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Biostar M7VIK Bios Setup Manual

Biostar M7VIK Bios Setup Manual

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M7VIK BIOS Setup
BIOS Setup .......................................................................................1
1 Main Menu ................................................................................................... 3
2 Standard CMOS Features ............................................................................. 6
3 Advanced BIOS Features ............................................................................. 9
4 Advanced Chipset Features ........................................................................ 12
5 Integrated Peripherals ................................................................................. 16
6 Power Management Setup .......................................................................... 21
7 PnP/PCI Configurations.............................................................................. 25
8 PC Health Status ......................................................................................... 28
9 Frequency/ Voltage Control ....................................................................... 30
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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    M7VIK BIOS Setup BIOS Setup ...1 1 Main Menu ... 3 2 Standard CMOS Features ... 6 3 Advanced BIOS Features ... 9 4 Advanced Chipset Features ... 12 5 Integrated Peripherals ... 16 6 Power Management Setup ... 21 7 PnP/PCI Configurations...

  • Page 2: Bios Setup

    M7VIK BIOS Setup BIOS Setup Introduction This manual discussed Award™ Setup program built into the ROM BIOS. The Setup program allows users to modify the basic system configuration. This special information is then stored in battery-backed RAM so that it retains the Setup information when the power is turned off.
  • Page 3 M7VIK BIOS Setup PCI Bus Support This AWARD BIOS also supports Version 2.1 of the Intel PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) local bus specification. DRAM Support DDR SDRAM (Double Data Rate Synchronous DRAM) are supported. Supported CPUs This AWARD BIOS supports the AMD CPU.

  • Page 4: Main Menu

    M7VIK BIOS Setup 1 Main Menu Once you enter Award BIOS™ CMOS Setup Utility, the Main Menu will appear on the screen. The Main Menu allows you to select from several setup functions. Use the arrow keys to select among the items and press <Enter> to accept and enter the sub-menu.
  • Page 5 M7VIK BIOS Setup Advanced Chipset Features This submenu allows you to configure special chipset features. Integrated Peripherals This submenu allows you to configure certain IDE hard drive options and Programmed Input/ Output features. Power Management Setup This submenu allows you to configure the power management features.
  • Page 6 M7VIK BIOS Setup Set User Password If the Supervisor Password is not set, then the User Password will function in the same way as the Supervisor Password. If the Supervisor Password is set and the User Password is set, the “User” will only be able to view configurations but will not be able to change them.

  • Page 7: Standard Cmos Features

    M7VIK BIOS Setup 2 Standard CMOS Features The items in Standard CMOS Setup Menu are divided into 10 categories. Each category includes no, one or more than one setup items. Use the arrow keys to highlight the item and then use the<PgUp> or <PgDn> keys to select the value you want in each item.
  • Page 8 M7VIK BIOS Setup Main Menu Selections This table shows the selections that you can make on the Main Menu. Item Options Date mm : dd : yy Time hh : mm : ss IDE Primary Master Options are in its sub menu.
  • Page 9 M7VIK BIOS Setup Item Options Halt On All Errors No Errors All, but Keyboard All, but Diskette All, but Disk/ Key Base Memory Extended Memory Total Memory Description Select the situation in which you want the BIOS to stop the POST process and notify you.

  • Page 10: Advanced Bios Features

    M7VIK BIOS Setup 3 Advanced BIOS Features Figure 3. Advanced BIOS Setup Boot Seq & Floppy Setup This item allows you to setup boot seq & Floppy. First/ Second/ Third/ Boot Other Device These BIOS attempt to load the operating system from the devices in the sequence selected in these items.
  • Page 11 M7VIK BIOS Setup Cache & Shadow Setup This item allows you to setup cache & shadow setup. CPU Internal Cache Depending on the CPU/chipset in use, you may be able to increase memory access time with this option. Enabled (default)
  • Page 12 M7VIK BIOS Setup Fast (default) Typematic Rate Setting When a key is held down, the keystroke will repeat at a rate determined by the keyboard controller. When enabled, the typematic rate and typematic delay can be configured. Disabled (default) Enabled Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) Sets the rate at which a keystroke is repeated when you hold the key down.

  • Page 13: Advanced Chipset Features

    M7VIK BIOS Setup 4 Advanced Chipset Features This submenu allows you to configure the specific features of the chipset installed on your system. This chipset manage bus speeds and access to system memory resources, such as DRAM and external cache. It also coordinates communications with the PCI bus. The default settings that came with your system have been optimized and therefore should not be changed unless you are suspicious that the settings have been changed incorrectly.
  • Page 14 M7VIK BIOS Setup DRAM Timing This item determines DRAM clock/ timing follow SPD or not. The Choices: Auto By SPD (default), Manual, Turbo, Ultra. DRAM CAS Latency When DRAM is installed, the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing.
  • Page 15 M7VIK BIOS Setup AGP & P2P Bridge Control If you highlight the literal “Press Enter” next to the “AGP & P2P Bridge Control” label and then press the enter key, it will take you a submenu with the following options: AGP Aperture Size Select the size of the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) aperture.
  • Page 16 M7VIK BIOS Setup PCI1 Master 0 WS Write When enabled, writes to the PCI bus are executed with zero-wait states. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. PCI2 Master 0 WS Write When enabled, writes to the AGP bus are executed with zero-wait states.

  • Page 17: Integrated Peripherals

    OnChip IDE Channel 0/1 The motherboard chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support for two IDE channels. Select “Enabled” to activate the first and/or second IDE interface. Select “Disabled” to deactivate an interface if you are going to install a primary and/or secondary add-in IDE interface.
  • Page 18 M7VIK BIOS Setup IDE Primary / Secondary Master / Slave PIO The IDE PIO (Programmed Input / Output) fields let you set a PIO mode (0-4) for each of the IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports. Modes 0 through 4 provides successively increased performance.
  • Page 19 M7VIK BIOS Setup controller . The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. Super IO Device If you highlight the literal “Press Enter” next to the “ press the enter key, it will take you a submenu with the following options: Onboard FDC Controller Select Enabled if your system has a floppy disk controller (FDC) installed on the system board and you wish to use it.
  • Page 20 M7VIK BIOS Setup Onboard Parallel Port This item allows you to determine access onboard parallel port controller with which I/O Address. The Choices: 378/IRQ7 (default), 278/IRQ5, 3BC/IRQ7, Disabled. Parallel Port Mode The default value is SPP. The Choices: SPP(default) ECP+EPP EPP Mode Select Select EPP port type 1.7 or 1.9.
  • Page 21 M7VIK BIOS Setup USB Keyboard Support Enables support for USB attached keyboards. The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled. USB Mouse Support Enables support for USB attached mouse. The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled. IDE HDD Block Mode Block mode is also called block transfer, multiple commands, or multiple sector read / write.

  • Page 22: Power Management Setup

    M7VIK BIOS Setup 6 Power Management Setup The Power Management Setup Menu allows you to configure your system to utilize energy conservation and power up/power down features. Figure 6. Power Management Setup ACPI function This item displays the status of the Advanced Configuration and Power Management (ACPI).
  • Page 23 M7VIK BIOS Setup There are four options of Power Management, three of which have fixed mode settings Min. Power Saving Minimum power management. Suspend Mode = 1 hr. HDD Power Down = 15 min Max. Power Saving Maximum power management only available for sl CPU’s.
  • Page 24 M7VIK BIOS Setup DPMS Initial display power management signaling. The Choices: Stop Grant (default), PwrOn Suspend. Modem Use IRQ This determines the IRQ, which can be applied in MODEM use. The Choices: 3 (default),4 / 5 / 7 / 9 / 10 / 11 / NA.
  • Page 25 M7VIK BIOS Setup PCI Master When set to On, you need a LAN add-on card which supports the power function. It should also support the wake-up on LAN jump. The Choices: Off (default), On. PowerOn by PCI Card When you select Enabled, a PME signal from PCI card returns the system to Full ON state.

  • Page 26: Pnp/Pci Configurations

    M7VIK BIOS Setup 7 PnP/PCI Configurations This section describes configuring the PCI bus system. PCI, or Personal Computer Interconnect, is a system which allows I/O devices to operate at speeds nearing the speed of the CPU itself uses when communicating with its own special components. This section covers some very technical items and it is strongly recommended that only experienced users should make any changes to the default settings.
  • Page 27 M7VIK BIOS Setup option is chosen, the system is forced to update ESCDs and then is automatically set to the “Disabled” mode. The above settings will be shown on the screen only if “Manual” is chosen for the resources controlled by function.
  • Page 28 M7VIK BIOS Setup In this case, the PCI VGA controller should not respond to the Write, it should only snoop the data and permit the access to be forwarded to the ISA bus. The non-VGA ISA graphic controller can then snoop the data on the ISA bus. Unless you have the above situation, you should disable this option.

  • Page 29: Pc Health Status

    M7VIK BIOS Setup 8 PC Health Status Figure 8. PC Health Status CPU Warning Temperature The item will prevent CPU from overheating. Choices: Disabled (default), 60OC/140OF, 63OC/145OF, 66OC/151OF, 70OC/158OF. Current CPU1 Temperature This field displays the current temperature of the CPU.
  • Page 30 M7VIK BIOS Setup Shutdown Temperature This item allows you to set up the CPU shutdown Temperature. This item only effective under Windows 98 ACPI mode. The Choices: Disabled (default), 60 Show H/W Monitor in POST If your computer contains a monitoring system, it will show PC health status during POST stage.

  • Page 31: Frequency/ Voltage Control

    M7VIK BIOS Setup 9 Frequency/ Voltage Control Figure 9. Frequency/ Voltage Control CPU Clock This item allows you to select CPU Clock, and CPU over clocking. If unfortunately, the system’s frequency that you are selected is not functioning, there are two methods of booting-up the system.
  • Page 32 M7VIK BIOS Setup AGP Voltage Regulator The Choices: 1.5V (Default), 1.8V, 1.7V, 1.6V DRAM Voltage Regulator The Choices: 2.5V, 2.8V, 2.7V, 2.6V (Default).

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