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P5MMA98/P5MMS98

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AMI BIOS

REFERENCE MANUAL

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Page 1: ...SUPER P5MMA98 P5MMS98 P5MMA2 P5MMS2 AMI BIOS REFERENCE MANUAL Revision 1 1...

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: ...1 Setup 2 1 1 Standard Setup 2 1 2 1 2 Advanced Setup 2 3 2 1 3 Chipset Setup 2 7 2 1 4 Power Management Setup 2 11 2 1 5 PCI PnP Setup 2 14 2 1 6 Peripheral Setup 2 18 2 2 Security Setup 2 2 1 Superv...

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: ...d PS 2 compatible 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 s...

Page 7: ...test The screen that appears when the system is powered on is shown below An AMIBIOS Identification string is displayed at the left bottom corner of the screen below the copyright message 081597 Pent...

Page 8: ...System Management Interrupt SMI Sleep and Suspend power management modes are supported Power to the hard drives and video monitors can be managed supports Intel PCI 2 1 Peripheral Component Interconne...

Page 9: ...egatrends Inc Main Processor Pentium P54C Base Memory Size 640 KB Math Processor Built In Ext Memory Size 31744 KB Floppy Drive A 1 2 MB 5 Display Type VGA EGA Floppy Drive B 1 44 MB 3 Serial Port s 3...

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

Page 11: ...ers are Parameter Description Type The number for a drive with certain identification parameters Cylinders The number of cylinders in the disk drive Heads The number of heads Write The size of a secto...

Page 12: ...Enabled to permit AMIBIOS to boot within 5 sec onds The settings are Disabled or Enabled The Optimal default setting is Enabled The Fail Safe default setting is Disabled Pri Master ARMD Emulated as Pr...

Page 13: ...will be referred to as the hard disk connected to Primary Slave and IDE 1 will be referred to as the hard disk connected to the Secondary Master IDE 2 and IDE 3 are not present Note that the order of...

Page 14: ...upport When this option is set to Enabled AMIBIOS supports a PS 2 type mouse The settings are Enabled or Disabled The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Enabled Primary Display This option spe...

Page 15: ...ptimal default setting is Writeback The Fail Safe default setting is Disabled System BIOS Cacheable AMIBIOS always copies the system BIOS from ROM to RAM for faster execution Set this option to Enable...

Page 16: ...ry The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Disabled 2 1 3 Chipset Setup USB Function Set this option to Enabled to enable the USB Universal Serial Bus functions The settings for this option are...

Page 17: ...allow the system to perform SDRAM read cycle base on the expected logic specified by the chipset The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Disabled DRAM Speed This option should be set according...

Page 18: ...iming When set to Disabled the DRAM controller read request is pre sented before the final memory target is decoded by the MTXC This results in a 1 hclk pull in for all read leadoff latencies The sett...

Page 19: ...efresh Type The settings for this option are CBR or Self The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are CBR When set to CBR the CBR refresh mode is selected during the suspend period If set to Self se...

Page 20: ...ble the Intel 430TX power manage ment features and APM Advanced Power Management The set tings are Enabled or Disabled The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Disabled Power Button Function The...

Page 21: ...Disabled Hard Disk Power Down Mode This option specifies the power conserving state that the hard disk drive enters after the specified period of hard drive inactivity has expired The settings are Dis...

Page 22: ...4 minute intervals The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Disabled Slow Clock Ratio The value of the slow clock ratio indicates the percentage of time the STPCLK signal is asserted while in t...

Page 23: ...ail Safe default settings are No Set this option to Yes if the operating system in the computer is aware of and follows the Plug and Play specification AMIBIOS only detects and enables PnP ISA adapter...

Page 24: ...snooping PCI IDE Busmaster Set this option to Enabled to specify that the IDE controller on the PCI local bus includes a bus mastering capability The settings for this option are Enabled or Disabled T...

Page 25: ...or INTD The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Disabled PCI Slot 1 IRQ Priority PCI Slot 2 IRQ Priority PCI Slot 3 IRQ Priority PCI Slot 4 IRQ Priority The settings are Auto 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 1...

Page 26: ...9 will still be available for PCI and PnP devices This is because at least one IRQ must be avail able for PCI and PnP devices The settings are ISA EISA or PCI PnP The Optimal and Fail Safe default set...

Page 27: ...8h The Optimal and Fail Safe default settings are Auto OnBoard Serial Port B This option specifies the base I O port address of serial port 2 The settings are Auto AMIBIOS automatically determines the...

Page 28: ...Disabled OnBoard Parallel Port This option specifies the base I O port address of the parallel port on the motherboard The settings are Auto AMIBIOS automatically determines the correct base I O port...

Page 29: ...el 0 1 DMA channel 1 or 3 DMA channel 3 The Optimal and Fail Safe de fault settings are N A OnBoard IDE This option specifies the onboard IDE controller channels to be used The settings are Disabled P...

Page 30: ...slow down to the specified frequency when it is overheated LM78 In0 CPU VCore LM78 In1 CPU VIO LM78 In2 3 3V LM78 In3 5V LM78 In4 12V LM78 In5 12V LM78 In6 5V LM78 Fan1 CPU LM78 Fan2 Thermal LM78 Fan3...

Page 31: ...letter 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 Y...

Page 32: ...in 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 sy...

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Page 34: ...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 35: ...er Activity Failed 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 d...

Page 36: ...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 38: ...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 39: ...tors Size Precompensation 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...

Page 40: ...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 41: ...e The keyboard controller 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 Excepti...

Page 42: ...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 43: ...eyboard controller 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 unbloc...

Page 44: ...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 45: ...ecking failed About 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...

Page 46: ...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 47: ...to disable Gate A20 address line 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 fo...

Page 48: ...to write command byte and initialize circular 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 misma...

Page 49: ...e and extended 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...

Page 50: ...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 51: ...r Going to display 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 C...

Page 52: ...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 53: ...uld run BIOS SETUP 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 T...

Page 54: ...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 55: ...Gate A20 Error 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 decodin...

Page 56: ...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 57: ...s Manual 31 Parity 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...

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