Not applicable
on motherboards with PCI-Express slots.
AGP Aperture/Device
Address Space Size
This sets the amount of system memory used to store textures for 3D graphics. The
more video memory you have, the lower this setting should be. Many video problems
are caused by this value being set too high, but Vista??™s Glass feature won??™t work if it??™s
not set at least as high as indicated in ???Get Glass??? in Chapter 5.
AHCI settings See ???SATA Configuration.???
AI Overclocking See ???Overclocking.???
AI Quiet See ???Digital Home Mode.???
ALPE and ASP Enables or disables the Aggressive Link Power Management (ALPE) and Aggressive
Slumber/Partial (ASP) power management features for SATA drives. Disabled/Off is
usually the default; enable this setting if you need advanced features like AHCI Port 3
Interlock Switch or Staggered Spinup Support.
AMD Cool ??™n??™ Quiet/
PowerNow!
See ???Intel SpeedStep.???
Anti-Virus Protection Actively scans your hard disk for boot sector viruses. Despite the apparent usefulness
of a feature like this, you should always disable it, as it typically interferes with Windows
and causes all sorts of problems.
APM settings See ???Power Management.???
Assign IRQ For USB See ???Legacy USB Support.???
578 | Appendix A: BIOS Settings
Assign IRQ For VGA/
Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA
This should be enabled unless your video card does not need its own IRQ and you
need an extra IRQ for another device.
Auto Power On See ???AC Power Recovery.
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