P4C800-DX/General BIOS Questions (a lot)
Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 12:06 pm
I was wondering if I could get a headsup on some of the options in the bios (I'm using default right now) or some links, etc. The manual covers some of them, but it doesn't explain too much in the way of what is the best setting over others, etc. sometimes.
Chipset>Performance Accerlation Mode - I have it on Auto, but what is the difference between Standard and Turbo (I have a feeling I know what this is, but I'm not sure).
Chipset>Spread Spectrum - I basically know what this is (I think), however I am curious to learn more about it.
Chipset>ICH Delayed Transation - default
Chipset>MPS Revision - I have it set to 1.4.
Onboard Devices Config.>Parallel Port Mode - I am curious about this/these modes
PCI PnP>Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA - This sounds like it's for PCI video cards from what the manual says..?
PCI PnP>Pallette Snooping - Aren't ISA devices kinda obsolete? Thought I read that in a book a long time ago...:/
PCI PnP>PCI IDE BusMaster - default
Speech Configuration - I've never heard any 'speech'
Power Menu>Repost Video on S3 Resume - Curiousity :)
Power Menu>ACPI 2.0 Support - Curiosity
Power Menu>ACPI APIC Support - Very Curious
Power Menu>BIOS->AML ACPI Table - Also Very curious...
Boot Settings Config.>Add On ROM Display Mode
Boot Settings Config.>Interrupt 19 Capture - Curious
The endless question about AGP Aperture, I just set it to what my gfx card is, but I'm not sure anymore if that's right (I can't remember what I read about that right now, lol)
lol, sometimes after failed overclocking it comes up like "checking R??...Preparing to flash bios, no drive in cdrom, P4C800.ROM not detected" etc (something like that, lol) and it flashes the bios...it did that twice actually the other day, the first time I said oh well, put the cd in the drive and it flashed it, but I noticed the voltages had more options than default (I had flashed it before, i think lol), however it did it again later and then those voltages were gone, back to the 2-3 presets it had...
Anyone else experience this?
That's about it for now...heh. :)
Chipset>Performance Accerlation Mode - I have it on Auto, but what is the difference between Standard and Turbo (I have a feeling I know what this is, but I'm not sure).
Chipset>Spread Spectrum - I basically know what this is (I think), however I am curious to learn more about it.
Chipset>ICH Delayed Transation - default
Chipset>MPS Revision - I have it set to 1.4.
Onboard Devices Config.>Parallel Port Mode - I am curious about this/these modes
PCI PnP>Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA - This sounds like it's for PCI video cards from what the manual says..?
PCI PnP>Pallette Snooping - Aren't ISA devices kinda obsolete? Thought I read that in a book a long time ago...:/
PCI PnP>PCI IDE BusMaster - default
Speech Configuration - I've never heard any 'speech'
Power Menu>Repost Video on S3 Resume - Curiousity :)
Power Menu>ACPI 2.0 Support - Curiosity
Power Menu>ACPI APIC Support - Very Curious
Power Menu>BIOS->AML ACPI Table - Also Very curious...
Boot Settings Config.>Add On ROM Display Mode
Boot Settings Config.>Interrupt 19 Capture - Curious
The endless question about AGP Aperture, I just set it to what my gfx card is, but I'm not sure anymore if that's right (I can't remember what I read about that right now, lol)
lol, sometimes after failed overclocking it comes up like "checking R??...Preparing to flash bios, no drive in cdrom, P4C800.ROM not detected" etc (something like that, lol) and it flashes the bios...it did that twice actually the other day, the first time I said oh well, put the cd in the drive and it flashed it, but I noticed the voltages had more options than default (I had flashed it before, i think lol), however it did it again later and then those voltages were gone, back to the 2-3 presets it had...
Anyone else experience this?
That's about it for now...heh. :)