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The BIOS

MSI went with a pretty plain Jane AMI BIOS. There are eight sub-menu's available from the top level menu:

• Standard CMOS Features
• Advanced BIOS Features
• Integrated Peripherals
• Power Management Setup
• PNP/PCI Configuration
• H/W Monitor
• Cell Menu
• USER SETTINGS

And a further five options:

• Load Fail-Safe Defaults
• Load Optimized Defaults
• BIOS Setting Password
• Save & Exit Setup
• Exit Without Saving

The Standard CMOS Features menu is very standard; nothing exciting here.

The Advanced BIOS Features are also as expected.

The Chipset Features lets you control PCIe 1.0 vs. 2.0 for the GPU slots.

The Integrated Peripherals menu allows you to enable/disable the the on-board peripherals.

The On-Chip ATA devices lets you configure the IDE mode, disable the on-board SATA controller, and set the RAID mode.

The Power Management Setup lets you control ACPI & wakeup events.