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Biostar GF7100P-M7 - BIOS SETUP Manual

Biostar GF7100P-M7 - BIOS SETUP Manual

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GF7100P-M7 BIOS Setup
BIOS Setup ................................................................................................ 1
1 Main Menu ............................................................................................. 3
2 Standard CMOS Features..................................................................... 7
3 Advanced BIOS Features ...................................................................... 9
4 Advanced Chipset Features................................................................. 17
5 Integrated Peripherals......................................................................... 20
6 Power Management Setup................................................................... 26
7 PnP/PCI Configurations...................................................................... 29
8 PC Health Status .................................................................................. 32
9 Performance Booster Zone.................................................................. 35
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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    GF7100P-M7 BIOS Setup BIOS Setup ....................1 1 Main Menu ..................... 3 2 Standard CMOS Features..............7 3 Advanced BIOS Features ..............9 4 Advanced Chipset Features..............17 5 Integrated Peripherals................. 20 6 Power Management Setup..............26 7 PnP/PCI Configurations..............29 8 PC Health Status ..................

  • Page 2: Bios Setup

    GF7100P-M7 BIOS Setup Introduction The purpose of this manual is to describe the settings in the Phoenix-Award™ BIOS Setup program on this motherboard. The Setup program allows users to modify the basic system configuration and save these settings to CMOS RAM. The power of CMOS RAM is supplied by a battery so that it retains the Setup information when the power is turned off.
  • Page 3 GF7100P-M7 ACPI Support Phoenix-Award ACPI BIOS support Version 1.0b of Advanced Configuration and Power interface specification (ACPI). It provides ASL code for power management and device configuration capabilities as defined in the ACPI specification, developed by Microsoft, Intel and Toshiba. PCI Bus Support This PHOENIX-AWARD BIOS also supports Version 2.3 of the Intel PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) local bus specification.

  • Page 4: Main Menu

    GF7100P-M7 1 Main Menu Once you enter Phoenix-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 GF7100P-M7 Advanced BIOS Features This submenu allows you to configure advanced features of the BIOS. 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.
  • Page 6 GF7100P-M7 Set Supervisor Password Setting the supervisor password will prohibit everyone except the supervisor from making changes using the CMOS Setup Utility. You will be prompted with to enter a password. Set User Password If the Supervisor Password is not set, then the User Password will function in the same way as the Supervisor Password.
  • Page 7 GF7100P-M7 Upgrade BIOS This submenu allows you to upgrade bios.

  • Page 8: Standard Cmos Features

    GF7100P-M7 2 Standard CMOS Features The items in Standard CMOS Setup Menu are divided into several 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 9 GF7100P-M7 Item Options Description 360K, 5.25 in 1.2M, 5.25 in Select the type of floppy 720K, 3.5 in Drive A/B disk drive installed in your 1.44M, 3.5 in system. 2.88M, 3.5 in None EGA/VGA CGA 40 Select the default video Video device.

  • Page 10: Advanced Bios Features

    GF7100P-M7 3 Advanced BIOS Features Figure 3: Advanced BIOS Setup Cache Setup...
  • Page 11 GF7100P-M7 CPU L3 Cache Depending on the CPU/chipset in use, you may be able to increase memory access time with this option. Enabled (default) Enable cache. Disabled Disable cache. Boot Seq & Floppy Setup This item allows you to setup boot sequence & Floppy.
  • Page 12 GF7100P-M7 Removable Device Priority Select Removable Boot Device Priority. The Choices: Floppy Disks, Zip100, USB-FDD0, USB-FDD1, USB-ZIP0, USB-ZIP1, LS120. Hard Disk Boot Priority The BIOS will attempt to arrange the Hard Disk boot sequence automatically. You can change the Hard Disk booting sequence here. The Choices: Pri.
  • Page 13 GF7100P-M7 CD-ROM Boot Priority The Choices: Pri. Master, Pri. Slave, Sec. Master, Sec. Slave, USB CDROM0, USB CDROM 1. First/Second/Third Boot Device The BIOS will attempt to load the operating system in this order. The Choices: Removable, Hard Disk, CDROM, Legacy LAN, Disabled. Boot Other Device When enabled, BIOS will try to load the operating system from other device when it failed to load from the three devices above.
  • Page 14 GF7100P-M7 CPU Feature PPM Mode The Choices: Native Mode (default), SMM Mode. Limit CPUID MaxVal Set Limit CPUID MaxVal to 3, it should be “Disabled” for Windows XP. The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled. C1E Function This item allows you to configure the Enhanced Halt State (C1E) function, which may reduce the power consumption of your system when the system is idle.
  • Page 15 GF7100P-M7 Core Multi-Processing The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. Virus Warning This option allows you to choose the VIRUS Warning feature that is used to protect the IDE Hard Disk boot sector. If this function is enabled and an attempt is made to write to the boot sector, BIOS will display a warning message on the screen and sound an alarm beep.
  • Page 16 GF7100P-M7 Typematic Delay (Msec) Sets the delay time after the key is held down before it begins to repeat the keystroke. The Choices: 250 (default), 500, 750, 1000. Security Option This option will enable only individuals with passwords to bring the system online and/or to use the CMOS Setup Utility.
  • Page 17 GF7100P-M7 Summary Screen Show This item allows you to enable/disable the summary screen. Summary screen means system configuration and PCI device listing. The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled.

  • Page 18: Advanced Chipset Features

    GF7100P-M7 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. It also coordinates communications with the PCI bus.
  • Page 19 GF7100P-M7 Spread Spectrum Control CPU Spread Spectrum This item allows you to select the CPU Spread Spectrum function. The Choices: Disabled, Enabled (default). SATA Spread Spectrum This item allows you to select the SATA Spread Spectrum function. The Choices: Triangular Down (default), Disabled. PCIE Spread Spectrum This item allows you to select the PCIE Spread Spectrum function.
  • Page 20 GF7100P-M7 Frame Buffer Size This item allows you to choose the frame buffer size of on-chip VGA. The Choices: 64M (default), 16M, 32M, 128M, 256M, Disabled. System BIOS Cacheable Selecting the “Enabled” option allows caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h-FFFFFh, which is able to improve the system performance.

  • Page 21: Integrated Peripherals

    GF7100P-M7 5 Integrated Peripherals Figure 5. Integrated Peripherals IDE Function Setup Highlight the “Press Enter” label next to the “IDE Function Setup” label and press enter key will take you a submenu with the following options:...
  • Page 22 GF7100P-M7 On-chip IDE Channel 0 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 23 GF7100P-M7 MCP Storage Config SATA Operation Mode This option allows you to choose SATA function. The Choices: IDE (default), RAID, AHCI, Linux AHCI. SATA 1/2/3/4 RAID This option allows you to enable or disable SATA Primary/Secondary RAID. The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled. Onboard PCIE LAN This option allows you to control the onboard LAN.
  • Page 24 GF7100P-M7 LAN ROM Protocol This option allows you to select the Lan ROM protocol. The Choices: PXE (default), RPL. OnChip USB This option should be enabled if your system has a USB installed on the system board. You may need to disable this feature if you add a higher performance controller.
  • Page 25 GF7100P-M7 IDE HDD Block Mode Block mode is also called block transfer, multiple commands, or multiple sectors read / write. If your IDE hard drive supports block mode (most new drives do), select Enabled for automatic detection of the optimal number of block mode (most new drives do), select Enabled for automatic detection of the optimal number of block read / write per sector where the drive can support.
  • Page 26 GF7100P-M7 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 This item allows you to determine how the parallel port should function. The default value is SPP.

  • Page 27: Power Management Setup

    GF7100P-M7 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 28 GF7100P-M7 Power Management This category allows you to select the power saving method and is directly related to the following modes: 1. HDD Power Down. 2. Suspend Mode. There are three options of Power Management, three of which have fixed mode settings Min.
  • Page 29 GF7100P-M7 Soft-Off by PBTN This item determines the behavior of system power button. Instant off turn off the power immediately, and Delay 4 Sec. will require you to press and hold the power button for 4 seconds to cut off the system power. The Choices: Delay 4 Sec, Instant-Off (default).

  • Page 30: Pnp/Pci Configurations

    GF7100P-M7 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.
  • Page 31 GF7100P-M7 “Disabled” mode. The above settings will be shown on the screen only if “Manual” is chosen for the resources controlled by function. Legacy is the term, which signifies that a resource is assigned to the ISA Bus and provides non-PnP ISA add-on cards. PCI / ISA PnP signify that a resource is assigned to the PCI Bus or provides for ISA PnP add-on cards and peripherals.
  • Page 32 GF7100P-M7 Maximum Payload Size Set the maximum payload size for Transaction packets (TLP). The Choice: 4096 (default.), 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048.

  • Page 33: Pc Health Status

    GF7100P-M7 8 PC Health Status Figure 8: PC Health Status Smart Fan Option...
  • Page 34 GF7100P-M7 CPU Smart Fan This item allows you to control the CPU Fan. The Choices: Disabled (default), Auto, 4-pin, 3-pin.. Smart Fan Calibration Choose this item and then the BIOS will auto test and detect the CPU fan functions and show CPU fan speed. PWM Duty Off<℃>...
  • Page 35 GF7100P-M7 CPU Vcore, DDR Voltage, +3.3V, +5.0V, +12.0V, NB Voltage, VTT Voltage, 5V(SB), Voltage Battery Detect the system’s voltage status automatically. CPU Temperature This field displays the current temperature of CPU. CPU FAN Speed This field displays the current speed of CPU fan. SYS FAN Speed This field displays the current speed SYSTEM fan.

  • Page 36: Performance Booster Zone

    GF7100P-M7 9 Performance Booster Zone FSB-Memory Clock Mode This item allows you to choose the memory clock mode. The Choices: Auto (default), Linked, Unlinked. FSB-Memory Ratio This item allows you to choose the memory clock mode. The Choices: Auto (default) FSB (QDR), MHz This item allows you to choose the memory clock mode.
  • Page 37 GF7100P-M7 Memory Timing Setting Memory Timing Setting This item allows you to choose to manually or automatically regulate the DDR Timing. The Choices: Optimal (default), Expert tCL (CAS Latency) The Choices: Auto (default), 3 CLK ~ 6 CLK. tRCD The Choices: Auto (default), 3 CLK ~ 6 CLK. The Choices: Auto (default), 3 CLK ~ 6 CLK.
  • Page 38 GF7100P-M7 tRRD The Choices: Auto (default), 2 CLK ~ 5 CLK. The Choices: Auto (default), 11 CLK ~ 26 CLK. The Choices: Auto (default), 3 CLK ~ 6 CLK. tWTR The Choices: Auto (default), 1 CLK ~ 3 CLK. tREF The Choices: Auto (default), 7.8 us, 3.9 us.

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