User manual BIOSTAR A785GE BIOS MANUAL

[. . . ] A780GE/A760GE/A780LE/A785GE BIOS Manual BIOS Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 Main Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 Advanced Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3 PCIPnP Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4 Boot Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 5 Chipset Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 6 Performance Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 7 Exit Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 i A780GE/A760GE/A780LE/A785GE BIOS Manual BIOS Setup Introduction T he purpose of this manual is to describe the settings in the AMI BIOS Setup program on this motherboard. The Setup program allows users to modify the basic system configuration and save these settings to CMOS RAM. T he power of CMOS RAM is supplied by a battery so that it retains the Setup information when the power is turned off. Basic Input-Output System (BIOS) determines what a computer can do without accessing programs from a disk. [. . . ] Clear NVRAM Plug & Play O/ S PCI Latency Ti mer Allocate IRQ t o PCI VGA Palette Snoopi ng PCI IDE BusMas ter > PCI Resource > PCI Express Configuration [No] [No] [64] [Yes ] [Dis abled] [Ena bled] Clear NVRAM during System Boot. +F1 F10 ESC S elect Screen S elect Item C hange Option G eneral Help S ave and Exit E xit vxx . xx (C)Copyright 1985-200x, American Me gatrends, Inc. Clear NV RAM T his item allows you to clear the data in the NVRAM (CMOS) by selecting "Yes". Options: No (Default) / Yes Plug & P lay OS When set to YES, BIOS will only initialize the PnP cards used for the boot sequen ce (VGA, IDE, SCSI). The rest of the cards will be initialized by the PnP operating system like WindowTM 95. For non-PnP operating systems (DOS, NetwareTM), this option must set to NO. Options: No (Default) / Yes 16 A780GE/A760GE/A780LE/A785GE BIOS Manual PCI Latency Timer T his item controls how long a PCI device can hold the PCI bus bef another takes ore over. T he longer the latency, the longer the PCI device can retain control of the bus before handing it over to another PCI device. Options: 64 (Default) / 0-255 Allocate IRQ to PCI V GA T his item allows BIOS to choose a IRQ to assign for the PCI VGA card. Options: Yes (Default) / No Palette Snooping Some old graphic controllers need to " snoop" on the VGA palette and then map it to their display as a way to provide boot inf ormation and VGA compatibility. Options: Disabled (Default) / Enabled PCI IDE BusMaster T his item is a toggle for the built-in driver that allows the onbo ard ID E controller to perform DMA (Direct Memory Access) trans fers. Options: Enabled (Default) / Disabled PCI Resource BIOS SETUP UTILITY PCIPnP PCI Resource IRQ3 IRQ4 IRQ5 IRQ7 IRQ9 IRQ10 IRQ11 IRQ14 IRQ15 DMA DMA DMA DMA DMA DMA Channel Channel Channel Channel Channel Channel 0 1 3 5 6 7 [Available] [Available] [Available] [Available] [Available] [Available] [Available] [Available] [Available] [Available] [Available] [Available] [Available] [Available] [Available] [Disabled] Available: Specified IRQ is available to be used by PCI/PnP devices. Reserved: Specified IRQ is reserved for use by Legacy ISA devices. +F1 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Save and Exit Exit Reserved Memory Size vxx. xx (C)Copyright 1985-200x, American Megatrends, Inc. 17 A780GE/A760GE/A780LE/A785GE BIOS Manual IRQ3/4/5/7/9/10/11/14/15 T hese items will allow you to assign each system interrupt a type, depending on the type of device using the interrupt. T he option "Available" means the IRQ is going to assign automatically. Options: Available (Default) / Reserved DMA Channel 0/1/3/5/6/7 T hese items will allow you to assign each DMA channel a type, depending on the type of device using the channel. T he option " Available" means the channel is going to assign automatically. Options: Available (Default) / Reserved Reserved Memory Size T his item allows BIOS to reserve cert ain memory size for speci fic PCI device. Options: Disabled (Default) / 16K / 32K / 64K PCI Express Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY PCIPnP PCI Express Configuration Active State Power-Management[Disabled] Enable/Disable PCI Express L0s and L1 link power states. +F1 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Save and Exit Exit vxx. xx (C)Copyright 1985-200x, American Megatrends, Inc. Active State Power-Management T his item sets the ASPM configuration for the PCI Express devices b efore the operating system boots. Options: Disabled (Default) / Enabled 18 A780GE/A760GE/A780LE/A785GE BIOS Manual 4 Boot Menu T his menu allows you to setup the system boot options. Main Advanced PCIPnP BIOS S ETUP UTILITY Boot Chips et Perfo rmance Exit Boot Settings Conf iguration > > > > Boo t Device Prio rity Har d Disk Drives Rem ovable Drives CD/ DVD Drives [ Enabled] [ Enabled] [ Force BIOS] [ ON] [ Enabled] [ Disabled] [ Enabled] Spec ifies the Boot Device Prio rity sequenc e. Quick Boot Full Screen LOGO S how AddOn ROM Display Mode Bootu p Num-Lock Inter rupt 19 Captu re Ignor e Memory Erro r Messages BOOT SUCCESS BEEP S elect Screen S elect Item En terG o to Sub Scr een F1 G eneral Help F1 0 S ave and Exit ES C E xit vxx. xx (C)C opyright 198 5-200x, Amer ican Megatre nds, Inc. Boot De vice Priority Items in this sub-menu specify the boot device priority sequence from the available devices. T he number of device items that appears on the screen depends on the number of devi ces installed in the system. Options: Removable / Hard Disk / CDROM / Legacy LAN / Disabled Hard Disk Drives T he BIOS will attempt to arrange the hard disk boot sequence automatically. T he number of device items that app ears on the screen depends on the number of devices installed in the system. Slave / USB HDD0 / USB HDD1 / USB HDD2 / Bootable Add-in Cards Removable Drives T he BIOS will attempt to arrange the removable drive boot sequence automatically. The number of device items that appears on the screen depends on the number of devices installed in the system. [. . . ] Options: XOR of Address bits [20:16, 6] (Default) / XOR of Address bits [20:16, 9] / Address bits 6 / Address bits 12 / Disabled Enable Clock to All DIMMs T his item determines whether the BIOS should actively reduce EMI (Electromagn etic Interference) and reduce power consumption by turning off unoccupied or inactive DIMM slots. Options: Disabled (Default) / Enabled MemClk Tristate C3/ATLVID T his item enables or disables the MemClk T ristate function in C3 Mode. Options: Disabled (Default) / Enabled 33 A780GE/A760GE/A780LE/A785GE BIOS Manual Memory Hole Remapping T his item allows you to enable or disable the remapping of the overlapped PCI memory above the total physical memory. Options: Enabled (Default) / Disabled DC T Unganged Mode T his item controls the DRAM controller ganged (128bit*1) / unganged (64bit*2) dual-chann el operation mode. [. . . ]