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- Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 1
P4M80-M7 BIOS SETUP BIOS Setup 1 1 Main Menu 3 2 Standard CMOS Features 6 3 Advanced BIOS Features 9 4 Advanced Chipset Features 14 5 Integrated Peripherals 21 6 Power Management Setup 27 7 PnP/PCI Configurations 33 8 PC Health Status 36 9 Frequency/ Voltage Control 37 i - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 2
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 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 - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 3
P4M80-M7 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 AMD CPU. Using Setup In - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 4
P4M80-M7 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 P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 5
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual Power Management Setup This submenu allows you to configure the power management 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 - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 6
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual Set User Password If the Supervisor Password is not set, then will not be able to change them. 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 - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 7
P4M80-M7 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 P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 8
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual Main Menu Selections This table shows the selections that you can make on the Main Menu. 720K, 3.5 in Select the type of floppy disk drive installed in your system. 1.44M, 3.5 in 2.88M, 3.5 in None Video EGA/VGA CGA 40 Select the default video device. CGA 80 MONO 7 - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 9
P4M80-M7 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 P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 10
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 3 Advanced BIOS Features ! Figure 3. Advanced BIOS Setup 3.1 BIOS Write Protect 9 - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 11
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 3.2 CPU FEATURE 3.1.1 Delay Prior to Thermal Set this item to enable the CPU Thermal function to engage after the specified time. The Choices: 4, 8, 16 (default), 32. 3.1.2 Thermal Management Allow you to choose the thermal management method of your - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 12
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 3.3 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. 11 - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 13
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 3.4 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 - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 14
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 3.11 Swap Floppy Drive For systems with two floppy drives, this option allows you to swap logical drive assignments. The Choices:Disabled (default), Enabled. 3.12 - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 15
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 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. It also coordinates communications with the PCI bus. The default - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 16
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 4.1 DRAM Clock/Drive Control To control the Clock/Drive. If you Timing This item determines DRAM clock/ timing follow SPD or not. The Choices: Auto By SPD (default), Manual, Turbo, Ultra. 4.1.3 SDRAM CAS Latency When SDRAM is installed, the number of clock cycles of CAS latency - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 17
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 4.1.7 Active to CMD (Trcd) Use this item to specify the delay from the activation of a bank to the time that a read or write command is - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 18
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 4.2 AGP & P2P Bridge Control If you highlight the literal "Press Enter" Graphics Port (AGP) aperture. The aperture is a portion of the PCI memory address range dedicated for graphics memory address space. Host cycles that hit the aperture range are forwarded to the AGP - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 19
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 4.2.5 AGP Fast Write The Choices: Enabled, Disabled (default). 4.2.6 AGP Master 1 ), Enabled. 4.2.8 AGP 3.0 Calibration cycle The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled. 4.2.9 VGA Share Memory Size The Choices: 64M (default), Disabled. 4.2.10 Direct Frame Buffer The Choices: - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 20
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 4.3 CPU & PCI Bus Control If you highlight the literal "Press Enter" next to the "CPU & PCI Bus Control" label and then 32-bit posted write buffer to support delay transactions cycles. Select Enabled to support compliance with PCI specification. The Choices: Enabled (default), - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 21
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 4.4 Memory Hole When enabled, you can reserve an area of system memory for ISA adapter ROM. When this area is reserved, it cannot be cached. Refer to the user documentation of the peripheral you are installing for - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 22
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 5 Integrated Peripherals ! Figure 5. Integrated Peripherals 21 - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 23
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 5.1 VIA OnChip IDE Device The chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support for two IDE channels. Select "Enabled" to activate the first and / or second IDE interface. If you install a primary and / or secondary add-in IDE - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 24
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 5.1.5 IDE 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 through 4 provides successively increased performance. In Auto mode, the - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 25
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 5.2 VIA OnChip PCI Device If you highlight the literal "Press Enter" next to the "OnChip PCI Device" label and then press the enter key, it will take you a submenu with the following options: 5.2.1 VIA-3058 AC97 Audio This option allows you to control the onboard AC97 audio. - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 26
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 5.3 Super IO Device If you highlight the literal "Press Enter" next to the "Super IO Device" label and then press the enter key, it will - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 27
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 5.3.6 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/ - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 28
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 6 Power Management Setup The Power Management Setup Menu allows you to the ACPI operating system. The Choices: S1 (POS) (default) Power on Suspend S3 (STR) Suspend to RAM S1+S3 POS+STR 6.3 Power Management Option This category allows you to select the type (or degree) of - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 29
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual Max. Power Saving Maximum power management only available for sl CPU's. Suspend Mode = 1 Hour. 6.6 Video Off Option This field determines when to activate the video off feature for monitor power management. The Choices: Suspend→Off (default), Always on. 6.7 Video Off Method This - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 30
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 6.8 Modem Use IRQ This 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 - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 31
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 6.12 IRQ/Event Activity Detect If you highlight the literal " or disabled USB resume from S3. The Choices: Disabled (Default), Enabled. 6.12.5 VGA When set to On, any event occurring at a VGA Port will awaken a system which has been powered down. The Choices: Off (default), On - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 32
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 6.12.6 LPT & COM When this option is set to On, any event default), Off. 6.12.8 PCI Master When set to On, you need a LAN add-on card which supports the power function. It should also support the wake-up on LAN jump. The Choices: Off (default), On. 6.12.9 Power On by - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 33
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 6.12.14 IRQs Activity Monitoring Press Enter to access another sub menu used to configure the different wake up events (i.e. wake on LPT & COMM activity). - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 34
P4M80-M7 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 P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 35
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual Legacy is the term, which signifies that a resource is assigned to the ISA it should only snoop the data and 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. Unless you have the above situation, you - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 36
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 7.6 Assign IRQ For VGA This item allows the users to choose which IRQ to assign for the VGA. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. 7.7 Assign IRQ For USB This item allows the users to choose which IRQ to assign for the USB. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. 35 - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 37
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 8 PC Health Status ! Figure 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 mode. 8.2 CPU Vcore +3.3V, +5.0V, Voltage Battery Detect the system's voltage status automatically - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 38
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 9 Frequency/ Voltage Control ! Figure 9. Frequency/ Voltage 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, and 23X. 9.2 CPU Voltage Regulator This item allows you to select CPU Voltage Control. The - Biostar P4M80-M7 | P4M80-M7 BIOS guide - Page 39
P4M80-M7 BIOS Manual 9.5 CPU CLOCK This item allows you to select CPU Clock, and CPU over clocking. Special Notice: If unfortunately, the system's frequency that you are selected is not functioning, there are two methods of booting-up the system.
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P4M80-M7 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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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 Frequency/ Voltage Control
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