Biostar P4ARA BIOS Owner's Manual

P4ARA BIOS Setup i BIOS Setup...1 1 Main Menu...

P4ARA BIOS Setup 9 3 Advanced BIOS Features  Figure 3. Advance d BIOS Se tup Boot Seq & Floppy Setup First /Second/Third/ Boot Other Device T

P4ARA BIOS Setup 10 CPU L1 & L2 Cache Depending on the CPU/chipset in use, you may be able to increase memory access time with this option.

P4ARA BIOS Setup 11 Sets the delay time after the key is held down before it begins to repeat the keystroke. The Choices: 250 (default), 500,750,1000

P4ARA BIOS Setup 12 4 Advanced Chipset Features This submenu allows you to configure the specific features of the chipset installed on your system.

P4ARA BIOS Setup 13 CAS Latency When synchronous DRAM is installed, the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing. The

P4ARA BIOS Setup 14 Selecting the “Enabled” option allows caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h-FFFFFh which can improve system performance. Howe

P4ARA BIOS Setup 15 5 Integrated Peripherals  Figure 5. Integrated Peripherals SB200 OnChip IDE Device If you highlight the literal “Press Enter

P4ARA BIOS Setup 16 The Cho ices: Disabled (default), Enabled. Primary / Secondary /Master / Slave PIO The IDE PIO (Programmed Input / Output) fiel

P4ARA BIOS Setup 17 KB Power ON Password Press Enter to configure the K8 Power ON Password. The Choices: PCI Slot (default), AGP. Hot Key Power ON T

P4ARA BIOS Setup 18 ECP Using Parallel Port as Extended Capabilities Port. ECP+EPP Using Parallel Port as ECP & EPP

P4ARA BIOS Setup 1 BIOS Setup Introduction T his manual discussed Award™ Setup program built into the ROM BIOS. T he Setup program allows users to m

P4ARA BIOS Setup 19 USB EHCI Controller T his item allows you to enabled or disabled the USB EHCI Controller inte grated in ICH4. The Cho ices: Disab

P4ARA BIOS Setup 20 6 Power Management Setup The Power Management Setup Menu allows you to configure your system to utilize energy conservation and

P4ARA BIOS Setup 21 There are four options of Power Management, three of which have fixed mode settings Min. Saving Minimum power management. HDD Po

P4ARA BIOS Setup 22 Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN Pressing the power button for more than 4 seconds forces the system to enter the Soft-Off state when the s

P4ARA BIOS Setup 23 7 PnP/PCI Configurations This section describes configuring the PCI bus system. PCI, or Personal Computer Interconnect, is a syst

P4ARA BIOS Setup 24 non-PnP ISA add-on cards. PCI / ISA PnP signifies that a resource is assigned to the PCI Bus or provides for ISA PnP add-on cards

P4ARA BIOS Setup 25 Enabled Enables the function. Assign IRQ For VGA This item allows the users to choose which IRQ to assign for the VGA. The Choi

P4ARA BIOS Setup 26 8 PC Health Status  Figure 8. PC Health Status Shutdown Temperature T his item allows you to set up the CPU shutdown T empera

P4ARA BIOS Setup 27 Show you the current CPU temperature. Current CPU FAN Speed This field displays the current CPUFAN speed. Current SYS FAN Speed

P4ARA BIOS Setup 28 9 Frequency Control  Figure 9. Frequency Co ntrol Curre nt FSB Frequency This item shows the current CPU Front Side Bus Fr

P4ARA BIOS Setup 2 PCI Bus Suppo rt This AWARD BIOS also supports Version 2.1 of the Intel PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) local bus specific

P4ARA BIOS Setup 29 If unfortunately, the system’s frequency that you are selected is not functioning, there are two methods of booting-up the sys

P4ARA BIOS Setup 3 1 Main Menu Once you enter Award BIOS™ CMOS Setup Utility, the Main Menu will appear on the screen. The Main Menu allows you to s

P4ARA BIOS Setup 4 Integrated Peripherals This submenu allows you to configure certain IDE hard drive options and Programmed Input/ Output features.

P4ARA BIOS Setup 5 Save all configuration changes to CMOS(memory) and exit setup. Confirmation message will be displayed before proceeding. Exi

P4ARA BIOS Setup 6 2 Standard CMOS Features The items in Standard CMOS Setup Menu are divided into 10 categories. Each category includes no, one or

P4ARA BIOS Setup 7 Main Menu Selections This table shows the selections that you can make on the Main Menu. Item Options Description Date mm : dd :

P4ARA BIOS Setup 8 Item Options Description Halt On All Errors No Errors All, but Keyboard All, but Diskette All, but Disk/ Key Select the situatio