BIOS

ECS is using an AMI Bios on the PF5 Extreme.


The first page Standard BIOS Features has some information about your motherboard and the system. You can change the date and time settings here.


On the Boot Config page you can disable the full-screen logo and disable some POST tests which speeds up the boot process.


Advanced BIOS is home to many system related options of the motherboard.


On the CPU Config page you can enable/disable CPU-specific features like C1E and EIST. The CPU frequency is selected here as well.

Integrated Peripherals

On these pages you can change the configuration of storage related settings, for example if you want to disable the floppy controller.


The Security tab lets you set a password for system boot or to enter the BIOS Setup.


On the Power Management page you find the standard options which are available in pretty much every BIOS available.

Memory Timings

On the Advanced Chipset page you can customize your memory timings. All current public BIOSes from ECS have a bug where the CAS Latency setting is not displayed. If you use custom timings now, the system will always crash. We notified ECS of this issue and got a fixed BIOS to continue our testing. The changes will be included in the next public BIOS release. The available settings here are all that are available to change in the Intel chipset.


The DRAM Frequency options lets you change the ratio at which the memory is run in relation to the CPU FSB. The numbers here are not fixed, which means they change if you change your FSB. 400 MHz means 1:1, 533 means 3:4 and 667 means 3:5.