PhoenixBIOS features and setup
Issue G 51
PhoenixBIOS features and setup
The APOLLO is supplied with an embedded BIOS from Phoenix. The BIOS provides the
following features :
• Phoenix FirstBIOS Embedded Pro 4.0 Release 6.1.
• Plug & Play (PCI, ISA) with full legacy IO support.
• PCI Auto Configuration (PCI 2.2).
• Automatic DRAM (DDR) configuration.
• Extended system configuration data (ESCD) memory located inside flash.
• Automatic CPU detection.
• Advanced Power Management 1.2.
• ACPI, implementation compatible with ACPI V2.0, supported power states: S0, S2,
S3, S4 and S5.
• SMBIOS.
• BIOS update including ‘Crisis Recovery’.
• Flash-BIOS Bootblock support for BIOS reprogramming (recovery), supported
recovery-media: Floppy, USB-Floppy, CD (bootable CD with image of the crisis-
floppy in boot section).
• PIO Mode 4 and Ultra DMA Mode for IDE drives.
• Support for fixed disk drives greater than 128GB (EIDE).
• USB legacy support (keyboard, mouse).
• USB advanced boot (floppy disk, hard disk, CD-ROM).
• USB 2.0 high-speed boot.
• Quick boot.
• MultiBoot (FD, HDD, CD-ROM, LAN, USB mass storage, CompactFlash
®
).
• System and setup password.
• Quiet Boot with customizable boot logo.
• WfM (Wired for Management) support.
• Hardware voltage, temperature and fan speed monitoring.
• Security features including tamper detection and Unique ID.