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PCI IDE Support
If you select Auto in the BIOS Setup program, the BIOS automatically sets up the two
PCI IDE connectors with independent I/O channel support. The IDE interface supports hard
drives up to ATA-66/100 and recognizes any ATAPI compliant devices, including CD-ROM
drives, tape drives, and Ultra DMA drives.
The BIOS determines the capabilities of each drive and configures them to optimize capacity
and performance. To take advantage of the high capacities typically available today, hard
drives are automatically configured for Logical Block Addressing (LBA) and to PIO Mode 3 or
4, depending on the capability of the drive. You can override the auto-configuration options
by specifying manual configuration in the BIOS Setup program.
To use ATA-66/100 features the following items are required:
• An ATA-66/100 peripheral device
• An ATA-66/100 compatible cable
• ATA-66/100 operating system device drivers
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NOTE
ATA-66/100 compatible cables are backward compatible with drives using slower IDE transfer
protocols. If an ATA-66/100 disk drive and a disk drive using any other IDE transfer protocol
are attached to the same cable, the maximum transfer rate between the drives is reduced
to that of the slowest device.
Language Support
The BIOS Setup program and help messages are supported in two languages : US English
and Spanish. Additional languages may be fl ashed in if desired (German, Italian, and French
available). The default language is US English, which is present unless another language is
selected in the BIOS Setup program.
Custom Splash Screen
During POST, an Intel
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splash screen is displayed by default. This splash screen can be
replaced with a custom splash screen . A utility is available from Intel
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to assist with creating
a custom splash screen . The custom splash screen can be programmed into the fl ash
memory using the BIOS upgrade utility. Information about this capability is available on the
Intel
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Support World Wide Web site.
Boot Options
In the BIOS Setup program, the user can choose to boot from a diskette drive, hard drives,
CD-ROM, or the network. The default setting is for the diskette drive to be the fi rst boot
device , the hard drive second, and the ATAPI CD-ROM third. The fourth device is disabled.
CD-ROM and Network Boot
Booting from CD-ROM is supported in compliance to the El Torito bootable CD-ROM format
specifi cation. Under the Boot menu in the BIOS Setup program, ATAPI CD-ROM is listed as a
boot device . Boot devices are defi ned in priority order. Accordingly, if there is not a bootable
CD in the CD-ROM drive, the system will attempt to boot from the next defi ned drive.
The network can be selected as a boot device . This selection allows booting from the on-
board NIC or a network add-in card with a remote boot ROM installed.