Gigabyte GA-8S648FX - Menu options enabled but not showing

[Agent24]

I have a Gigabyte GA-8S648FX running BIOS revision version F8.

Some options I can't find in the BIOS setup screen when I turn the PC on (such as turning on SMART, enable Hyperthreading etc)

I opened the file with Modbin6 and checked the menu items. SMART options and other options were enabled as menu items yet I can find no trace of them in the setup menu when the PC is on.

Anyone heard of this before?

[edwin]

you need a CPU that supports HT to begin with. You need a harddisk that supports smart to begin with. You can't add it to them via the bios. And I think the key combo to show advanced menu's in a Gigabyte bios is Alt-F1 iirc.

[Agent24]

The hard drive definitely supports SMART - I can do a readout with speedfan after booting into windows.

Not sure if the CPU is HT or not. I think so.

There are other options like Quickboot which also do not show up. It's very odd

[Agent24]

Tried Alt-F1 in BIOS menu, nothing happened

[Agent24]

Well I opened it up in MODBIN6 again, and checked the SMART option. By default the option is disabled, so I enabled it, flashed and then loaded defaults.

The menu item is still not showing but now SMART comes up as enabled on the System summary screen after POST.

[Denniss]

Please carefully read the motherboard manual, it should be mentioned somewhere how to open the advanced Bios showing many more options.

[Agent24]

You were both right - I re-read the manual and discovered that you need to press Ctrl+F1 at the main menu to enable the advanced options

Never heard of that before, so I didn't think of it.