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Industry Standards The HP BIOS is fully industry-standard compliant. In many situations, the HP BIOS has led in the formation of various standards. The following table shows some of the more common standards supported by the HP BIOS and HP's contributions: HP BIOS Compatibility Technology/ Standard Web Site Standard's value to the product Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI)* http://www.acpi.info /spec.htm ACPI allows operating system controlled configuration and Power Management. This interface is necessary to fully unleash the power of Windows operating system products. HP provided early critical input to the specification and supplied on of the first ACPI hardware and BIOS capable computers to Microsoft for ACPI development in both Windows 98 and Windows 2000. Alert Standard Format http://www.dmtf.org /standards/document s/ASF/DSP0136.pdf ASF defines method of sending notifications to the network when the computer does not successfully complete the POST or has an alert condition (chassis intrusion, processor failure, memory failure, or temperature alert) in a manner that can be monitored by remote consoles. Specification also defines remote control functions. HP is a contributing member of the DMTF group defining the evolution of this standard. AT Attachment (ATA/IDE) Storage ATA is the interface mostly used for storage device interface in most computers. ATAPI Removable Media Device BIOS Specification http://www.phoenix. com/resources/specsatapi.pdf This specification provides the BIOS interface for large capacity ATA removable ATA devices. HP co-authored the ATAPI specification. BIOS Boot Specification http://www.phoenix. com/resources/specsbbs101.pdf The BIOS Boot Specification provides the user with increased flexibility in selecting the unit boot media order (diskette, hard drive, CD ROM, and third-party plug-in adapter controlled media). HP co-authored this standard. BIOS32 Service Directory http://www.phoenix. com/resources/specsbios32sd.pdf Provides a single searchable signature for BIOS services that are designed to be utilized by 32bit BIOS clients. 18

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Industry Standards
The HP BIOS is fully industry-standard compliant. In many situations, the HP BIOS has led in the
formation of various standards. The following table shows some of the more common standards
supported by the HP BIOS and HP’s contributions:
HP BIOS Compatibility
Technology/
Standard
Web Site
Standard’s value to the product
Advanced
Configuration
Power Interface
(ACPI)*
/spec.htm
ACPI allows operating system controlled
configuration and Power Management. This
interface is necessary to fully unleash the power
of Windows operating system products. HP
provided early critical input to the specification
and supplied on of the first ACPI hardware and
BIOS capable computers to Microsoft for ACPI
development in both Windows 98 and
Windows 2000.
Alert Standard
Format
/standards/document
s/ASF/DSP0136.pdf
ASF defines method of sending notifications to
the network when the computer does not
successfully complete the POST or has an alert
condition (chassis intrusion, processor failure,
memory failure, or temperature alert) in a
manner that can be monitored by remote
consoles. Specification also defines remote
control functions. HP is a contributing member
of the DMTF group defining the evolution of this
standard.
AT Attachment
(ATA/IDE) Storage
ATA is the interface mostly used for storage
device interface in most computers.
ATAPI Removable
Media Device BIOS
Specification
com/resources/specs-
atapi.pdf
This specification provides the BIOS interface
for large capacity ATA removable ATA
devices. HP co-authored the ATAPI
specification.
BIOS Boot
Specification
com/resources/specs-
bbs101.pdf
The BIOS Boot Specification provides the user
with increased flexibility in selecting the unit
boot media order (diskette, hard drive, CD
ROM, and third-party plug-in adapter
controlled media). HP co-authored this
standard.
BIOS32 Service
Directory
com/resources/specs-
bios32sd.pdf
Provides a single searchable signature for BIOS
services that are designed to be utilized by 32-
bit BIOS clients.