Chapter 3 Award BIOS This chapter tells how to configure the system parameters. You may update your BIOS via AWARD Flash Utility. Important: Because the BIOS code is the most often changed part of the mainboard design, the BIOS information contained in this chapter (especially the Chipset Setup parameters) may be a little different compared to the actual BIOS that came with your mainboard. 3.
AWARD BIOS ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (XXXXXXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
AWARD BIOS ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (XXXXXXXX) STANDARD CMOS SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. Date (mm:dd:yy) Time (hh:mm:ss) HARD DISK Primary Master : Primary Slave : Secondary Master: Secondary Slave : TYPE Auto Auto Auto Auto : : Wed. Mar 00:00:00 SIZE 0 0 0 0 Drive A : Drive B : 1.44M, 3.
AWARD BIOS Standard CMOS à Primary Master à Type Standard CMOS à Primary Slave à Type Standard CMOS à Secondary Master à Type Standard CMOS à Secondary Slave à Type Type Auto User None 1 2 ... 45 This item lets you select the IDE hard disk parameters that your system supports. These parameters are Size, Number of Cylinder, Number of Head, Start Cylinder for Pre-compensation, Cylinder number of Head Landing Zone and Number of Sector per Track.
AWARD BIOS Standard CMOS à Drive A Standard CMOS à Drive B Drive A None 360KB 5.25" 1.2MB 5.25" 720KB 3.5" 1.44MB 3.5" 2.88MB 3.5" These items select floppy drive type. The available settings and types supported by the mainboard are listed on the left. Standard CMOS à Video Video EGA/VGA CGA40 CGA80 Mono 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.
AWARD BIOS 3.3 BIOS Features Setup This screen appears when you select the option "BIOS Features Setup" from the main menu. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (XXXXXXXX) BIOS FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
AWARD BIOS BIOS Features à External Cache External Cache Enabled Disabled Enabling this parameter activates the secondary cache (currently, PBSRAM cache). Disabling the parameter slows down the system. Therefore, we recommend that you leave it enabled unless you are troubleshooting a problem. BIOS Features à Power-On Self-Test Quick Power-on Self-test Enable Disabled This parameter speeds up POST by skipping some items that are normally checked.
AWARD BIOS Boot-up Floppy Seek Enabled Disabled When enabled, the BIOS issues the seek command to the floppy drive during POST to move floppy drive head forward and backward. BIOS Features à Boot-up NumLock Status Boot-up NumLock Status On Off Setting this parameter to On enables the numeric function of the numeric keypad. Set this parameter to Off to disregard the function. Disabling the numeric function allows you to use the numeric keypad for cursor control.
AWARD BIOS BIOS Features à Typematic Delay Typematic Delay 250 500 750 1000 This parameter allows you to control the delay time between the first and the second keystroke (where the repeated keystrokes begin). The typematic delay settings are 250, 500, 750, and 1000 msec. BIOS Features à Security Option Security Option Setup System 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.
AWARD BIOS BIOS Features à Video BIOS Shadow Video BIOS Shadow Enabled Disabled VGA BIOS Shadowing means to copy video display card BIOS into the DRAM area. This enhances system performance because DRAM access time is faster than ROM.
AWARD BIOS 3.4 Chipset Features Setup The "Chipset Features Setup" includes settings for the chipset dependent features. These features are related to system performance. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (XXXXXXXX) CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
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AWARD BIOS Chipset Features à Auto Configuration Auto Configuration Enabled Disabled When Enabled, the DRAM and cache related timing are set to pre-defined value according to CPU type and clock. Select Disable if you want to specify your own DRAM timing. Chipset Features à DRAM Timing DRAM Timing 60 ns 70 ns There to sets of DRAM timing parameters can be automatically set by BIOS, 60ns and 70ns. Warning: The default memory timing setting is 60ns to get the optimal performance.
AWARD BIOS DRAM Read Burst (EDO/FP) x444/x444 x333/x444 x222/x333 Read Burst means to read four continuous memory cycles on four predefined addresses from the DRAM. The default value is x222/x333 for 60ns EDO or FPM (Fast Page Mode) DRAM. Which means the 2nd,3rd and 4th memory cycles are 2 CPU clocks for EDO and 3 clocks for FPM. The value of x is the timing of first memory cycle and depends on the "DRAM Leadoff Timing" setting.
AWARD BIOS DRAM Page Idle Timer 2 Clks 4 Clks 6 Clks 8 Clks This item determines the amount of time in CPU clocks that DRAM page will be close after CPU becomes idle. Chipset Features à DRAM Enhance Paging DRAM Enhance Paging Enabled Disabled When Enabled, TX chipset will keep DRAM page open as long as possible according to enhanced method. Chipset Features à SDRAM(CAS Lat/RAS-to-CAS) SDRAM(CAS Lat/RAS-to-CAS) 2/2 3/3 These are timing of SDRAM CAS Latency and RAS to CAS Delay, calculated by clocks.
AWARD BIOS Chipset Features à Video BIOS Cacheable Video BIOS Cacheable Enabled Disabled Allows the video BIOS to be cached to allow faster video performance. Chipset Features à 8 Bit I/O Recovery Time 8 Bit I/O Recovery Time 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NA For some old I/O chips, after the execution of an I/O command, the device requires a certain amount of time (recovery time) before the execution of the next I/O command.
AWARD BIOS Chipset Features à PCI Passive Release PCI Passive Release Enabled Disabled This item lets you control the Passive Release function of the PIIX4 chipset (Intel PCI to ISA bridge). This function is used to meet latency of ISA bus master. Try to enable or disable it, if you have ISA card compatibility problem.
AWARD BIOS 3.5 Power Management Setup The Power Management Setup screen enables you to control the mainboard’s green features. See the following screen. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (XXXXXXXX) POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
AWARD BIOS Power Management à PM Controlled by APM PM Controlled by APM Yes No If "Max Saving" is selected, you can turn on this item, transfer power management control to APM (Advanced Power Management) and enhance power saving function. For example, stop CPU internal clock. Power Management à Video Off Method Video Off Method Blank Screen V/H SYNC+Blank DPMS This determines the way that monitor is off. Blank Screen writes blanks to video buffer.
AWARD BIOS Power Management à Standby Mode Standby Mode Disabled 1 Min 2 Min 4 Min 8 Min 12 Min 20 Min 30 Min 40 Min 1 Hour This item lets you set the period of time after which the system enters into Standby mode. In this mode, CPU clock slows down, hard disk will be shut off and the monitor power-saving feature activates. Any activity detected returns the system to full power. The system activity (or event) is detected by monitoring the IRQ signals.
AWARD BIOS Modem WakeUp Disabled Enabled This mainboard implements AOpen special circuit (patent applied) to detect modem ring signal and wakeup from soft power off. The most possible applications are automatic answering machine and fax send/receive. It does not like traditional green PC suspend mode, the system can be true power off, (identified by the fan of your power supply is off).
AWARD BIOS Throttle Duty Cycle 12.5 % 25.0 % 37.5 % 50.0 % 62.5 % 75.0 % 87.5 % Clock Throttling means at the Doze/Standby state, the CPU clock count in a given time (not the frequency) is reduced to the ratio specified in this parameter. Actually, the period per CPU clock is not changed. For example, a 66MHz CPU clock remains the same 30ns clock period when system goes into Doze/Suspend.
AWARD BIOS RTC WakeUp Timer Disabled Wake Up Power Off The RTC WakeUp Timer can be programmed at a specified date/time to wakeup the system. The Date/Time is set by " WakeUp Date (of Month)" and "WakeUp Time (hh:mm:ss)". For automatic power off, you can select the idle timer in "Doze Mode" + "Standby Mode" + "Suspend Mode" to power off after system is detected without any activities.
AWARD BIOS Power Management à IRQ [3-7,9-15],NMI IRQ [3-7,9-15],NMI Enabled Disabled To enable or disable the detection of IRQ3-7, IRQ9-15 or NMI interrupt events for power down state transition.
AWARD BIOS 3.6 PNP/PCI Configuration Setup The PNP/PCI Configuration Setup allows you to configure the ISA and PCI devices installed in your system. The following screen appears if you select the option "PNP/PCI Configuration Setup" from the main menu. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (XXXXXXXX) PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
AWARD BIOS PNP/PCI Configuration à Resources Controlled By Resources Controlled by Auto Manual 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.
AWARD BIOS PNP/PCI Configuration à DMA 0 PNP/PCI Configuration à DMA 1 PNP/PCI Configuration à DMA 3 PNP/PCI Configuration à DMA 5 PNP/PCI Configuration à DMA 6 PNP/PCI Configuration à DMA 7 If your ISA card is not PnP compatible and requires a special DMA channel to support its function, set the selected DMA channel to Legacy ISA. This setting informs the PnP BIOS to reserve the selected DMA channel for the installed legacy ISA card. The default is PCI/ISA PnP.
AWARD BIOS Slot 1 Slot 2 Slot 3 Slot 4 Slot 5 (if any) (pin A6) INTA INTB INTC INTD INTD (pin B7) INTB INTC INTD INTA INTA (pin A7) INTC INTD INTA INTB INTB (pin B8) INTD INTA INTB INTC INTC PNP/PCI Configuration à Used MEM Base Addr Used MEM base addr N/A C800 CC00 D000 D400 D800 DC00 This item, in conjunction with the "Used MEM Length", lets you set a memory space for non-PnP compatible ISA card. This item specifies the memory base (start address) of the reserved memory space.
AWARD BIOS Optimal is not the slowest setting for this mainboard. If you need to verify a unstable problem, you may manually set the parameter in the "BIOS Features Setup" and "Chipset Features Setup" to get slowest and safer setting. 3.8 Load Turbo Defaults The "Load Turbo Defaults" option gives better performance than Optimal values.
AWARD BIOS 3.9 Integrated Peripherals The following screen appears if you select the option "Integrated Peripherals" from the main menu. This option allows you to configure the I/O features. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (XXXXXXXX) INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
AWARD BIOS IDE Primary Master PIO Auto Mode 1 Mode 2 Mode 3 Mode 4 Setting this item to Auto activates the HDD speed auto-detect function. The PIO mode specifies the data transfer rate of HDD. For example: mode 0 data transfer rate is 3.3MB/s, mode 1 is 5.2MB/s, mode 2 is 8.3MB/s, mode 3 is 11.1MB/s and mode 4 is 16.6MB/s. If your hard disk performance becomes unstable, you may manually try the slower mode.
AWARD BIOS Integrated Peripherals à USB Legacy Support USB Legacy Support 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 let you use USB keyboard during POST or after boot if you don't have USB driver in the operating system. Caution: You can not use both USB driver and USB legacy keyboard at the same time. Disable "USB Legacy Support" if you have USB driver in the operating system.
AWARD BIOS Integrated Peripherals à Onboard UART 1 Integrated Peripherals à Onboard UART 2 Onboard UART 1 Auto 3F8/IRQ4 2F8/IRQ3 3E8/IRQ4 2E8/IRQ3 Disabled This item allow you to assign address and interrupt for the board serial port. Default is Auto. Note: If you are using an network card, make sure that the interrupt does not conflict. Integrated Peripherals à Onboard UART 2 Mode Onboard UART 2 Mode Standard HPSIR ASKIR • This item is configurable only if the "Onboard UART 2" is enabled.
AWARD BIOS Integrated Peripherals à IR Duplex Mode IR Duplex Mode Full Half This item lets you set the duplex mode for the IR communication. Full - Allows IR communication in bidirectional mode. Half - Allows IR communication in single direction only. Note: This option appears only if the IR function is activated and the Onboard UART 2 Mode parameter is NOT set to Standard.
AWARD BIOS Integrated Peripherals à ECP Mode Use DMA ECP Mode Use DMA 3 1 This item lets you set the DMA channel of ECP mode. Integrated Peripherals à System Voltage +12V Integrated Peripherals à System Voltage +5V Integrated Peripherals à VIO Voltage +3.3V Integrated Peripherals à CPU Core Voltage +2.8V Integrated Peripherals à CPU Thermal (Temp.) Integrated Peripherals à CPU FAN System Voltage +12V Ignore Monitor This item lets you enable or disable the hardware monitoring function.
AWARD BIOS 3.10 Password Setting Password prevents unauthorized use of your computer. If you set a password, the system prompts for the correct password before boot or access to Setup. 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. 3. At the next prompt, re-type your password and press again to confirm the new password.
AWARD BIOS 3.13 Exit without Saving Use this function to exit Setup without saving the CMOS value changes. Do not use this option if you want to save the new configuration. 3.14 NCR SCSI BIOS and Drivers The NCR 53C810 SCSI BIOS resides in the same flash memory chip as the system BIOS. The onboard NCR SCSI BIOS is used to support NCR 53C810 SCSI control card without BIOS code. The NCR SCSI BIOS directly supports DOS, Windows 3.1 and OS/2.
AWARD BIOS 3.15 BIOS Flash Utility The BIOS Flash utility allows you to upgrade the system BIOS. To get the AOpen Flash utility and the upgrade BIOS file, contact your local distributor or visit our homepage at http://www.aopen.com.tw. Please make sure that you have the correct BIOS ready, the BIOS filename is normally like AP5TR110.BIN, which means model AP5T BIOS revision 1.10. There are two useful programs, Checksum utility CHECKSUM.EXE and AOpen Flash utility AOFLASH.EXE.
AWARD BIOS 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. After the old BIOS has been successfully saved, press "Y" to replace BIOS. DO NOT turn off the power during "FLASHING". Reboot the system by turn off the power after "FLASHING". Press "DEL" key to enter BIOS setup during POST. Reload the "BIOS SETUP DEFAULT" and reconfigure other items as previous set. 9. Save & Exit. Done! Warning: DO NOT turn off the power during "FLASHING".
