Chapter3 BIOS Setup
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User’s Manual
Password Check:
This option enables password checking every time the computer is powered on or every
time AMI BIOS Setup is executed. If
Always
is chosen, a user password prompt appears every time the
computer is turned on. If
Setup
is chosen, the password prompt appears if AMI BIOS is executed. The
Optimal and Power-On defaults are
Setup
.
Wait For ‘F1’ If Error:
AMIBIOS POST runs system diagnostic tests that can generate a message followed by:
Press <F1> to continue
Enabled
Æ
AMIBIOS waits for the end user to press <F1> before continuing.
Disabled
Æ
AMIBIOS continues the boot process without waiting for <F1> to be pressed.
Hit ‘DEL’ Message Display:
Hit <DEL> if you want to run Setup from appearing when the system boots.
System BIOS Cacheable:
When this option is set to Enabled, the contents of the F0000h system
memory segment can be read from or written to L2 secondary cache memory. The contents of the F0000h
memory segment are always copied from the BIOS ROM to system RAM for faster execution.
C000, 16K Cached
C800, 16K Cached
CC00, 16K Disabled
D000, 16K Disabled
D400, 16K Disabled
D800, 16K Disabled
DC00, 16K Disabled
These options control the location of the contents of the 16KB of ROM beginning at the specified memory
location. If no adaptor ROM is using the named ROM area, this area is made available to the local bus. The
settings are:
Setting Description
Enable
The contents of the named ROM area are written to the same address in
system memory (RAM) for faster execution, if an adaptor ROM will be
using the named ROM area. Also, the contents of the RAM area can be
read from and written to cache memory.
Disabled
The video ROM is not copied to RAM. The contents of the video ROM
cannot be read from or written to cache memory.
In the AMIBIOS for the Intel Triton chipset, the E000h page is used as ROM during POST, but shadowing is
disabled and the ROM CS# signal is disabled to make the E000h page available on the local bus.
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