The board uses the Phoenix Award BIOS; lets see how the BIOS is on this board.

This is the standard CMOS option, all the options you would expect are here. As you can see the SATA ports are listed here, if you don't run them in RAID they will show up here in Standard CMOS features, and you don't need to load the SATA drivers during the Windows install. You only have to load the SATA drivers when you are running the Hard drives in RAID.

This section has some BIOS protection features, to protect you from accidentally screwing something up, or virus. This is also where you can change the CPU frequency (FSB) speed.

This is the Advanced BIOS options menu; all the options you would expect in this section are here, including your boot priority.

This is the Advanced Chipset features menu. Here you can change the Hyper Transport options, your PCI-E speed, among others.

This is a submenu of the Advanced Chipset section. Here you can change a lot of different memory settings.

This is the Integrated Peripherals section; it is the only part of the BIOS that has more options then would fit on a single screen. This is where you can enable or disable all the integrated parts of the motherboard, like the USB ports, the onboard audio, IEEE1394, Floppy controller, Parallel port, etc.

This is a sub menu of Integrated Peripherals. This is where you can change all the IDE and SATA options.

This is also a sub menu of Integrated Peripherals. This is where you can enable or disable RAID, and change the RAID options.

This is where you can change all the power settings, and all the Wake-On options.

This is where you can change the PCI settings and Plug and Play options, including the IRQ settings.

This is the PC health status window. The only changeable option here is the CPU shutdown temperature. But this is where you would go to look at your fan speeds, or CPU temperature.

This is where you can change some of the voltages, which you would want to do if you're overclocking the computer. However one overclocking option that is not here is being able to change the CPU multiplier. Since with AMD's Cool and Quiet technology you can lower the Multiplier it is sometimes useful to raise the CPU frequency but lower the multiplier to get a better overclock.