440BX TABLE OF CONTENTS MAINBOARD TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter & Section Page 1. INTRODUCTION ................1-1 OVERVIEW ..................... 1-1 MAINBOARD LAYOUT ............... 1-2 SPECIFICATIONS.................. 1-3 2. INSTALLATION ................2-1 UNPACKING ................... 2-1 AMAZING WAYS TO POWER ON THE PC SYSTEM....2-2 POWER OFF THE PC SYSTEM ............2-4 3.
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440BX MAINBOARD SOMETHING IMPORTANT ! ¶ TRADEMARKS All trademarks used in this manual are the property of their respective owners. ¶ LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS “LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS” is the function which will have the BIOS default settings loaded into the CMOS memory, these default settings are the best-case values which will optimize system performance and increase system stability This function will be necessitated when you receive this mainboard, or when the system CMOS data is corrupted.
OVERVIEW This Mainboard is a high performance personal computer mainboard. It is a Slot1, ATX form-factor mainboard with the Intel® 82440BX/ZX AGPset™ and Winbond® I/O chipset. There are the A.G.P. (Accelerated Graphics Port) and PCI Local Bus on the mainboard.. It is designed for 233MHz, 266MHz, 300 MHz, 333MHz, 350MHz, 366 MHz ,400MHz, 433MHz, 450MHz, 466MHz and 500MHz high performance Pentium™...
INTRODUCTION MAINBOARD SPECIFICATIONS ¥ CPU Intel® Pentium™ II or Celeron™ processor 233, 266, 300, 333. 350, 366, 400, 433, 450, 466 and up to 500MHz. ¥ CPU VCC Switching Voltage Regulator circuits on board, supports +1.80V DC through +3.5V DC CPU Core Voltage.
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¥ EXPANSION SLOTS AGP Slots One 32-bit AGP Slot (Supports 1x or 2x AGP graphics cards) PCI Slots Five 32bit PCI slots on BX mainboard (PT-6IBD and PT-6IBP). Four 32bit PCI slots on ZX mainboard (PT-6IZP) ISA Slots 16-bit x 2 (One of the slot is PCI/ISA shared) ¥...
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440BX INTRODUCTION MAINBOARD ¥ HARDWARE MONITORING (optional) Winbond W83783S (U17) is designed on the board to monitor hardware healthy status like system voltage, system temperature, and cooling fans. For example, when CPU temperature is too high, you will hear a series of beeping alarm and the CPU speed will be slowing down to throttling speed.
440BX INSTALLATION MAINBOARD 2. INSTALLATION UNPACKING The mainboard contains the following components. Please inspect the following contents and confirm that everything is there in the package. If anything is missing or damaged, call your supplier for instructions before proceeding. l This mainboard. l One USER‘S MANUAL.
440BX INSTALLATION MAINBOARD 2.2 AMAZING WAYS TO POWER ON THE PC SYSTEM When the mainboard has been installed successfully, there are several ways to power on the system. Please read the following description for all the details. POWER BUTTON The power button can be programmed by COMS setup program and it has different features.
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440BX INSTALLATION MAINBOARD ¨ PS/2™ MOUSE (LEFT OR RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON) If you have a PS/2™ mouse connected to the system, you may change the setup in the BIOS and use the mouse click to turn on the PC system power. Please refer to section 4.8 for the BIOS setting To use the mouse key to turn on the PC system power, the mouse click must be done quickly and continually.
440BX INSTALLATION MAINBOARD When you have a external modem installed, you can leave the PC system power off. Whenever there is the incoming message, the PC system will be triggered by the ring-in signal and wake up automatically to receive the message for you. From now on, you can tell your PC system to receive the fax message for you.
440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD 3. HARDWARE SETUP Before you can start to install this mainboard, some hardware settings is required to make sure it will work perfectly with the devices which you are going to install in your PC system. To configure the mainboard is a simple task, only a few jumpers, connectors, cables and sockets needs to be selected and configured.
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DRAM modules, but it will reduce the system performance because it is not optimized. According to what Intel suggested, the system board shall stop and not to continue when there is no SPD module can not be detected. However, this mainboard is downgrade compatible with the 66HMz processors.
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CN14 BIOS SPKR KBLOCK DIMM 1 DIMM 2 DIMM 3 DIMM 4 Picture of PT-6IBD DRAM subsystem BIOS CN14 SPKR KBLOCK DIMM 1 DIMM 2 DIMM 3 Picture of PT-6IBP DRAM subsystem BIOS...
440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD Picture of PT-6IZP DRAM subsystem In order to increase of the system performance, two suggestions are recommended when you are installing the DIMM modules : 1. Use the SDRAM module with SPD. 2. Always install DIMM module starting from DIMM 1 socket first, and then DIMM 2 and DIMM 3.
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440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (B) CN1: PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard Connector PS/2 Mouse Connector PS/2 Keyboard Connector BIOS CN14 SPKR KBLOCK Pin assignment of PS/2 mouse connector: Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name Mouse Data Ground Mouse Clock No Connection...
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440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD USB 1 USB 2 CN14 BIOS SPKR KBLOCK Pin assignment of USB connector: Pin1: +5VDC USB 1 USB 2 Pin2: DATA- Pin3: DATA+ Pin4: Ground Pin5: Ground Pin6: Ground (D) CN3 : COM A connector (E) CN7 : COM B connector COM A COM B CN14...
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440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name DCD (Data Carrier Detect) DSR (Data Set Ready) (Received Data) RTS (Request To Send) (Transmit Data) CTS (Clear To Send) DTR (Data Terminal Ready) (Ring Indicator) Ground I/O address 3F8H/2F8H/3E8H/2E8H, IRQ3/IRQ4, selected by CMOS setup.
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440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (F) CN4: ATX Power Connector CN14 BIOS SPKR KBLOCK ATX Power connector Pin assignment of ATX power connector 11 1 Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name + 3.3V DC + 3.3V DC - 12V DC + 3.3V DC Ground Ground...
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440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (G) CN6: Parallel Port Connector (Supports SPP/EPP/ECP modes, IRQ7 or IRQ5 is selectable, ECP mode will use either DMA channel 3 or channel 1 which can be selected by the CMOS setup probram) Parallel Port CN14 BIOS SPKR KBLOCK...
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440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD +12V Fan Sense Signal BIOS CN14 SPKR KBLOCK (I) CN9 : IDE 2 Connectors (Secondary IDE Port: 170H, IRQ 15) (J) CN10: IDE 1 Connectors (Primary IDE Port: 1F0H, IRQ 14) CN14 BIOS SPKR KBLOCK CN9: IDE 2 CN10: IDE 1 3-10...
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440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (K) CN11: Floppy Disk Control Port Connector (Using IRQ6, DMA channel 2) CN14 BIOS SPKR KBLOCK CN11: FDC Connector (L) CN12: WOL (Wake On LAN) Connector In order to use the WOL LAN card to trigger the power of the PC system, the switching power supply must be able to provide at least 700mA current driving ability on the “5V standby”...
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440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (M) CN13: SB-LINK Connector (For PCI bus sound cards. such as Creative™ Labs EMU8008 sound chip) CN 13 SB-LINK CN14 BIOS SPKR KBLOCK Pin assignment of SB-LINK Connector: Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name GNT# Ground REQ#...
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440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (O) CN15:IR / FIR (Infrared Rays) Connector Consumer IR Connector ( Consumer IR connector is active only when W83977CTF-AW I/O Chip is installed on position U11 ) BIOS CN14 SPKR KBLOCK IR/FIR (INFRARED RAYS) CONNECTOR CONSUMER IR CONNECTOR +5VDC +5VDC NO CONNECTION...
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440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD Reset Button Connector Pin # Signal name Pin1&2 Function Reset Control Open No action Ground Short System Reset IDE HDD LED Connector Pin # Signal name + 5V DC Pull-up HDD Active Signal Sleep LED Connector This LED will be lightened when the AC power is connected and the system is power off, darkened when the AC power is disconnected or the system is powered on.
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440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD b. When the system is in Suspend mode : b-1. Click on this switch ( less than 4 seconds ), the system will return to Full-ON mode. b-2. Press and hold this switch more than 4 seconds, the system will be powered off.
440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (R) PWR-LED & KBLOCK: Front Panel Power LED and Key-Lock Connector Pin # Signal name Pullup (+ 5V DC for Power LED) No Connection Ground Keyboard Lock Ground 3.4 JUMPERS This section will discuss the jumper setting on the mainboard. In order to let you have better idea of the jumper setting, please see below for the explanation of jumper settings before you start this section.
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440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD This jumper allows you to Enable / Disable the Keyboard OnNow function. When enabled, you may use keyboard or PS/2 mouse key click to power on the PC system: CN 1 JP100 CN14 BIOS SPKR KBLOCK Pin1 &...
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440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (C) JP5, JP6, JP7 and JP8: CPU Speed Selection CN14 BIOS SPKR KBLOCK JP 5 JP 6 JP 7 JP 8 JP5, JP6 JP7 and JP8: These jumpers allow you to select CPU clock ratio . CPU (MHz) CLK Ratio 233, 350...
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440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (D) JP10: CPU Voltage Range Selection (Optional) JP10 is a special design on the mainboard which allows you to select the CPU voltage range (Vcore) for the Pentium II/III processors. The voltage regulator on the mainboard will generate 1.3V ~ 3.5V DC to support different processors.
440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (E) JP100: Over Clock Selection JP100 is designed on the board for some special purpose. (Please do not attempt to change this setting unless you are the technician). Please refer to the following for functional description.. CN 1 JP100 CN14...
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440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD Celeron™ Processor: The clock ratio is fixed in Celeron™ processor, so we will be unable to select other clock ratio for the Celeron™ processor. In other word, the jumper setting on JP5 ~ JP8 will make no change on the clock ratio. Once we have installed the Celeron™...
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440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD For example, if you are installing the 400MHz Pentium™ II processor onto the mainboard. Suppose that you have known that the FSB clock for Pentium™ II-400 processor is 100MHz. Now you may introduce these parameters into the formula and get: 400MHz(CPU Frequency) ÷...
98. This driver is designed for Windows 95 and Windows NT only) Step 1. Insert the CD into the CD ROM drive. Step 2. Change the directory to "\Driver\mainboard\Intel\IDE Driver " Step 3. See "README.TXT" and choose the OS to install the device driver.
440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP 4.1 GETTING STARTED When the system is first time powered on or reset by user, the system BIOS will enter the Power On Self Test routines ( POST, which will display a copyright message on the screen and execute a diagnostics and initialization procedure.) In case that there is any error or malfunction detected, the BIOS will give a series of beeping sound or display the error message on screen.
440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.2 MAIN MENU ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SAVE &...
440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.4 STANDARD CMOS SETUP ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) STANDARD CMOS SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. Date (mm : dd : yy) : Mon, 20 1998 Time (hh : mm : ss : 16 : 03 : 33 HARD DISKS TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE Primary Master...
440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.5 BIOS FEATURES SETUP ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) BIOS FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. Virus Warning Disabled Video BIOS Shadow : Enabled CPU Internal Cache : Enabled C8000-CBFFF Shadow : Disabled External Cache : Enabled CC000-CFFFF Shadow : Disabled...
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440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD CPU Internal Cache / External Cache : ( default setting: Enabled ) These fields allow you to turn on or turn off the Level 1 and Level 2 cache that built-in Pentium™ II or Celeron™ processors. CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking: ( default setting: Enabled ) This option will enable or disable the ECC checking on the CPU L2 cache.
440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD PCI/VGA Palette Snoop : ( default setting: Disabled ) Some display cards are non-standard VGA card (such as graphics accelerator or MPEG Card) which may not display color properly on your screen. “Enable” the setting in this field may correct this problem. Please leave it “Disabled” as the default setting shown above if you are using the normal display card.
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CPU Host/ PCI Clock: ( Default setting: “Default” ) This selection field is used to decide the CPU FSB clock. Basically, this mainboard is designed by Intel 440BX/ZX AGPset and it supports both the 100MHz and 66MHz FSB frequency. When you select “default” setting, the system BIOS will detect the CPU type and decide the FSB clock automatically.
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440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD The Parameters shown on the previous page are the default setting and they are the optimal values suggested for the chipset and CPU registers. These parameters may not be able to let you have the best performance, but it will let you have the best reliability.
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440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Memory Hole At 15M-16M: ( default setting : “Disabled” ) In order to improve performance, certain space in memory can be reserved for ISA cards. This memory must be mapped into the memory space below 16 MB. Enabled Memory hole supported.
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440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Auto Detect DIMM/PCI Clk: ( default setting : “Enable” ) When “Enabled” is selected, the mainboard will detect the presence of devices on DIMM and PCI slots. When there is no device presented, the clock on the related DIMM and PCI slot will be disabled to reduce the electro magnetic interference (EMI).
440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Current CPU Temperature: ( Valid when W83781D or W83783S is installed ) Current CHASSIS FAN Speed: ( Valid when W83781D or W83783S is installed ) Current CPU FAN Speed: ( Valid when W83781D or W83783S is installed ) System Voltages: ( Valid when W83781D or W83783S is installed ) These items shown above indicate the status of system healthy status.
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440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD WARNING : The selection fields on this screen are provided for the professional technician who can modify the Chipset features to meet some specific requirement. If you do not have the related technical background, do not attempt to make any change except the following items.
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440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Video Off Method: (Default setting: Blank screen ) When you are using the Green Monitor with your PC system, there are three modes selectable in this field to save the power energy This selection will cause the system to turn off the V/H SYNC+Blank vertical and horizontal synchronization ports and write blanks to the video buffer.
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440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Standby Mode: ( Default setting: Disable ) When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity, the fixed disk drive and the video would be shut off while all other devices still operate at full speed. Suspend Mode: ( Default setting: Disable ) When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity, all devices except the CPU will be shut off.
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440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Resume by Alarm : ( Default setting : “Disabled” ) When “Enabled”, the following two selection fields - “Date (of Month) Alarm” and “Time (hh:mm:ss) Alarm” will appear on the screen. You can use these two fields to set the date and time which you want to resume the system from Sleep or Suspend mode.
440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.8 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. IDE HDD Block Mode Enabled Onboard FDC Controller : Enabled IDE Primary Master PIO : Auto Onboard Serial Port 1 : 3F8/IRQ4 IDE Primary Slave PIO : Auto Onboard Serial Port 2...
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440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD This selection allows your hard disk controller to use the fast block mode to transfer data to and from your hard disk drive (HDD). IDE controller uses block mode. Enabled IDE controller uses standard mode. Disabled IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave PIO: ( Default setting : “Auto”...
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440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Select "Enabled" in this field will allow operation system to use the USB keyboard. If there is no USB keyboard connected to the PC system, leave it "Disabled". Onboard FDD Controller: ( Default setting : “Enabled” ) This should be enabled if your system has a floppy disk drive (FDD) installed on the system board and you wish to use it.
440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. PNP OS Installed Assign IRQ for VGA : Disabled Resources Controlled By : Manual Assign IRQ for USB : Enabled Reset Configuration Data : Disabled Used MEM base addr : N/A...
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440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Manual : The system BIOS will not refer to the ESCD data to assign IRQ & DMA. Instead, it will refer to the information recorded in this field when Assigning the IRQ & DMA resource. ( the system BIOS will always refer to the ESCE data to assign the I/O and memory space resources ).
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440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD The system’s IRQ signals are limited and sometimes you may feel like to some more IRQ signals for your add-on cards. The system BIOS allows you to disable the IRQ which is supposed to be connected to VGA and USB ports. When you have choose to disable the IRQ on VGA or USB port, the IRQ on the related IRQ will be released and becomes available for other devices.
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440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Used MEM base addr and Used MEM Length : These fields are used for some special ISA legacy cards which will request memory space below 1M address. Please refer to the user’s manual of your add on card to find whether it will need such memory space.
440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.10 LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SAVE &...
440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.11 SUPERVISOR PASSWORD / USER PASSWORD ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS...
440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.12 USER PASSWORD ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SAVE &...
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440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD B. When there is no password stored in the "SUPERVISOR PASSWORD" 1. When "Setup" is selected in Security Option: Users can use the "User Password" to log into the BIOS setup program, and they can make all the change in the BIOS setup program. 2.
440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.13 IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SAVE &...
440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.14 SAVE & EXIT SETUP / EXIT WITHOUT SAVING ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS...
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