
Intel 815 Micro-ATX Mainboard
AWARD BIOS SETUP
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Video Off Method
: (Default setting: Blank screen )
When you are using the Green Monitor with your PC system, there are three
modes selectable in this field to save the power energy
V/H SYNC+Blank
This selection will cause the system to turn off the
vertical and horizontal synchronization ports and
write blanks to the video buffer.
Blank Screen
This option only writes blanks to the video buffer.
DPMS
Initial display power management signaling.
Video Off In Suspend
: (Default setting: "Yes" )
When you select Yes, the screen display will be disabled ( no display on the screen)
when the PC system is in the suspend mode.
Suspend Type
: (Default setting: "Stop Grant" )
This field allows to select the suspend type, you can choose the CPU Stop Grand
Suspend or the PwrOn Suspend.
Modem Use IRQ:
(Default setting: 3 )
This mainboard has the ACPI feature designed on the board and it will “wakeup”
automatically when it detects the incoming modem Ring-in signal. Before you can
use the Ring-in signal to wakeup your PC system, you have to install the
“External” modem to your PC system and tell the PC system which serial port
connects to the modem by selecting the IRQ in this field. ( officially, COM 1 uses
IRQ4, and COM 2 uses IRQ3 )
Suspend Mode
: (Default setting: "Disabled" )
This field allows you to choose the time interval which PC system will turn into
suspend mode.
The choice: Disabled, 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 20, 30,40 Min and 1Hr.
HDD Power Down
: ( Default setting: "Disabled" )
When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity, the hard disk drive will
be powered down while all other devices remain active.
Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN : (
Default setting: “Instant-off.”)
This field allows user to define the feature of the “PW” connector (it is used to
connect the power button ). The setting can be either “Delay 4 Sec.” or “Instant-
Off”. Please refer to page 3-17 for details of function description.