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Biostar P4TDH Bios Setup Manual

Biostar P4TDH Bios Setup Manual

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P4TDH 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 ................................................................................. 15
6 Power Management Setup .......................................................................... 19
7 PnP/PCI Configurations.............................................................................. 24
8 PC Health Status ......................................................................................... 27
9 Frequency Control ...................................................................................... 28
Special Feature: 9th Touch™ ........................................................30
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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    P4TDH 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 ................. 15 6 Power Management Setup ................19 7 PnP/PCI Configurations................

  • Page 2: Bios Setup

    P4TDH 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 P4TDH 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 Intel Pentium 4 CPU.

  • Page 4: Main Menu

    P4TDH 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 P4TDH BIOS Setup 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. PnP/PCI Configurations This submenu allows you to configure certain “Plug and Play” and PCI options.
  • Page 6 P4TDH 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

    P4TDH 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 P4TDH BIOS Setup Main Menu Selections This table shows the selections that you can make on the Main Menu. Item Options Description Date mm : dd : yy Set the system date. Note that the ‘Day’ automatically changes when you set the date.
  • Page 9 P4TDH BIOS Setup Item Options Description Halt On All Errors Select the situation in which No Errors you want the BIOS to stop All, but Keyboard the POST process and All, but Diskette notify you. All, but Disk/ Key Base Memory...

  • Page 10: Advanced Bios Features

    P4TDH BIOS Setup 3 Advanced BIOS Features Figure 3. Advanced BIOS Setup 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 11 P4TDH BIOS Setup Gate A20 Option Select if chipset or keyboard controller should control Gate A20. Normal A pin in the keyboard controller controls Gate A20. Fast (default) Lets chipset control Gate A20. Typematic Rate Setting When a key is held down, the keystroke will repeat at a rate determined by the keyboard controller.
  • Page 12 P4TDH BIOS Setup Small Logo(EPA) Show This item allows you to enable/ disable display the small EPA logo. The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled. Summary Screen Show This item allows you to enable/ disable display the Summary Screen Show. The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled.

  • Page 13: Advanced Chipset Features

    P4TDH 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 P4TDH BIOS Setup The Choices: 7 (default), 6, 5. DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay This field let you insert a timing delay between the CAS and RAS strobe signals, used when DRAM is written to, read from, or refreshed. Fast gives faster performance; and slow gives more stable performance.
  • Page 15 P4TDH BIOS Setup Delayed 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. AGP Aperture Size (MB) Select the size of the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) aperture. The apertures is a portion of the PCI memory address range dedicated for graphics memory address space.

  • Page 16: Integrated Peripherals

    P4TDH BIOS Setup 5 Integrated Peripherals Figure 5. Integrated Peripherals Onboard PCI LAN This item allows you to enable or disable Onboard PCI LAN. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. Onboard LAN Boot ROM This item allows you to enable or disable Onboard LAN Boot ROM.
  • Page 17 P4TDH BIOS Setup USB Keyboard Support The default value is Disabled. Enabled Enable USB Keyboard Support. Disabled (default) Disable USB Keyboard Support. AC97 Audio This item allows you to decide to enable/ disable to support AC97 Audio. The Choices: Auto (default), Disabled.
  • Page 18 P4TDH BIOS Setup UART Mode Select This item allows you to determine which Infra Red (IR) function of onboard I/O chip. The Choices: Normal (default), ASKIR, IrDA. UR2 Duplex Mode Select the value required by the IR device connected to the IR port. Full-duplex mode permits simultaneous two-direction transmission.
  • Page 19 P4TDH BIOS Setup IDE Device Control If you highlight the literal “Press Enter” next to the “IDE Device Control” lable and then press the enter key, it will take you a submenu with the following options: On-Chip Primary / Secondary PCI IDE This item allows you to enable/ disable On-Chip Primary PCI IDE The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled.

  • Page 20: Power Management Setup

    P4TDH 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 21 P4TDH BIOS Setup Power Management This category allows you to select the type (or degree) of power saving and is directly related to the following modes: 1.HDD Power Down. 2.Suspend Mode. There are four options of Power Management, three of which have fixed mode settings Min.
  • Page 22 P4TDH BIOS Setup Suspend Type Select the Suspend Type. 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 23 P4TDH BIOS Setup For example: If set to “Former-Sts” and AC power is lost when system is live, then after AC power is restored, the system will automatically power on. If AC power is lost when system is not live, system will remain powered off.
  • Page 24 P4TDH BIOS Setup Reload Global Timer Event Reload Global Timer Events are I/O events whose occurrence can prevent the system from entering a power saving mode or can awaken the system from such a mode. In effect, the system remains alert for anything, which occurs to a device, which is configured as Enabled, even when the system is in a power down mode.

  • Page 25: Pnp/Pci Configurations

    P4TDH 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 26 P4TDH BIOS Setup 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.
  • Page 27 P4TDH 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 28: Pc Health Status

    P4TDH BIOS Setup 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. The Choices: Disabled (default), 60 C/140...

  • Page 29: Frequency Control

    P4TDH BIOS Setup 9 Frequency Control Figure 9. Frequency Control CPU Clock Ratio This item allows you to select the CPU Ratio. Auto Detect PCI Clk This item allows you to enable / disable auto Detect PCI Clock. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled.
  • Page 30 P4TDH BIOS Setup ※ It’s strongly recommended to set CPU Vcore and clock in default setting. If the CPU Vcore and clock are not in default setting, it may cause CPU or M/B damage.

  • Page 31: Special Feature: 9Th Touch

    P4TDH BIOS Setup Special Feature: 9th Touch™ With 9th Touch function, you just only have to press on [F9] function key during P.O.S.T procedure to choose any device you like for booting your system. This way provides user-friendly operation without entering to BIOS Setup.

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