Bios Question

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Erik

I know that this doesnot pertain to microsoft but I dont
know who to ask. When I am in my Bios setup there is a
part that says S.M.A.R.T for hard drive. Enable or
Disable. Does anyone know what this option is?
 
GSV said:
But does WinXP listen, and advice the user in some useful fashion,
without you also run some 3rd party monitoring software? (SMART also
allows for self-test, temperature monitoring, and a whole bunch of other
stuff .. most, if not all, of which I don't believe XP natively
utilises, even if you turn the facilities on in the BIOS).
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AFAIK XP has no native report on this, except *perhaps* in the error
log. You can get a third party program to look at it and report - but
the one I tried was misleading to interpret. The major benefit is that
if something starts to go seriously wrong you will get a report from the
BIOS itself, right at Power on. And if something has started there is a
high probability that it will cause a crash leading to that boot up
before any very serious trouble has accumulated
 
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