User manual ABIT AN-M2

[. . . ] Copyright and Warranty Notice The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on part of the vendor, who assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors that may appear in this manual. No warranty or representation, either expressed or implied, is made with respect to the quality, accuracy or fitness for any particular part of this document. In no event shall the manufacturer be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages arising from any defect or error in this manual or product. Product names appearing in this manual are for identification purpose only and trademarks and product names or brand names appearing in this document are the property of their respective owners. [. . . ] Extended Memory This item displays the amount of extended memory detected during system boot-up. Quick Power On Self Test When set to [Enabled], this item speeds up the Power On Self Test (POST) after powering on the system. The BIOS shorten or skip some check during the POST. hard Disk Boot Priority This item selects the hard disks booting priority. By pressing <Enter> key, you can enter its submenu where the hard disks detected can be selected for the booting sequence to boot up system. This item functions only when there is the option of [Hard Disk] in any one of the First/Second/Third Boot Device items. First Boot Device / Second Boot Device / Third Boot Device / Boot Other Device Select the drive to boot first, second and third in the [First Boot Device], [Second Boot Device], and [Third Boot Device] items respectively. the BIOS will boot the operating system according to the sequence of the drive selected. Set [Boot Other Device] to [Enabled] if you wish to boot from another device other than these three items. Security Option This item determines when the system will prompt for password - every time the system boots or only when enters the BIOS setup. If you forget the password, you will have to open the computer case and clear all information in the CMOS before you can start up the system. But by doing this, you will have to reset all previously set options. MPS Version Ctrl For OS This item specifies which version of MPS (Multi-Processor Specification) this motherboard will use. Delay For HDD (Secs) This item allows the BIOS to support some old or special IDE devices by prolonging this delay time. A larger value will give more delay time to the device for which to initialize and to prepare for activation. DRAM Configuration Click <Enter> key to enter its submenu. You may manually set the DRAM timing parameters through its sub-items, or leave them at their default settings according to the SPD (Serial Presence Detect) data stored in the DRAM. sSE/SSE2 Instructions This item allows you to Enable or Disable the SSE/SSE2 (Streaming SIMD Extensions) instruction set. IGPU Frame Buffer Control This item allows you to control the VGA frame buffer size automatically or manually. vGA Share Memory This item selects the VGA share memory size. The total system memory must be twice the size of this parameter at least, or else a lesser one will replace this parameter automatically by the BIOS utility itself. For example: In a 256M selection with 256M total system memory size configuration, the BIOS utility will force it down to 128M automatically. [. . . ] A: To fill in this "Technical Support Form", please refer to the following instructions: · First name: Type in your first name. Subject: Type in the model name and the problem of your motherboard. Example 1: AA8XE and SCSI 29160 malfunction Example 2: AA8XE boot fails, POST code AF Example 3: AA8XE (system hang when S3 resume) Motherboard: Type in the model name and revision number of your motherboard. (You can find it on the screen during the POST sequence. [. . . ]