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Biostar P4M900-M4 Bios Setup Manual

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P4M900-M4 BIOS Setup
BIOS Setup ................................................................................................ 1
1 Main Menu ............................................................................................. 3
2 Standard CMOS Features..................................................................... 7
3Advanced BIOS Features ....................................................................... 9
4 Advanced Chipset Features................................................................. 17
5 Integrated Peripherals......................................................................... 21
6 Power Management Setup................................................................... 27
7 PnP/PCI Configurations...................................................................... 32
8 PC Health Status .................................................................................. 35
9 Performance Booster Zone.................................................................. 37
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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    P4M900-M4 BIOS Setup BIOS Setup ....................1 1 Main Menu ..................... 3 2 Standard CMOS Features..............7 3Advanced BIOS Features ............... 9 4 Advanced Chipset Features..............17 5 Integrated Peripherals................. 21 6 Power Management Setup..............27 7 PnP/PCI Configurations..............32 8 PC Health Status ..................

  • Page 2: Bios Setup

    P4M900-M4 BIOS Setup Introduction The purpose of this manual is to describe the settings in the Pheonix-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.

  • Page 3: Acpi Support

    P4M900-M4 ACPI Support Pheonix-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.

  • Page 4: Main Menu

    P4M900-M4 1 Main Menu Once you enter Pheonix-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>...

  • Page 5: Advanced Chipset Features

    P4M900-M4 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: Set Supervisor Password

    P4M900-M4 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 P4M900-M4 Upgrade BIOS This submenu allows you to upgrade bios.

  • Page 8: Standard Cmos Features

    P4M900-M4 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 P4M900-M4 Item Options Description Press <Enter> to enter the Options are in its sub IDE Channel 1 Master sub menu of detailed menu. options. Press <Enter> to enter the Options are in its sub IDE Channel 1 Slave sub menu of detailed menu.

  • Page 10: 3Advanced Bios Features

    P4M900-M4 3Advanced BIOS Features Figure 3: Advanced BIOS Setup Boot Seq & Floppy Setup This item allows you to setup boot sequence & Floppy.

  • Page 11: Hard Disk Boot Priority

    P4M900-M4 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. Master, Pri. Slave, Sec. Master, Sec. Slave, USB HDD0, USB HDD1, USB HDD2, and Bootable Add-in Cards.
  • Page 12 P4M900-M4 Boot Up Floppy Seek When enabled, System will test the floppy drives to determine if they have 40 or 80 tracks during boot up. Disabling this option reduces the time it takes to boot-up. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled.
  • Page 13 P4M900-M4 Cache Setup CPU L1 & L2 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. CPU L3 Cache Depending on the CPU/chipset in use, you may be able to increase memory access time with this option.

  • Page 14: Cpu Feature

    P4M900-M4 CPU Feature Delay Prior to Thermal Set this item to enable the CPU Thermal function to engage after the specified time. The Choices: 4 Min, 8 Min, 16Min (default), 32 Min. Thermal Management This option allows you to select the way to control the “Thermal Management.”...

  • Page 15: Virtualization Technology

    P4M900-M4 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 16: Quick Power On Self Test

    P4M900-M4 Quick Power On Self Test Enabling this option will cause an abridged version of the Power On Self-Test (POST) to execute after you power up the computer. Disabled Normal POST. Enabled (default) Enable quick POST. Boot Up NumLock Status Selects the NumLock State after the system switched on.

  • Page 17: Mps Version Control For Os

    P4M900-M4 MPS Version Control For OS The BIOS supports version 1.1 and 1.4 of the Intel multiprocessor specification. Select version supported by the operation system running on this computer. The Choices: 1.4 (default), 1.1. OS Select For DRAM > 64MB A choice other than Non-OS2 is only used for OS2 systems with memory exceeding 64MB.

  • Page 18: Advanced Chipset Features

    P4M900-M4 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: Agp & P2P Bridge Control

    P4M900-M4 AGP & P2P Bridge Control Highlight “Press Enter” next to the “AGP & P2P Bridge Control” label and pressing the enter key will take you a submenu with the following options: Figure 4.1: AGP & P2P Bridge Control AGP Aperture Size Select the size of the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) aperture.
  • Page 20 P4M900-M4 AGP Master 1 WS Read When enabled, read to the AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) are executed with one wait states. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. VGA Share Memory Size This item allows you to select the VGA share memory size.

  • Page 21: Memory Hole

    P4M900-M4 PCI Delay Transaction The chipset has an embedded 32-bit posted write buffer to support delay transactions cycles. Select Enabled to support compliance with PCI specification. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. Vlink mode selection This item allows you to select Vlink mode.

  • Page 22: Integrated Peripherals

    P4M900-M4 5 Integrated Peripherals Figure 5. Integrated Peripherals VIA OnChip IDE Device Highlight the “Press Enter” label next to the “VIA OnChip IDE Device” label and press enter key will take you a submenu with the following options:...

  • Page 23: Sata Controller

    P4M900-M4 SATA Controller This option allows you to enable the on-chip Serial ATA. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. SATA Controller Mode This option allows you to select SATA Mode. The Choices: RAID, IDE (default). IDE DMA Transfer Access This item allows you to enable or disable the IDE DMA transfer access.

  • Page 24: Via Onchip Pci Device

    P4M900-M4 Primary/Secondary Master/Slave UDMA Ultra DMA function can be implemented if it is supported by the IDE hard drives in your system. As well, your operating environment requires a DMA driver (Windows 95 or OSR2may need a third party IDE bus master driver). If your hard drive and your system software both support Ultra DMA, select Auto to enable BIOS support.

  • Page 25: Super Io Device

    P4M900-M4 LAN Controller This option allows you to control the onboard LAN. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled Lan Boot ROM Decide whether to invoke the boot ROM of the onboard LAN chip. The Choices: Disable (default), Enabled. Super IO Device Press Enter to configure the Super I/O Device.

  • Page 26: Usb Device Setting

    P4M900-M4 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 P4M900-M4 USB 1.0/2.0 Controller These options allow you to enable or disable the USB 1.0/2.0 controller function. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. USB Operation Mode This option let you select the operation mode of USB function. The Choices: High Speed (default), Full/Low Speed.

  • Page 28: Power Management Setup

    P4M900-M4 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 29: Power Management Option

    P4M900-M4 Power Management Option 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 30: Video Off Method

    P4M900-M4 Video Off Method This option determines the manner when the monitor goes blank. V/H SYNC+Blank (default) This selection will cause the system to turn off the vertical and horizontal synchronization ports and write blanks to the video buffer. Blank Screen This option only writes blanks to the video buffer.

  • Page 31: Wakeup Event Detect

    P4M900-M4 HPET Support This option allows you to disabled or enables the High Precision Event Timer. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. HPET Mode This option allows you to select the modes of the High Precision Event Timer. The Choices: 32-bit mode (default), 64-bit mode.

  • Page 32: Modem Ring Resume

    P4M900-M4 The Choices: Disabled (default), Ctrl+F1, Ctrl+F2. Ctrl+F3, Ctrl+F4, Ctrl+F5, Ctrl+F6, Ctrl+F7, Ctrl+F8, Ctrl+F9, Ctrl+F10, Ctrl+F11, Ctrl+F12, Power, Wake, Any Key. PS2MS Wakeup from S3/ S4/ S5 This item allows you to wake up from S3/ S4/ S5 with PS2 mouse.

  • Page 33: Pnp/Pci Configurations

    P4M900-M4 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 34: Init Display First

    P4M900-M4 Init Display First This item allows you to decide to active whether PCI Slot or on-chip VGA first. The Choices: PCIEx(default), PCI Slot, Onboard, AGP. Reset Configuration Data The system BIOS supports the PnP feature which requires the system to record which resources are assigned and protects resources from conflict.

  • Page 35: Irq Resources

    P4M900-M4 IRQ Resources This submenu will allow you to assign each system interrupt a type, depending on the type of device using the interrupt. When you press the “Press Enter” tag, you will be directed to a submenu that will allow you to configure the system interrupts.

  • Page 36: Pc Health Status

    P4M900-M4 8 PC Health Status Figure 8: PC Health Status Shutdown Temperature This item allows you to set up the CPU shutdown Temperature. This item is only effective under Windows 98 ACPI mode. The Choices: 70℃/ 158℉, 75℃/ 167℉, 80℃/ 176℉, 85℃/ 185℉ (default).
  • Page 37 P4M900-M4 Current SYS FAN Speed This field displays the current speed SYSTEM fan. Show H/W Monitor in POST If you computer contains a monitoring system, it will show PC health status during POST stage. The item offers several different delay times.

  • Page 38: Performance Booster Zone

    P4M900-M4 9 Performance Booster Zone Figure 9: Performance Booster Zone DRAM Clock/Drive Control This item controls the DRAM Clock. Highlight “Press Enter” next to the “DRAM Clock/Drive Control” label and pressing the enter key will take you a submenu with the following options:...
  • Page 39 P4M900-M4 DRAM Clock This item determines DRAM clock. The Choices: By SPD (default), 100MHz, 133MHz, 166MHz, 200MHz, 266MHz, 333MHz . DRAM Timing This item determines DRAM clock/ timing. The Choices: Auto by SPD (default), Manual, Turbo, Ultra. SDRAM CAS Latency When DRAM is installed, the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing.

  • Page 40: Cpu Clock

    P4M900-M4 ACT (0) to ACT (1) (tRRD) This item allows you to determine the selection for ACT (0) to ACT (1) (tRRD) The Choices: 3T (default). 1T CMD Support The Choices: Disable (default), Auto. DDR2 On Die Termination This option allows you to choose the working type of ODT.

  • Page 41: Spread Spectrum

    P4M900-M4 Spread Spectrum This item allows you to enable/disable the Spread Spectrum function. The Choices:+/- 0.25% (default), +/- 0. 5%, Disabled, -0.5%, -1.0%. DDR Voltage This item allows you to select DDR Voltage. The Choices: StartUp (default), +0.10V, +0.20V, +0.30V, +0.40V, +0.50V, +0.60V, +0.70V.

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