TA990FXE UEFI BIOS Manual
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UEFI BIOS Setup
Introduction
The purpose of this manual is to describe the settings in the AMI UEFI BIOS Setup
program on this motherboard. The Setup program allows users to modify the basic
system configuration and save these settings to NVRAM.
UEFI BIOS determines what a computer can do without accessing programs from a
disk. This sys tem controls most of the input and outp ut d evices s uch as keyboard,
mouse, serial ports and dis k drives. BIOS activates at the first stage of the booting
process, lo ading and executing the operating sys tem. Some additional features, s uch
as virus and password protection or chips et fine-tuning optio ns are also included in
UEFI BIOS.
The rest of this manual will to guide you through the options and settings in UEFI
BIOS Setup.
Plug and Play Support
This AMI UEF I BIOS s uppo rts the Plug and P lay Version 1.0A spec ification.
EPA Green PC Support
This AMI UEF I BIOS s uppo rts Vers ion 1. 03 of the EPA Green PC spec ification.
ACPI Support
AMI ACPI UEFI BIOS s uppo rt Vers io n 1.0/2.0 of Advanc ed Co nfiguration and
Power interface specification (ACPI). It provides ASL code for power
management and device configuration capabilities as defined in the ACPI
specification, developed by Microsoft, Intel and Toshiba.
PCI Bus Support
This AMI UEFI BIOS also supports Version 2.3 of the PCI (Peripheral Component
Inte rconnect) local bus spec ific ation.
DRAM Support
DDR3 SDRAM (Double Data Rate III Synchronous DRAM) is supported.