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Biostar P4M900-M4 | Bios Setup - Page 1
P4M900-M4 BIOS Setup BIOS Setup 1 1 Main Menu 3 2 Standard CMOS Features 7 3Advanced BIOS Features 9 4 Advanced Chipset Features 17 5 Integrated Peripherals 21 6 Power Management Setup 27 7 PnP/PCI Configurations 32 8 PC Health Status 35 9 Performance Booster Zone 37 i
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P4M900-M4 BIOS Setup Introduction The purpose of this manual is to describe the settings in the Pheonix-Award™ BIOS Setup program on this motherboard. The Setup program allows users to modify the basic system configuration and save these settings to CMOS RAM. The power of CMOS RAM is supplied
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P4M900-M4 ACPI Support Pheonix-Award ACPI BIOS support Version 1.0b of Advanced Configuration and Power interface specification (ACPI). It provides ASL code for power management and device configuration capabilities as defined in the ACPI specification, developed by Microsoft, Intel and Toshiba.
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P4M900-M4 1 Main Menu Once you enter Pheonix-Award BIOS™ CMOS Setup Utility, the Main Menu will appear the BIOS firmware is being continuously updated. The BIOS information described in this manual (Figure 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) is for your reference only. The actual BIOS information and
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P4M900-M4 Advanced Chipset Features This submenu allows you to configure special chipset features. Integrated Peripherals This submenu clock improperly may damage the CPU or M/B!) Load Optimized Defaults This selection allows you to reload the BIOS when problem occurs during system booting sequence
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P4M900-M4 Set Supervisor Password Setting the supervisor password will prohibit everyone 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
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P4M900-M4 Upgrade BIOS This submenu allows you to upgrade bios. 6
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P4M900-M4 2 Standard CMOS Features The items in Standard CMOS Setup Menu are divided into several categories. Each category includes no, one or more than one setup
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P4M900-M4 Item IDE Channel 1 Master IDE Channel 1 Slave Drive A Drive B Halt On Base Memory Extended Memory Total Memory Options Options are in BIOS to stop the POST process and notify you. Displays the amount of conventional memory detected during boot up. Displays the amount of extended memory
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P4M900-M4 3Advanced BIOS Features „ Figure 3: Advanced BIOS Setup Boot Seq & Floppy Setup This item allows you to setup boot sequence & Floppy. 9
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P4M900-M4 Hard Disk Boot Priority The BIOS will attempt to arrange the Hard Disk boot Slave, USB HDD0, USB HDD1, USB HDD2, and Bootable Add-in Cards. First/Second/Third Boot Device The BIOS will attempt to load the operating system in this order. The Choices: Floppy, LS120, Hard Disk, CDROM, ZIP100
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P4M900-M4 Boot Up Floppy Seek When enabled, System will test the floppy drives to Setup This item allows you to setup cache & shadow setup. „ Figure 3.2: Shadow Setup Video BIOS Shadow Determines whether video BIOS will be copied to RAM for faster execution or not. Enabled (default) Optional ROM is
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Cache Setup P4M900-M4 CPU L1 & L2 Cache Depending on the CPU/chipset in use, you may be able to increase memory access time with this option. Enabled (default) Enable cache. Disab led Disable cache. CPU L3 Cache Depending on the CPU/chipset in use, you may be able to increase memory access
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CPU Feature P4M900-M4 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, 16Min (default), 32 Min. Thermal Management This option allows you to select the
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P4M900-M4 Limit CPUID MaxVal Set Limit CPUID MaxVal to 3, it should be "Disabled" for Windows XP. The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled. C1E Function This item allows you to configure the Enhanced Halt State (C1E) function, which may reduce the power consumption
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P4M900-M4 Quick Power On Self Test Enabling this option will cause an abridged version of the Power On Self-Test (POST) to execute after you power
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P4M900-M4 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: 1.4 (default), 1.1. OS Select For DRAM > 64MB A choice other than Non-OS2 is only used for
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P4M900-M4 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 settings that
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P4M900-M4 AGP & P2P Bridge Control Highlight "Press Enter" next to the "AGP & P2P Accelerated 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 without
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P4M900-M4 AGP Master 1 WS Read When enabled, read to the AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) are executed with one wait states. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. VGA Share Memory Size This item allows you to select the VGA share memory size. The Choices: 128M (default), 64M, 256M, Disabled
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P4M900-M4 PCI Delay Transaction The chipset has an embedded 32-bit posted write buffer to support delay transactions cycles. Select Enabled to support compliance with PCI specification. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. Vlink mode selection This item allows you to select Vlink mode. The
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P4M900-M4 5 Integrated Peripherals „ Figure 5. Integrated Peripherals VIA OnChip IDE Device Highlight the "Press Enter" label next to the "VIA OnChip IDE Device" label and press enter key will take you a submenu with the following options: 21
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P4M900-M4 SATA Controller This option allows you to enable the on-chip Serial ATA. access. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. On-chip IDE Channel 0/1 The motherboard chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support for two IDE channels. Select "Enabled" to activate the first and/or second
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P4M900-M4 Primary/Secondary Master/Slave UDMA Ultra DMA function can be implemented if it is supported by the IDE hard drives in your system. As well, your operating environment requires a DMA driver (Windows 95 or OSR2may need a third party IDE bus master driver). If your hard drive and your system
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P4M900-M4 LAN Controller This option allows you to control the onboard LAN. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled Lan Boot ROM Decide whether to invoke the boot
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P4M900-M4 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/
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P4M900-M4 USB 1.0/2.0 Controller These options allow you to enable or disable the USB 1.0/2.0 controller function. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. USB Operation Mode This option let you select the operation mode of USB function. The Choices: High Speed (default), Full/Low Speed. USB
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P4M900-M4 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.
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P4M900-M4 Power Management Option This category allows you to select the power saving method Suspend Mode = 1 hr. HDD Power 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) Allow you to set each
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P4M900-M4 Video Off Method This option determines the BIOS to initialize the VGA card when system wakes up from S3 state. The system resume 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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P4M900-M4 HPET Support This option allows you to disabled or enables the High Precision Event Timer. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. HPET Mode This option allows you to
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P4M900-M4 The Choices: Disabled (default), Ctrl+F1, Ctrl+F2. Ctrl+F3, Ctrl+F4, Ctrl function to work, you may need a LAN add-on card which supports the Wake on LAN function. Set the Wake on LAN (WOL) jumper on motherboard to enable if applicable. The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled. Modem Ring
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P4M900-M4 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 PnP operating system like Window™ 95. When set to NO, BIOS will initialize all the
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P4M900-M4 Init Display First This item allows you to decide to active whether PCI Slot or on-chip VGA first. The Choices: PCIEx(default), PCI Slot, Onboard, AGP. Reset Configuration Data The system BIOS supports the PnP feature which requires the system to record which resources are assigned and
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P4M900-M4 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 and then map it to their display as a way to provide boot information and VGA compatibility. This item allows such snooping to take place. The
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P4M900-M4 8 PC Health Status „ Figure 8: PC Health Status Shutdown Temperature This item allows you to set up the CPU shutdown Temperature. This item is only effective under Windows 98 ACPI mode. The Choices: 70℃/ 158℉, 75℃/ 167℉, 80℃/ 176℉, 85℃/ 185℉ (default). CPU Vcore, NB Vcore, +3.3V, +5.0V, +
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P4M900-M4 Current SYS FAN Speed This field displays the current speed SYSTEM fan. Show H/W Monitor in POST If you computer contains a monitoring system, it will show PC health status during POST stage. The item offers several different delay times. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. 36
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P4M900-M4 9 Performance Booster Zone „ Figure 9: Performance Booster Zone DRAM Clock/Drive Control This item controls the DRAM Clock. Highlight "Press Enter" next to the "DRAM Clock/
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P4M900-M4 DRAM Clock This item determines DRAM clock. The Choices: By SPD (default), 100MHz, 133MHz, 166MHz, 200MHz, 266MHz, 333MHz . DRAM Timing This item determines DRAM clock/ timing. The Choices: Auto by SPD (default), Manual, Turbo, Ultra. SDRAM CAS Latency When DRAM is installed, the number of
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P4M900-M4 ACT (0) to ACT (1) (tRRD) This item allows you to determine the selection for ACT (0) to ACT (1) (tRRD) The Choices: 3T (default). 1T CMD Support recommended to set CPU Vcore and clock in default setting. If the CPU Vcore and clock are not in default setting, it may cause CPU or M/B damage.
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P4M900-M4 Spread Spectrum This item allows you to enable/disable the Spread Spectrum function. The . The Choices: StartUp (default), +0.10V, +0.20V, +0.30V, +0.40V, +0.50V, +0.60V, +0.70V. CPU Voltage This item allows you to select CPU Voltage. The Choices: StartUp (default), +0.012V~+0.787V. 40