ASUS M2A-VM

BIOS Continued

Advanced Power Management lets you control features like Wake on LAN or that the PC automatically powers up again after a power loss.


On the boot settings pages you can control settings like where the system should boot from, if the POST screen or a graphical logo should be displayed and in which cases the system should display an error message.


The monitoring page has the usual sensor readouts and a VERY useful Q-Fan option. Q-Fan reduces the fan speed to eliminate the annoying high-speed fan noise when the system is not loaded.


HPET (High Precision Event Timers) are a mechanism that is supposed to improve multimedia performance on Vista. It is not supported on XP. Microsoft has a page with more info on this topic "Guidelines For Providing Multimedia Timer Support". Not sure why this would be listed under "Advanced Power Management" though.


Onboard devices and PnP has all the standard settings you would expect from any modern motherboard BIOS, nothing exciting to see here.


ASUS Music Alarm sound like one of the most useless BIOS features, at least to me.