D975XBX2 - can't find some BIOS options?

bigcletus · Post by **bigcletus** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:55 pm

I just built a new system with this board and I am not liking the BIOS setup very much. It seems somewhat sluggish moving between the menus (is this normal?) and is not very intuitive.

I want to disable the floppy as a boot device and I want to enable 'wake from keyboard' as the manual says it can do it but I have not found an option to turn this on. Any help is greatly appreciated.

IRQ Conflict · Post by **IRQ Conflict** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:10 pm

Your right, Award/Phoenix this is not. As for wake on KB/Mouse good luck with that unless your setup to use ViiV. The manual is a freakin joke

Boot removable devices: try <Disable>

BlueMagic · Post by **BlueMagic** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:42 pm

You hit the nail on the head when you said the BIOS wasn't intuitive.
They could have included Help comments for some of the options, like
ATA/IDE Mode [Native][Legacy], and Configure Sata As [IDE][RAID]
[AHCI].
I think they should have included all the options (like Watchdog)
in the main BIOS .

IRQ Conflict · Post by **IRQ Conflict** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:40 am

C'mon Blue, that would mean spending time on an already expensive MB $270.00~

Be realistic, only Asus, MSI, Gigabyte et al could afford such luxury items as that.

brites · Post by **brites** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:13 am

Hello the "PS/2 device activity wakes the computer from an ACPI S1 or S3 state"

S1 State (Sleeping States) Processor stopped
S3 State (Sleeping States) S3 â€“ Suspend to RAM. Context saved to RAM.

That said, I think you can't start the Pc from power down (shut down) state G2/S5

None the less try the following:

Power Menu
Keyboard Select -> Keyboard 1 Wakes PC from S5 State

and see if works

IRQ Conflict · Post by **IRQ Conflict** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:46 am

Heh, my 9 year old socket 7 (Asus P5-a) cold boots from S5 (all hardware off PSU off) with the keyboard.

BTW ViiV requires XP Media Center Edition. It will not even install the Viiv driver on XP.

brites · Post by **brites** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:36 am

don't streesssss

.. just an opinion... never the less I gave in a chance to try it out... $\:D/$

IRQ Conflict · Post by **IRQ Conflict** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:56 am

brites wrote:Hello the "PS/2 device activity wakes the computer from an ACPI S1 or S3 state"

Been there, tried that, doesn't work. As a matter of fact when returning from Hibernation the BIOS fails (yet again) to detect the PS/2 keyboard, necessitating yet another reboot.

This is bar none the worst BIOS implementation I have yet seen on a MB