HP Dc7100 HP Business Desktop BIOS - Page 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)* 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