Biostar P4M900-M4 User Manual Page 1

P4M900-M4 Setup Manual FCC Information and Copyright This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits of a Class B digital device

Motherboard Manual 10 2.3 INSTALLING SYSTEM MEMORY A. Memory Modules DIMM1DIMM2 1. Unlock a DIMM slot by pressing the retaining clips outward. Align

P4M900-M4 11 2.4 CONNECTORS AND SLOTS FDD1: Floppy Disk Connector The motherboard provides a standard floppy disk connector that supports 360K, 720K,

Motherboard Manual 12 PCI-EX16: PCI-Express x16 Slot - PCI-Express 1.0a compliant. - Maximum theoretical realized bandwidth of 4GB/s simultaneously

P4M900-M4 13 CHAPTER 3: HEADERS & JUMPERS SETUP 3.1 HOW TO SETUP JUMPERS The illustration shows how to set up jumpers. When the jumper cap is plac

Motherboard Manual 14 ATX Power Source Connector: JATXPWR1 JATXPWR1 allows user to connect 24-pin power connector on the ATX power supply. 1121324

P4M900-M4 15 JUSB2/JUSB3: Headers for USB 2.0 Ports at Front Panel This header allows user to connect additional USB cable on the PC front panel, and

Motherboard Manual 16 JAUDIOF1: Front Panel Audio Header This header allows user to connect the front audio output cable with the PC front panel. It w

P4M900-M4 17 JCMOS1: Clear CMOS Header By placing the jumper on pin2-3, it allows user to restore the BIOS safe setting and the CMOS data, please care

Motherboard Manual 18 JPRNT1: Printer Port Connector This header allows you to connector printer on the PC. 1252 Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 -St

P4M900-M4 19 CHAPTER 4: USEFUL HELP 4.1 DRIVER INSTALLATION NOTE After you installed your operating system, please insert the Fully Setup Driver CD in

Table of Contents Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION ...3 1.1 Before You Start...

Motherboard Manual 20 4.2 AWARD BIOS BEEP CODE Beep Sound Meaning One long beep followed by two short beeps Video card not found or video card memory

P4M900-M4 21 B. CPU Overheated If the system shutdown automatically after power on system for seconds, that means the CPU protection function has been

Motherboard Manual 22 4.4 TROUBLESHOOTING Probable Solution 1. No power to the system at all Power light don’t illuminate, fan inside power supply do

P4M900-M4 23 CHAPTER 5: WARPSPEEDER™ 5.1 INTRODUCTION [WarpSpeeder™], a new powerful control utility, features three user-friendly functions includ

Motherboard Manual 24 5.3 INSTALLATION 1. Execute the setup execution file, and then the following dialog will pop up. Please click “Next” button and

P4M900-M4 25 5.4 WARPSPEEDER™ 1. Tray Icon Whenever the Tray Icon utility is launched, it will display a little tray icon on the right side of Wind

Motherboard Manual 26 2. Main Panel If you click the tray icon, [WarpSpeeder™] utility will be invoked. Please refer to the following figure; the uti

P4M900-M4 27 3. Voltage Panel Click the Voltage button in Main Panel, the button will be highlighted and the Voltage Panel will slide out to up as th

Motherboard Manual 28 4. Overclock Panel Click the Overclock button in Main Panel, the button will be highlighted and the Overclock Panel will slide

P4M900-M4 29 c. “Auto-overclock button”: User can click this button and [WarpSpeeder™] will set the best and stable performance and frequency automat

P4M900-M4 3 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 BEFORE YOU START Thank you for choosing our product. Before you start installing the motherboard, please make

Motherboard Manual 30 6. About Panel Click the “about” button in Main Panel, the button will be highlighted and the About Panel will slide out to up

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Motherboard Manual 32 APPENDENCIES: SPEC IN OTHER LANGUAGE GERMAN Ver 5.x Ver 6.x CPU Sockel 478 Intel Pentium 4 / Celeron D Prozessoren mit bis z

P4M900-M4 33 Ver 5.x Ver 6.x LAN PHY Realtek RTL 8201CL PHY 10 / 100 Mb/s Auto-Negotiation Halb-/ Vollduplex -Funktion Realtek RTL 8201CL PHY 10

Motherboard Manual 34 FRANCE Ver 5.x Ver 6.x UC Socket 478 Process eurs Intel Pentium 4 / Celeron D jusqu'à 3,4 GHz (pas de prise en charge d

P4M900-M4 35 Ver 5.x Ver 6.x LAN PHY Realtek RTL 8201CL PHY 10 / 100 Mb/s négociation automatique Half / Full dup lex capability Realtek RTL 8201C

Motherboard Manual 36 ITALIAN Ver 5.x Ver 6.x CPU Socket 478 Processore Intel Pentium 4 / Celeron D fino a 3.4 GHz (Non supporta CPU Willamette) S

P4M900-M4 37 Ver 5.x Ver 6.x Codec audio ALC883 Supporto audio High-Definition (HD) Uscita audio 7.1 canali ALC861VD Supporto audio High-Defin

Motherboard Manual 38 SPANISH Ver 5.x Ver 6.x CPU Conector 478 Procesador Intel Pentium 4 / Celeron D hasta 3,4 GHz (no soporta CPU Willamette) Ad

P4M900-M4 39 Ver 5.x Ver 6.x Códecs de sonido ALC883 Soporte de sonido de Alta Definición Salida de sonido de 7.1 canales ALC861VD Soporte de s

Motherboard Manual 4 1.3 MOTHERBOARD FEATURESS Ver 5.x Ver 6.x CPU Socket 478 Intel Pent ium 4 / Celeron D process or up to 3.4 GHz (Do not suppor

Motherboard Manual 40 PORTUGUESE Ver 5.x Ver 6.x CPU Socket 478 Process ador Intel Pentium 4 / Celeron D até 3,4 GHz (não suporta a CPU Willamette

P4M900-M4 41 Ver 5.x Ver 6.x Codec de som ALC883 Suporta a especificação High-Definition Audio Saída de áud io de 7.1 canais ALC861VD Suporta a

Motherboard Manual 42 POLISH Ver 5.x Ver 6.x Procesor Socket 478 Procesor Intel Pentium 4 / Celeron D do 3,4 GHz (brak obsługi procesorów Willamet

P4M900-M4 43 Ver 5.x Ver 6.x LAN PHY Realtek RTL 8201CL PHY 10 / 100 Mb/s z automatyczną negocjacją szybkości Działanie w trybie połowicznego / pe

Motherboard Manual 44 RUSSIAN Ver 5.x Ver 6.x CPU (центральный процессор) Гнездо 478 Процессор Intel Pentium 4 / Celeron D до 3.4 ГГц ( не поддерж

P4M900-M4 45 Ver 5.x Ver 6.x Локальная сеть Realtek RTL 8201CL PHY Автоматическое согласование 10 / 100 Мб/с Частичная / полная дуплексная способн

Motherboard Manual 46 ARABIC Ver 5.x Ver 6.x ةﺪﺣو ﺔﺠﻟﺎﻌﻤﻟا ﺔﻳﺰآﺮﻤﻟا ﺲﺒﻘﻡ478 تﺎﺠﻟﺎﻌﻡIntel Pentiu m 4 / Celeron D ﺏ ددﺮﺘ ﻳ ﻞﺼ ﻰﻟإ4.3 ﺰﺕﺮه ﺎﺠﻴﺝ ﺔﻳﺰ

P4M900-M4 47 Ver 5.x Ver 6.x ﺔﻜﺒﺵ ﺔﻴﻠﺥاد Realtek RTL 8201CL PHY ﻲﺋﺎﻘﻠﺕ ضوﺎﻔﺕ10/100 ﺖﻳﺎﺏ ﺎﺠﻴﻡ /ﺔﻴﻥﺎﺙ ﻡإﻞﻡﺎﻜﻟا جودﺰﻤﻟا ﻞﻘﻨﻟا ﺔﻴﻥﺎﻜ/ﻲﻔ ﺼﻨﻟا Realtek RT

Motherboard Manual 48 JAPANESE Ver 5.x Ver 6.x CPU Socket 478 Intel Pent ium 4 / Celeron D process or up to 3.4 GHz (Willamette CPUはサポートしません) Hype

P4M900-M4 49 Ver 5.x Ver 6.x LAN PHY Realtek RTL 8201CL PHY 10 / 100 Mb/秒のオートネゴシエーション 半/全二重機能 Realtek RTL 8201CL PHY 10 / 100 Mb/秒のオートネゴシエーション 半/

P4M900-M4 5 Ver 5.x Ver 6.x LAN PHY Realtek RTL 8201CL PHY 10 / 100 Mb/s auto negotiation Half / Full dup lex capability Realtek RTL 8201CL PHY 10

P4M900-M4 BIOS Setup i BIOS Setup ... 1 1 Main Menu ...

P4M900-M4 1 BIOS Setup Introduction The purpose of this manual is to describe the settings in the Pheonix-Award™ BIOS Setup program on this motherboa

P4M900-M4 2 ACPI Support Pheonix-Award ACPI BIOS support Version 1.0b of Advanced Configuration and Power interface specification (ACPI). It provide

P4M900-M4 3 1 Main Menu Once you enter Pheonix-Award BIOS™ CMOS Setup Utility, the Main Menu will appear on the screen. The Main Menu allows you to s

P4M900-M4 4 Advanced Chipset Features This submenu allows you to configure special chipset features. Integrated Peripherals This submenu allows you t

P4M900-M4 5 Set Supervisor Password Setting the supervisor password will prohibit everyone except the supervisor from making changes using the CMOS S

P4M900-M4 6 Upgrade BIOS This submenu allows you to upgrade bios.

P4M900-M4 7 2 Standard CMOS Features The items in Standard CMOS Setup Menu are divided into several categories. Eac h category inc ludes no, one or

P4M900-M4 8 Item Options Description IDE Channel 1 Master Options are in its sub menu. Press <Enter> to enter the sub menu of detailed options.

P4M900-M4 9 3Advanced BIOS Features  Figure 3: Advanced BIOS Setup Boot Seq & Floppy Setup This item allows you to setup boot sequence & F

Motherboard Manual 6 1.4 REAR PANEL CONNECTORS (FOR VER 5.X) PS/2 Mouse PS/2 KeyboardUSBX2USBX2LANCOM1 VGALine InLine OutMic InCenterRearSideAU

P4M900-M4 10 Hard Disk Boot Priority The BIOS will attempt to arrange the Hard Disk boot sequence automatically. You can change the Hard Disk booting

P4M900-M4 11 Boot Up Floppy Seek When enabled, System will test the floppy drives to determine if they have 40 or 80 tracks during boot up. Disabli

P4M900-M4 12 Cache Setup CPU L1 & L2 Cache Depending on the CPU/chipset in use, you may be able to increase memory access time with this option.

P4M900-M4 13 CPU Feature Delay Prior to Thermal Set this item to enable the CPU Thermal function to engage after the specified time. The Choices: 4

P4M900-M4 14 Limit CP UID MaxVal Set Limit CPUID MaxVal to 3, it should be “Disabled” for Windows XP. The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled. C1E F

P4M900-M4 15 Quick Power On Self Test Enabling this option will cause an abridged version of the Power On Self-Test (POST) to execute after you power

P4M900-M4 16 MPS Version Control For OS The BIOS supports version 1.1 and 1.4 of the Intel multiprocessor specification. Selec t vers ion s upported

P4M900-M4 17 4 Advanced Chipset Features This submenu allows you to configure the specific features of the chipset installed on your system. This c

P4M900-M4 18 AGP & P2P Bridge Control Highlight “Press Enter” next to the “AGP & P2P Bridge Control” label and pressing the enter key will ta

P4M900-M4 19 AGP Master 1 WS Read When enabled, read to the AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) are executed with one wait states. The Choices: Enabled (

P4M900-M4 7 1.6 MOTHERBOARD LAYOUT SuperI/ODIMM1DIMM2FDD1PCI-EX1_1PCI-EX16PCI1PCI2JPANEL1JUSB2JUSB3JATXPWR1JCFAN1JATXPWR2JSATA1JSATA2CodecJCDIN1JSFAN

P4M900-M4 20 PCI Delay Transaction The chipset has an embedded 32-bit posted write buffer to support delay transactions cycles. Select Enabled to sup

P4M900-M4 21 5 Integrated Peripherals  Figure 5. Integrated Peripherals VIA OnChip IDE Device Highlight the “Press Enter” label next to the “VIA O

P4M900-M4 22 SATA Controller This option allows you to enable the on-chip Serial ATA. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. SATA Controller Mode

P4M900-M4 23 Primary/Secondary Master/Slave UDMA Ultra DMA function can be implemented if it is supported by the IDE hard drives in your system. As w

P4M900-M4 24 LAN Controller This option allows you to control the onboard LAN. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled Lan Boot ROM Decide wheth

P4M900-M4 25 Onboard Parallel Port This item allows you to determine access onboard parallel port controller with which I/O Address. The Choices: 378

P4M900-M4 26 USB 1.0/2.0 Controller These options allow you to enable or disable the USB 1.0/2.0 controller function. The Choices: Enabled (default),

P4M900-M4 27 6 Power Management Setup The Power Management Setup Menu allows you to configure your system to utilize energy conservation and power up

P4M900-M4 28 Power Management Option This category allows you to select the power saving method and is directly re lated to the fo llo wing mod es :

P4M900-M4 29 Video Off Method This option determines the manner when the monitor goes blank. V/H SYNC+Blank (default) This selection will cause the s

Motherboard Manual 8 CHAPTER 2: HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.1 INSTALLING CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT (CPU) Step 1: Pull the lever sideways away from the soc

P4M900-M4 30 HPET Support This option allows you to disabled or enables the High Precision Event Timer. The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled. HPE

P4M900-M4 31 The Choices: Disabled (default), Ctrl+F1, Ctrl+F2. Ctrl+F3, Ctrl+F4, Ctrl+F5, Ctrl+F6, Ctrl+F7, Ctrl+F8, Ctrl+F9, Ctrl+F10, Ctrl+F11, Ct

P4M900-M4 32 7 PnP/PCI Configurations This section describes configuring the PCI bus system. PCI, or Personal Computer Interconnect, is a system whic

P4M900-M4 33 Init Display First This item allows you to decide to active whether PCI Slot or on-chip VGA first. The Choices: PCIEx(default), PCI Slot

P4M900-M4 34 IRQ Resources This submenu will allow you to assign each system interrupt a type, depending on the type of device using the interrupt. W

P4M900-M4 35 8 PC Health Status  Figure 8: PC Health Status Shutdown Temperature This item allows you to set up the CPU shutdown Temperature. This

P4M900-M4 36 CPU Fan Full speed <℃> When CPU temperature is reach the set value, the CPU fan will work under Full Speed. The Choices: Min=0, M

P4M900-M4 37 9 Performance Booster Zone  Figure 9: Performance Booster Zone DRAM Clock/Drive Control This item controls the DRAM Clock. Highligh

P4M900-M4 38 DRAM Clock T his item determines DRAM c lock. The Choices: By SPD (default), 100MHz, 133MHz, 166MHz, 200MHz, 266MHz, 333MHz . DRAM T

P4M900-M4 39 ACT (0) to ACT (1) (tRRD) T his item allows you to determine the selection for ACT (0) to ACT (1) (tRRD) The Choices: 3T (default). 1T

P4M900-M4 9 2.2 FAN HEADERS These fan headers support cooling-fans built in the computer. The fan cable and connector may be different according to th

P4M900-M4 40 Spread Spectrum This item allows you to enable/disable the Spread Spectrum function. The Choices:+/- 0.25% (d efault), +/- 0. 5%, Disabl