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  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 1
    Table of Contents BIOS Setup 1 1 Main Menu 3 2 Standard CMOS Features 6 3 Advanced BIOS Features 8 4 Advanced Chipset Features 12 5 Integrated Peripherals 15 6 Power Management Setup 22 7 PnP/PCI Configurations 27 8 PC Health Status 30 9 Frequency Control 31
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 2
    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup BIOS SETUP Introduction This manual discussed 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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    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup DRAM Support DDR DRAM (Double Data Rate Synchronous DRAM) are supported. Supported CPUs This AWARD BIOS supports the Intel Pentium ® 4 CPU. Using Setup In general, you use the arrow keys to highlight items, press to select, use the and
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 4
    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 1 Main Menu Once you enter Award BIOS™ CMOS Setup Utility, the Main Menu will appear on the screen. WARNING The information about 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. The
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 5
    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 1.6 PNP/PCI CONFIGURATIONS This submenu allows you to configure certain damage!) 1.8 LOAD OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS This selection allows you to reload the BIOS when the system is having problems particularly with the boot sequence. These configurations are factory settings optimized for
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    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 1.11 SAVE & EXIT SETUP Save all configuration changes to CMOS(memory) and exit setup. Confirmation message will be all changes made during the current session and exit setup. Confirmation message will be displayed before proceeding. UPGRADE BIOS This submenu allows you to upgrade
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 7
    I86PE-A7 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 or keys to select the value you want in each item. 6
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 8
    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 2.1 MAIN MENU SELECTIONS This table shows the selections that you can make on . CGA 40 CGA 80 MONO Halt On All Errors No Errors Select the situation in which you want the BIOS to stop All, but Keyboard All, but Diskette the POST process and notify you. All, but Disk/
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    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 3 Advanced BIOS Features 3.1 BOOT SEQ & FLOPPY SETUP 3.1.1 First/ Second/ Third/ Boot Other Device These BIOS attempt to load the operating system from the device in the sequence selected in these items. The Choices: Floppy, LS120, HDD-0, SCSI, CDROM, HDD-1, HDD-2,
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    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 3.2 CACHE SETUP CPU L1&L2 Cache Depending on the CPU/chipset 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. Enabled Virus protection is activated. Disabled
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    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 3.5 HYPER-THREADING TECHNOLOGY This option allows you to enable or disabled Hyper-Threading Technology. "Enabled" for Windows XP and Linux 2.4.x (OS optimized for Hyper-Threading Technology). "Disable" for other OS (OS not optimized for Hyper-Threading Technology). The Choices:
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    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 3.11 TYPEMATIC DELAY (MSEC) Sets the delay time after the key ), Disabled. 3.14 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
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 13
    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 4 Advanced Chipset Features This submenu allows you to configure the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing. The Choices: By SPD (default), Manual. 4.2 CAS LATENCY TIME When synchronous DRAM is installed, the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends
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    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 4.4 DRAM RAS# TO CAS# DELAY This field let you insert a Frequency. The Choices: Auto (default), DDR266, DDR300, DDR400. 4.7 SYSTEM BIOS CACHEABLE Selecting Enabled allows you caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h~FFFFFh, resulting a better system performance. However, if any
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 15
    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 4.9 MEMORY HOLE AT 15M-16M You can reserve this area of system memory for ISA adapter ROM. When this 4, 8, 16, 32, 128 (default), 256. 4.12 INIT DISPLAY FIRST This item allows you to decide to active whether PCI Slot or on-chip VGA first. The Choices: AGP (default), PCI Slot. 14
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 16
    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 5 Integrated Peripherals 5.1 ONBOARD IDE DEVICE 5.1.1 IDE HDD Block Mode Block mode is also called block transfer, multiple commands, or multiple sector read / write. If your IDE hard drive supports Enabled (default), Disabled. 5.1.3 On-Chip Primary/ Secondary PCI IDE This item
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 17
    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 5.1.4 Primary / Secondary /Master / Slave PIO The IDE PIO (Programmed Input / Output) fields let you set a PIO mode (0-4) for each of the IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports. Modes 0 to 4 will increase performance progressively. In Auto mode, the system
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    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 5.2 ONBOARD DEVICE 5.2.1 USB Controller Select Enabled if your system Legacy Support. Enabled Enable USB Keyboard/Mouse Support. Disabled (default) Disable USB Keyboard/Mouse Support. 5.2.4 AC'97 Audio/ Modem This item allows you to decide to enable/ disable to support
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 19
    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 5.2.8 Onboard LAN Boot ROM Decide whether to invoke the boot ROM of the onboard LAN chip. The Choices: Disabled, Enable (default). 18
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 20
    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 5.3 SUPER IO DEVICE 5.3.1 Power On Function This item allows you to choose the power on function. The Choices: Button Only (default), Password, Hot Key,
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    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 5.3.7 UART Mode Select This item allows you to determine which Infrared (IR) function of onboard I/O chip. The Choices: Normal (default), ASKIR, IrDA, SCR. 5.3.8 UR2 Duplex Mode Select the value required by the IR device connected to the IR port. Full-duplex
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    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 5.3.12 Power After Power Fail This setting specifies whether your system will reboot after a power fail or interrupts occurs. Off Leaves the computer in
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 23
    I86PE-A7 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. 6.1
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    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 6.3 RUN VGABIOS IF S3 RESUME Choosing Enabled will make 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
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 25
    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 6.4 VIDEO OFF METHOD This option determines the manner in which the monitor is goes blank. V/H SYNC+Blank This selection will cause the system to
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 26
    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 6.10 SOFT-OFF BY PWR-BTTN Pressing the power button for more than 4 seconds forces the system to enter the Soft-Off state when
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 27
    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 6.15 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
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 28
    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 7 PnP/ default settings. 7.1 RESET CONFIGURATION DATA The system BIOS supports the PnP feature that requires the system to record " mode. 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
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 29
    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 7.2 RESOURCES CONTROLLED BY By Choosing "Auto (ESCD)" (default), the system BIOS will detect the system resources and automatically assign the relative IRQ and DMA channel for each peripheral. By Choosing "Manual", the user will need to assign IRQ & DMA for add-on cards. Be sure
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 30
    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 7.4 PCI / VGA PALETTE SNOOP Choose Disabled or Enabled. Some graphic controllers that are not VGA compatible take the output from a VGA controller and map
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 31
    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 8 PC Health Status 8.1 SHUTDOWN TEMPERATURE This item allows you to set up the CPU shutdown Temperature. This item only effective under Windows 98 ACPI
  • Biostar I86PE-A7 | I86PE-A7 BIOS guide - Page 32
    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 9 Frequency Control 9.1 CPU CLOCK RATIO The Choices: 8X (default), 9X, 10X, 11X, 12X, 13X, 14 X, 15X, 16X, 17X, 18X, 19X, 20 X, 21 X, 22 X, 23 X. 9.2
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    I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 9.6 CPU CLOCK This item allows you to select CPU Clock, and CPU key until the power-on screen showed. This action will boot-up 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
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Table of Contents
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Main Menu
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Standard CMOS Features
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Advanced BIOS Features
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Advanced Chipset Features
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Integrated Peripherals
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Power Management Setup
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PnP/PCI Configurations
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PC Health Status
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Frequency Control
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