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signal and wake up the system from soft off and green mode. You should connect the
modem to the COM port and call your PC to power on.
3.
Power On by Alarm:
When enabled, this setting allows the system to turn back on at a designated time of
the month. User must designate date of month and time of day.
This function is only available when using an ATX power supply and the Software
Power-Off function to turn off the computer.
4.
POWER ON Function:
This control show the PS/2 mouse or keyboard can power on the system. Available
settings are [
Password
], [
Hot KEY
], [
Mouse Move
], [
Mouse Click
], [
Any Key
],
[
BUTTON ONLY
] and [
Keyboard 98
].
5.
KB Power ON Password:
If POWER ON Function is set to [
Password
], then you can set a password in the
field for the PS/2 keyboard to power on the system.
6.
Hot Key Power ON:
If POWER ON Function is set to [
Hot KEY
], you can assign a hot key combination
in the field for the PS/2 keyboard to power on the system.
Settings:[
Ctrl-F1
] through [
Ctrl-F12
].
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3-6 PNP/PCI Configurations
This section provides IRQ and DMA setting information. By choosing the PNP/PCI
Configuration option from the CMOS Setup Utility menu (Figure 3-1), the screen
below is displayed. This screen contains the manufacturer's default values for the
motherboard.
Figure 3-7 PNP/PCI Configurations
Reset Configuration Data:
If you want to reset CMOS IRQ divide hardware device, please selected to [
Enabled
].
Resources Controlled By:
When set to Manual the system BIOS will not refer to the ESCD for IRQ & DMA
information. Instead, it will refer to the items in the setup menu for assigning IRQ &
DMA. When set to Auto the system BIOS will refer to the ESCD for all legacy
information. ESCD (
Extended System Configuration Data
) provides a detailed
format of the configuration data structures stored in flash memory. Each data structure
defines the resources used by a device or a card in the system. This includes legacy
and PCI/ISA PnP devices.
PCI/VGA Palette Snoop:
When set to [Enabled], multiple VGA devices operating on different buses can handle
data from the CPU on each set of palette registers on every video device. Bit 5 of the
command register in the PCI device configuration space is the VGA Palette Snoop bit
(0 is disabled). Available options are [
Enabled
] and [
Disabled
].
FDD IRQ Can Be Free:
This function allows user to choose if the FDD IRQ can be freed up. The default
setting is [Yes] and this does not allow the IRQ to be free.
