
Large Disk Access Mode: Select the disk access mode.
On-Chip Multifunction Device
USB Device: Enabled/disable USB ports.
Legacy Audio:
“Legacy Audio” only affects DOS-based applications when used with the VIA-supported DOS Drivers.
Enabling this setting will require system I/O, IRQ, and DMA resources. It is strongly recommended that
this setting be left “Disabled.”
PCI and ISA Configuration (from the Advanced menu)
The following settings should be retained:
PCI IRQ Level 1-4:
Auto-select for all
PCI/PNP ISA UMB Region Exclusion: Available for all
Power Management
This setting is only effective under DOS. Otherwise, the OS power management settings pre-empt these
settings. The only power managem
ent mode supported by the system is “Power-On Suspend.” Other
suspend modes are not supported and should not be used under any OS. Examples of unsupported
suspend modes include, “Hibernate,” under Windows, and “Suspend-to-Disk” or “Suspend-to-RAM”.
Memory Shadow
These parameters should only be modified by advanced users. These settings can adversely affect
system performance and reliability.
9.2
BIOS Console Redirection Settings
For applications where the Video interfaces are not used, the textual feedback typically sent to the monitor can be
redirected to a COM port. In this manner, a system can be managed and booted without using a video
connection.
The BIOS allows the following configuration options for Console Redirection to a COM port.
COM port address: Disabled (default), COM port A, or COM port B.
If Console Redirection is enabled here, the associated COM port (with “A” here referring to COM 1 and
“B” referring to COM 2) is enabled regardless of the COM port settings elsewhere.
“Continue CR after POST”: Off (default), or On.
Determines whether or not the system is to wait for a carriage return over the COM port before continuing
(after POST is completed and before OS starts loading).
Baud Rate: 19.2K (default), 300, 1200, 2400, 9600, 38.4K, 57.6K, 115.2K.
Console Connection: Direct (default) or Modem.
Console Type: PC ANSI (default), VT100, VT100 (8-bit), PC-ANSI (7-bit), VT100+, or VT-UTF8.
Flow Control: CTS/RTS (default), XON-XOFF, None.
Number of video Pages to support: 1(default) to 8.