User manual BIOSTAR TA790GXB M2 PLUS BIOS MANUAL

[. . . ] TA790GX XE/TA790GX M2+/TA790GXB M2+ BIOS Manual BIOS Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 Main Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 Advanced Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 PCIPnP Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4 Boot Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 5 Chipset Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 6 T-S eries Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 7 Exit Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 i TA790GX XE/TA790GX M2+/TA790GXB M2+ 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. [. . . ] 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 TA790GX XE/TA790GX M2+/TA790GXB M2+ 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) / Enabled 18 TA790GX XE/TA790GX M2+/TA790GXB M2+ BIOS Manual 4 Boot Menu T his menu allows you to setup the system boot options. Main Advan ced PCIPnP BIOS SETU P U TILITY Boot Chipset T-Series Exit Boot Settings Configuration > > > > Boot Device Priority Hard Disk Dr ives Removable Dr ives CD/DVD Drive s [Ena bled] [Ena bled] [For ce BIOS] [ON] [Ena bled] [Dis abled] Specifies the Boot Device Priority sequence. Quick Boot Full Screen LO GO Show AddOn ROM Disp lay Mode Bootup Num-Loc k Interrupt 19 C apture Ignore Memory Error Messages S elect Screen S elect Item EnterG o to Sub Screen F1 G eneral Help F10 S ave and Exit ESC E xit vxx . xx (C)Copyright 1985-200x, American Me gatrends, 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: Floppy Disks / Zip100 / USB-FDD0 / USB-FDD1 / USB-ZIP0 / USB-ZIP1 / LS120 19 TA790GX XE/TA790GX M2+/TA790GXB M2+ BIOS Manual CD/DV D Drives T he BIOS will attempt to arrange the CD/DVD drive boot sequence automatically. The number of device items that appears on the screen depends on the number of devices installed in the system. Slave / USB CDROM0 / USB CDROM 1 Quick Boot Enabling this option will cause an ab ridged version o f the Power On Sel f-T est (POST ) to execute after you power up the computer. Options: Enabled (Default) / Disabled Full Screen LOGO Show T his item allows you to enable/disable Full Screen LOGO Show function. Options: Enabled (Default) / Disabled AddOn ROM Display Mode T his item sets the display mode for option ROM. Options: Force BIOS (Default) / Keep Current Bootup Num-Lock Selects the NumLock State after the system switched on. Options: ON (Default) / OFF Interrupt 19 Capture When set to Enabled, this item allows the option ROMs to trap interrupt 19. Options: Enabled (Default) / Disabled Ignore Memory Error Messages When set to Enabled, BIOS would ignore memory error messages. [. . . ] 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. If two DRAM modules with different size are installed, using unganged mode can still make it run in dual-channel operation. Options: Enabled (Default) / Disabled Power Dow n Enable T his item controls the DRAM power down function. Options: Disabled (Default) / Enabled Power Dow n Mode T his item allows you to select the DRAM power down mode. [. . . ]