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    Gf7100p-m7s bios setup i bios setup ................................................................................................ 1 1 main menu ............................................................................................. 3 2 standard cmos features....................................

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    Gf7100p-m7s 1 bios setup introduction the purpose of this manual is to describe the settings in the phoenix-award™ bios setup program on this motherboard. The setup program allows users to modify the basic system configuration and save these settings to cmos ram. The power of cmos ram is supplied by...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 2 acpi support phoenix-award acpi bios support version 1.0b of advanced configuration and power interface specification (acpi). It provides asl code for power management and device configuration capabilities as defined in the acpi specification, developed by microsoft, intel and toshiba....

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    Gf7100p-m7s 3 1 main menu once you enter phoenix-award bios™ cmos setup utility, the main menu will appear on the screen. The main menu allows you to select from several setup functions. Use the arrow keys to select among the items and press to accept and enter the sub-menu. Figure 1: main menu stan...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 4 advanced bios features this submenu allows you to configure advanced features of the bios. Advanced chipset features this submenu allows you to configure special chipset features. Integrated peripherals this submenu allows you to configure certain ide hard drive options and programmed ...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 5 set supervisor password setting the supervisor password will prohibit everyone except the supervisor from making changes using the cmos setup utility. You will be prompted with to enter a password. Set user password if the supervisor password is not set, then the user password will fun...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 6 upgrade bios this submenu allows you to upgrade bios..

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    Gf7100p-m7s 7 2 standard cmos features the items in standard cmos setup menu are divided into several categories. Each category includes no, one or more than one setup items. Use the arrow keys to highlight the item and then use the or keys to select the value you want in each item. Figure 2: standa...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 8 item options description drive a/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 keyboard a...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 9 3 advanced bios features figure 3: advanced bios setup cache setup.

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    Gf7100p-m7s 10 cpu l3 cache depending on the cpu/chipset in use, you may be able to increase memory access time with this option. Enabled (default) enable cache. Disabled disable cache. Boot seq & floppy setup this item allows you to setup boot sequence & floppy..

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    Gf7100p-m7s 11 removable device priority select removable boot device priority. The choices: floppy disks, zip100, usb-fdd0, usb-fdd1, usb-zip0, usb-zip1, ls120. Hard disk boot priority the bios will attempt to arrange the hard disk boot sequence automatically. You can change the hard disk booting s...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 12 cd-rom boot priority the choices: pri. Master, pri. Slave, sec. Master, sec. Slave, usb cdrom0, usb cdrom 1. First/second/third boot device the bios will attempt to load the operating system in this order. The choices: removable, hard disk, cdrom, legacy lan, disabled. Boot other devi...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 13 cpu feature ppm mode the choices: native mode (default), smm mode. Limit cpuid maxval set limit cpuid maxval to 3, it should be “disabled” for windows xp. The choices: disabled (default), enabled. C1e function this item allows you to configure the enhanced halt state (c1e) function, w...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 14 core multi-processing the choices: enabled (default), disabled. Virus warning this option allows you to choose the virus warning feature that is used to protect the ide hard disk boot sector. If this function is enabled and an attempt is made to write to the boot sector, bios will dis...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 15 typematic delay (msec) sets the delay time after the key is held down before it begins to repeat the keystroke. The choices: 250 (default), 500, 750, 1000. Security option this option will enable only individuals with passwords to bring the system online and/or to use the cmos setup u...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 16 summary screen show this item allows you to enable/disable the summary screen. Summary screen means system configuration and pci device listing. The choices: disabled (default), enabled..

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    Gf7100p-m7s 17 4 advanced chipset features this submenu allows you to configure the specific features of the chipset installed on your system. This chipset manage bus speeds and access to system memory resources, such as dram. It also coordinates communications with the pci bus. The default settings...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 18 spread spectrum control cpu spread spectrum this item allows you to select the cpu spread spectrum function. The choices: disabled, enabled (default). Sata spread spectrum this item allows you to select the sata spread spectrum function. The choices: triangular down (default), disable...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 19 frame buffer size this item allows you to choose the frame buffer size of on-chip vga. The choices: 64m (default), 16m, 32m, 128m, 256m, disabled. System bios cacheable selecting the “enabled” option allows caching of the system bios rom at f0000h-fffffh, which is able to improve the ...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 20 5 integrated peripherals figure 5. Integrated peripherals ide function setup highlight the “press enter” label next to the “ide function setup” label and press enter key will take you a submenu with the following options:.

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    Gf7100p-m7s 21 on-chip ide channel 0 the motherboard chipset contains a pci ide interface with support for two ide channels. Select “enabled” to activate the first and/or second ide interface. Select “disabled” to deactivate an interface if you are going to install a primary and/or secondary add-in ...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 22 mcp storage config sata operation mode this option allows you to choose sata function. The choices: ide (default), raid, ahci, linux ahci. Sata 1/2/3/4 raid this option allows you to enable or disable sata primary/secondary raid. The choices: disabled (default), enabled. Onboard pcie ...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 23 lan rom protocol this option allows you to select the lan rom protocol. The choices: pxe (default), rpl. Onchip usb this option should be enabled if your system has a usb installed on the system board. You may need to disable this feature if you add a higher performance controller. Th...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 24 ide hdd block mode block mode is also called block transfer, multiple commands, or multiple sectors read / write. If your ide hard drive supports block mode (most new drives do), select enabled for automatic detection of the optimal number of block mode (most new drives do), select en...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 25 onboard parallel port this item allows you to determine access onboard parallel port controller with which i/o address. The choices: 378/irq7 (default), 278/irq5, 3bc/irq7, disabled. Parallel port mode this item allows you to determine how the parallel port should function. The defaul...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 26 6 power management setup the power management setup menu allows you to configure your system to utilize energy conservation and power up/power down features. Figure 6. Power management setup acpi function this item displays the status of the advanced configuration and power management...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 27 power management this category allows you to select the power saving method and is directly related to the following modes: 1. Hdd power down. 2. Suspend mode. There are three options of power management, three of which have fixed mode settings min. Power saving minimum power manageme...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 28 soft-off by pbtn this item determines the behavior of system power button. Instant off turn off the power immediately, and delay 4 sec. Will require you to press and hold the power button for 4 seconds to cut off the system power. The choices: delay 4 sec, instant-off (default). Wol(p...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 29 7 pnp/pci configurations this section describes configuring the pci bus system. Pci, or personal computer interconnect, is a system which allows i/o devices to operate at speeds nearing the speed of the cpu itself uses when communicating with its own special components. This section c...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 30 “disabled” mode. The above settings will be shown on the screen only if “manual” is chosen for the resources controlled by function. Legacy is the term, which signifies that a resource is assigned to the isa bus and provides non-pnp isa add-on cards. Pci / isa pnp signify that a resou...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 31 maximum payload size set the maximum payload size for transaction packets (tlp). The choice: 4096 (default.), 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048..

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    Gf7100p-m7s 32 8 pc health status figure 8: pc health status smart fan option.

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    Gf7100p-m7s 33 cpu smart fan this item allows you to control the cpu fan. The choices: disabled (default), auto, 4-pin, 3-pin.. Smart fan calibration choose this item and then the bios will auto test and detect the cpu fan functions and show cpu fan speed. Pwm duty off℃> if the cpu temperature is lo...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 34 cpu vcore, ddr voltage, +3.3v, +5.0v, +12.0v, nb voltage, vtt voltage, 5v(sb), voltage battery detect the system’s voltage status automatically. Cpu temperature this field displays the current temperature of cpu. Cpu fan speed this field displays the current speed of cpu fan. Sys fan ...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 35 9 performance booster zone fsb-memory clock mode this item allows you to choose the memory clock mode. The choices: auto (default), linked, unlinked. Fsb-memory ratio this item allows you to choose the memory clock mode. The choices: auto (default) fsb (qdr), mhz this item allows you ...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 36 memory timing setting memory timing setting this item allows you to choose to manually or automatically regulate the ddr timing. The choices: optimal (default), expert tcl (cas latency) the choices: auto (default), 3 clk ~ 6 clk. Trcd the choices: auto (default), 3 clk ~ 6 clk. Trp th...

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    Gf7100p-m7s 37 trrd the choices: auto (default), 2 clk ~ 5 clk. Trc the choices: auto (default), 11 clk ~ 26 clk. Twr the choices: auto (default), 3 clk ~ 6 clk. Twtr the choices: auto (default), 1 clk ~ 3 clk. Tref the choices: auto (default), 7.8 us, 3.9 us. Cpu clock ratio this item allows you to...