The BIOS
As nearly all Asus motherboards, the Asus M4A785TD-V EVO uses the American Megatrends BIOS. This BIOS uses tabs for easy navigation. But, all motherboard’s BIOS are different, tailored for the particular board, so I’ll spend a little time going through it.
The Main menu shows date/time, drives found by the system, and a submenu containing system information including the BIOS version.
The Advanced menu has several submenus containing most system settings.
The Jumperfree Configuration submenu contains all relevant overclocking settings. Changing the settings from auto opens up other settings.
The CPU Configuration submenu has the CPU’s specs and some CPU specific settings.
The Onboard Devices submenu enables/disables devices such as IEEE 1394 and the LAN controller.
The Power menu mainly contains the Hardware Monitor submenu.
The HW monitor submenu shows temps and voltages, and controls the automatic CPU fan speed function.
The Boot menu contains the relevant boot submenus.
The Boot Device Priority submenu determines the order of boot drives.
The Boot Settings menu has a few boot settings, mainly the enabling/disabling of the splash screen.
