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UPER

440FX Chipset

AMI BIOS

REFERENCE MANUAL

Revision 3.3

Summary of Contents for 440FX

Page 1: ...SUPER 440FX Chipset AMI BIOS REFERENCE MANUAL Revision 3 3...

Page 2: ...AL INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS PRODUCT OR DOCUMENTATION EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES IN PARTICULAR THE VENDOR SHALL NOT HAVE...

Page 3: ...2 Running Setup 2 1 Setup 2 1 1 Standard Setup 2 1 2 1 2 Advanced Setup 2 3 2 1 3 Chipset Setup 2 8 2 1 4 Power Management 2 12 2 1 5 PCI PnP Setup 2 15 2 1 6 Peripheral Setup 2 18 2 2 Security Setup...

Page 4: ...Appendix A Hard Disk Error Messages A 1 Appendix B BIOS Hard Disk Drive Types B 1 Appendix C BIOS Error Beep Codes C 1 Appendix D AMI BIOS POST Diagnostic Error Messages D 1 Appendix E BIOS Non Fatal...

Page 5: ...PRINTED IN U S A...

Page 6: ...computers The WinBIOS is a high quality example of a system BIOS Configuration Data AT compatible systems also called ISA Industry Standard Architec ture must have a place to store system information...

Page 7: ...screen below the copyright message 1 2 BIOS Features supports Plug and Play V1 0A and DMI 2 0 supports Intel PCI 2 1 Peripheral Component Interconnect lo cal bus specification supports EDO Extended Da...

Page 8: ...IBIOS System Configuration C 1985 1994 American Megatrends Inc Main Processor Pentium tm Pro Base Memory Size 640 KB Math Processor Built In Ext Memory Size 31744 KB Floppy Drive A 1 2 MB 5 Display Ty...

Page 9: ...1 4 BIOS User s Manual...

Page 10: ...icon the following parameters are listed Type LBA Large Mode Block Mode 32Bit Mode and PIO Mode All param eters relate to IDE drives except Type If the hard disk drive to be configured is an IDE driv...

Page 11: ...in the disk drive Heads The number of heads Write The size of a sector gets progressively smaller as the track Precompensation diameter diminishes Yet each sector must still hold 512 bytes Write prec...

Page 12: ...he Optimal default setting is Enabled The Fail Safe default setting is Disabled 1st Boot Device 2nd Boot Device 3rd Boot Device The options for 1st Boot Device are Disabled IDE 1 IDE 2 IDE 3 Floppy Fl...

Page 13: ...irst Primary Slave second Secondary Master third and Secondary Slave fourth The BIOS will attempt to read the boot record from 1st 2nd and 3rd boot device in the selected order until it is successful...

Page 14: ...dd on ROM is found then the current display mode will remain unchanged even if this setup question is selected as Force BIOS If selected as Keep Current then the current display mode will remain uncha...

Page 15: ...s option specifies the type of display adapter card installed in the system The settings are VGA EGA CGA40x25 CGA80x25 Mono or Absent The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are VGA EGA Password Ch...

Page 16: ...copies the system BIOS from ROM to RAM for faster execution Set this option to Enabled to permit the contents of F0000h RAM memory segment to be written to and read from cache memory The settings are...

Page 17: ...ipset Setup USB Function Set this option to Enabled to enable the USB Universal Serial Bus functions The settings for this option are Enabled or Disabled The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are...

Page 18: ...l and Fail Safe default settings are Disabled DRAM Fast LeadOff This option is for PMC register 57h where bit 7 is currently listed as reserved The settings are Disabled or Enabled The Optimal and Fai...

Page 19: ...C 01h The settings are Disabled or Enabled The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Disabled Fixed Memory Hole This option allows a memory hole to be specified for either the 512 640K region or...

Page 20: ...doublewords into a single memory write transaction using lin ear addressing The combined doublewords must be written in the same order in which they were posted The settings are Disabled or Enabled T...

Page 21: ...hardware power management support In this mode operation system con trols the power conservation functions not the system BIOS The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Disabled Advanced Power Ma...

Page 22: ...r Power State This option specifies the power state that the green PC compliant video monitor enters when AMIBIOS places it in a power savings state after the specified period of display inactivity ha...

Page 23: ...s This option specifies the length of a period of system inactivity while in standby state When this length of time expires the computer enters suspend power state The settings are Disabled and 1 Min...

Page 24: ...and follows the Plug and Play specification AMIBIOS only detects and enables PnP ISA adapter cards that are required for system boot Currently only Windows 95 is PnP Aware Set this option to No if the...

Page 25: ...CI IDE Card This option specifies if an offboard PCI IDE controller adapter card is installed in the computer The PCI expansion slot on the motherboard where the offboard PCI IDE controller is install...

Page 26: ...l and Fail Safe default settings are Auto DMA Channel 0 DMA Channel 1 DMA Channel 3 DMA Channel 5 DMA Channel 6 DMA Channel 7 These DMA channels control the data transfers between the I O devices and...

Page 27: ...ory Size This option specifies the size of the memory area reserved for legacy ISA adapter cards The settings are Disabled 16K 32K or 64K The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Disabled Reserv...

Page 28: ...h 2F8h 2E8h or 3E8h The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Auto Serial Port 2 Mode The settings are Normal Sharp IR SIR MIR FIR or TV Remote The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Norm...

Page 29: ...s the DMA protocol and provides symmetric bidirectional communication EPP Version The settings are 1 7 or 1 9 The Optimal and Fail Safe default set tings are N A Parallel Port DMA Channel This option...

Page 30: ...via the mouse or selecting each letter via the pen stylus Pen access must be customized for each specific hardware platform When you select Supervisor or User AMIBIOS prompts for a pass word You must...

Page 31: ...WinBIOS Setup contains two default settings a Fail Safe default and an Optimal default 2 4 1 Optimal Default The Optimal default settings provide optimum performance settings for all devices and syst...

Page 32: ...en to run the Hard Disk Utility 2 FATAL ERROR Bad Hard Disk The program is not getting a response from the hard disk or the hard disk is not repairable Check all cable and power connections to the har...

Page 33: ...led The program has sent a reset command to the controller followed by the drive parameters Using the parameters sent to it the controller is not getting a response from the hard disk drive Check to s...

Page 34: ...as well 14 Seek Operation Failed The program has issued a seek command to the drive and this operation has failed A seek operation is the act of finding a particular sector on the hard disk 15 Attachm...

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Page 36: ...855 17 35 MB 12 855 7 65535 855 17 50 MB 13 306 8 128 319 17 20 MB 14 733 7 65535 733 17 43 MB 16 612 4 0 663 17 20 MB 17 977 5 300 977 17 41 MB 18 977 7 65535 977 17 57 MB 19 1024 7 512 1023 17 60 MB...

Page 37: ...pensation Zone 37 615 8 128 615 17 41 MB 38 987 3 987 987 17 25 MB 39 987 7 987 987 17 57 MB 40 820 6 820 820 17 41 MB 41 977 5 977 977 17 41 MB 42 981 5 981 981 17 41 MB 43 830 7 512 831 17 48 MB 44...

Page 38: ...ges normally appear on the screen See Appendix E for BIOS Error Messages Fatal errors are those which will not allow the system to continue the boot up procedure If a fatal error occurs you should con...

Page 39: ...ontroller 8042 contains the Gate A20 switch which allows the CPU to operate in virtual mode This error means that the BIOS cannot switch the CPU into protected mode 7 Processor Exception The CPU on th...

Page 40: ...CPU init and CPU data area init to be done next 07 Post code is uncompressed CPU init and CPU data area init to be done next 08 CPU and CPU data area init done CMOS checksum calculation to be done nex...

Page 41: ...er command byte has been writ ten Issuing the keyboard controller pins 23 and 24 blocking and unblocking command next 11 Keyboard controller pins 23 and 24 have been blocked and unblocked See if the I...

Page 42: ...lization about to begin 25 Interrupt vector initialization done Going to read I O port of 8042 for turbo switch if any 26 Input port of 8042 is read Going to initialize global data for turbo switch 27...

Page 43: ...bout to do alternate Display memory R W test 32 Alternate Display memory R W test passed About to look for the alternate display retrace checking 34 Video display checking over Display mode to be set...

Page 44: ...base 640 KB memory 48 Patterns written in base memory Going to find out amount of memory below 1 MB memory 49 Amount of memory below 1 MB found and verified Go ing to find out amount of memory above...

Page 45: ...57 The Gate A20 address line is disabled Adjusting the memory size depending the memory relocation and or shadowing parameters 58 The memory size has been adjusted for memory relo cation and or shado...

Page 46: ...cular buffer 83 Command byte written Global data initialization done About to check for lock key 84 Lock key checking over About to check for memory size mismatch with CMOS 85 Memory size check done A...

Page 47: ...memory sizes 96 Memory size adjusted due to mouse support hard disk type 47 Going to do any initialization before C8000 optional ROM control 97 Any initialization before C8000 optional control is over...

Page 48: ...mand is issued Keyboard ID flag to be reset A1 Keyboard ID flag reset Cache memory test to follow A2 Cache memory test over Going to display any soft errors A3 Soft error display complete Going to set...

Page 49: ...ay the system configuration B0 The system configuration is displayed Uncompressing the Setup code for hotkey setup next if required B1 The setup code for hotkey has been uncompressed Copying any requi...

Page 50: ...nced CMOS Setup portion of the BIOS SETUP PROGRAM has been set to disabled the Fl prompt will not appear on the third line For most of the error messages there is no ERROR Message Line 2 Generally for...

Page 51: ...UP Program 6 CMOS System Options Not Set The values stored in the CMOS are either corrupt or nonexistent Run the BIOS SETUP Program to correct this error 7 CMOS Display Type Mismatch The type of video...

Page 52: ...ated Run the BIOS SETUP Program to correct this error 13 FDD Controller Failure The BIOS is not able to communicate with the floppy disk drive controller Check all appropriate connections after the sy...

Page 53: ...The Gate A20 portion of the keyboard controller 8042 has failed to operate correctly The 8042 chip should be replaced 22 Address Line Short An error has occurred in the address decoding circuitry of t...

Page 54: ...n the system board The message will appear as follows ON BOARD PARITY ERROR ADDR HEX XXXX Where XXXX is the address in hexadecimal where the error has occurred On Board means that it is part of the me...

Page 55: ...ity Error The BIOS has encountered a parity error with some memory in the system but it is not able to determine the address of the error Memory diagnostic software such as AMIDIAG can be used to find...

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