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EPP             Enhanced Parallel Port  
ECP             Extended Capabilities Port 
ECP+EPP        ECP & EPP mode 

 

ECP Mode Use DMA 

 

Select a DMA Channel for the parallel port when using the ECP mode. This field is only configurable if 
“Parallel Port Mode” is set to “ECP”. Options: 3 (default)

 

Power Management 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The Power Management Setup Menu allows you to configure your system to utilize energy conservation 
features as well as power-up/ power-down options. 

 

ACPI Suspend Type 

 

The item allows you to select the suspend type using the ACPI operating system. 
Options: 

S1 (POS) (default)     Power on Suspend 
S3 (STR)             Suspend to RAM 
S1 & S3              POS and STR 

 

Power Management Option 

 

There are three options of Power Management: 
1. Min. Saving 
Minimum power management 

Summary of Contents for P4M800 Pro

Page 1: ...his document are registered by their respective owner Disclaimer We make no warranty of any kind with regard to the content of this user s manual The content is subject to change without notice and we will not be responsible for any mistakes found in this user s manual All the brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies FCC Compliance Statement This equipment has been test...

Page 2: ... z CPU An Intel Pentium 4 Processor with HT Technology z Chipset An Intel Chipset that supports HT Technology z BIOS A BIOS that supports HT Technology must be enabled z OS An operating system that supports HT Technology For more information on Hyper Threading Technology go to http www intel com info hyperthreading Dimensions ATX form factor 244mm x 205mm W x L Operating System Windows 98 ME 2000 ...

Page 3: ...orking with the system 0 Do not touch any IC chip lead connector or other components 0 Unplug the AC power when you install or remove any device on the mainboard Packing List P4M800 Pro mainboard FDD Cable HDD Cable P4M800 Pro Uer Manual CD P4M800 Pro Setup Driver CD I O Bracket for ATX case USB 2 0 Cable Optional SATA Cable Optional SPDIF Out Cable Optional Symbols The following list explains the...

Page 4: ...ers SW LED PWRLED SPEAKER 11 Headers Jumpers 12 Audio Configuration 14 Slots 16 Power Supply Attachments 16 CHAPTER 2 BIOS SETUP 18 INTRODUCTION 18 MAIN MENU 19 ADVANCED 21 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS 26 POWER MANAGEMENT 29 HARDWARE MONITOR 33 LOAD DEFAULTS 33 EXIT MENU 34 CHAPTER 3 SOFTWARE SETUP 35 SOFTWARE LIST 35 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 35 CHAPTER 4 TROUBLESHOOTING 37 APPENDIX I SUPER 5 1 CHANNEL SET...

Page 5: ...ial ATA function two SATA connectors are able to support the transfer rate up to 1 5 Gbps There is a maximum of eight USB2 0 1 1 ports that can be set up on this mainboard The onboard AC 97 Audio codec supports high quality performance 6 channel audio play Super 5 1 Channel Audio Effect See Appendix I The mainboard also supports the Sony Philips Digital Interfaces SPDIF function optional The P4M80...

Page 6: ...y Provide two 240 pin DIMM sockets Support DDR II 400 PC2 3200 DDR II 533 PC2 4300 SDRAM Support 256 MB 512 MB 1 GB and a total memory capacity of 2 GB Slots Provide one 8x AGP slot Provide three PCI slot Onboard IDE Provide two IDE slots Support a maximum of four IDE devices can be set up Support Ultra ATA 66 100 133 function Onboard Serial ATA Provide two SATA connectors with SATA 1 0 specificat...

Page 7: ... Supports one PRT header and one COM header compatible with external devices connected by cable Two USB headers come with this mainboard for a maximum of four additional USB ports to be set BIOS Phoenix Award BIOS Support APM 1 2 Support ACPI 2 0 power management Green Functionality Support Phoenix Award BIOS power management functionality Supports system wake from power saving mode by keyboard or...

Page 8: ...s function is for detecting the system when it is unable to handle over clocking configurations during the POST stage Once the problem is detected the system will reset the configurations and reboot the system within five seconds ABS Albatron BIOS Security Supports ABS card optional Supports BIOS backup ...

Page 9: ...5 Configuration Layout of P4M800 Pro ...

Page 10: ... near the corners of the socket on the same side as the lever as shown C Match these marks with the marks on the CPU and carefully lower the CPU down onto the socket D 3 Replace the iron cover and then lower the lever until it snaps back into position E This will lock down the CPU F 4 Smear thermal grease on the top of the CPU Lower the CPU fan onto the CPU CPU socket and secure it using the attac...

Page 11: ... sense Memory Installation DDRII1 2 The P4M800 Pro provides two 240 pin DIMM Dual In Line Memory Module sockets which support to insert DDR II 400 PC2 3200 DDR II 533 PC2 4300 SDRAM and support a total memory capacity of 2 GB Attention It is strongly recommended that you can attach a cooling fan on the top of your CPU and also attach the fan power cord onto the mainboard CPUFAN header to avoid you...

Page 12: ... on the memory matches the break on the socket 3 Lower the memory vertically into the socket and press firmly by using both thumbs until the memory snaps into place 4 Repeat steps 1 2 3 for the remaining memory and DIMM sockets setup The pictures shown above are for reference only The actual installation may vary depending on models ...

Page 13: ...rts are used to attach with USB devices such as keyboard mouse and other USB supported devices There is also a 10 100 Mbps Ethernet LAN port available for you to attach an Internet cable Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 Data 4 5 V fused 2 N A 5 Clock 3 Ground 6 N A Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 TX TX 5 N A TRD2 2 TX TX 6 RX RX 3 RX RX 7 N A TRD3 4 N A TRD2 8 N A TRD3 Pin Assignment Pin Assignment...

Page 14: ...oppy disk drive connector FDC that supports to be attached maximal two 360Kb 720Kb 1 2Mb 1 44Mb 2 88Mb floppy disk drives by FDD ribbon cables Hard disk drive Connectors IDE1 2 SATA1 2 The mainboard provides two IDE connectors with Ultra ATA 66 100 133 specification You can maximal attach four IDE devices such as hard disk drive HDD CD ROM DVD ROM and so on by IDE ribbon cables The onboard Serial ...

Page 15: ...mentary SPST switch reset button cable on your case front panel The switch is normally left open When the switch closed it will cause the mainboard to reset and run the POST Power On Self Test Power Switch Header Orange PWR_SW This header can be attached to a power switch cable on your case front panel You can turn your system on or off by pressing the button attached to this power switch cable 2 ...

Page 16: ...SB2 3 This mainboard provides four onboard USB 1 1 2 0 ports back panel that attach to USB devices There are two additional USB headers that can be connected by cables to four USB ports on the front panel of your PC case giving the possibility of 8 USB ports Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 PWR_LED 2 N A 3 pin PWR_LED 3 PWR_LED Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 PC_BEEP 2 N A SPEAKER 3 Ground 4 5V Pin...

Page 17: ...d provides a PRT header for you connecting an additional printer connector on your case back panel Attach the cable of printer connector Optional onto this header then you can use the printer connector connecting with a printer Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 RSTB 2 RPDR0 3 RPDR1 4 RPDR2 5 RPDR3 6 RPDR4 7 RPDR5 8 RPDR6 9 RPDR7 10 ACK 11 BUSY 12 PE 13 SLCT 14 RAFD 15 ERR 16 RINIT_P 17 RSLIN 18 Grou...

Page 18: ... the jumper caps on this header will allow you to reset the CMOS configurations JP1 Assignment Pin 1 2 Close Normal Default Pin 2 3 Close Clear CMOS Data Note Close stands for putting a jumper cap onto two header pins 1 Turn off your system and disconnect the AC power cable 2 Set JP1 header to OFF 2 3 Closed 3 Wait several seconds 4 Set JP1 header to ON 1 2 closed 5 Connect the AC power cable and ...

Page 19: ... the SPDIF styled devices SPDIF Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 5V 2 N A 3 SPDIF out 4 Ground Front Audio Header FRONT AUDIO If your case front panel has audio ports you can connect them to the Front Audio Header of this mainboard First you must remove the jumper caps on this header and then attach the cables from the front panel to the pins on this header You can use both the front audio panel an...

Page 20: ...I slots Power Supply Attachments ATX Power Connector ATX_PWR ATX_12V This mainboard provides two ATX power connectors a 24 pin ATX_PWR connector and a 4 pin ATX_12V connector You must use a power supply that has both of these connectors and both connectors must be attached before the system is powered on These power connectors support several power management functions such as the instant power on...

Page 21: ... 1 12V 3 Ground ATX_12V 2 12V 4 Ground Attention In general power cords are designed and should be attached with a specific direction The black wire of the power cord is Ground and should be attached onto the header location of Ground ...

Page 22: ...for the BIOS values contained in this document may vary slightly with the version installed in your system Plug and Play Support This PHOENIX AWARD TM BIOS supports the Plug and Play Version 1 0A specification as well as ESCD Extended System Configuration Data write EPA Green PC Support This PHOENIX AWARD TM BIOS supports Version 1 03 of the EPA Green PC specification APM Support This PHOENIX AWAR...

Page 23: ...ht menu bar Esc Main Menu Quit without saving changes Submenus Exit Current page to the next higher level menu Move Enter Move to the item you desire PgUp key Increase the numeric value or enter changes PgDn key Decrease the numeric value or enter changes Key Increase the numeric value or enter changes Key Decrease the numeric value or enter changes Esc key Main Menu Quit and do not save changes i...

Page 24: ...e installed in your system Driver B None 360k 5 25 in 1 2M 5 25 in 720K 3 5 in 1 44M 3 5 in 2 88M 3 5 in Select the type of floppy disk drive installed in your system Video EGA VGA CGA 40 CGA 80 MONO Select the default video device Halt On All Errors No Errors All but Keyboard All but Diskette All but Disk Key Select the situation in which you want the BIOS to stop the POST process and notify you ...

Page 25: ...ble default for first boot device Hard Disk default for third boot device CDROM default for second boot device Disabled Boot Other Device The setting allows the system to try to boot from other devices if the system fails to boot from the 1st 2nd 3rd boot devices Options Enabled default Disabled Boot Up Floppy Seek When Enabled the BIOS tests seeks floppy drivers to determine whether they have 40 ...

Page 26: ...rnal cache active or inactive System performance may degrade if you disable this item Options Enabled default Disable Hyper Threading Technology When you install a CPU include Hyper Threading Technolong And this item will allow you to enable or disabled the Hyper Threading technology Choosing the item Enabled is for Windows XP and Linux 2 4 x while the item Disable is for other Operating System Op...

Page 27: ...s XP Options 1 4 default 1 1 OS Select For DRAM 64MB Select OS2 only if you are running the OS 2 operating system with greater than 64MB of RAM Options Non OS2 default OS2 HDD S M A R T Capability Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology is a technology that enables a PC to attempt to predict the possible failure of storage drives Options Disabled default Enabled Small Logo EPA Show This ...

Page 28: ... 4T 5T default DRAM Command Rate This item determines DRAM Command Rate Options 1T Command 2T Command default AGP P2P Bridge Control Press Enter to enter next page for AGP P2P Bridge Control AGP Aperture Size Select the size of the Accelerated Graphics Port AGP aperture The aperture is a portion of the PCI memory address range dedicated for graphics memory address space Host cycles that hit the ap...

Page 29: ... item determines VGA share memory size Options Disabled 16M 32M 64M default Direct Frame Buffer This item allows charging extra VGA share memory from Memory for great performance on the go Options Enabled Disabled default CPU PCI Bus Control Press Enter to enter the next page for CPU PCI Bus Control PCI Master 0 WS Write When enabled writes to the PCI bus are executed with zero wait states Options...

Page 30: ...t Disabled PnP PCI Configurations PCI VGA Palette Snoop Some graphic controllers that are not VGA compatible take the output from a VGA controller and map it to their display as a way to provide boot information and VGA compatibility Options Disabled default Enabled PCI Latency Timer CLK This item allows you to set up the PCI Latency Time 0 255 If you select the 32 it will optimize PCI speeds Opti...

Page 31: ...rd drive and your system software both support Ultra DMA 133 select Auto to enable BIOS support Options Auto default Disabled IDE HDD Block Mode Block mode is otherwise known as block transfer multiple commands or multiple sector read write Select the Enabled option if your IDE hard drive supports block mode most new drives do The system will automatically determine the optimal number of blocks to...

Page 32: ... and Storage USB Keyboard Support Enables support for USB attached keyboard Options Disabled default Enabled USB Mouse Support Enables support for USB attached mouse Options Disabled default Enabled Super IO Device Onboard FDC Controller Select Enabled if your system has a floppy disk controller FDC installed on the system board and you wish to use it If you install an add in FDC or the system has...

Page 33: ...lt 1 Power Management The Power Management Setup Menu allows you to configure your system to utilize energy conservation features as well as power up power down options ACPI Suspend Type The item allows you to select the suspend type using the ACPI operating system Options S1 POS default Power on Suspend S3 STR Suspend to RAM S1 S3 POS and STR Power Management Option There are three options of Pow...

Page 34: ...m allows you to select the suspend time under the ACPI operating system Options Disabled default 1Min 2Min 4Min 6Min 8Min 10Min 20Min 30Min 40Min 1Hour Video Off Option This field determines when to activate the video off feature for monitor power management Options Always On Suspend Off default Video Off Method This option determines the manner in which the monitor goes blank Options Blank Screen...

Page 35: ...ord Use this selection to force the user to enter a password after the system awakens from PS2 keyboard activity Hot Key Use PS2KB key to awake the system See PS2KB Wake Up from S3 S5 to configure the hotkey PS2 KB Wakeup From S3 S4 S5 This option is used when PS2KB Wake Up Select is configured as HOT KEY Options Disabled default Ctrl F1 to F12 Power Wake Any Key USB Wake Up This item allows you t...

Page 36: ...ons Enabled Disabled default Date of Month Alarm You can choose which date of the month the system will boot up This field is only configurable when RTC Wake Up is set to Enabled Time hh mm ss Alarm You can choose the hour minute and second the system will boot up This field is only configurable when RTC Wake Up is set to Enabled IRQs Activity Monitoring Press Enter to access a sub menu used to co...

Page 37: ...he CPU temperature and intelligently adjusts the CPUFAN speed to maintain safe temperature for your CPU In addition the Smart Fan Control can reduce noise levels by lowering fan speeds during low activity to provide you a most comfortable and quiet environment Options Disabled default Enabled Load Defaults ...

Page 38: ...hout batteries Save CMOS To BIOS Save defaults to flash ROM for systems without batteries Exit Menu Save Exit Setup Save all configuration changes to CMOS memory and exit setup A confirmation message will be displayed before proceeding Exit Without Saving Abandon all changes made during the current session and exit setup A confirmation message will be displayed before proceeding ...

Page 39: ...isplayed in the main screen and you can click on the drivers to install Category Platform VIA 4 IN 1 Driver Windows 98 ME 2000 XP VIA LAN Driver Windows 98 ME 2000 XP VIA Audio Driver Windows 98 ME 2000 XP VIA VGA Driver Windows 98 ME 2000 XP Trend PC Cillin 2005 Windows 98 ME 2000 XP Microsoft DirectX 9 0c Windows 98 ME 2000 XP Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 Windows 98 ME 2000 XP Dr Speed Windows 2000 XP...

Page 40: ...can choose the software to install Trend PC Cillin 2005 provides the software of Trend PC Cillin 2005 Anti virus program Microsoft DirectX 9 0c provides software of Microsoft DirectX Acrobat Reader 5 install Adobe Acrobat Reader program that you can browse pdf files Dr Speed install this software you can enhance the mainboard with higher efficiency of overclocking executed and more stable of volta...

Page 41: ...ive but system seems hung Causes Memory DIMM is partially dislodged from the slot on the mainboard Solutions 1 Power Down 2 Using even pressure on both ends of the DIMM press down firmly until the module snaps into place Problem 3 System does not boot from the hard disk drive but can be booted from the CD ROM drive Causes 1 Connector between hard drive and system board unplugged 2 Damaged hard dis...

Page 42: ...rforms low level format partition and then a high level format the hard drive Re install all saved data when completed Problem 6 Screen message says Invalid Configuration or CMOS Failure Causes Incorrect information entered into the BIOS setup program Solutions Review system s equipment Reconfigure the system Problem 7 The Screen is blank Causes No power to monitor Solutions Check the power connec...

Page 43: ...roperly Solutions Check hard drive cable Problem 13 Cannot boot the system after installing a second hard drive Causes 1 Master slave jumpers not set correctly 2 Hard drives are not compatible different manufacturers Solutions 1 Set master slave jumpers correctly 2 Run SETUP program and select the correct drive types Call drive manufacturers for possible compatibility problems with other drives Pr...

Page 44: ... will display First check the Place volume icon in the taskbar in the Device volume block Then press the Advanced button to configure the speaker settings 2 At the Advanced Audio Properties screen use the drop down box to select the 5 1 surround sound speakers Click Apply to enable the 5 1 channel audio effect 3 On your desktop double click the volume icon that is on the desk bar ...

Page 45: ...Master Volume screen select Options Æ Properties then check Other item select all the four items shown as below and click OK 7 Finally click the Advanced button of the Rear Speaker on the Multi Channel screen then check the Magic5 1 Enable This is the final step in configuring Super 5 1 Channel Audio Effect If you broadcast a DVD with a DVD ROM please skip this step ...

Page 46: ...site and download the latest version of the BIOS file for your mainboard along with the AWDFLASH exe executable placing both onto the floppy disk Onoboard BIOS Recovery Procedures 1 Make sure your system is turned off 2 Set the jumper cap on the ABS_JP1 header located on the ABS Card to the Rescue BIOS position See Figure 1 3 Remove the jumper caps on pins 1 2 pins 3 4 from the mainboard BIOSCN1 h...

Page 47: ...e system boots from the floppy the system will enter into the DOS mode Note that the system has booted using the ABS card s BIOS 6 With the system still running you must carefully move the jumper cap on the ABS Card ABS_JP1 header back to its Onboard BIOS position This disables the ABS BIOS which will now allow you to flash the corrupted mainboard BIOS from the floppy disk 7 At the DOS prompt type...

Page 48: ...display a message Press Y to Program or N to Exit Then type Y to begin the onboard BIOS flash procedure 9 The flashing procedure will take several minutes and will show its progress on the screen After the flash BIOS procedures have completed press F1 to reboot the system When the flash process is complete press F1 Attention While processing the flash BIOS procedures DO NOT power off or restart yo...

Page 49: ...nter the BIOS utility by pressing the DEL key on most systems Load the system with the default settings and save the changes before exit the BIOS utility program Then the onboard BIOS recovery procedures are completed at this time Follow the path Defaults Load System Default Settings Y Next follow the path Exit Save Exit Setup Y ...

Page 50: ... you choose not remove the ABS Card from the mainboard make sure that the jumper caps on the ABS_JP1 header located on the ABS Card to the Onboard BIOS as below in order to reduce the damage opportunity of the rescue BIOS in ABS Card and on the other hand to extend the usage life of the ABS Card Closed means putting a jumper cap onto two adjacent header pins Attention If both your onboard BIOS and...

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