User manual BIOSTAR TH55XE BIOS MANUAL

[. . . ] TH55XE BIOS Manual BIOS Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 Main Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 Advanced Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3 PCIPnP Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 4 Boot Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 5 Chipset Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 6 O. N. E Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 7 Exit Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 i TH55XE 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. [. . . ] PCI, or Personal Computer Interconn ect, is a system which allows I/O devices to operate at speeds nearing the speed o f the CPU itself uses when communicating with its own special components. Notice Beware o f that setting inappropriate values in items of this menu may cause system to malfunction. Main Advan ced PCIPnP BIOS SETU P U TILITY Boot Chipset O. N. E Exit Advanced PCI/P nP Settings WARNING: Setti ng wrong values in below sections may c ause system to malf unction. Clear NVRAM Plug & Play O/ S PCI Latency Ti mer Allocate IRQ t o PCI VGA Palette Snoopi ng PCI IDE BusMas ter OffBoard PCI/I SA IDE Card IRQ3 IRQ4 IRQ5 IRQ7 IRQ9 [No] [No] [64] [Yes ] [Dis abled] [Ena bled] [Aut o] [Ava ilable] [Ava ilable] [Ava ilable] [Ava ilable] [Ava ilable] 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 22 TH55XE 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) / 32 / 96 / 128 / 160 / 192 / 224 / 248 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 OffBoard PCI/ISA IDE Card Some PCI IDE cards may require this to be set to the PCI slot number that is holding the card. Options: Auto (Default) / PCI Slot1 ~ 6 OffBoard PCI/ISA Primary & Secondary IRQ T his item allows you to set IRQ of non-onboard PCI/ISA IDE controller adapter. Options: Disabled (Default) / INT A / INTB / INT C / INTD / Hardwired 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 23 TH55XE BIOS Manual 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 ISA device. Options: Disabled (Default) / 16K / 32K / 64K 24 TH55XE BIOS Manual 4 Boot Menu T his menu allows you to setup the system boot options. BIOS SETU P U TILITY Boot Chipset Main Advan ced PCIPnP O. N. E Exit Boot Settings > Boot Setting s Configuration > > > > Boot Device Priority Hard Disk Dr ives Removable Dr ives CD/DVD Drive s Configure Settings during System Boot. 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 Settings Configuration BIOS S ETUP UTILITY Boot Boot Settings Conf iguration Quick Boot Full screen logo d isplay AddOn ROM Display Mode Bootu p Num-Lock PS/2 Mouse Support Wait For F1 If Err or Hit D EL Message Di splay Inter rupt 19 Captu re BOOT SUCCESS BEEP [Enabled] [Enabled] [Force BIOS] [On] [Auto] [Enabled] [Enabled] [Disabled] [Enabled] Allo ws BIOS to s kip cert ain tests wh ile boot ing. This wi ll decr ease the tim e need ed to boot t he syst em. +F1 F1 0 ES C S elect Screen S elect Item C hange Option G eneral Help S ave and Exit E xit vxx. xx (C)C opyright 198 5-200x, Amer ican Megatre nds, Inc. 25 TH55XE BIOS Manual 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 Display 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-L ock Selects the NumLock State after the system switched on. [. . . ] Options: Auto (Default) / 1. 18V ~ 1. 78V (Interval: 0. 02V) Intel PPM Configuration BIOS S ETUP UTILITY O. N. E Intel PPM Configur ation Intel (R)SpeedStep( tm) tech [Enabled] [Enabled] Intel(R)Turbo Mo de tech Facto ry default T DC limit val ue : Factory default TDP l imit value : Intel(R) C-S TATE tech [Enabl ed] C Sta te package li mit setting [Auto] C3 St ate [ACPI C2] C6 St ate [Enabled] C1 Au to Demotion [Enabled] C3 Au to Demotion [Enabled] +F1 F1 0 ES C Disa bled: Disabl e GV3 Enab le: Enable GV3 S elect Screen S elect Item C hange Option G eneral Help S ave and Exit E xit vxx. xx (C)C opyright 198 5-200x, Amer ican Megatre nds, Inc. Intel(R) SpeedStep(tm) tech T his item allows you to enable SpeedStep technology for better power saving. SpeedStep is a technology built into some Intel processors that allows the clock speed o f the processor to be dynamically changed by software. Options: Enabled (Default) / Disabled 40 TH55XE BIOS Manual Intel(R) Turbo Mode tech T urbo mode allows processor cores to run faster than marked frequency in speci fic condition. Options: Enabled (Default) / Disabled Intel(R) C-STA TE Tech T his item allows you to control the C-State power management functions of the processor. [. . . ]