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PIO Mode from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: June 18, 2018
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PIO Mode from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

PIO Mode Common Options : Auto, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 Quick Review This BIOS feature allows you to set the ...

PIO Mode Common Options : Auto, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 Quick Review This BIOS feature allows you to set the PIO (Programmed Input / Output) mode for the IDE drive. Setting this BIOS feature to Auto lets ...

June 18, 2018
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PCI-E Reference Clock from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: June 10, 2018
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PCI-E Reference Clock from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

PCI-E Reference Clock Common Options : 100 MHz, adjustable in 1 MHz steps Quick Review of PCI-E Re ...

PCI-E Reference Clock Common Options : 100 MHz, adjustable in 1 MHz steps Quick Review of PCI-E Reference Clock All PCI Express slots use a 100 MHz reference clock to generate its clocking sign ...

June 10, 2018
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SDRAM Cycle Length from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: June 03, 2018
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SDRAM Cycle Length from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

SDRAM Cycle Length Common Options : 2, 3 (SDR memory) or 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3 (DDR memory) Quick Review ...

SDRAM Cycle Length Common Options : 2, 3 (SDR memory) or 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3 (DDR memory) Quick Review of SDRAM Cycle Length The SDRAM Cycle Length BIOS feature is same as the SDRAM CAS Latency Time ...

June 03, 2018
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CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: May 27, 2018
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CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of CPU L2 Cache ECC Chec ...

CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking The CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking BIOS feature enables or disables the L2 (Level 2 or Secondar ...

May 27, 2018
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NVIDIA GPU Ex from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: May 06, 2018
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NVIDIA GPU Ex from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

NVIDIA GPU Ex Common Options : Auto, Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of NVIDIA GPU Ex NVIDIA GPU Ex ...

NVIDIA GPU Ex Common Options : Auto, Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of NVIDIA GPU Ex NVIDIA GPU Ex is an NVIDIA chipset-specific BIOS feature. The name is purportedly a truncation of "NVIDIA GP ...

May 06, 2018
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DOS Flat Mode from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: April 29, 2018
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DOS Flat Mode from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

DOS Flat Mode Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of DOS Flat Mode The DOS Flat Mode B ...

DOS Flat Mode Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of DOS Flat Mode The DOS Flat Mode BIOS feature controls the BIOS' built-in extended memory manager. When enabled, DOS programs can ...

April 29, 2018
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MPS Control Version For OS from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: April 08, 2018
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MPS Control Version For OS from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

MPS Control Version For OS Common Options : 1.1, 1.4 Quick Review of MPS Control Version For OS Th ...

MPS Control Version For OS Common Options : 1.1, 1.4 Quick Review of MPS Control Version For OS The MPS Control Version For OS feature is only applicable to multiprocessor motherboards as it sp ...

April 08, 2018
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PCI/VGA Palette Snoop from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: April 02, 2018
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PCI/VGA Palette Snoop from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

PCI/VGA Palette Snoop Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of PCI/VGA Palette Snoop The ...

PCI/VGA Palette Snoop Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of PCI/VGA Palette Snoop The PCI/VGA Palette Snoop BIOS feature determines if your graphics card should allow VGA palette s ...

April 02, 2018
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PIRQ x Use IRQ No. from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: March 26, 2018
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PIRQ x Use IRQ No. from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

PIRQ x Use IRQ No. Common Options : Auto, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 Quick Review of PIRQ x ...

PIRQ x Use IRQ No. Common Options : Auto, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 Quick Review of PIRQ x Use IRQ No. The PIRQ x Use IRQ No. BIOS feature allows you to manually set the IRQ for a parti ...

March 26, 2018
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L2 Streaming Prefetch from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: March 12, 2018
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L2 Streaming Prefetch from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

L2 Streaming Prefetch Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of L2 Streaming Prefetch Int ...

L2 Streaming Prefetch Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of L2 Streaming Prefetch Intel Core processors have a hardware streaming prefetch mechanism that automatically fetches an e ...

March 12, 2018
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DVMT Mode from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: March 04, 2018
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DVMT Mode from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

DVMT Mode Common Options : Fixed, DVMT, Both Quick Review of DVMT Mode Unified Memory Architecture ...

DVMT Mode Common Options : Fixed, DVMT, Both Quick Review of DVMT Mode Unified Memory Architecture (UMA) is a concept whereby system memory is shared by both CPU and graphics processor. While t ...

March 04, 2018
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Byte Merge from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: February 12, 2018
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Byte Merge from The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

Byte Merge Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of Byte Merge The Byte Merge BIOS featu ...

Byte Merge Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of Byte Merge The Byte Merge BIOS feature is similar to the PCI Dynamic Bursting feature. When enabled, the PCI write buffer accumulat ...

February 12, 2018
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CPU Fast String – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: February 04, 2018
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CPU Fast String – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

CPU Fast String Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of CPU Fast String The CPU Fast St ...

CPU Fast String Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of CPU Fast String The CPU Fast String BIOS feature controls the processor's fast string feature. When enabled, the processor wil ...

February 04, 2018
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FIXED Memory Size – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

Posted by Dr. Adrian Wong
|Date: January 22, 2018
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FIXED Memory Size – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

FIXED Memory Size Common Options : 0 MB, 32 MB, 64 MB, 128 MB Quick Review of FIXED Memory Size Un ...

FIXED Memory Size Common Options : 0 MB, 32 MB, 64 MB, 128 MB Quick Review of FIXED Memory Size Unified Memory Architecture (UMA) is a concept whereby system memory is shared by both CPU and gr ...

January 22, 2018
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ACPI 2.0 Support – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: January 16, 2018
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ACPI 2.0 Support – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

ACPI 2.0 Support Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of ACPI 2.0 Support While its nam ...

ACPI 2.0 Support Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of ACPI 2.0 Support While its name hints that this BIOS feature is a toggle to enable ACPI 2.0 features, this is not the case. E ...

January 16, 2018
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DCLK Feedback Delay – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

Posted by Dr. Adrian Wong
|Date: January 07, 2018
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DCLK Feedback Delay – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

DCLK Feedback Delay Common Options : 0 ps, 150 ps, 300 ps, 450 ps, 600 ps, 750 ps, 900 ps, 1050 ps ...

DCLK Feedback Delay Common Options : 0 ps, 150 ps, 300 ps, 450 ps, 600 ps, 750 ps, 900 ps, 1050 ps Quick Review of DCLK Feedback Delay DCLK is the clock signal sent by the SDRAM controller to t ...

January 07, 2018
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Video RAM Cacheable – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: January 02, 2018
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Video RAM Cacheable – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

Video RAM Cacheable Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of Video RAM Cacheable The Vid ...

Video RAM Cacheable Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of Video RAM Cacheable The Video RAM Cacheable feature aims to boost VGA graphics performance by using the processor's Level ...

January 02, 2018
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PCI Pipelining – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: December 26, 2017
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PCI Pipelining – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

PCI Pipelining Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of PCI Pipelining The PCI Pipelinin ...

PCI Pipelining Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of PCI Pipelining The PCI Pipelining BIOS feature determines if PCI transactions to the memory subsystem will be pipelined. If the ...

December 26, 2017
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Asynclat (Asynchronous Latency) – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: December 18, 2017
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Asynclat (Asynchronous Latency) – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

Asynclat Common Options : 0 to 15 ns Quick Review of Asynclat Asynclat is an AMD processor-specifi ...

Asynclat Common Options : 0 to 15 ns Quick Review of Asynclat Asynclat is an AMD processor-specific BIOS feature. It controls the amount of asynchronous latency, which depends on the time it ta ...

December 18, 2017
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PEG Port VC1/Map – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: December 11, 2017
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PEG Port VC1/Map – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

PEG Port VC1/Map Common Options : Disabled, TC1, TC2, TC3, TC4, TC5, TC6, TC7 Quick Review of PEG ...

PEG Port VC1/Map Common Options : Disabled, TC1, TC2, TC3, TC4, TC5, TC6, TC7 Quick Review of PEG Port VC1/Map Unlike the sideband signals used to prioritize traffic on the AGP or PCI bus, PCI ...

December 11, 2017
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SDRAM Page Hit Limit – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: December 04, 2017
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SDRAM Page Hit Limit – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

SDRAM Page Hit Limit Common Options : 1 Cycle, 4 Cycles, 8 Cycles, 16 Cycles, 32 Cycles Quick Revi ...

SDRAM Page Hit Limit Common Options : 1 Cycle, 4 Cycles, 8 Cycles, 16 Cycles, 32 Cycles Quick Review of SDRAM Page Hit Limit The SDRAM Page Hit Limit BIOS feature is designed to reduce the data ...

December 04, 2017
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ISA Shared Memory – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

Posted by Dr. Adrian Wong
|Date: November 23, 2017
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ISA Shared Memory – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

ISA Shared Memory Common Options : 64KB, 32KB, 16KB, Disabled Quick Review This is an ISA-specific ...

ISA Shared Memory Common Options : 64KB, 32KB, 16KB, Disabled Quick Review This is an ISA-specific BIOS option. In motherboards that have ISA slots, the BIOS can be set to reserve part of the u ...

November 23, 2017
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Odd Divisor Correct – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: November 15, 2017
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Odd Divisor Correct – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

Odd Divisor Correct Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of Odd Divisor Correct The mem ...

Odd Divisor Correct Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of Odd Divisor Correct The memory clock speed of AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors is determined using this formula : Memory ...

November 15, 2017
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Intel Dynamic Acceleration – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

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|Date: November 06, 2017
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Intel Dynamic Acceleration – The Tech ARP BIOS Guide

Intel Dynamic Acceleration Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of Intel Dynamic Accele ...

Intel Dynamic Acceleration Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of Intel Dynamic Acceleration The Intel Dynamic Acceleration BIOS feature is specific to the Intel Core 2 Duo mobile p ...

November 06, 2017
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In-Order Queue Depth – The BIOS Optimization Guide

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|Date: October 15, 2017
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In-Order Queue Depth – The BIOS Optimization Guide

In-Order Queue Depth Common Options : 1, 4, 8, 12 Quick Review of In-Order Queue Depth The In-Orde ...

In-Order Queue Depth Common Options : 1, 4, 8, 12 Quick Review of In-Order Queue Depth The In-Order Queue Depth BIOS feature controls the use of the processor bus' command queue. Normally, ther ...

October 15, 2017
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2T Command – BIOS Optimization Guide

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|Date: October 14, 2017
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2T Command – BIOS Optimization Guide

2T Command Common Options : Enabled, Disabled, Auto Quick Review of 2T Command The 2T Command BIOS ...

2T Command Common Options : Enabled, Disabled, Auto Quick Review of 2T Command The 2T Command BIOS feature allows you to select the delay between the assertion of the Chip Select signal till th ...

October 14, 2017
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Idle Cycle Limit – The BIOS Optimization Guide

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|Date: October 08, 2017
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Idle Cycle Limit – The BIOS Optimization Guide

Idle Cycle Limit Common Options : 0T, 16T, 32T, 64T, 96T, Infinite, Auto Quick Review of Idle Cycl ...

Idle Cycle Limit Common Options : 0T, 16T, 32T, 64T, 96T, Infinite, Auto Quick Review of Idle Cycle Limit The Idle Cycle Limit BIOS feature sets the number of idle cycles that is allowed before ...

October 08, 2017
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Dithering – The BIOS Optimization Guide

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|Date: October 02, 2017
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Dithering – The BIOS Optimization Guide

Dithering Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of Dithering The Dithering BIOS feature ...

Dithering Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of Dithering The Dithering BIOS feature is only found in motherboards with an integrated LCD interface that supports both 18-bit and 24 ...

October 02, 2017
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DRAM Termination – The BIOS Optimization Guide

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|Date: September 25, 2017
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DRAM Termination – The BIOS Optimization Guide

DRAM Termination Common Options : 50 Ohms, 75 Ohms, 150 Ohms (DDR2) / 40 Ohms, 60 Ohms, 120 Ohms (DDR3) ...

DRAM Termination Common Options : 50 Ohms, 75 Ohms, 150 Ohms (DDR2) / 40 Ohms, 60 Ohms, 120 Ohms (DDR3) Quick Review of DRAM Termination The DRAM Termination BIOS option controls the impedance ...

September 25, 2017
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HPET Support – The BIOS Optimization Guide

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|Date: September 19, 2017
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HPET Support – The BIOS Optimization Guide

HPET Support Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of HPET Support The HPET, short for H ...

HPET Support Common Options : Enabled, Disabled Quick Review of HPET Support The HPET, short for High Precision Event Timer, is a new system timer developed by Intel and Microsoft to replace th ...

September 19, 2017
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