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Biostar P4TDP Bios Setup Manual

Biostar P4TDP Bios Setup Manual

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P4TDP 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 .......................................................................... 20
7 PnP/PCI Configurations.............................................................................. 24
8 PC Health Status ......................................................................................... 27
9 Frequency Control ...................................................................................... 29
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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    P4TDP 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 ................20 7 PnP/PCI Configurations................

  • Page 2: Bios Setup

    P4TDP 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 P4TDP 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 DRAM (Double Data Rate Synchronous DRAM) are supported. Supported CPUs ® This AWARD BIOS supports the Intel Pentium 4 CPU.

  • Page 4: Main Menu

    P4TDP 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 P4TDP 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 P4TDP BIOS Setup Save & Exit Setup Save all configuration changes to CMOS(memory) and exit setup. Confirmation message will be displayed before proceeding. Exit Without Saving Abandon all changes made during the current session and exit setup. Confirmation message will be displayed before proceeding.

  • Page 7: Standard Cmos Features

    P4TDP 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 P4TDP 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 P4TDP 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

    P4TDP 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 P4TDP BIOS Setup First /Second/Third/ Boot Other Device These BIOS attempt to load the operating system from the devices in the sequence selected in these items. The Choices: Floppy, LS120, HDD-0, SCSI, CDROM, HDD-1, HDD-2, HDD-3, ZIP100, LAN, Disabled, Enabled.
  • Page 12 P4TDP BIOS Setup Security Option This option will enable only individuals with passwords to bring the system online and/or to use the CMOS Setup Utility. System A password is required for the system to boot and is also required to access the Setup Utility.

  • Page 13: Advanced Chipset Features

    P4TDP 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 P4TDP BIOS Setup Active to Precharge Delay This item controls the number of DRAM clocks to activate the precharge delay. 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.
  • Page 15 P4TDP BIOS Setup Memory Hole At 15M-16M You can reserve this area of system memory for ISA adapter ROM. When this area is reserved it cannot be cached. The user information of peripherals that need to use this area of system memory usually2 discussed their memory requirements.

  • Page 16: Integrated Peripherals

    P4TDP BIOS Setup 5 Integrated Peripherals Figure 5. Integrated Peripherals IDE DMA transfer access The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. On-Chip Primary / Secondary PCI IDE The integrated peripheral controller contains an IDE interface with support for two IDE channels. Select Enabled to activate each channel separately.
  • Page 17 P4TDP BIOS Setup IDE Primary / Secondary Master / Slave UDMA Ultra DMA/100 functionality 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 OSR2 or a third party IDE bus master driver).
  • Page 18 P4TDP BIOS Setup POWER ON Function This item allows you to Power on the system by Keybord and Mouse . The Choices: Password , Hot KEY , Mouse Move , Mouse Click , Any KEY , BUTTON ONLY(default) , Keyboard 98 KB Power on Possword Input password and press Enter to set the Keyboard power on password .
  • Page 19 P4TDP 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. SPP (default) Using Parallel Port as Standard Printer Port.
  • Page 20 P4TDP BIOS Setup Game Port Address Game Port I/O Address. The Choices: 201 (default), 209, Disabled. Midi Port Address Midi Port Base I/O Address. The Choices: 330 (default), 300, Disabled. Midi Port IRQ This determines the IRQ in which the Midi Port can use.

  • Page 21: Power Management Setup

    P4TDP 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 22 P4TDP BIOS Setup after S3 . The Choices:Auto (default), Yes, No. 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. Doze Mode.
  • Page 23 P4TDP BIOS Setup Initial display power management signaling. Video Off In Suspend This determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked. The Choices: Yes (default), No. Suspend Type Select the Suspend Type. The Choices: Stop Grant (default), PwrOn Suspend.
  • Page 24 P4TDP BIOS Setup Wake Up On LAN To use this function, you need a LAN add-on card which support power on function. It should also support the wake-up on LAN jumper. The Choices: Enabled, Disabled(default). Resume by Alarm This function is for setting date and time for your computer to boot up. During Disabled, you cannot use this function.

  • Page 25: Pnp/Pci Configurations

    P4TDP 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 P4TDP 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 P4TDP BIOS Setup PCI / VGA Palette Snoop Choose Disabled or Enabled. Some graphic controllers which are not VGA compatible take the output from a VGA controller and map it to their display as a way to provide boot information and VGA compatibility.

  • Page 28: Pc Health Status

    P4TDP 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: 60 C/140 F, 65...
  • Page 29 P4TDP BIOS Setup Current CPU FAN Speed This field displays the current CPUFAN speed. Show H/W Monitor in POST If you computer contain a monitoring system, it will show PC health status during POST stage. The item offers several delay time to select you want.

  • Page 30: Frequency Control

    P4TDP BIOS Setup 9 Frequency Control Figure 9. Frequency Control CPU Clock Ratio This item allows you to select the CPU Ratio. CPU Voltage This item allows you to select CPU Voltage Regulator. The Choices: Default (default), +1.7％, +3.45％, +5.1％.
  • Page 31 P4TDP BIOS Setup 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” status. All the CMOS data will be loaded as defaults setting.

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