User manual ASUS VW161S

[. . . ] Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies, and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners' benefit, without intent to infringe. · ALi and Aladdin are trademarks of Acer Laboratories Inc. (ALi) · Adobe and Acrobat are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. · AMD, K6, Super7, and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. · Cyrix, M II, and combinations thereof are trademarks of National Semiconductor Corporation. [. . . ] Onboard IR (Disabled) When enabled, this field activates the onboard infrared feature and sets the second serial UART to support the infrared module connector on the motherboard. If your system already has a second serial port connected to the onboard COM2 connector, it will no longer work if you enable the infrared feature. By default, this field is set to Disabled, which leaves the second serial port UART to support the COM2 serial port connector. IR Mode (IrDA SIR) This motherboard supports IrDA compatible Serial Infrared (SIR) and Fast Infrared (FIR) communication modes. The FIR mode has two options: FIR/HP and FIR/ IBM, for computers or peripherals using HP and IBM's infrared transceivers, respectively. When using either FIR option, FIR DMA Select must be configured to reflect the DMA channel used by the port. FIR DMA Select (1) This allows you to configure the DMA channel used by the FIR port. Onboard PCI IDE Enable (Both) You can select to enable the Primary IDE channel, Secondary IDE channel, Both, or Disable both channels (for systems with only SCSI drives). IDE Ultra DMA Mode (Auto) This sets the IDE UltraDMA to be active when using UltraDMA-capable IDE devices. The BIOS will automatically adjust or disable this setting for slower IDE devices so that Auto or high settings will not cause problems for older IDE devices. Choose Disable if you do not want this feature for all devices. The fields included in this section are HDD Power Down, which places the hard disk into its lowest power consumption mode, and the Doze, Standby and Suspend system inactivation modes. The system automatically "wakes up" from any power saving mode when there is system activity, such as when a key is pressed from the keyboard, or when there is activity detected from the enabled IRQ channels. HDD Power Down (Disable) This shuts down any IDE hard disk drives in the system after a period of inactivity. This time period is user-configurable from 1 Min to 15 Min or Disable. This feature does not affect SCSI hard disks. Doze Mode, Standby Mode, Suspend Mode (Disable) These fields set the period of time after which each of these modes activate: 1 Min, 2 Min, 3 Min, 4 Min, 8 Min, 20 Min, 30 Min, 40 Min, or 1 Hour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Up Control This section determines the ways the system can be controlled when it is started or restarted, when modem activity is detected, or when power to the computer is interrupted and reapplied. The Soft-Off mode refers to powering off the system through a momentary button switch (ATX switch) or through the software as opposed to disconnecting the AC power by way of a rocker switch or other means. PWR Button < 4 Secs (Soft Off) When set to Soft Off, the ATX switch can be used as a normal system power-off button when pressed for less than 4 seconds. Suspend allows the button to have a dual function where pressing less than 4 seconds will place the system in sleep mode. [. . . ] This DMI Configuration Utility also allows the system integrator or end user to add additional information into the MIFD such as serial numbers, housing configurations, and vendor information. Those information not detected by the motherboard BIOS and has to be manually entered through the DMI Configuration Utility and updated into the MIFD. This DMI Configuration Utility provides the same reliability as PnP updating and will prevent the refreshing failures associated with updating the entire BIOS. Starting the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility The DMI Configuration Utility (DMICFG2. EXE) must be used in real mode in order for the program to run, the base memory must be at least 180K. Memory managers like HIMEM. SYS (required by windows) must not be installed. [. . . ]