hi. I have a MSI k8n neo4f mobo coupled with an AMD 64 +3000. the BIOS is award. ive been googling for a guide that explains the various options to enable, disable, or set numbers, but all Ive found is nothing or old stuff (gate A20? thats like from 3 years old!) and the mobo manual says nothing more than "this options is for enabling the ___ feature" but I want to know what is ___ feature good for! anyways does anyone know of a good guide? thanks in advance!

You can try looking them up on http://www.whatis.com This used to be a great site for all types of techie information. I think it still is, but it has been heavily commertialized. Matt|ttaM

gate A20 refers to memory adressing - http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/A20.html This feature determines how Gate A20 is used to address memory above 1MB. When this option is set to Fast, the motherboard chipset controls the operation of Gate A20. ... pin in the keyboard controller controls Gate A20. Setting Gate A20 to Fast improves memory access speed Rule #1 Good computers don't go down. Rule #2 There is no such thing as a good computer.

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