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I915G-M7 BIOS Setup 

Table of Contents

 

 

BIOS Setup................................................................................................ 1

 

1.

 

Main Menu ................................................................................. 4

 

1.1

 

Standard CMOS Features............................................................................. 4

 

1.2

 

Advanced BIOS Features.............................................................................. 4

 

1.3

 

Advanced Chipset Features ......................................................................... 4

 

1.4

 

Integrated Peripherals .................................................................................. 4

 

1.5

 

Power Management Setup ........................................................................... 4

 

1.6

 

PnP/PCI Configurations .............................................................................. 5

 

1.7

 

PC Health Status............................................................................................ 5

 

1.8

 

Frequency Control......................................................................................... 5

 

1.9

 

Load Optimized Defaults............................................................................. 5

 

1.10

 

Set Supervisor Password .............................................................................. 5

 

1.11

 

Set User Password......................................................................................... 6

 

1.12

 

Save & Exit Setup .......................................................................................... 6

 

1.13

 

Exit Without Saving ...................................................................................... 6

 

1.14

 

Upgrade BIOS................................................................................................ 6

 

2.

 

Standard CMOS Features ........................................................ 7

 

2.1

 

Main Menu Selections................................................................................... 8

 

3.

 

Advanced BIOS Features ........................................................ 9

 

3.1

 

CPU Feature ................................................................................................... 9

 

3.2

 

Hard Disk Boot Priority.............................................................................. 10

 

3.3

 

Boot Seq & Floppy Setup............................................................................ 11

 

3.4

 

Virus Warning ............................................................................................. 11

 

3.5

 

Cache Setup.................................................................................................. 12

 

3.6

 

Hyper-Threading Technology ................................................................... 12

 

3.7

 

Quick Power On Self Test........................................................................... 12

 

3.8

 

Boot Up NumLock Status........................................................................... 12

 

3.9

 

Gate A20 Option.......................................................................................... 12

 

3.10

 

Typematic Rate Setting............................................................................... 12

 

3.11

 

Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) ...................................................................... 12

 

3.12

 

Typematic Delay (Msec)............................................................................. 13

 

3.13

 

Security Option............................................................................................ 13

 

3.14

 

APIC Mode................................................................................................... 13

 

3.15

 

MPS Version Control For OS ..................................................................... 13

 

3.16

 

OS Select For DRAM > 64MB .................................................................... 13

 

3.17

 

Small Logo (EPA) Show ............................................................................. 13

 

3.18

 

Summary Screen Show............................................................................... 13

 

4.

 

Advanced Chipset Features .................................................. 14

 

4.1

 

DRAM Timing Selectable ........................................................................... 14

 

4.2

 

CAS Latency Time....................................................................................... 14

 

4.3

 

DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay..................................................................... 14

 

4.4

 

DRAM RAS# Precharge ............................................................................. 15

 

Summary of Contents for I915G-M7

Page 1: ...n Menu Selections 8 3 Advanced BIOS Features 9 3 1 CPU Feature 9 3 2 Hard Disk Boot Priority 10 3 3 Boot Seq Floppy Setup 11 3 4 Virus Warning 11 3 5 Cache Setup 12 3 6 Hyper Threading Technology 12 3 7 Quick Power On Self Test 12 3 8 Boot Up NumLock Status 12 3 9 Gate A20 Option 12 3 10 Typematic Rate Setting 12 3 11 Typematic Rate Chars Sec 12 3 12 Typematic Delay Msec 13 3 13 Security Option 13...

Page 2: ...t 27 6 4 Video Off Method 27 6 5 Video Off In Suspend 28 6 6 Suspend Type 28 6 7 MODEM Use IRQ 28 6 8 Suspend Mode 28 6 9 HDD Power Down 28 6 10 Soft Off by PWR BTTN 28 6 11 Intruder Detection 28 7 PnP PCI Configurations 29 7 1 Init Display First 29 7 2 Resources Controlled By 29 7 3 IRQ Resources 30 7 4 PCI VGA Palette Snoop 30 7 5 PCI Express Relative items 31 8 PC Health Status 32 8 1 Shutdown ...

Page 3: ... has customized the Award 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 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 Ext...

Page 4: ...gement and device configuration capabilities as defined in the ACPI specification developed by Microsoft Intel and Toshiba PCI Bus Support This AWARD BIOS also supports Version 2 1 of the Intel PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect local bus specification DRAM Support DDR DRAM Double Data Rate Synchronous DRAM are supported Supported CPUs This AWARD BIOS supports the Intel Pentium 4 CPU ...

Page 5: ...t 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 not save changes into CMOS Status Page Setup Menu and Option Page Setup M...

Page 6: ... only for reference please refer to the BIOS installed on board for update information 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...

Page 7: ...ed not to use Not properly change the voltage and clock may cause CPU or M B damage 1 9 LOAD OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS This selection allows you to reload the BIOS 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 10 SET SUPERVISOR PASSWORD Setting th...

Page 8: ...is set the User will only be able to view configurations but will not be able to change them 1 12 SAVE EXIT SETUP Save all configuration changes to CMOS memory and exit setup Confirmation message will be displayed before proceeding 1 13 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING Abandon all changes made during the current session and exit setup Confirmation message will be displayed before proceeding 1 14 UPGRADE BIOS T...

Page 9: ... FEATURES 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 10: ...r to enter 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 Keybo...

Page 11: ...d of your monitor The Choices Thermal Monitor 1 default Thermal Monitor2 Notes The choices will be different according to your CPU features 3 1 3 TM2 Bus Ratio Represents the frequency Bus ratio of the throttled performance state that will be initiated when the on die sensor goes from not hot to hot The Choices 0X default 3 1 4 TM2 Bus VID Represents the voltage of the throttled performance state ...

Page 12: ...ld be disabled for Win XP The Choices Disabled default Enabled 3 1 6 NX BIOS Control 3 2 HARD DISK BOOT PRIORITY These BIOS attempt to load the operating system from the device in the sequence selected in these items The Choices Floppy LS120 HDD 0 SCSI CDROM HDD 1 HDD 2 HDD 3 ZIP100 LAN HPT370 Disabled Enabled ...

Page 13: ...efault Enabled 3 3 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 Enabled default 3 3 4 Report NO FDD for Win95 The Choices NO default 3 4 VIRUS WARNING This option allows you to choose the Virus Warning feature that is used to protect the IDE Hard Disk ...

Page 14: ... On Self Test POST to execute after you power up the computer Disabled Normal POST Enabled default Enable quick POST 3 8 BOOT UP NUMLOCK STATUS Selects the NumLock State after power on On default Numpad is number keys Off Numpad is arrow keys 3 9 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 L...

Page 15: ...ice mode reporting from the BIOS to the operating system The Choices Enabled default Disabled 3 15 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 16 OS SELECT FOR DRAM 64MB A choice other than Non OS2 is only used for OS2 systems with m...

Page 16: ... 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 Choices 1 5 2 default 2 5 and 3 4 3 DRAM RAS TO CAS DELAY This field let you insert a timing ...

Page 17: ... This item sets the minimum assertion width of the SLP S4 signal to guarantee the DRAM has been safely power cycled 4 8 SYSTEM BIOS CACHEABLE Selecting Enabled allows you caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h FFFFFh resulting a better system performance However if any program writes to this memory area a system error may result The Choices Enabled default Disabled 4 9 VIDEO BIOS CACHEABLE Selec...

Page 18: ...1 5 DVMT Version DVMT Memory Size DVMT stands for Dynamic Video Memory Technology This is an enhancemnet of the unified memory architecture UMA concept Where the optimum amount of memory is allocated for balanced graphics and system performance DVMT dynamically reponds to system requirements and applications demands by allocating the proper amount of display texturing and buffer memory after the o...

Page 19: ...s Enabled default Disabled 5 1 2 IDE DMA Transfer Access This item allows you to enable or disable the IDE transfer access The Choices Enabled default Disabled 5 1 3 On chip Primary Secondary PCI IDE This item allows you to enable or disable the primary secondary IDE Channel The Choices Enabled Default Disabled 5 1 4 IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave PIO The IDE PIO Programmed Input Output fields...

Page 20: ...ve and your system software both support Ultra DMA 100 select Auto to enable BIOS support The Choices Auto default Disabled 5 1 6 On Chip Serial ATA Setting This item allows you to choose Disabled disabled SATA Controller Auto auto arrange by BIOS Combined Mode PATA and SATA are combined max of 2 IDE drivers in each channel Enhanced Mode enabled both SATA and PATA max of 6 IDE drivers are supporte...

Page 21: ...5 2 1 PCI Express Root Port Func PCI Express Port 1 2 3 4 This item allows you to select the PCI Express Port The Choices Auto default Enabled Disabled PCI E Compliancy Mode This item allows you to select the PCI E Compliancy Mode The Choices v1 0a default v1 0 ...

Page 22: ... Keyboard Support This item allows you to enable or disable the USB Keyboard Legacy Support Enabled Enable USB Keyboard Support Disabled default Disable USB Keyboard Support 5 2 5 USB Mouse Support This item allows you to enable or disable the USB Mouse Legacy Support Enabled Enable USB Mouse Support Disabled default Disable USB Mouse Support 5 2 6 AC97 Audio This item allows you to enable or disa...

Page 23: ...dress and corresponding interrupt for the first and second serial ports The Choices 3F8 IRQ4 default Disabled Auto 2F8 IRQ3 3E8 IRQ4 2E8 IRQ3 5 3 3 Onboard IR Function 5 3 4 UART Mode Select This item allows you to determine which Infrared IR function of onboard I O chip The Choices Normal ASKIR IrDA default SCR 5 3 5 UR2 Duplex Mode Select the value required by the IR device connected to the IR p...

Page 24: ...378 IRQ7 default 278 IRQ5 3BC IRQ7 Disabled 5 3 7 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 8 ECP Mode Use DMA Select a DMA Channel for the port The Choices 3 default 1 ...

Page 25: ...ment Setup Menu allows you to configure your system to utilize energy conservation and power up power down features 6 1 ACPI WAKE UP EVENTS 6 1 1 ACPI Function This item displays the status of the Advanced Configuration and Power Management ACPI The Choices Enabled default Disabled ...

Page 26: ...gnal from PCI card returns the system to Full On state The Choices Enabled Disabled default 6 1 5 Power On by Ring An input signal on the serial Ring Indicator RI line in other words an incoming call on the modem awakens the system from a soft off state The Choices Enabled Disabled default 6 1 6 USB KB Wake Up From S3 This item allows you to enable or disabled USB keyboard wake up from S3 The Choi...

Page 27: ...ower ON Input password and press Enter to set the Keyboard power on password The Choices Ctrl F1 default Ctrl F2 Ctrl F3 Ctrl F4 Ctrl F5 Ctrl F6 Ctrl F7 Ctrl F8 Ctrl F9 Ctrl F10 Ctrl F11 and Ctrl F12 6 1 11 POWER After PWR Fail This setting specifies 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...

Page 28: ... Secondary RAID 0 or RAID 1 function under this item The Choices Disabled default Enabled 6 2 2 FDD COM LPT Port You can select to enable or disable FDD COM and LPT port under this item The Choices Disabled default Enabled 6 2 3 PCI PIRQ A D You can select to enable or disable PCI PIRQ A D under this item The Choices Disabled default Enabled ...

Page 29: ...ilable for sl CPU s Doze Mode 1 min Standby Mode 1 min Suspend Mode 1 min HDD Power Down 1 min User Defined default Allow you to set each mode individually When not disabled each of the ranges is from 1 min to 1 hr except for HDD Power Down which ranges from 1 min to 15 min and disable 6 4 VIDEO OFF METHOD This option determines the manner in which the monitor is goes blank 6 4 1 V H SYNC Blank Th...

Page 30: ...off The Choices Disabled default 1Min 2Min 4Min 8Min 12Min 20Min 30Min 40Min and 1Hour 6 9 HDD POWER DOWN When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity the hard disk drive will be powered down while all other devices remain active The Choices Disabled default 1Min 2Min 3Min 4Min 5Min 6Min 7Min 8Min 9Min 10Min 11Min 12Min 13Min 14Min and 15Min 6 10 SOFT OFF BY PWR BTTN Pressing the power...

Page 31: ...t is strongly recommended that only experienced users should make any changes to the default settings 7 1 INIT DISPLAY FIRST This item allows you to decide to active whether PCI Slot or on chip VGA first The Choices Onboard AGP default PCI Slot 7 2 RESOURCES CONTROLLED BY By Choosing Auto ESCD default the system BIOS will detect the system resources and automatically assign the relative IRQ and DM...

Page 32: ...map it to their display as a way to provide boot information and VGA compatibility However the color information coming from the VGA controller is drawn from the palette table inside the VGA controller to generate the proper colors and the graphic controller needs to know what is in the palette of the VGA controller To do this the non VGA graphic controller watch for the Write access to the VGA pa...

Page 33: ...P4 TGQ M775 BIOS Setup User s Manual 31 7 5 PCI EXPRESS RELATIVE ITEMS 7 5 1 Maximum Payload Size Set the maximum payload size for Transaction packets TLP The Choice 4096 default ...

Page 34: ... computer contain a monitoring system it will show PC health status during POST stage The item offers several delay time to select you want The Choices Enabled default Disabled 8 3 CPU VCORE 3 3V 5 0V 12V 12V 5V 5V SB Voltage Battery Detect the system s voltage status automatically 8 4 CURRENT CPU TEMP Show you the current CPU temperature 8 5 CURRENT CPU FAN SPEED This field displays the current C...

Page 35: ...the system s frequency that you are selected is not functioning there are two methods of booting up the system Method 1 Clear the COMS data by setting 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 u...

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