On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 12:37 -0700, maxim wexler wrote:

[snip]

> Anybody seen this? 

no, sorry!

> There's a few things in the new BIOS that I'm not
> familiar with:

Google is your friend!

>  Fast Write,

AGP Fast Writes? Bypasses main mem to write directly to AGP card
http://www.techarp.com/showfreebog.aspx?lang=0&bogno=39

>  Ring-in Power On,

Wake on Ring (WOR), perhaps.  Similar to WOL.  Can wake / start the
machine when the modem rings.

>  PCI
> Devices Power On.

You usually want your PCI devices to power on :)  OK, from the
back-to-front wording of the other options, maybe this enables the
standby power to PCI devices, so that they can do the wake on "blah"
thing.

>  S.M.A.R.T is disabled by default but
> I enabled it.

HTH a bit!
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