Biostar TFORCE 945P BIOS SETUP MANUAL
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- Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 1
TForce 945P BIOS Setup...1 1 Main Menu ...3 2 Standard CMOS Features 6 3 Advanced BIOS Features 9 4 Advanced Chipset Features 16 5 Integrated Peripherals 18 6 Power Management Setup 25 7 PnP/PCI Configurations 31 8 PC Health Status 33 9 Over Clock Navigator Engine 35 - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 2
TForce 945P BIOS Manual BIOS Setup Introduction This manual discussed Award™ Setup program built into the ROM BIOS. The Setup program allows users industry standard BIOS. This means that it supports Intel Pentium ® 4 processor input/output system. The BIOS provides critical low-level support for - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 3
TForce 945P BIOS Manual 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 CPU. Using - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 4
TForce 945P BIOS Manual 1 Main Menu Once you enter Award BIOS™ CMOS Setup Utility, the Main Menu will appear 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. „ Figure 1. Main - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 5
TForce 945P BIOS Manual This selection allows you to reload the BIOS when the system is having problems particularly with the boot sequence. These prompted with to enter a password. Set User Password If the Supervisor Password is not set, then the User Password will function in the same way as - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 6
TForce 945P BIOS Manual Save & Exit Setup Save all configuration changes to CMOS(memory) and exit setup. displayed before proceeding. Integrate Flashing Program This is a very safe way to upgrade BIOS. By pressing "Enter" key for three times, and the upgrading process will be completed easily. 5 - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 7
TForce 945P BIOS Manual 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 - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 8
TForce 945P BIOS Manual 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 - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 9
TForce 945P BIOS Manual Item Halt On Base Memory Extended Memory Total Memory Options All Errors No Errors All, but Keyboard All, but Diskette All, but Disk/ Key N/A N/A N/A Description Select the situation in which you want the BIOS to stop the POST process and notify you. Displays the amount of - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 10
TForce 945P BIOS Manual 3 Advanced BIOS Features „ Figure 3. Advanced BIOS Setup 9 - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 11
TForce 945P BIOS Manual CPU Feature Delay Prior to Thermal Set this item to enable the CPU Thermal function to engage after the default), Thermal Monitor2. Notes: The choices will be different according to your CPU features. TM2 Bus Ratio Represents the frequency. Bus ratio of the throttled - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 12
TForce 945P BIOS Manual C1E Function CPU C1E Function select. The Choices: Auto (default),Disabled Execute Disable Bit by vanderpool Technology. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled Cache Setup CPU L3 Cache Depending on the CPU/chipset in use, you may be able to increase memory access time - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 13
TForce 945P BIOS Manual Boot Seq & Floppy Setup Hard Disk Boot Priority These BIOS attempt to load the operating system from the device in the sequence selected in these items. The Choices: Pri. Master, Pri.Slave, Sec.Master, Sec. Slave, USBHDD0, USBHDD1, USBHDD2 and Bootable Add-in Carde. 12 - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 14
TForce 945P BIOS Manual 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,HDD-3, ZIP100, LAN, Disabled, Enabled. Swap Floppy Drive For systems - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 15
TForce 945P BIOS Manual Gate A20 Option Select if chipset or keyboard controller should default), Disabled. 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. - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 16
TForce 945P BIOS Manual Full Logo Display This item allows you to select whether the "Full Logo" shows. Enabled (default) "Small Logo" shows when system boot up. Disabled No " - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 17
TForce 945P BIOS Manual 4 Advanced Chipset Features This submenu allows you to Sec (default), 3 to 4 Sec, 2 to 3 Sec ,1 to 2Sec. System BIOS Cacheable Selecting Enabled allows you caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h~FFFFFh, resulting a better system performance. However, if any program writes - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 18
TForce 945P BIOS Manual The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled. 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 - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 19
TForce 945P BIOS Manual 5 Integrated Peripherals „ Figure 5. Integrated Peripherals 18 - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 20
TForce 945P BIOS Manual Onchip IDE Device 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 - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 21
TForce 945P BIOS Manual Mode4. On-chip Secondary PCI IDE This item allows you to enable or disable the primary/ secondary IDE Channel. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. IDE Primary/Secondary/Master/Slave UDMA Ultra DMA/100 functionality can be implemented if it is supported by the IDE hard - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 22
TForce 945P BIOS Manual Onboard Device USB Controller Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus (USB) controller and you have USB peripherals. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled USB 2.0 Controller This entry is to enabled/ disabled EHCI controller only. This BIOS itself - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 23
TForce 945P BIOS Manual Onboard RAID This item allows you to enable or disable to support Onboard RAID (ITE8211). The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. Onboard RAID BIOS This item allows you to enable or disable to Onboard RAID BIOS. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. Onboard - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 24
TForce 945P BIOS Manual Super I0 Device If you highlight the literal "Press Enter" next to the "Super IO Device" label and then press the enter key, it will - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 25
TForce 945P BIOS Manual ECP Mode Use DMA Select a DMA Channel for the port. The Choices: 3 (default), 1. POWER After PWR-Fail This setting specifies whether your system will reboot - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 26
TForce 945P BIOS Manual 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 25 - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 27
TForce 945P BIOS Manual ACPI & Wake Up Events ACPI Function 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 - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 28
TForce 945P BIOS Manual Wake-Up by PCI card When you select "Enable", a PME signal from PCI card returns the system to Full On state. The Choices: Enabled, Disabled ( - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 29
TForce 945P BIOS Manual Reload Timer Events Primary/Secondary IDE 0/1 You can select to enable or disable Primary or Secondary RAID 0 or RAID 1 function under this item. The Choices: - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 30
TForce 945P BIOS Manual Power Management This category allows you to select the Down = 15 min Max. Power 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 mode individually. When not disabled, each - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 31
TForce 945P BIOS Manual 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. Suspend Mode The item allows - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 32
TForce 945P BIOS Manual 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 - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 33
TForce 945P BIOS Manual This submenu will allow you to assign each system interrupt a you to configure the system interrupts. 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 to PCI Device IRQ-7 - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 34
TForce 945P BIOS Manual 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. Shutdown Temperature This item allows you to set up the CPU shutdown Temperature. This item only effective under - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 35
TForce 945P BIOS Manual Current CPU Temp This field displays the current temperature of CPU. Current CPU FAN Speed This field displays the current speed of CPU fan. Current SYS FAN Speed This field displays the current speed SYSTEM fan. 34 - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 36
TForce 945P BIOS Manual 9 Over Clock Navigator Engine Automate Overclock System A.O.S. is designed for beginners in overclock field. Based on many test and experiments from BET, A.O.S. provide 3 default overclock configurations that are able to raise the system performance. z V6 Tech Engine: 35 - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 37
TForce 945P BIOS Manual z V8 Tech Engine This setting will raise about 15%~25% of whole system performance. 36 - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 38
TForce 945P BIOS Manual z V12 Tech Engine This setting will raise about 25%~30% of whole system performance. 37 - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 39
TForce 945P BIOS Manual Manual Overclock System (M.O.S.) MOS is designed for experienced overclock users. It allows users to customize personal overclock setting. CPU Voltage This item allows you to select CPU Voltage Control. TheChoices: StartUp (default) (Min=1.1000V, Max=2.0000V, with an interval - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 40
TForce 945P BIOS Manual System Memory Frequency This item allows you to select the HT Frequency. number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing. The Choices: By SPD (default), Manual. CAS Latency Time When DRAM is installed, the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 41
TForce 945P BIOS Manual The Choices: Auto (default), 2,3,4,5,6. DRAM RAS# Precharge If an insufficient number of cycle is allowed for RAS to accumulate its charge before DRAM refresh, the - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 42
TForce 945P BIOS Manual Integated Memory Test Integated Memory Test allows users to test memory compatibilities, and no extra devices or software are needed. Step 1: The default setting under this item is "Disable", the condition should be - Biostar TFORCE 945P | BIOS SETUP MANUAL - Page 43
TForce 945P BIOS Manual 10 CMOS Reload Program(C.R.P.) It allows users to save different CMOS settings into BIOS-ROM. Users are able to reload any saved CMOS setting to change system configurations. Moreover, users are able to save ideal overclock setting when under overclock operation. There are 50
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TForce 945P
BIOS Setup
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1 Main Menu
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2 Standard CMOS Features
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3 Advanced BIOS Features
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4 Advanced Chipset Features
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5 Integrated Peripherals
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6 Power Management Setup
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7 PnP/PCI Configurations
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8 PC Health Status
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9 Over Clock Navigator Engine
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10 CMOS Reload Program
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