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Biostar 945GC-M7TE | Bios Setup - Page 1
945GC-M7 TE 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 16 6 Power Management Setup 21 7 PnP/PCI Configurations 26 8 PC Health Status 28 9 Frequency/Voltage Control 30 i
Biostar 945GC-M7TE | Bios Setup - Page 2
945GC-M7 TE BIOS Setup Introduction This manual discussed Phoenix-Award™ Setup program built into the ROM BIOS. The Setup of an industry standard BIOS. This means that it supports Intel Pentium ® 4 processor input/output system. The BIOS provides critical low-level support for standard devices such
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945GC-M7 TE PCI Bus Support This PHOENIX-AWARD BIOS also supports Version 2.3 of the Intel PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) local bus specification. DRAM Support DDR2 SDRAM (Double Data Rate Two Synchronous DRAM) are supported. Supported CPUs This PHOENIX-AWARD BIOS supports the Intel CPU.
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945GC-M7 TE 1 Main Menu Once you enter Phoenix-Award BIOS™ CMOS Setup Utility, the Main Menu will appear on the screen. The Main Menu allows BIOS defaults on manual (Figure 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) is just for reference, please refer to the BIOS installed on board, for update information. „ Figure 1. Main
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945GC-M7 TE Integrated Peripherals This submenu allows you to configure certain IDE hard drive the voltage and clock may cause the CPU or M/B damage!) Load Optimized Defaults This selection allows you to reload the BIOS when the system is having problems particularly with the boot sequence. These
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945GC-M7 TE Set User Password If the Supervisor Password is not set, then the User Password will function in the same way Abandon all changes made during the current session and exit setup. message will be displayed before proceeding. confirmation Upgrade BIOS This submenu allows you to upgrade
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945GC-M7 TE 2 Standard CMOS Features The items in Standard CMOS Setup Menu are the value you want in each item. „ Figure 2. Standard CMOS 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
Biostar 945GC-M7TE | Bios Setup - Page 8
945GC-M7 TE Item SATA 1~4 device Drive A Drive B Halt On Base Memory Extended Memory Total 1.44M, 3.5 in 2.88M, 3.5 in None 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
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945GC-M7 TE 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 Min, 8 Min, 16 Min (default), 32 Min. 8
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945GC-M7 TE Thermal Management This option allows you to choose the thermal management method of your monitor. The Choices: Thermal Monitor 1 (default), Thermal Monitor2. Notes: The choices will be different according to your CPU features. TM2 Bus Ratio This option represents the frequency. (Bus
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945GC-M7 TE Hard Disk Boot Priority These BIOS attempt to arrange the Hard Disk boot sequence automatically. LS120, Hard Disk, CDROM, ZIP100, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM, LAN, Disabled. Boot Other Device When enabled, BIOS will try to load the operating system from other device when it failed to load
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945GC-M7 TE Report NO FDD for Win95 The Choices: NO (default), YES. 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
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945GC-M7 TE Typematic Delay (Msec) Sets the delay time after the main menu. APIC Mode Selecting Enabled enables APIC device mode reporting from the BIOS to the operating system. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. MPS Version Control For OS The BIOS supports version 1.1 and 1.4 of the Intel
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945GC-M7 TE 4 Advanced Chipset Features This submenu allows you to configure the specific number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing. The Choices: By SPD (default), Manual. CAS Latency Time When synchronous DRAM is installed, the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on
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945GC-M7 TE VGA Setting PEG/Onchip VGA Control This item allows you to enabled or disabled PEG/On-chip VGA controller. The Choices: Auto (default), Onchip VGA : Enabled (default), Disabled. Video BIOS Cacheable Select Enabled allows caching of the video BIOS, resulting a better system performance.
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945GC-M7 TE Memory Hole At 15M-16M You can reserve this area of system memory ), Enabled, Disabled. Onboard PCIE LAN This item allows you to control the onboard LAN. The Choices: Auto (default),Disabled. PCIE LAN Bootrom This item allows you to control the onboard LAN bootrom. The Choices: Disabled
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945GC-M7 TE 5 Integrated Peripherals „ Figure 5. Integrated Peripherals OnChip IDE Device If you highlight the literal "Press Enter" next to the "OnChip IDE Device" label and then press the enter key, it will take you a submenu with the following options: 16
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945GC-M7 TE IDE HDD Block Mode Block mode is also called block transfer, multiple commands, or multiple sector read / write. If your IDE hard drive supports block mode (most new drives do), select Enabled for automatic detection of the optimal number of block mode (most new drives do), select
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945GC-M7 TE PATA IDE Mode The Choices: Primary (default), Secondary. Onboard Device If you enable or disable EHCI controller only. This BIOS itself may/ may not have high speed USB support. If the BIOS has high speed USB support built in, the support will automatically turn on, when high speed
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945GC-M7 TE USB Mouse Support This item allows you to enable or disable the USB Mouse Legacy Support. Enabled Enable USB Mouse Support. Disabled (default) Disable USB Mouse Support. Onboard Azalia Audio This item allows you to decide to enable or disable to support HD Audio. The Choices: Auto
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945GC-M7 TE Parallel Port Mode The default value is SPP. The Choices: SPP (default) Using Parallel port as Standard Printer Port. EPP Using Parallel Port as Enhanced
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945GC-M7 TE 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 & Wake Up Events 21
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945GC-M7 TE ACPI Function This item displays the BIOS run VGA BIOS to initialize the VGA card when system wakes up from S3 state. The system time is shortened if you disable the function, but system will need AGP driver to initialize the card. So, if the AGP driver of the VGA card does not support
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945GC-M7 TE POWER ON Function This item allows you to choose the power on function. The Choices: Button Only (default), Password, Hot Key, Mouse Move/Click, Mouse
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945GC-M7 TE Power Management This category allows you to select the type (or degree) management. Suspend Mode = 1 hr. HDD Power Down = 15 min Max. Saving Maximum power management only available for sl CPU's. Suspend Mode = 1 min. HDD Power Down = 1 min. User Define (default) Allows you to set each
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945GC-M7 TE Suspend Mode The item allows you to select the suspend type under ACPI operating system. Off state when the system has "hung." The Choices: Delay 4 Sec, Instant-Off (default). HPET Support This item allows you to enable or disable HPET. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. HPET Mode
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945GC-M7 TE 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
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945GC-M7 TE . This is only configurable when "Resources Controlled By" is set to "Manual". IRQ-3 assigned to PCI Device IRQ-4 assigned to PCI Device IRQ-5 assigned 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.
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945GC-M7 TE 8 PC Health Status „ Figure 8. PC Health Status CPU FAN Control The Choice "smart" can make your CPU FAN to reduce noise. The Choices: Smart (default), Always On. CPU Fan Off If the CPU Temperature is lower than the set value, FAN will turn off. The Choices: Min=0,.Max=127, Key in a
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945GC-M7 TE SHUTDOWN TEMPERATURE This item allows you to set up the CPU shutdown Temperature. This item only effective under Windows 98 ACPI mode The Choices: 65OC/140OF, 70OC/149OF, 75OC/158OF, Disabled (default). SHOW H/W MONITOR IN POST
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945GC-M7 TE 9 Frequency/Voltage Control „ Figure 9. Frequency/Voltage Control CPU Clock Ratio This item allows you to select the CPU Ratio. Min = 8 Max = 50 Key in a DEC number. The Choices: 19X (default). CPU Clock This item allows you to select CPU Clock, and CPU over clocking. Min= 100 Max = 265
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945GC-M7 TE Memory Voltage The Choices:1.90V (default), 1.80V, 2.00V, 2.10V, 2.20V, 2.30V, 2.40V, 2.50V. Special the system according to FSB of the processor 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