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I86PE-A7 BIOS Setup 

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5.3.7 

UART Mode Select 

This item allows you to determine which Infrared (IR) function of 
onboard I/O chip.

 

The Choices:   

Normal 

(default), ASKIR,

 

IrDA, SCR. 

5.3.8 UR2 

Duplex 

Mode 

Select the value required by the IR device connected to the IR port. 
Full-duplex mode permits simultaneous two-direction transmission. 
Half-duplex mode permits transmission in one direction only at a time. 

The Choices:   

Half

 (default), Full. 

5.3.9 

Onboard Parallel Port 

This item allows you to determine access onboard parallel port 
controller with which I/O Address. 

The Choices:   

378/IRQ7

 (default), 278/IRQ5, 3BC/IRQ7, Disabled. 

5.3.10 

Parallel Port Mode 

The default value is SPP.

 

SPP

(default)   

Using Parallel port as Standard Printer Port. 

EPP 

Using Parallel Port as Enhanced Parallel 
Port. 

ECP     

Using Parallel port as Extended Capabilities 
Port. 

ECP+EPP 

Using Parallel port as ECP & EPP mode. 

5.3.11 

ECP Mode Use DMA 

Select a DMA Channel for the port. 

The Choices:   

3

 (default), 1. 

Summary of Contents for I86PE-A7

Page 1: ... 1 1 Main Menu 3 2 Standard CMOS Features 6 3 Advanced BIOS Features 8 4 Advanced Chipset Features 12 5 Integrated Peripherals 15 6 Power Management Setup 22 7 PnP PCI Configurations 27 8 PC Health Status 30 9 Frequency Control 31 ...

Page 2: ...ual is intended to guide you through the process of configuring your system using Setup Plug and Play Support These AWARD BIOS supports the Plug and Play Version 1 0A specification ESCD Extended System Configuration Data write is supported EPA Green PC Support This AWARD BIOS supports Version 1 03 of the EPA Green PC specification APM Support These AWARD BIOS supports Version 1 1 1 2 of the Advanc...

Page 3: ... item Down arrow Move to next item Left arrow Move to the item on the left menu bar Right arrow Move to the item on the right menu bar Move Enter Move to the item you desired PgUp key Increase the numeric value or make changes PgDn key Decrease the numeric value or make changes Key Increase the numeric value or make changes Key Decrease the numeric value or make changes Esc key Main Menu Quit and ...

Page 4: ...o select among the items and press Enter to accept and enter the sub menu 1 1 STANDARD CMOS FEATURES This submenu contains industry standard configurable options 1 2 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES This submenu allows you to configure enhanced features of the BIOS 1 3 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES This submenu allows you to configure special chipset features 1 4 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS This submenu allows you t...

Page 5: ...IOS when the system is having problems particularly with the boot sequence These configurations are factory settings optimized for this system A confirmation message will be displayed before defaults are set 1 9 SET SUPERVISOR PASSWORD Setting the supervisor password will prohibit everyone except the supervisor from making changes using the CMOS Setup Utility You will be prompted with to enter a p...

Page 6: ...S memory and exit setup Confirmation message will be displayed before proceeding 1 12 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING Abandon all changes made during the current session and exit setup Confirmation message will be displayed before proceeding UPGRADE BIOS This submenu allows you to upgrade bios ...

Page 7: ...s The items in Standard CMOS Setup Menu are divided into 10 categories Each category includes no one or more than one setup items Use the arrow keys to highlight the item and then use the PgUp or PgDn keys to select the value you want in each item ...

Page 8: ...r the sub menu of detailed options IDE Secondary Slave Options are in its sub menu Press Enter to enter the sub menu of detailed options Drive A Drive B 360K 5 25 in 1 2M 5 25 in 720K 3 5 in 1 44M 3 5 in 2 88M 3 5 in None 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 b...

Page 9: ...1 HDD 2 HDD 3 ZIP100 LAN HPT370 Disabled Enabled 3 1 2 Swap Floppy Drive For systems with two floppy drives this option allows you to swap logical drive assignments The Choices Disabled default Enabled 3 1 3 Boot Up Floppy Seek Enabling this option will test the floppy drives to determine if they have 40 or 80 tracks Disabling this option reduces the time it takes to boot up The Choices Disabled E...

Page 10: ...hot The Choices 0X default 3 3 3 TM2 Bus VID Represents the voltage of the throttled performance state that will be initiated when the on die sensor goes from not hot to hot The Choices 0 8375 default 3 3 4 Limit CPUID This item allows you to set the limit of the CPU ID with a maximum value to 3 It should be disabled for WinXP The Choices Disabled default MaxVal 3 4 VIRUS WARNING This option allow...

Page 11: ... Enable quick POST 3 7 BOOT UP NUMLOCK STATUS Selects the NumLock State after power on On default Numpad is number keys Off Numpad is arrow keys 3 8 GATE A20 OPTION Select if chipset or keyboard controller should control Gate A20 Normal A pin in the keyboard controller controls Gate A20 Fast default Lets chipset control Gate A20 3 9 TYPEMATIC RATE SETTING When a key is held down the keystroke will...

Page 12: ...s are set from the Setup main menu 3 13 APIC MODE Selecting Enabled enables ACPI device mode reporting from the BIOS to the operating system The Choices Enabled default Disabled 3 14 MPS VERSION CONTROL FOR OS The BIOS supports version 1 1 and 1 4 of the Intel multiprocessor specification Select version supported by the operation system running on this computer The Choices 1 4 default 1 1 3 15 OS ...

Page 13: ...erefore should not be changed unless you are suspicious that the settings have been changed incorrectly 4 1 DRAM TIMING SELECTABLE When synchronous DRAM is installed the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing The Choices By SPD default Manual 4 2 CAS LATENCY TIME When synchronous DRAM is installed the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing The Ch...

Page 14: ...ter performance and Slow gives more stable performance This field applies only when synchronous DRAM is installed in the system The Choices 4 default 3 2 4 6 MEMORY FREQUENCY FOR This item allows you to select the Memory Frequency The Choices Auto default DDR266 DDR300 DDR400 4 7 SYSTEM BIOS CACHEABLE Selecting Enabled allows you caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h FFFFFh resulting a better s...

Page 15: ...item to enable the CPU Thermal function to engage after the specified time The Choices 4 8 16 default 32 4 11 AGP APERTURE SIZE MB Select the size of the Accelerated Graphics Port AGP aperture The apertures is a portion of the PCI memory address range dedicated for graphics memory address space Host cycles that hit the aperture range are forwarded to the AGP without any translation The Choices 64 ...

Page 16: ...optimal number of block mode most new drives do select Enabled for automatic detection of the optimal number of block read write per sector where the drive can support The Choices Enabled default Disabled 5 1 2 IDE DMA Transfer Access This item allows you to enable or disable the IDE DMA transfer access The Choices Enabled default Disabled 5 1 3 On Chip Primary Secondary PCI IDE This item allows y...

Page 17: ...ode4 5 1 5 Primary Secondary Master Slave UDMA Ultra DMA 100 functionality can be implemented if it is supported by the IDE hard drives in your system As well your operating environment requires a DMA driver Windows 95 OSR2 or a third party IDE bus master driver If your hard drive and your system software both support Ultra DMA 100 select Auto to enable BIOS support The Choices Auto default Disabl...

Page 18: ...B Keyboard Mouse Support Disabled default Disable USB Keyboard Mouse Support 5 2 4 AC 97 Audio Modem This item allows you to decide to enable disable to support AC 97 Audio Modem The Choices Auto default Disabled 5 2 5 VIA 1394 Controller This item allows you to enable or disable the Onboard 1394 Controller The Choices Enabled default Disabled 5 2 6 VIA RAID Controller This item allows you to enab...

Page 19: ...I86PE A7 BIOS Setup 18 5 2 8 Onboard LAN Boot ROM Decide whether to invoke the boot ROM of the onboard LAN chip The Choices Disabled Enable default ...

Page 20: ...F8 Ctrl F9 Ctrl F10 Ctrl F11 Ctrl F12 5 3 4 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 install and FDC or the system has no floppy drive select Disabled in this field The Choices Enabled default Disabled 5 3 5 Onboard Serial Port 1 Select an address and corresponding interrupt for the first and secon...

Page 21: ...irection only at a time The Choices Half default Full 5 3 9 Onboard Parallel Port This item allows you to determine access onboard parallel port controller with which I O Address The Choices 378 IRQ7 default 278 IRQ5 3BC IRQ7 Disabled 5 3 10 Parallel Port Mode The default value is SPP SPP default Using Parallel port as Standard Printer Port EPP Using Parallel Port as Enhanced Parallel Port ECP Usi...

Page 22: ...ifies whether your system will reboot after a power fail or interrupts occurs Off Leaves the computer in the power off state On Reboots the computer Former Sts Restores the system to the status before power failure or interrupt occurs The Choices Off default on Former Sts ...

Page 23: ... power up power down features 6 1 ACPI FUNCTION This item displays the status of the Advanced Configuration and Power Management ACPI The Choices Enabled default Disabled 6 2 ACPI SUSPEND TYPE The item allows you to select the suspend type under the ACPI operating system The Choices S1 POS default Power on Suspend S3 STR Suspend to RAM S1 S3 POS STR ...

Page 24: ...ory allows you to select the type or degree of power saving and is directly related to the following modes 1 HDD Power Down 2 Doze Mode 3 Suspend Mode There are four options of Power Management three of which have fixed mode settings Min Saving Minimum power management Doze Mode 1 hr Standby Mode 1 hr Suspend Mode 1 hr HDD Power Down 15 min Max Saving Maximum power management only available for sl...

Page 25: ...efault No 6 6 SUSPEND TYPE Select the Suspend Type The Choices Stop Grant default PwrOn Suspend 6 7 MODEM USE IRQ This determines the IRQ which can be applied in MODEM use The Choices 3 default 4 5 7 9 10 11 NA 6 8 SUSPEND MODE When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity all devices except the CPU will be shut off The Choices Disabled default 1Min 2Min 4Min 8Min 12Min 20Min 30Min 40Mi...

Page 26: ...hoices Enabled Disabled default 6 13 USB KB MS WAKE UP FROM S3 This item allows you to enable or disabled wake up from S3 from USB keyboard The Choices Disabled Default Enabled 6 14 RESUME BY ALARM This function is for setting date and time for your computer to boot up During Disabled you cannot use this function During Enabled Choose the Date and Time Alarm Date of Month Alarm You can choose whic...

Page 27: ...e can prevent the system from entering a power saving mode or can awaken the system from such a mode In effect the system remains alert for anything which occurs to a device which is configured as Enabled even when the system is in a power down mode Primary IDE 0 1 Secondary IDE 0 1 FDD COM LPT Port PCI PIRQ A D ...

Page 28: ...e has a node which is called ESCD This node records which resources are assigned to it The system needs to record and update ESCD to the memory locations These locations 4K are reserved in the system BIOS If the Disabled default option is chosen the system s ESCD will update only when the new configuration varies from the last one If the Enabled option is chosen the system is forced to update ESCD...

Page 29: ...u to assign each system interrupt a type depending on the type of device using the interrupt When you press the Press Enter tag you will be directed to a submenu that will allow you to configure the system interrupts This is only configurable when Resources Controlled By is set to Manual IRQ 3 assigned to PCI Device IRQ 4 assigned to PCI Device IRQ 5 assigned to PCI Device IRQ 7 assigned to PCI De...

Page 30: ...his the non VGA graphic controller watches for the Write access to the VGA palette and registers the snoop data In PCI based systems where the VGA controller is on the PCI bus and a non VGA graphic controller is on an ISA bus the Write Access to the palette will not show up on the ISA bus if the PCI VGA controller responds to the Write In this case the PCI VGA controller should not respond to the ...

Page 31: ... V VOLTAGE BATTERY Detect the system s voltage status automatically 8 3 CURRENT CPU TEMP Show you the current CPU temperature 8 4 CURRENT CPU FAN SPEED This field displays the current CPUFAN speed 8 5 CURRENT SYS FAN SPEED This field displays the current speed SYSTEM fan 8 6 SHOW H W MONITOR IN POST If you computer contain a monitoring system it will show PC health status during POST stage The ite...

Page 32: ...e Regulator The Choices Default default 2 5 5 5 8 1 9 3 DIMM VOLTAGE This item allows you to select DDR Voltage Regulator The Choices 2 5V Default 2 6V 2 7V 2 8V 9 4 AUTO DETECT PCI CLK This item allows you to enable disable auto Detect PCI Clock The Choices Enabled default Disabled 9 5 SPREAD SPECTRUM This item allows you to enable disable the Spread Spectrum function The Choices Enabled default ...

Page 33: ...ng the JCOMS1 2 3 closed as ON status All the CMOS data will be loaded as defaults setting Method 2 Press the Insert key and Power button simultaneously after that keep on pressing the Insert key until the power on screen showed This action will boot up the system according to FSB of the processor It s strongly recommended to set CPU Vcore and clock in default setting If the CPU Vcore and clock ar...

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