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Re: 9. [New] Further BIOS Refinements

I do not have these options in my bios, and I'm sure I'm missing out a lot by using a standard dell motherboard.
However, here are the options that I can change and would like some advice on if modifying them would help:

1. Under Performance, I have a n "HDD Acoustic Mode"- this one I've already changed and can hear the difference, but not sure which I like. It is supposed to be for IDE devices, and yes I am planning to leave a dvd drive in my pc for now. Even if I took it out, I'm sure I'd have to set this to something. Here are the descriptions for my choices.
A. Bypass: the default.
B. Quiet: slower, and quiter
C. Suggested: driver manufacturer selects mode.
D. Performance: faster, but noisier.

I can enjoy B and D, but it all sounds good now. They do sound very different..B being soft and pretty, and D being louder and maybe more accurate. I have not tried C. Any idea which is optimal, and more importantly, why?

2. Security. Execute Disable Memorpy Protection is set to ON. Will turning it off do anything?

3. Power Management. Suspend Mode set to S3= conserves power when not in use. I assume this is better than the other choice, S1=resumes more quickly from sleep mode.

4. Maintanance: SERR DMI Message Mechanism is set to ON. Will turning this off do anything?


The only other BIOS setting I can see that might help would be to disable my IDE DVD drive, which may come soon.


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