The BIOS

The BIOS is divided into multiple menus like Main, Advanced, Chipset and so on; in the Main section, we can see the market name and model name of the product (since these are barebones, the Foxconn partners might change these values and sell them under their own brand names), set the system date, time, see the installed HDD or the system information:



Here is a view in the System Information section:



In the Advanced section, we can set the Suspend mode, enable/disable the Legacy USB support, set the Restore on AC Power Loss state or enable/disable Deep Sleep:



In the Onboard Device Configuration section, we can enable/disable the onboard LAN controller, LAN ROM or the Audio Controller:



The Advanced Chipset Settings section holds the information regarding how much RAM memory is used for the GPU Frame Buffer; unfortunately, we cannot set it by ourselves, only the Auto value being available; this value changes by itself, depending how much RAM we have installed:



In the Boot menu, we can find several sections like Boot Settings Configuration, Boot Device Priority and so on:



The Boot Settings Configuration section gives us the ability to enable/disable the full screen logo, or enable Num-Lock on boot:



In the Boot Device Priority section, we can select the drives we want to boot and in which order:



The Security menu allows us to set a Supervisor and a User password:



Finally, in the Exit menu, we can save the changes we’ve made, discard them or load the optimal defaults: