Biostar A780L3C Версия 7.2/7.3 [2/37] Bios setup

A780L3C BIOS Manual

BIOS Setup

Introduction

The purpose of this manual is to describe the settings in the AMI BIOS Setup

program on this motherboard. The Setup program allows users to modify the

basic system configuration and save these settings to CMOS RAM. The

power of CMOS RAM is supplied by a battery so that it retains the Setup

information when the power is turned off.

Basic Input-Output System (BIOS) determines what a computer can do

without accessing programs from a disk. This system controls most of the

input and output devices such as keyboard, mouse, serial ports and disk

drives. BIOS activates at the first stage of the booting process, loading and

executing the operating system. Some additional features, such as virus and

password protection or chipset fine-tuning options are also included in BIOS.

The rest of this manual will to guide you through the options and settings in

BIOS Setup.

Plug and Play Support

This AMI BIOS supports the Plug and Play Version 1.0A specification.

EPA Green PC Support

This AMI BIOS supports Version 1.03 of the EPA Green PC specification.

APM Support

This AMI BIOS supports Version 1.1&1.2 of the Advanced Power

Management (APM) specification. Power management features are

implemented via the System Management Interrupt (SMI). Sleep and

Suspend power management modes are supported. Power to the hard disk

drives and video monitors can also be managed by this AMI BIOS.

ACPI Support

AMI ACPI BIOS support Version 1.0/2.0 of Advanced Configuration and

Power interface specification (ACPI). It provides ASL code for power

management and device configuration capabilities as defined in the ACPI

specification, developed by Microsoft, Intel and Toshiba.