User manual ABIT SI7

[. . . ] SI7 Series (SI7, SI7-G) Socket 478 System Board User's Manual 4200-0346-02 Rev. 1. 00 Copyright and Warranty Notice The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on part of the vendor, who assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors that may appear in this manual. No warranty or representation, either expressed or implied, is made with respect to the quality, accuracy or fitness for any particular part of this document. In no event shall the manufacturer be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages arising from any defect or error in this manual or product. [. . . ] [Yes]: This option allows the system to boot up to an OS/2 environment when more than 64 MB of system memory is installed. User's Manual · 3-8 Chapter 3 System BIOS Cacheable: Enabling the System BIOS cache will allow accesses to the system BIOS ROM addressed at F0000H-FFFFFH, if the cache controller is enabled. The larger the range of the Cache RAM, the higher the efficiency of the system will be. Video BIOS Cacheable: Enabling the Video BIOS cache will allow access to the video BIOS addressed at C0000H to C7FFFH to be cached, if the cache controller is enabled. The larger the range of the Cache RAM, the faster the video performance will be. 3-4. Advanced Chipset Features DRAM Data Integrity Mode: This item selects the type of DRAM in your system. Synchronous Mode Select: This item selects the Synchronous mode of the signal between CPU and RAM for system performance. SI7 Series BIOS Setup 3-9 RAMBUS TDSEL Turbo Mode: Leave this item to its default setting. Graphic Win Size: This item specifies the amount of system memory that can be used by AGP card. AGP Fast Write: If your AGP card supports this "Fast Write" function, this option will increase your system performance by selecting [Enabled], but it may also decrease system compatibility. AGP Capability: This item selects the proper AGP data transfer rate for your AGP card. Post Write Combine: While as the AGP command is usually executed one by one, this item selects executing the AGP command together. No Mask for SBA FE: This item selects masking the AGP calibrating signal for certain VGA cards. Hyper-Threading Technology Leave this item to its default setting to enable the simultaneous multi-threaded (SMT) processor so as to make one physical processor looks like two logical processors to the OS and applications. For more information on "Hyper-Threading Technology", please visit Intel Web site at http://www. intel. com/homepage/land/hyperthreading. htm , http://www. intel. com/design/chipsets/ht/. APIC Select: · · [Enabled]: The APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) mode will expand available IRQs resources for the system. [Disabled]: The system will use the default PCI IRQs for all devices, and will not increase the number of PCI IRQs. NOTE: Assume you enable this item first before installing Windows® 2000 or Windows® XP operating system, disabling this item and then reboot the system will cause the system hang. You have to change this option to [Enabled] to make your system back to normal. User's Manual 3-10 Chapter 3 MPS Revision: This option specifies which version of MPS (Multi-Processor Specification) this motherboard will use. Select [1. 1] when using an older operating system for dual processor executing. Auto Turn Off Pci Clock Pin: This item turns off the PCI clock that is not in use. Power Management Features ACPI Standby State: This item selects the type of Suspend mode. [. . . ] Your reseller should be very familiar with your system configuration and should be able to solve your problem much more efficiently than we could. After all, your reseller regards you as an important customer who may purchase more products and who can urge your friends to buy from him or her as well. They should know best what your system configuration is and your problem. If you feel that you need to contact ABIT directly you can send email to the ABIT technical support department. [. . . ]