Installation and Testing pg2

And I bet you are wondering if I was going to mention the BIOS at all, well I am, let’s get into that here… First, when you turn your computer on you are greeted with a green splash green, matches the box…

Hitting ‘del’ of course gets you into the BIOS, it is as I mentioned a Phoenix based BIOS system. There are seven main sections to choose from on the left, some have sub-menus as well, while on the right we have special options, the first one is sort of an auto overclocker ‘Load Performance’ from the book:

‘ These default settings are quite demanding and your system might not function properly if you are using a slower CPU, memory or other low-performance components.’

The next option on the left is ‘Load Optimized Defaults’, this option essentially the factory default BIOS settings.

‘Set Supervisor/Set User Password’- Kind of self-explanatory as are the last two options, ‘Save and Exit Setup’ and ‘Exit Without Saving’

The ‘Standard CMOS Options’ is all your basic stuff, time, date, channels etc.

The ‘Advanced BIOS Settings’ are where you can select disk priority, CPU cache and other basic options found on most motherboards.

The ‘Advanced Chipset Features’, this is where any overclocking will be done, there are a few minimal options here for overclocking, this is a ‘Lite’ version after all. The options available are more than enough to do a quite a bit of tinkering though.

The sub-menu for ‘Advanced Chipset Features’ is the ‘DRAM Configurations’ menu, here you can change a few of the memory settings to tweak them for better performance or for overclocking. Again, the options are minimal but they do the job.