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Biostar P4M800-M7A - BIOS SETUP Manual

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P4M800-M7A BIOS SETUP
BIOS Setup........................................................................................1
1 Main Menu..................................................................................................... 3
2 Standard CMOS Features .............................................................................. 6
3 Advanced BIOS Features............................................................................... 8
4 Advanced Chipset Features.......................................................................... 13
5 Integrated Peripherals .................................................................................. 18
6 Power Management Setup ........................................................................... 23
7 PnP/PCI Configurations ............................................................................... 29
8 PC Health Status .......................................................................................... 32
9 Frequency/ Voltage Control......................................................................... 34
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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    P4M800-M7A BIOS SETUP BIOS Setup..................1 1 Main Menu..................... 3 2 Standard CMOS Features ................6 3 Advanced BIOS Features................8 4 Advanced Chipset Features................13 5 Integrated Peripherals .................. 18 6 Power Management Setup ................23 7 PnP/PCI Configurations ................29 8 PC Health Status ..................

  • Page 2: Bios Setup

    P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual 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 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual 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 Intel CPU. Using Setup In general, you use the arrow keys to highlight items, press <Enter>...

  • Page 4: Main Menu

    P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual 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. !! WARNING !! The information about BIOS defaults on manual (Figure 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) is just for reference, please refer to the BIOS...
  • Page 5 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual Power Management Setup This submenu allows you to configure the power management features. PnP/PCI Configurations This submenu allows you to configure certain “Plug and Play” and PCI options. PC Health Status This submenu allows you to monitor the hardware of your system. Frequency/ Voltage Control This submenu allows you to change CPU Vcore Voltage and CPU/PCI clock.
  • Page 6 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual 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. Save &...

  • Page 7: Standard Cmos Features

    P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual 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. Figure 2.
  • Page 8 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual options. IDE Secondary Options are in its sub Press <Enter> to enter the Slave menu. sub menu of detailed options. Drive A 360K, 5.25 in Select the type of floppy disk drive installed in your Drive B 1.2M, 5.25 in system.

  • Page 9: Advanced Bios Features

    P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual 3 Advanced BIOS Features Figure 3. Advanced BIOS Setup CPU FEATURE Delay Prior to Thermal Set this item to enable the CPU Thermal function to engage after the specified time. The Choices: 4, 8, 16 (default), 32. Thermal Management Allow you to choose the thermal management method of your monitor.
  • Page 10 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual TM2 Bus Ratio Represents the frequency. Bus ratio of the throttled performance state that will be initiated when the on-die sensor goes from not hot to hot. The Choices: 0X (default). TM2 Bus VID Represents the voltage of the throttled performance state that will be initiated when the on-die sensor goes from not hot to hot.
  • Page 11 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual 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 12 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual Swap Floppy Drive For systems with two floppy drives, this option allows you to swap logical drive assignments. The Choices:Disabled (default), Enabled. Boot Up Floppy Seek Enabling this option will test the floppy drives to determine if they have 40 or 80 tracks. Disabling this option reduces the time it takes to boot-up.
  • Page 13 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual OS Select For DRAM > 64MB A choice other than Non-OS2 is only used for OS2 systems with memory exceeding 64MB. The Choices: Non-OS2 (default), OS2. Video BIOS Shadow The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. Delay For HDD<Secs> The Choices: 0 (default) Small Logo (EPA) Show This item allows you to select whether the “Small Logo”...

  • Page 14: Advanced Chipset Features

    P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual 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. 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 15 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual To control the Clock/Drive. If you highlight the literal “Press Enter” next to the “DRAM Clock/Drive Control” label and then press the enter key, it will take you a submenu with the following options: DRAM Clock This item determines DRAM clock following 100MHz, 133MHz, 166MHz or By SPD. The Choices: 100MHz, 133MHz, By SPD (default), 166MHz.
  • Page 16 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual Write Recovery Time<TWr> The Choices:4T (default). DRAM Command Rate This item controls clock cycle that must occur between the last valid write operation and the next command. The Choices: 1T Command, 2T Command (default). RDSAIT Mode The Choices: Auto(default). RDSAIT Selection The Choices:03(default) AGP &...
  • Page 17 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual AGP Driving Value While AGP driving control item set to “Manual”, it allows user to set AGP driving. The Choices: DA (default). AGP Fast Write The Choices: Enabled, Disabled (default). AGP Master 1 WS Write When Enabled, writes to the AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) are executed with one-wait states.
  • Page 18 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual PCI Master 0 WS Write When enabled, writes to the PCI bus are executed with zero-wait states. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. PCI Delay Transaction The chipset has an embedded 32-bit posted write buffer to support delay transactions cycles.

  • Page 19: Integrated Peripherals

    P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual 5 Integrated Peripherals Figure 5. Integrated Peripherals VIA OnChip IDE Device The chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support for two IDE channels. Select “Enabled” to activate the first and / or second IDE interface. If you install a primary and / or secondary add-in IDE interface, select “Disabled”...
  • Page 20 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual OnChip SATA This option allows you to enable the onchip Serial ATA. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. SATA Mode The Choices: RAID (default). IDE DMA Transfer Access The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. IDE Channel 0/1 The motherboard chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support for two IDE channels.
  • Page 21 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual VIA OnChip PCI Device OnChip PCI Device If you highlight the literal “Press Enter” next to the “ ” label and then press the enter key, it will take you a submenu with the following options: VIA-3058 AC97 Audio This option allows you to control the onboard AC97 audio.
  • Page 22 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual USB Emulation Do not support any USB device on Dos The Choices: On (default), Off. USB Keyboard/ Mouse Support This item allows you to enable or disable the USB Keyboard/ Mouse Legacy Support. The Choices:Disabled (default), Enabled. Super IO Device Super IO Device If you highlight the literal “Press Enter”...
  • Page 23 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual UART Mode Select This item allows you to determine which Infra Red (IR) function of onboard I/O chip. The Choices: Normal (default), AS KIR, IrDA. UR2 Duplex Mode elect the value required by the IR device connected to the IR port. Full-duplex mode permits simultaneous two-direction transmission.

  • Page 24: Power Management Setup

    P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual 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 25 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual 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. Suspend Mode = 1 min.
  • Page 26 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual Initial display power management signaling. The Choices: Stop Grant, 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. Soft-Off by PWR-BTN Pressing the power button for more than 4 seconds forces the system to enter the Soft-Off state when the system has “hung.”...
  • Page 27 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual IRQ/Event Activity Detect IRQ/Event Activity Detect If you highlight the literal “Press Enter” next to the “ ” label and then press the enter key, it will take you a submenu with the following options: PS2KB Wakeup Select When select Password, please press Enter key to change password with a maximum of 8 characters.
  • Page 28 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual LPT & COM When this option is set to On, any event occurring at a COM(serial)/LPT (printer) port will awaken a system which has been powered down. The Choices: LPT/COM (default), COM, LPT, NONE. HDD & FDD When this option is set to On, any event occurring on a hard drive or a floppy drive will awaken a system which has been powered down.
  • Page 29 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual IRQs Activity Monitoring Press Enter to access another sub menu used to configure the different wake up events (i.e. wake on LPT & COMM activity). Primary INTR IRQ3 (COM2) Enabled IRQ4 (COM1) Enabled IRQ5 (LPT2) Enabled IRQ6 (Floppy Disk) Enabled IRQ7 (LPT1) Enabled...

  • Page 30: Pnp/Pci Configurations

    P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual 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 31 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual 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 signifies that a resource is assigned to the PCI Bus or provides for ISA PnP add-on cards and peripherals. The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled.
  • Page 32 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual Disabled (default) Disables the function. Enabled Enables the function. Assign IRQ For VGA This item allows the users to choose which IRQ to assign for the VGA. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. Assign IRQ For USB This item allows the users to choose which IRQ to assign for the USB. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled.

  • Page 33: Pc Health Status

    P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual 8 PC Health Status Figure 8. PC Health Status Shutdown Temperature This item allows you to set up the CPU shutdown Temperature. This item only effective under Windows 98 ACPI mode. CPU FAN Control By The Choice mart? Can make your SYS FAN to reduce noise. The Choices: SMART(default),always on.
  • Page 34 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual Chassis Open Warning This item allows you to enable or disable Chassis Open Warning beep. The Choices: Disabled (Default), Enabled.

  • Page 35: Frequency/ Voltage Control

    P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual 9 Frequency/ Voltage Control Figure 9. Frequency/ Voltage Control CPU CLOCK RATIO The Choices: 8X (default), 9X, 10X, 11X, 12X, 13X, 14 X, 15X, 16X, 17X, 18X, 19X, 20 X, 21 X, 22 X, and 23X. CPU Voltage Regulator This item allows you to select CPU Voltage Control.
  • Page 36 P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual CPU CLOCK This item allows you to select CPU Clock, and CPU over clocking. Special Notice: If unfortunately, the system’s frequency that you are selected is not functioning, there are two methods of booting-up the system. Method 1: Clear the COMS data by setting the JCOMS1 ((2-3) closed)) as “ON”...

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