BIOS Setup Illustrated Tutorial Award

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Describes the AMI after BIOS setup. Let's introduce the BIOS settings of award, in fact Award bios and AMI BIOS There are many things are the same, it can be said that basically the same, although some names are different, but the actual effect is the same. In the previous article has learned some BIOS basic knowledge, and settings, then in this article I will be more detailed introduction of the BIOS overclocking settings, I hope to those who want to overclock but not missed overclocking players can have some help.
As with the AMI bios, press the "Del" key to enter the BIOS setup menu (some press the F1 key) when you start the screen.


After entering, you will see the following menu, there may be some differences, but basically the same, and the name is different, but basically the role is the same!

You can use the arrow keys to move the cursor, enter confirm, ESC return, with Pageup,pagedown and numeric keys to adjust the settings, in any settings menu can press F10 key to exit and save settings, these are similar to the AMI BIOS settings! Then formally enter the settings!

A Softmenu Setup (soft overclocking settings)


In fact, this soft Menu Setup is a technology that is unique to the motherboard, providing a rich CPU FSB, octave tuning (requires CPU support), AGP/PCI bus frequency, and cpu/memory/AGP voltage regulation frequency, and so on. This project is equivalent to the "Frequency/voltage Control" in some motherboards
Front is some basic information of the CPU display, the following option is the main option of CPU overclocking!

1. CPU Operating speed (CPU FSB setting):
Depending on the processor type and speed you use to show how fast the processor works, you can choose the option [user Define] (subject set) to manually enter its operating speed.


All right, here I go. BIOS settings Guide, before you overclock to explain to everyone what is called overclocking and overclocking principle, so that you can better enter the next step of the BIOS setup overclocking!
CPU overclocking, its main purpose is to improve the CPU operating frequency, that is, the CPU clock. The CPU frequency is the product of FSB (FSB) and octave (Multiplier Factor). For example, a CPU FSB is 200MHz, the multiplier is 10, can be calculated to get its main frequency = FSB x octave =200mhzx10 = 2000MHz, that is, 2.0GHz.
Increasing the CPU frequency can be achieved by changing the CPU multiplier or FSB. However, if you are using an Intel CPU, you can ignore the multiplier because Intelcpu uses a special manufacturing process to prevent changes to the multiplier. But a part of Intel's engineering sample is not locked octave, AMD's CPU can modify the multiplier. Although the increase in CPU FSB or octave can make the CPU to achieve the same frequency, such as a 2.0GHz CPU, it uses 200*10=2.0, we can increase the multiplier to 20, and the FSB to 100MHz, or the FSB can be raised to 250, and the multiplier reduced to 8. Both of these methods can make the main frequency reach 2.0G, but the performance they get is not the same. Because the FSB (FSB) is the channel that the system uses to communicate with the processor, it should be made as high as possible. So if the FSB is reduced to 100MHz and the multiplier is increased to 20, there will still be 2.0GHz clock frequency, but the rest of the system and the processor communication will be much slower than before, resulting in a loss of system performance, so if the user's CPU can reduce the multiplier, may wish to try!
The speed of FSB is usually closely related to the speed of the front-end bus and memory. So when you boost CPU FSB, the CPU, system, and memory performance also increases, which is why DIYer likes to overclock.
Okay, let's go. BIOS setup, after you select the "Use Defined" option in "CPU Operating speed", you will see that the previously optional CPU options are now ready to be set!

1.ext.clock (CPU/AGP/PCI)

This is the FSB adjustment setting option, manually enter the number of CPU FSB you want to set, allowing the input value range between 100-412, can be increased by the frequency of 1MHz linear overclocking, maximize the potential of the CPU mining. Generally on the CPU FSB in 100 to 250 is more normal, generally not more than 300MHz, so users should not be a one-time FSB tune to the highest, in principle, the first overclocking CPU because it is not clear how high CPU can be in the FSB under the work, So set the value of the FSB can be three to five MHz to step up to test slowly, in order to demonstrate, directly set the FSB to 133MHz this standard FSB, set the correct FSB number and then press ENTER to determine.
If the CPU multiplier is not locked, pull the Ext.clock (CPU/AGP/PCI) menu will show a multiplier Factor (octave setting) option this item selects the frequency of the CPU.
2.Estimated New CPU Clock:
This item shows the sum of the first two [Ext. Clock] and [Multiplier Factor] frequencies.
3. n/b Strap CPU as:
This section allows you to set the front-end bus assigned to the MCH (memory controller). Options are: [PSB400], [PSB533], [PSB800], and [by CPU]. The default value is [by CPU].
To manually set this section:
If the CPU frequency is 100MHz FSB, you can choose [PSB400].
If the CPU frequency is 133MHz FSB, you can choose [PSB533].
If the CPU frequency is 200MHz FSB, you can choose [PSB800].

4.DRAM Ratio (CPU RAM):
This section can determine the frequency ratio between the CPU and the DRAM.


Speaking of which, we have to explain the relationship between CPU and memory, the frequency of memory is determined by FSB (FSB), so we have to overclock the CPU while the memory also increased the operating frequency, set the ratio of FSB to the memory bus frequency. If you are using DDR333 memory, it can run at a standard frequency of 166MHz, as we have just set the FSB to 133MHz, so we can choose "4:5", so that the memory is also running at the highest frequency.
5. Fixed Agp/pci Frequency:
This project can be used to determine the frequency of the AGP/PCI bus, which allows you to maintain your AGP/PCI frequency at some fixed frequency to improve system stability.

6. CPU Power Supply:
This option allows users to switch between the processor preset voltage value and the user-defined voltage value, please do not arbitrarily change this preset voltage value, unless you have certain adjustment experience, select "user define" option after "CPU Core Voltage" You can select the voltage used by the CPU core to allow you to manually select the core voltage value of the processor.


Here is a description of the CPU core voltage, P4 CPU rated core operating voltage of 1.5V, usually not more than 1.65V of the voltage is safe, of course, overclocking to improve the voltage is to ensure that the premise of stable work, as much as possible to add voltage, which is from the thermal considerations in order to the CPU temperature as far as possible to control at low levels. Voltage can also be a little bit gradually try to improve, do not rush one step, here we first choose 1.55V to try. Please note that over 1.70V voltage is dangerous for the P4 of the North Wood core, it is possible to burn out the CPU, so the voltage should not be added too high!
7.DDR SDRAM Voltage:
This section can select the DRAM slot operating voltage.

is to increase the voltage to the DDR memory supply, the default voltage of the DIMM module is 2.5V, if the memory quality is not good, or overclocking memory, then you can properly raise a bit of memory voltage, the pressure amplitude as far as possible not more than 0.5V, otherwise it may damage memory!
Finally, in this case can also see the AGP display card to improve the operating voltage options, if you overclocking is for the standard FSB, also let the display Casue frequency work, then you can consider the appropriate increase in some AGP voltage, AGP default voltage is 1.5V.

Well, having said so many overclocking BIOS settings, continue to explain the BIOS settings for the other options, and of course there are also instructions for optimizing overclocking in the content!

Two. Standard CMOS Features (CMOS parameter setting)

There's no need to talk more! Presumably everyone can read it! The following is the "IDE device Settings" inside the options explained, generally without user settings, to keep the default on it!

Three Advanced BIOS Features (BIOS advance function setting)

1.Quick Power on Self Test (Quick start selection):
When set to [enabled], this project can speed up the post (Power On Self Test) program after the system is powered on. The BIOS will shorten or skip some inspection items during the post process, speeding up the waiting time!
2.Hard Disk boot priority (hard drive boot order):
This project can choose the priority of the hard drive boot, press the button, you can enter its sub-menu, it will show that you have detected a boot sequence of the hard drive to use to start the system. Of course, this option is for you to install two or more pieces of the system to choose!
3. HDD Change Message:
When set to [enabled], if the hard drive installed in your system is changed, a message will appear during the post boot process.
4. First boot device/second boot device/third boot device/boot other Device:
Select the device that you want to boot in the first, second, and Third order in the project [primary boot device], [Second boot device], and [third boot device]. The BIOS will start the operating system in sequence according to the boot device you choose! The device you can choose depends on the device you have installed!

four. Advanced Chipset Features (chipset settings)

The chipset setting is also a key setting inside the BIOS setup, which is explained in detail here!
1.DRAM Timing selectable (memory parameter setting option):
Depending on the memory module, this project will set the best timing for the next four projects. The default value is "by spd". This default value reads the contents of the SPD (Serial presence Detect) appliance and sets these four items according to the SPD content. The EEPROM (read-only memory) on the memory module stores important parameter information about the module, such as memory type, size, speed, voltage interface, and module storage area.

2.CAS Latency Time:
This project can control the delay between the DRAM read instruction and the time the data becomes truly available. A lower CAs cycle can reduce the latency of memory to improve memory productivity. So as long as we can run the operating system stably, we should try to reduce the CAS parameters, so as to improve the speed of memory. Conversely, if the memory is running unstable, you can set this parameter large to improve memory stability.
3. Act to Precharge Delay:
This project controls the number of DRAM frequencies used for the DRAM parameters. Similarly, the value of small high performance, but the quality of memory is also strict!
4.DRAM ras# to cas# Delay:
This project can control the delay time between the DRAM action instruction and the read/write instruction, and there are several 2,3,4 options. The smaller the value, the better the performance.
5. DRAM ras# Precharge:
This project is used to control the wait time when the pre-charge (precharge) command is sent to DRAM and the frequency waits to start. The smaller the pre-charge parameter, the faster the memory reads and writes.
The above memory parameter settings generally can not move! Let the default on it, but the overclocking player is sure to not miss anything that can improve performance, so if you want to make your computer to improve a bit of performance, you must slowly experiment, choose a proper parameter to make your computer achieve performance and stability of the best state!
6.Video BIOS cacheable (image cache):
Like the system BIOS cache, enabling the cache of the image BIOS will allow access to the image bios from c0000h to C7FFFH with the cache feature, if the cache controller is also enabled. The larger the cache size, the faster the image performance will be.
7.Memory Hole at 15m-16m (expansion card memory allocation):
When set to [enabled], there will be 15m-16m memory space reserved for the ISA expansion card that specifically requires this setting. This will make the memory more than a few megabytes above the system can not be used, this project please use the system's default value.
8.Delay Prior to Thermal (activation delay setting):
This item can be used to select the delay time before the action of the optional Thermal device.
9.AGP Aperture Size (AGP card slot memory allocation settings):
This project specifies the amount of system memory to be used by the AGP appliance, which is a portion of the PCI memory address range that can be allocated to the graphics memory space.
10.Init Display First:
This project can choose to initialize the AGP or PCI slots when the system is powered on.
[AGP]: When the system is powered on, it will initialize the AGP slot first.
[PCI slot]: When the system is powered on, it will initialize the PCI slots first.
11.AGP Data Transfer rate (AGP speed setting):
This project allows you to choose the data transfer rate of the AGP appliance, and the higher data rate can provide faster and better graphics processing power to your system. Make sure your display card supports the mode you have selected. Now buy the most of the graphics card is 8X, generally with the default can be.

Five. Integrated Peripherals (Integrated device setting)

This is the management of the computer's motherboard integration device and port options, specific items because the motherboard is different, so the settings will vary, here is not explained in detail, just translate to the reader to understand, each user in the necessary time please follow the motherboard instructions to set, but in general, these settings are not necessary to adjust!
1.OnChip IDE Device:

2.OnChip PCI Device

1.OnChip USB Controller:
This option turns the USB port on or off.
2. USB 2.0 Controller:
This option turns on or off USB 2. Port transfer mode.
3.USB Keyboard Support Via:
This project allows you to select [BIOS] to allow you to use a USB keyboard in a DOS environment, or to select [OS] for use in an OS environment.
4.USB Mouse Support Via:
This project allows you to select [BIOS] to allow you to use a USB mouse in a DOS environment, or to select [OS] for use in an OS environment.
5.OnChip Audio Controller:
This option turns the integrated sound device on or off.
3.SuperIO Device:

4.Onboard Parallel Port:

Six. Power Management Features (mode setting)

Oh, there is no need to say more! You can understand it at a glance! You can set these power management options according to your own favorites! Just casually introduce "CPI Suspend Type"

Seven. PNP/PCI configurations (PNP/PCI configuration setting)

1.Resources controlled by:
This project can be configured for all power-on and plug-and-play compatible devices.
[Auto]: All settings will be detected automatically by the system.
[Manual]: Select a specific IRQ resource in the "irq resources" menu.
2.IRQ Resources:
This project can set the individual system interrupts to [PCI Device] or any accesses than either in [Reserved].
3.PCI/VGA Palette Snoop:
This project can determine which MPEG Isa/vesa VGA card can (or cannot) work with PCI/VGA.
[Enabled]: MPEG Isa/vesa VGA card can work with PCI/VGA.
[Disabled]: MPEG Isa/vesa VGA card cannot work with PCI/VGA.

Eight. PC health status (computer healthy setting)

The specific settings here are not much to say! The previous AMI BIOS setup article has been described in detail! There are some other COMs settings here will not be redundant, are some very simple settings, everyone just look at my Chinese explanation can understand.

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