Ch. 2 System Utilities. Acer Veriton 7500, Veriton 5500, Veriton 3500
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Chapter 2
System Utilities
Most systems are already configured by the manufacturer or the dealer. There is no need to run
Setup when starting the computer unless you get a Run Setup message.
The Setup program loads configuration values into the battery-backed nonvolatile memory called CMOS RAM.
This memory area is not part of the system RAM.
NOTE: If you repeatedly receive Run Setup messages, the battery may be bad. In this case, the system cannot retain configuration values in CMOS.
Before you run Setup, make sure that you have saved all open files. The system reboots immediately after you exit Setup.
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Entering Setup
To enter Setup, press the key c
during the POST (Power-on self-test).
NOTE: You must press c
simultaneously while the system is booting.
The Setup Utility main menu then appears:
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The above screen is the BIOS Utility Basic Level screen. It allows you to view and change only the basic configuration of your system.
The command line at the bottom of the menu tells you how to move within a screen and from one screen to another.
!
!
To select an option, move the highlight bar by pressing w
, y
, z
, or x
,then press e
To change a parameter setting, press
{
or
} until the desired setting is found, or press e
to pop out the screen with available items for selection.
!
Press
^
to return to the main menu. If you are already in the main menu, press
^
again to exit Setup.
The parameters on the screens show default values. These values may not be the same as those in your system.
The grayed items on the screens have fixed settings and are not user-configurable.
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Product Information
The screen below appears if you select Product Information from the main menu:
The Product Information menu contains general data about the system, such as the product name, serial number, BIOS version, etc. These information is necessary for troubleshooting (maybe required when asking for technical support).
The following table describes the parameters found in this menu:
Parameter
Product Name
System S/N
Main Board ID
Main Board S/N
System BIOS Version
SMBIOS version
Description
Displays the model name of your system.
Displays your system’s serial number.
Displays the main board’s identification number.
Displays your main board’s serial number.
Specifies the main version of your BIOS utility.
The System Management Interface (SM) BIOS allows you to check your syste hardware components without actually opening your system. Hardware checking is done via software during start up. This parameter specifies the version of the
SMBIOS utility installed in your system. The BIOS Version here is V2.3.
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Standard CMOS Features
Select “Standard CMOS Features” from the main menu to configure the drives installed in your system.
The following screen shows the Disk Drives menu:
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The following table describes the parameters found in this menu.
Date
Parameter
Time
IDE Primary Master
IDE Primary Slave
IDE Secondary Master
IDE Secondary Slave
Description Options
Lets you set the date following the weekday-month-dayyear format
Weekday: Sun, Mon....Sat
Month: Jan, Feb...Dec
Day: 1 to 31
Year 1980 to 2079
Lets you set the time following the hour-minute-second format
Lets you configure the hard disk drive connected to the master port of IDE channel 1.
To enter the IDE Primary Master setup, press e
The IDE CD-ROM is always automatically detected.
.
Lets you configure the hard disk drive connected to the slave port of IDE channel 1.
To enter the IDE Primary Slave setup, press e
.
The IDE CD-ROM is always automatically detected.
Lets you configure the hard disk drive connected to the master port of IDE channel 2.
To enter the IDE Secondary Master setup, press e
.
The IDE CD-ROM is always automatically detected.
Lets you configure the hard disk drive connected to the slave port of IDE channel 2.
To enter the IDE Secondary Slave setup, press e
.
The IDE CD-ROM is always automatically detected.
Hour: 0 to 23
Minute: 0 to 59
Second: 0 to 59
(Show the Status:)
None
HDD or CD-ROM Number
(Show the Status:)
None
HDD or CD-ROM Number
(Show the Status:)
None
HDD or CD-ROM Number
(Show the Status:)
None
HDD or CD-ROM Number
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Drive A
Parameter
Drive B
Video
Halt On
Base Memory
Extended Memory
Total Memory
Description
Allows you to configure your floppy drive A.
Options
1.44 MB, 3.5-inch
None
360 KB, 5.25-inch
1.2 MB, 5.25-inch
720 KB, 3.5-inch
2.88 MB, 3.5-inch
Allows you to configure your floppy drive B.
None
360 KB, 5.25-inch
1.2 MB, 5.25-inch
720 KB, 3.5-inch
1.44 MB, 3.5-inch
2.88 MB, 3.5-inch
This item specifies the type of video card in use. The default setting is VGA/EGA. Since current PCs use
VGA only, this function is almost useless and may be disregarded in the future.
This parameter enables you to control the system stops in case of Power-on self-test (POST) errors.
EGA/VGA
CGA40
CGA80
Mono
All, But Keyboard
All Errors
No Error
All, But Diskette
All, But Disk/Key
Refers to the portion of memory that is available to standard DOS programs. DOS systems have an address space of 1 MB, but the top 384 KB (called high memory) is reserved for system use. This leaves 640
KB of conventional memory. Everything above 1 MB is either extended or expanded memory.
Memory above and beyond the standard 1 MB
(megabyte) of base memory that DOS supports.
Extended memory is only available in PCs with an Intel
80286 or later microprocessor. Extended memory is not configured in any special manner and is therefore unavailable to most DOS programs. However, MS
Windows and OS/2 can use extended memory.
Total base, and extended memory, and I/O ROM 384KB available to the system.
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IDE Primary Master/Slave and IDE Secondary Master/Slave Setup
The following screen appears if you select any of the IDE drive parameters:
The following table describes the parameters found in this menu.
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Parameter
IDE HDD Auto-
Detection
IDE Primary Master
Access Mode
Capacit
Cylinder
Head
Precomp
Landing Zone
Sector
Description
Auto-detects your hard disk drive.
Press Enter
Options
Displays the device type
Selects the HDD access mode
Shows the size of your hard disk in MB.
Shows your hard disk’s number of cylinders.
Shows your hard disk’s number of heads
Selects the Precomp number for old HDD parking
Selects the Landing Zone number for old HDD parking
Shows your hard disk’s number of sectors
Auto
None
Manual
Auto
Large
LBA
CHS xxxxx MB
0 to 65535
0 to 255
0 to 65535
0 to 65535
0 to 255
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Advanced BIOS Features
The following screen shows the Advanced BIOS Features.
The following table describes each Advanced BIOS Features parameter. Settings in boldface are the default and suggested settings.
Parameter
Virus Warning
Quick Power On Self Test
Silent Boot
Configuration Table
Hard Disk Boot Priority
First Boot Device
Second Boot Device
Third Boot Device
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Description
Allows you to choose the Virus warning feature fo the IDE hard disk boot sector protection. If this function is enabled and someone attempts to write data into this area, BIOS will show a warning message on screen and alarm beep.
This parameter speeds up POST by skipping some items that are normally checked.
Disabled
Enabled
This item is used to decide if the system logo displays when the system boots up.
Displays preboot system configuration table when enabled.
Select Hard Disk Boot Device Priority
This parameter allows you to specify the syste boot up search sequence.
This parameter allows you to specify the syste boot up search sequence.
This parameter allows you to specify the syste boot up search sequence.
Options
Enabled
Disabled
Enabled
Disabled
Disabled
Enabled
Press Enter
Show Hard Disk Name
1/2/3/4/5
CD-ROM, Floppy, LS120, Hard
Disk, ZIP100, LAN (on board
LAN-- Boot from LAN),
Disabled
Flopp , LS120, Hard Disk,
CD-ROM, ZIP100, LAN (on board LAN-- Boot from LAN),
Disabled
Hard Disk, Floppy, LS120,
CD-ROM, ZIP100, LAN (on board LAN-- Boot from LAN),
Disabled
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Parameter
Boot Other Device
Security Option
Description
This parameter allows you to specify the syste boot up search sequence.
The Setup option limits access only to BIOS setup.
To disable the security option, select Password
Setting from the main menu, don’t type anything and just press e
.
The System option limits access to both the
System boot and BIOS setup. A prompt asking you to enter your password appears on the screen every time you boot the system.
Enabled
Disabled
Setup
System
Options
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Advanced Chipset Features
The following screen shows the Advanced Chipset Features.
The following table describes each Advanced Chipset Features parameter. Settings in boldface are the default and suggested settings.
Parameter
Memory Hole at 15M-16
AGP Aperture Size (MB)
Description
This option lets you reserve system memory area for special ISA cards. The chipset accesses code/ data of these areas from the ISA bus directly.
Normally, these areas are reserved for memory mapped I/O cards.
Disabled
Enabled
Options
This item lets you determine the effective size of the
AGP Graphic Aperture.
64, 4, 8, 16, 32, 128 and 256
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Integrated Peripherals
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The following table describes each Integrated Peripherals parameter. Settings in boldface are the default and suggested settings.
Parameter
On-Chip Primary PCI IDE
On-Chip Secondary PCI IDE
Description
These parameters let you enable or disable the IDE devices connected to the primary and secondary IDE connectors.
Enabled
Disabled
Options
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Parameter
IDE Primary Master PIO
IDE Primary Slave PIO
IDE Secondary Master PIO
IDE Secondary Slave PIO
IDE Primary Master UDMA
IDE Primary Slave UDMA
IDE Secondary Master UDMA
IDE Secondary Slave UDMA
USB controller
Description
Setting these items to Auto activates the HDD speed auto-detect function. The PIO mode specifies the data transfer rate of the HDD. For example, mode 0 data transfer rate is 3.3 MB/s, mode 1 is 5.2 MB/s, mode 2 is
8.3 MB/s, mode 3 is 11.1 MB/s and mode 4 is 16.6 MB/s.
If your hard disk performance becomes unstable, you may manually try the slower mode.
Caution: It is recommended that you connect the first
IDE device of each channel to the endmost connector of the IDE cable.
These items allow you to set the Ultra DMA/33/66/100 mode supported by the hard disk drive connected to your primary and secondary IDE connectors.
Auto
Model 0
Mode 1
Mode 2
Mode 3
Mode 4
Auto
Disabled
Options
USB Keyboard Support
USB Mouse Support
AC97 Audio
Onboard LAN Controller
Init Display First
IDE HDD Block Mode
Power on Function
Onboard FDC Controller
Onboard Serial Port 1
This item is used to enable or disable the On-chip USB.
Enabled
Disabled
This item lets you enable or disable the USB keyboard driver within the onboard BIOS. The keyboard driver simulates legacy keyboard command and lets you use a
USB keyboard during POST or after boot if you don’t have a USB driver in the operating system.
This item lets you enable or disable the USB mouse driver within the onboard BIOS. The mouse driver simulates legacy mouse command and lets you use a
USB mouse during POST or after boot if you don’t have a USB driver in the operating system.
Enabling the on-die AC97 Audio if no add-on PCI Audio device.
Enabled
Disabled
Enabled
Disabled
Auto
Disabled
ICH4 On-die LAN Enabled
Disabled
Onboard/ AGP
PCI Slot
If you installed a PCI VGA card and an AGP card at the same time, this item lets you decide which one is the initial display card.
This feature enhances disk performance by allowing multisector data transfers and eliminates the interrupt handling time for each sector. Most IDE drives, except with old designs, can support this feature.
The options to switch on the system.
Button only (press the power button only)
Any Key (press any key on the PS2 keyboard or press the power button)
Keyboard 98 ( press key on the PS2 keyboard or press the power button)
Enabled
Disabled
Button Only
Any Key
Keyboard 98
Setting this parameter to Enabled allows you to connect your floppy disk drives to the onboard floppy disk connector instead of a separate controller card. Change the setting to Disabled if you want to use a separate controller card.
This item allows you to assign an address and interrupt for the board serial port.
Enabled
Disabled
3F8/ IRQ4
Auto
2F8/ IRQ3
3E8/ IRQ4
2E8/ IRQ3
Disabled
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Parameter
Onboard Serial Port 2
Onboard Parallel Port
Parallel Port Mode
ECP Mode Use DMA
Game Port Address
Midi Port Address
Midi Port IRQ
Description
This item allows you to assign an address and interrupt for the board serial port.
This item controls the onboard parallel port address an interrupt.
NOTE: If you are using an I/O card with a parallel port, make sure that the addresses and IRQs do not have conflict.
IBM PC/AT and PS/2 compatible bi-directional parallel port. (SPP)
Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP)-compatible with EPP1.7 and EPP 1.9.
Extended Capabilities Port (ECP) Specification by
Microsoft and HP.
IEEE 1284 compliant
Selects the ECP Mode DMA Channel.
Selects the Game Port Address.
Selects the Midi Port Address.
Selects the Midi Port IRQ.
Options
2F8/ IRQ3
Auto
3F8/ IRQ4
3E8/ IRQ4
2E8/ IRQ3
Disabled
378/ IRQ7
3BC/ IRQ7
278/ IRQ5
Disabled
Printer
SPP
ECP
EPP1.7+ECP
EPP1.7+SPP
EPP1.9+SPP
EPP1.9+ECP
3
1
201
209
Disabled
330
300
290
Disabled
10
5
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Power Management Setup
The Power Management menu lets you configure the system power-management feature. It works only in
APM mode.
IMPORTANT:If an ACPI-aware operating system such as Windows 98 or Windows 2000 is installed in ACPI mode, the operating system will use the ACPI interfaces. Then the settings in Power Management page is non-effective.
The following screen shows the Power Management parameters and their default settings:
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The following table describes the parameters found in this menu.
Soft-Off
APM Mode)
APM Mode)
Parameter
Run VGABIOS if S3 Resume
Power Management
(Function Enabled in APM Mode)
Suspend Mode
(Function Enabled in APM Mode)
HDD Power Down
(Function Enabled in APM Mode) by PWR-BTTN
(Function Enabled in ACPI and
PWRON After PWR-Fail
(Function Enabled in ACPI and
Wake-Up by PCI Card
(Function Enabled in ACPI and
APM Mode)
Power-On by Ring
(Function Enabled in ACPI and
APM Mode)
USB KB Wake-up from S3
(Function Enabled in ACPI mode)
Description
Auto:BIOS decides whether the VGA BIOS should initiate or not.
If the default is set to “Yes”, then the VGA
BIOS initiates automatically. If it is set to “No”, the VGA BIOS will not initiate automatically.
This function allows you to set the default parameters for power-saving modes. Set it to
Disable to turn off the power management function. Set it to User Define to choose you own parameters. See the Power Management
Mode Table.
This item lets you set the period of time after which the system enters into Suspend mode.
The Suspend mode can be Power On
Suspend or Suspend to Hard Drive, and it is selected in the “Suspend Mode Option”.
This option lets you specify the IDE HDD idle time before the device enters the power down state. This item is independent from the power states previously described in this section
(Standby and Suspend).
Auto
Yes
No
Min Saving
User Define
Max Saving
Disabled
1 min
15 min
Options
Disabled, 1 min., 2 min., 4 min.,
8 min., 12 min., 20 min., 30 min.,
40 min., and 1 Hou
This is a specification of ACPI and supported by hardware. When Delay 4 sec. is selected, the soft power switch on the front panel can be used to control power On, Suspend and Off. If the switch is pressed less than 4 sec. during power On, the system will go into Suspend mode. If the switch is pressed longer than 4 sec, the system will be turned Off. The other setting is Instant-Off, where the soft power switch is only used to control On and Off, there is no need to press 4 sec, and there is no
Suspend.
Delay 4 sec.
Instant-Off
Use this option to determine the manner by which the system will power on after a power failure.
Former Sts (former status) - System would return to its former running state prior to th power failure.
On - System would be on full on state upo resuming from power failure.
Former-Sts
On
Off
Off - System would remain off.
Use PCI PME# Wake-Up system . PCI must meet PCI 2.2 specification.
Enabled
Disabled
When Enabled, any fax/ modem activity wakes up the system from suspend mode.
Disabled
Enabled
When enabled, any USB keyboard activity wakes up the system from S3 (STR, Suspend to RAM) mode.
Enabled
Disabled
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Parameter
Resume by Alarm
(Function Enabled in ACPI and
APM Mode)
Description
Use this option to set the date and time for you computer to boot up.
Date (of month) Alarm * - Indicate month when system will boot up. Set it to 0 if you want to boot everyday.
Time (hh:mm:ss) Alarm * - Indicate the hour, minute and second when system will boot up.
NOTE: In ACPI mode: Valid-S5 and S4. In APM mode: Valid- shutdown
Options
Disabled
Enabled
* Set Resume by Alarm to
Enabled, then press e
to show the range of Date and Time
Alarm.
Power Management Mode Table
Doze Mode
Max Saving
Min Saving
1 hou
1 min
Standby
1 hour
1 min
1 hou
1 min
Suspend HDD Power Down
15 mi
1 min
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PnP/PCI Configurations
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The table below describes each PnP/PCI configuration parameter. Settings in boldface are the default and suggested settings.
Parameter
Reset Configuration Dat
Resources Controlled By
IRQ Resources
IRQ 3 (COM2)
IRQ 4 (COM1)
IRQ 5 (Network/Sound or
Others
IRQ 7 (Printer or Others)
IRQ 9 (Video or Others)
IRQ 10 (SCSI or Others)
IRQ 11 (SCSI or Others)
IRQ 12 (PS/2 Mouse)
IRQ 14 (IDE1)
IRQ15 (IDE2)
Description
Select Enabled to reset Extended System
Configuration Data (ESCD) when you exit Setup if you have installed a new add-on and the system configuration has caused such a serious conflict that the OS cannot boot.
Disabled
Enabled
Options
Setting this option to Manual allows you to individually assign the IRQs and DMAs to the
ISA and PCI devices. Set this to Auto to enable the auto-configuration function.
Auto (ESCD)
Manual
Set “ Resources Controlled By” to Manual to show the IRQ Resources.
If your ISA card is not PnP compatible and requires a special IRQ to support its function, set the selected IRQ to Legacy ISA. This setting informs the PnP BIOS to reserve the selected
IRQ for the installed legacy ISA card. The default is PCI/ISA PnP. Take note that PCI cards are always PnP compatible (except old PCI IDE cards).
PCI/ISA PnP
Legacy ISA
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Parameter
PCI/VGA Palette Snoop
Description
This parameter permits you to use the palette snooping feature if you installed more than one
VGA card in the system. The PVI/VGA palette snoop function allows the control palette register
(CPR) to manage and update the VGA RAMDAC
(Digital Analog Converter, a color data storage) of each VGA card installed in the system. The snooping process lets the CPR send a signal to all the VGA cards so that they can update their individual RAMDACs. The signal goes through the cards continuously until all RAMDAC data has been updated. This allows the display of multiple images on the screen.
NOTE: Some VGA cards have required settings for this feature. Check your VGA card manual before setting this parameter.
Disabled
Enabled
Options
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PC Health Status
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Parameter
CPU Shutdown Temperature
(Function Enabled in ACPI
Mode)
CPU Warning
Temperature(Function Enabled in ACPI Mode
System Shutdown
Temperature(Function Enabled in ACPI Mode
Description
When the temperature of the CPU reaches th default value, the system will shut down by initiating beep sounds.
When the temperature of the CPU reaches th default value, the system will give warning by initiating beep sounds.
When the temperature of the system reaches the default value, the system will shut down by initiating beep sounds.
Options
90 degree C/ 194 degree F
60 degree C/ 140 degree F
70 degree C/ 158 degree F
80 degree C/ 186 degree F
Disabled
100 degree C/ 212 degree F
110 degree C/ 230 degree F
120 degree C/ 248 degree F
85 degree C/ 185 degree F
55degree C/ 131 degree F
65 degree C/ 149 degree F
75 degree C/ 167 degree F
Disabled
95 degree C/ 203 degree F
105 degree C/ 221 degree F
115 degree C/ 239 degree F
60 degree C/ 140 degree F
30degree C/ 86 degree F
40 degree C/ 104 degree F
50 degree C/ 122 degree F
Disabled
70degree C/ 158 degree F
80 degree C/ 186 degree F
90 degree C/ 194 degree F
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Parameter
System Warning
Temperature(Function Enabled in ACPI Mode
Description
When the temperature of the system reaches the default value, the system will give warning by initiating beep sounds.
Options
55 degree C/ 131 degree F
25degree C/ 77 degree F
35 degree C/ 95 degree F
45 degree C/ 113 degree F
Disabled
65degree C/ 149 degree F
75 degree C/ 167 degree F
85 degree C/ 185 degree F
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Frequency Control
The following table describes the parameters found in this menu.
Parameter
Processor
Processor Spee
Description
Indicates the type of processor installed in your computer.
Indicates the processor speed.
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System Security
The Setup program has a number of security features to prevent unauthorized access to the system and its data.
Supervisor Password
To set a password:
1.
At the prompt, type your password. Your password can be up to 8 alphanumeric characters. When you type the characters, they appear as asterisks on the password screen box.
2.
After typing the password, press e
.
3.
At the next prompt, re-type your password and press e
again to confirm the new password. After the password entry, the screen automatically reverts to the main screen.
To disable the password, press e
when prompted to enter the password. The screen displays a message confirming that the password has been disabled.
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User Password
IMPORTANT:To show the “Set User Password”:
1. Choose “Set Superviser Password” and press e
.
2. Type the password and then press e
.
3. Confirm the password, and then press e
.
4. The screen as below with “Set User Password” enabled will be shown.
To set a password:
1.
At the prompt, type your password. Your password can be up to 8 alphanumeric characters. When you type the characters, they appear as asterisks on the password screen box.
2.
After typing the password, press e
.
3.
At the next prompt, re-type your password and press e
again to confirm the new password. After the password entry, the screen automatically reverts to the main screen.
To disable the password, press e
when prompted to enter the password. The screen displays a message confirming that the password has been disabled.
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Bypassing the Password
If you forgot your password, you can bypass the password security feature thru hardware configuration.
RTC Battery
Follow these steps to bypass the password:
1.
Turn off and unplug the system.
2.
Open the system housing. Take off battery and short it.
3.
Place on RTC battery, reboot the system and enter setup menu, to load default setting.
Clear CMOS
Follow these steps to bypass the password:
1.
Reset CMOS, by adjusting JP2 to 2-3
2.
Reboot the system.
3.
Adjust the JP2 back to 1-2
NOTE: Please refer to the following
JP2: Clear CMOS
1-2
2-3
JP2 CMOS Check
Normal
Clear CMOS
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Load Default Settings
You need to reload the BIOS default settings every time you make changes to your system hardware configuration (such as memory size, CPU type, hard disk type, etc.); otherwise, BIOS will keep the previous
CMOS settings. Selecting this option displays the following dialog box:
Choosing Yes enables BIOS to automatically detect the hardware changes that you have made in your system. This option also allows you to restore the default settings.
Choosing No returns you to the main menu without loading the default settings.
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Exiting Setup
To exit the BIOS utility, simply press
^
. The following dialog box appears:
Select Yes to exit Setup. Select No to return to the main menu.
If you have made changes in the parameter settings, you will be asked if you want to keep the changes made to the BIOS. Select Yes to save your changes before you exit Setup. Select No to discard all changes and exit
Setup.
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Advanced Options
NOTE: The Advanced Options menu is available only when you press a
+ o
in the main menu.
The “Advanced Options” menu allows you to configure the system memory and PCI device settings.
The following screen shows the Advanced Options parameter:
CAUTION: Do not change any settings in the Advanced Options menu if you are not a qualified technician to avoid damaging the system.
Product Information
Selecting “Product Information” from the Advanced Options menu displays the following screen:
This menu lets you configure the system memory.
The following table describes the parameters found in this sub-menu.
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Parameter
System BIOS ID
BIOS release date
Description
R01-A3. BIOS real versio
BIOS release date
Advanced BIOS Features
Selecting “Advanced BIOS Features” from the Advanced Options menu displays the following screen:
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The following table describes the parameters found in the sub- menu. Settings in boldface are the default and suggested settings.
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Parameter
CPU L1 & L2 Cache
Swap Floppy Drive
Boot Up Floppy Seek
Boot Up NumLock Status
Gate A20 Option
Typematic Rate Setting
APIC Mode Advanced Interrupt Controller. The I/O APIC handles interrupts very differently than the 8259. (Refer to ICH4
EDS Rev 1.0 P6-39, 6.8)
MPS Version Control For OS Multi CPU for NT. system
OS Select For DRAM >
64MB
Select OS2 only if you are running OS/2 operating syste with greater than 64MB of RAM on the system.
Report No FDD for WIN 95
Description
CPU L1 & L2 cache enabled
If the system has two floppy drives, choose enabled to assign physical drive B to logical drive A and vice versa.
If the item is enabled, BIOS will test floppy drives to determine whether they have 40 or 80 tracks.
Selects power on state for NumLock.
Fast: Lets chipset control Gate A20
Normal: A pin in the keyboard controller, controls Gate 20.
Default is fast.
Options
Enabled/ Disabled
Disabled/Enabled
Disabled/Enabled
On/ Off
Fas /Normal
Keystrokes repeat at a rate determined by the keyboard controller-- when enabled, the typematic rate and typematic delay can be selected.
* Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) 6
* Typematic Delay (MSec) 250
Disabled/Enabled
Fow WIN 95
Enabled
Disabled
1.4/ 1.1
Non-OS2
OS2
No
Yes
Advanced Chipset Features
Selecting “Advanced BIOS Features” from the Advanced Options menu displays the following screen.
The following table describes the parameters found in the sub-menu. Settings in boldface are the default and suggested settings.
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Parameter
DRAM Timing Selectable SDRAM Timing
Description Option
By SPD
Manual
CAS Latency Time
Active to Precharge Delay
DRAM RAS #to CAS# Delay
DRAM RAS# Precharge
Memory Frequency fo
System BIOS Cacheable
Video BIOS Cacheable
Video RAM Cacheable
Memory Hole at 15M-16
Delayed Transaction
Delay Prior to Thermal
The default setting by your DRAM’s SPD.
The default setting by your DRAM’s SPD.
The default setting by your DRAM’s SPD.
The default setting by your DRAM’s SPD.
1.5/2/2.5/3
7/6/5
3/2
3/2
Auto/ DDR200/DDR266
Enabled/Disabled
Memory frequency default setup.
E.F segment shadow RAM cacheable.
C segment shadow RAM cacheable.
A.B segment shadow RAM cacheable.
Enabled/Disabled
Disabled/Enabled
Disabled/Enabled The system will reserve 15-16 MB address for the add-on card.
ICH4 enables delayed transactions for internal register, FWH, and LPC I/F accesses.
Enabled/Disabled
Enables Pentium 4 thermal function - 16 miuntes after POST.(only for ACPI OS
16/4/8/32 minutes
AGP Aperture Size (MB)
On-Chip Video Window size
On-Chip Frame Buffer size
Aperture size: the size of the system memory for
AGP card. Options to decide how many size for
AGP card.
64/4/8/16/32/128/256
Aperture size for on-board CPU.
Frame buffer size for on-chip VGA.
128MB/64MB/Disabled
8MB/1MB/512MB
Integrated Peripherals
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The following table describes the parameters found in the sub-menu. Settings in boldface are the default and suggested settings.
Parameter
UART Mode Select
UR2 Duplex Mode
TxD, RxD Polarity Active
Description
Selects the UART as Serial Port (Normal) or IRDA or
ASKIR.
Selects the speed of UR2 Duplex Mode.
Selects the speed of TxD, RxD Polarity Active.
Use IR Pins Use IR Pins as IR-Rx2Tx2 or RxD2, TxD2
Option
Normal
IrDA
ASKI
Half
Full
Lo, Hi
Lo, Lo
Hi, L
Hi, H
IR-Rx2Tx2
RxD2, TxD2
Power Management Setup
Selecting “Power Management Setup” from the Advanced Options menu displays the following screen:
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The following table describes the parameters found in the sub-menu. Settings in boldface are the default and suggested settings.
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Parameter
ACPI Functiont
ACPI Suspend Type
Video Off Method
Video Off In Suspend
Suspend Type
MODEM Use IRQ
Primary IDE 0*
Primary IDE 1*
Secondary IDE 0*
Secondary IDE 1*
FDD, COM, LPT port*
PCI PIRQ [A-D]#*
Description
ACPI power management
Selects the ACPI Suspend Type as S1&S3, S3 (STR,
Suspend to RAM) or S1 (POS, Power On Suspend
Turn off the video by DPMS or Blank Screen or V/H SYNC
+ Blank Screen
Turn off the video when entering the Suspend mode.
When entering the Suspend mode, Stop Grant won’t stop
CPU Clock, PwrOn (Power On) Suspend will.
This item lets you set an IRQ for the modem.
To enable or disable the detection of Primary IDE 0 (HDD) activities for power down state transition.
To enable or disable the detection of Primary IDE 1 (HDD) activities for power down state transition.
To enable or disable the detection of Secondary IDE 0
(HDD) activities for power down state transition.
To enable or disable the detection of Secondary IDE 1
(HDD) activities for power down state transition.
To enable or disable the detection of FDD, COM port, and
LPT port activities for power down state transition.
To enable or disable the detection of PCI PIRQ [A-D]# activities for power down state transition.
Disabled
Enabled
Disabled
Enabled
Disabled
Enabled
Disabled
Enabled
Disabled
Enabled
Disabled
Enabled
Option
Enabled
Disabled
S1&S3
S3 (STR)
S1 (POS)
V/H SYNC+BLANK
Blank Screen
DPMS
Yes
No
Stop Grant
PwrOn Suspend
3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, and N/A
NOTE: These are global timer events.
The following table describes the parameters found in the sub-menu.
Frequency Control
Selecting “ Frequency Control” from the Advanced Options menu displays the following screen:
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The following table describes the parameters found in the sub-menu.
Parameter
CPU Clock Ratio
Auto Detect PCI CLK
Spread Spectru
CPU Host/PCI Clock
Description
Core Clock Frequency to System Bus Ratio (RO)
Detect PCI card.
If the default is set to Disabled, then the PCI slot clock will be turned off and vice versa.
This parameter let you enable or disable the spread spectrum.
Option
The option items vary depending on your BIOS.
Min=10
Max=24
Key in a DEC number
Disabled/Enabled
Front side bus frequency/PCI clock.
+/-0.25%
Disabled
-0.5%
+/-0.5%
+/-0.38
Default
100/33 Mhz
105/35 Mhz
108/36 Mhz
114/38Mhz
120/40Mhz
123/41Mhz
126/36Mhz
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