Phoenix Award BIOS
Key Features
- Easy Customization
- Worldwide Customer Engineering
- Elimination of unnecessary modules
- Support of third-party peripheral ROMs
- Industry-Standards Compliant
- ACPI, PCI, SMBIOS (DMI), USB, EISA
- BIOS Boot Specification
- Plug and Play
- PC Card
- Legacy PC AT ISRs & DSRs
- PC2001
- CPU Support
- AMD, Intel, Transmeta, VIA, IBM, TI, IDT, etc.
- Low-power SMM & SMI
- Chipset Support
- ACC, ALI, AMD, Intel, ITE, NSC, OPTi, SiS, UMC, VIA, etc.
- Bus Support
- PCI, ISA, EISA, VL-Bus
- PCI-to-PCI & PCI-to-ISA bridging
- Power Management
- ACPI 1.0, APM 1.2
- Plug and Play Ready
- Resource allocation for PCI & PnP/Legacy ISA
- Operating System Ready
- DOS/MS Windows 3.x
- MS Windows NT
- MS Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP
- OS/2 Warp
- NetWare
- SCO UNIX
- RTOS
- HDD/FDD/CD-ROM ATAPI
- Selectable boot drive options, including CD-ROM, LS-120, SCSI, Iomega Zip, and network cards
- Auto-IDE detection
- "Fast" DMA transfer/Ultra DMA
- PIO modes 0-4
- High-performance LBA transfers
- Hard drives over 8.4 GB
- Extensive POST
- Test and initialize all system components
- Quick POST option
- Option ROM Support
- SCSI
- Video
- PC Card boot
- Ethernet
- Flash Support
- Boot block BIOS for fault recovery
- Memory Management
- RAM support up to 4 GB
- Auto-memory chipset sizing
- Auto-sizing for cache mapping
- System and video BIOS shadowing
- Memory parity check
- ECC support
- Options
- Bus-mastering support
- Fast gate A20 support
- PS/2-style mouse support
- Combo-I/O controller support
- HDD LBA mode support
- Tick timer support
- Watchdog timer support
- CMOS backup
- Award Preboot Agent for remote system management and troubleshooting
- LM78 support and GUI utility
- Utilities
- AWDFLASH flash update
- CBROM binary combiner
- NVRAM archive/restore
- PCI configuration manager
- EISA configuration utility
- Security Products
- Boot sector virus protection
- Multi-level password protection
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