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BIOS Setup 

 

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Main Menu

 

Once you enter Award BIOS™ CMOS Setup Utility, the Main Menu will appear 
on the screen. The Main Menu allows you to select from several setup functions. 
Use the arrow keys to select among the items and press <Enter> to accept and 
enter the sub-menu. 

 

The information about BIOS defaults on manual is just for reference; 
please refer to the BIOS installed on board, for update information. 

 

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Figure 1. Main Menu 

 

 

 

Standard CMOS Features 

This submenu contains industry standard configurable options. 

 

Advanced BIOS Features 

This submenu allows you to configure enhanced features of the BIOS. 

Summary of Contents for U8068

Page 1: ...3 Standard CMOS Features 5 Standard CMOS Features 6 Advanced BIOS Features 8 Advanced Chipset Features 11 Integrated Peripherals 16 Power Management Setup 22 PnP PCI Configurations 28 PC Health Statu...

Page 2: ...ward BIOS but nonstandard features such as virus and password protection as well as special support for detailed fine tuning of the chipset controlling the entire system The rest of this manual is int...

Page 3: ...stroke Function Up arrow Move to previous 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 Esc Main Menu Quit witho...

Page 4: ...ect among the items and press Enter to accept and enter the sub menu The information about BIOS defaults on manual is just for reference please refer to the BIOS installed on board for update informat...

Page 5: ...oltage Control This submenu allows you to change CPU clock ratio However when you try to change different CPU clock ratio you should check your CPU frequency in advance The CPU clock ratio should be c...

Page 6: ...he User will only be able to view configurations but will not be able to change them Save Exit Setup Save all configuration changes to CMOS memory and exit setup Confirmation message will be displayed...

Page 7: ...rd 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 v...

Page 8: ...etailed 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 No...

Page 9: ...s function is enabled and an attempt is made to write to the boot sector BIOS will display a warning message on the screen and sound an alarm beep Disabled default Virus protection is disabled Enabled...

Page 10: ...3 ZIP100 LAN Enabled Disabled Swap Floppy Drive For systems with two floppy drives this option allows you to swap logical drive assignments The Choices Enabled Disabled default Boot Up Floppy Seek En...

Page 11: ...or to use the CMOS Setup Utility System A password is required for the system to boot and is also required to access the Setup Utility Setup default A password is required to access the Setup Utility...

Page 12: ...ngs that came with your system have been optimized and therefore should not be changed unless you are suspicious that the settings have been changed incorrectly Figure 4 Advanced Chipset Setup DRAM Cl...

Page 13: ...tem to specify the delay from the activation of a bank to the time that a read or write command is accepted The Choices 2T 3T default DRAM Burst Len The Choices 4 default 8 DRAM Command Rate This item...

Page 14: ...states The Choices Disabled default Enabled AGP Master 1 WS Read When Enabled read to the AGP Accelerated Graphics Port are executed with one wait states The Choices Disabled default Enabled CPU PCI...

Page 15: ...However any programs writing to this area of memory will cause conflicts and result in system errors The Choices Enabled Disabled default Video RAM Cacheable Enabling this option allows caching of the...

Page 16: ...time as CPU Direct Access FB mode If used this bit must be set before enabling the internal VGA to prevent display corruption The Choices Enabled Disabled default FB Page Close Prediction This feature...

Page 17: ...Onboard PCI LAN This item allows you to enabled or disabled the onboard PCI LAN function The Choices Enabled default Disabled Onboard Lan Boot ROM This item allows you to decide whether to invoke the...

Page 18: ...you install a primary and or secondary add in IDE interface set this option to Disabled The Choices Enabled default Disabled Primary Secondary Master Slave PIO The IDE PIO Programmed Input Output fie...

Page 19: ...sabled Super IO Device If you highlight the literal Press Enter next to the Super IO Device label and then press the enter key it will take you a submenu with the following options Onboard FDC Control...

Page 20: ...on Delay This item allows you to enable disable IR transmission delay The Choices Enabled default Disabled UR2 Duplex Mode Select the value required by the IR device connected to the IR port Full dupl...

Page 21: ...01 default 209 Disabled Midi Port Address Midi Port Base I O Address The Choices 330 default 300 290 Disabled Midi Port IRQ This determines the IRQ in which the Midi Port can use The Choices 5 10 defa...

Page 22: ...ck 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 syst...

Page 23: ...ower down features Figure 6 Power Management Setup ACPI function This item displays the status of the Advanced Configuration and Power Management ACPI The Choices Enabled default Disabled ACPI Suspend...

Page 24: ...er Saving Maximum power management only available for sl CPU s Suspend Mode 1 min HDD Power Down 1 min User Defined default Allows you to set each mode individually When not disabled each of the range...

Page 25: ...ch the monitor is goes blank V H SYNC Blank default This selection will cause the system to turn off the vertical and horizontal synchronization ports and write blanks to the video buffer Blank Screen...

Page 26: ...t CMOS to the Off status when AC power is lost On Means always set CMOS to the On status when AC power is lost Former Sts Means to maintain the last status of the CMOS when AC power is lost For exampl...

Page 27: ...e Up On LAN Ring To use this function you need a LAN add on card which support power on function It should also support the wake up on LAN jump Disabled default Wake up on LAN Ring not supported Enabl...

Page 28: ...e on LPT COMM activity Primary INTR On IRQ3 COM2 Disabled IRQ4 COM1 Enabled IRQ5 LPT2 Enabled IRQ6 Floppy Disk Enabled IRQ7 LPT1 Enabled IRQ8 RTC Alarm Disabled IRQ9 IRQ2 Redir Disabled IRQ10 Reserved...

Page 29: ...ry technical items and it is strongly recommended that only experienced users should make any changes to the default settings Figure 7 PnP PCI Configurations PNP OS Installed When set to YES BIOS will...

Page 30: ...assigned to PCI Device IRQ 7 assigned to PCI Device IRQ 9 assigned to PCI Device IRQ 10 assigned to PCI Device IRQ 11 assigned to PCI Device IRQ 12 assigned to PCI Device IRQ 14 assigned to PCI Device...

Page 31: ...the VGA controller To do this 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 b...

Page 32: ...ged by the overheated temperature When this function is enabled the system will warn you if the CPU temperature reaches the warning temperature The Choices Disabled default 50 122 53 127 56 133 60 140...

Page 33: ...When this function is enabled the system will automatically shutdown if the CPU temperature reaches the shutdown temperature This function only works under Windows 98 ACPI mode The Choices Disabled d...

Page 34: ...enable disable auto detect DIMM PCI Clock The Choices Enabled default Disabled CPU Clock This item allows you to select CPU Host Clock The Choices 100MHz Min default 132MHz Max CPU Ratio This item al...

Page 35: ...em Method 1 Clear the CMOS data by setting the JCMOS1 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 t...

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