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The BIOS

Intel BIOS's are generally pretty plain-Jane, without overclocking features - and this one is no different.

It does have a nice splash screen :-)

Mind you, there is one extra with Intel BIOS's - you can get a systems integrator kit, and make your own color splash screen, and pre-configure BIOS settings, and lock out controls that you don't want your users to be able to access.

The Main Menu let's you enable/disable HyperThreading, and shows you some basic system information. From here you can also set the time.

The Advanced Menu let's you go to the following configuration sub-menus:

• Boot
• Peripheral
• Drive
• Event Log
• Video Configuration
• Chipset Configuration
• Management
• USB

Probably the most interesting Advanced Configuration menu is the Video one - it lets you adjust the shared video memory size, and lets you set a PCI video card as the primary adapter if you plug one in.

They really should have just directly showed the monitoring screen here.

I would not have made users dig down one more level to a memory configuration screen.

The Security, Power, Boot and Exit menu's complete the BIOS:

But wait - if you move the BIOS jumper to the maintenance mode, you get an extra screen where you can clear a lost CMOS password.