User's Guide

Configuring Your System 3-9
Peripheral Configuration Submenu (Continued)
Feature
Choices or
Display Only Description Your Setting
Mouse Disabled
Enabled
Auto Detect
Disabled prevents any
installed PS/2 mouse from
functioning, but frees up
IRQ12.
Enabled forces the PS/2
mouse port to be enabled
regardless if a mouse is
present.
Auto Detect enables the PS/2
mouse only if present.
OS Controlled is displayed
only if the OS controls the
mouse.
USB Controller
Disabled
Enabled
Disables or enables on-board
USB controller.
Monitoring Configuration Submenu
Feature
Choices or
Display Only Description Your Setting
POST Monitoring Disabled
OptROM-END
POST-END
Selects the point where the POST
monitoring checkpoint is.
Boot Monitoring
Disabled
Enabled
Disable or enable the boot
monitoring feature.
PCI Device Submenu
Feature
Choices or
Display Only Description Your Setting
PCI IRQ1
—
PCI IRQ14
Disabled
Auto Select
IRQ3
IRQ4
IRQ5
IRQ6
IRQ7
IRQ9
IRQ10
IRQ11
IRQ12
IRQ13
!RQ14
PCI devices use hardware
interrupts called IRQs. A PCI
device cannot use IRQs already in
use by ISA devices. Use"Auto" only
if no ISA legacy cards are installed.