Biostar TZ68A User manual

TZ68A+ UEFI BIOS Manual

UEFI BIOS Setup...................................................................................... 1

1 Main Menu ............................................................................................. 3

2 Advanced Menu...................................................................................... 4

3 PCIPnP Menu....................................................................................... 18

4 Boot Menu............................................................................................. 22

5 Chipset Menu ....................................................................................... 25

6 O.N.E Menu.......................................................................................... 26

7 Exit Menu ............................................................................................. 32

TZ68A+ UEFI BIOS Manual

UEFI BIOS Setup

Introduction

The purpose of this manual is to describe the settings in the AMI UEFI BIOS Setup

program on this motherboard. The Setup program allows users to modify the basic

system configuration and save these settings to NVRAM.

UEFI BIOS determines what a computer can do without accessing programs from a

disk. This sys tem controls most of the input and output d evices s uch as keyboard,

mouse, serial ports and disk drives. BIOS activates at the firs t stage of the booting

process, lo ading and executing the op erating s ystem. Some add itional features, s uch

as virus and pass word protection or chips et fine-tuning options are also included in

UEFI BIOS.

The rest of this manual will to guide you through the options and settings in UEFI

BIOS Setup.

Plug and Play Support

This AMI UEF I BIOS suppo rts the Plug and Play Version 1.0A spec ific ation.

EPA Green PC Support

This AMI UEFI BIOS s upports Vers ion 1.03 of the EPA Green PC specification.

ACPI Support

AMI ACP I UEFI BIOS s uppo rt Version 1.0/2.0 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.

PCI Bus Support

This AMI UEFI BIOS also s upports Vers ion 2.3 of the Intel PCI (Peripheral

Component Interconnect) local bus specification.

DRAM Support

DDR3 SDRAM (Double Data Rate III Synchronous DRAM) is supported.

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Supported CPUs

This AMI UEF I BIOS suppo rts the Intel CPU.

Using Setup

When starting up the comp uter, press

<Del> during the Power-On Self-Test

(POST) to enter the UEFI BIOS setup

utility.

In the UEFI BIOS setup utility, you will

see General Help description at the top

right corner, and this is providing a brief

description of the selected item.

Navigation Keys for that particular menu

are at the bottom right corner, and you can

use these keys to select item and c hange

the settings.

Notice

zThe default UEFI BIOS settings apply for most conditions to ens ure optimum

performance of the motherboard. If the system becomes unstable after changing

any settings, please load the default settings to ensure system’s compatibility and

stability. Use Load Setup Default under the Exit Menu.

zFor better system performance, the UEFI BIOS firmware is being continuously

updated. The UEFI BIOS informatio n described in this manual is for your reference

only. The actual UEFI BIOS information and settings on board may be slightly

different from this manual.

zThe content of this manual is subject to be changed without notice. We will not be

responsible fo r any mistakes found in this user’s manual and any system damage that

may be c aused by wrong-settings.

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1 Main Menu

Once you enter AMI UEFI BIOS Setup Utility, the Main Menu will appear on the

screen providing an overview of the basic system information.

BIOS Information

Shows system information including UEFI BIOS version, model name, marketing

name, built date, etc.

Total Memor y

Shows s ystem memory size, VGA shard memory will be excluded.

System Date

Set the system date. Note that the ‘Day’ automatically changes when you set the

date.

System Time

Set the s ystem internal clock.

Access Level

Shows the access level of current user.

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2 Advanced Menu

The Advanced Menu allows you to configure the settings of CPU, Super I/O, Power

Management, and other system devices.

Notice

zBeware of that setting inappropriate values in items of this menu may cause

system to malfunction.

PCI Su bs ystem Settings

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PCI ROM Priority

In case of multiple option ROMs (Legacy and EFI Compatible), this item specifies

what PCI Option ROM to launch

Options: Legacy ROM (Default) / EFI Compatible ROM

PCI Latency Timer

This item sets the value to be programmed into PCI Latency Timer Register.

Options: 32 PCI Bus Cloc ks (Default) / 64 PCI Bus Clocks / 96 PCI Bus Clocks /

128 PCI Bus Clocks / 160 PCI Bus Clocks / 192 PCI Bus Clocks / 224

PCI Bus Clocks / 248 PCI Bus Clocks

VGA Palette Snoop

This item enables or dis ables VGA Palette Registers Snooping.

Options: Disabled (Default) / Enabled

No Snoop

This item enables or disables PCI Express Device No Snoop option.

Optio ns: Enabled (Default) / Disabled

Maximum Payload

This item sets Maximum Payload of PCI Express Device or allows System BIOS to

select the value.

Options: Auto (Default) / 128 Bytes / 256 Bytes / 512 Bytes / 1024 Bytes / 2048

Bytes / 4096 Bytes

Maximum Read Request

This item sets Maximum Read Request Size of PCI Express Device or allows

System BIOS to select the value.

Options: Disabled (Default) / Enabled

ASPM Support

This item sets the ASPM Level: Force LO – Force all links to LO State; Auto –

BIOS auto co nfigures; Dis abled – Dis ables ASPM.

Options: Disabled (Default) / Auto / Force LO

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ACPI Settings/WakeUp Event control

EuP Control

When EuP is enabled, the system will meet EuP requirement.

Options: Disabled (Default) / Enabled

ACPI Sleep State

This item selects the highest ACPI sleep state the system will enter when the

SUSPEND button is pressed.

Options: S1 (CPU Stop Clock) (Default) / Suspend Disabled / S3 (Suspend to

RAM)

Lock Legacy Resources

The item allows you to lock legacy resources.

Options: Disabled (Default) / Enabled

PME Wake up from S5

The item enables the s ystem to wake fro m S5 using PME event.

Options: Disabled (Default) / Enabled

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Wake system with Fixed Time

This item enables or disables the system to wake on by alarm event. W hen this item

is enabled, the system will wake on the hr::min::sec specified.

Options: Disabled (Default) / Enabled

Wake up date

You can choose which date the system will boot up.

Wake up hour / Wake up minute / Wake up second

You can choose the system boot up time, input hour, minute and second to specify.

Ring-In Wake up from S5

This item enables the system to wake from S5 using Ring-In event.

Options: Disabled (Default) / Enabled

PS2 Keyboard PowerOn

This item allows you to control the keyboard power on function.

Options: Disabled (Default) / Any Key / Stroke Key / Specific Key

Stroke Keys Selected

This item will s how only when Keyboard PowerOn is set “Stroke Key.”

Options: Wake Key (Default) / Power Key / Ctrl+F1 / Ctrl+F2 / Ctrl+F 3 /

Ctrl +F4 / Ctrl+F5 / Ctrl+F6

Specific Key Enter

This item will show only when Keyboard PowerOn is set “Specific Key.” Press

Enter to set Specific key.

PS2 Mouse PowerOn

This item allows you to control the mouse power on function.

Options: Disabled (Default) / Enabled

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USB Device Wakeup from S3/S4

This item allows you to enab le or dis abled the USB resume from S3/S4 function.

Options: Disabled (Default) / Enabled

CPU Configuration

Active Processor Cores

This item sets number of cores to enable in each processor package.

Options: All (Default) / 1 / 2 / 3

Limit CPUID Maximum

When the computer is booted up, the operating system executes the CPUID

instructio n to identify the processor and its c apabilities. Before it can do so, it must

first query the processor to find out the highest input value CPUID recognizes. This

determines the kind of basic information CPUID can provide the operating system.

Options: Disabled (Default) / Enabled

Execute-Disable Bit

XD can prevent certain classes of malicious buffer overflow attacks when combined

with a supporting OS (Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows XP SP2, SuSE Linux

9.2, RedHat Enterp rise 3 Update 3.).

Optio ns: Enabled (Default) / Disabled

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Hardware Prefetcher

The processor has a hardware prefetcher that automatically analyzes its requirements

and prefetches data and instructio ns from the memory into the Level 2 cache that are

likely to be required in the near future. This reduces the latency associated with

memory reads.

Optio ns: Enabled (Default) / Disabled

Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch

The processor has a hardware adjacent cache line prefetch mechanism that

automatically fetches an extra 64-byte cache line whenever the processor requests for

a 64-byte cac he line. This reduces cache latenc y by making the next cache line

immediately availab le if the processor requires it as well.

Optio ns: Enabled (Default) / Disabled

Intel Virtualization Tech

Virtualization Technology can virtually separate your system reso urce into several

parts, thus enhance the performance when running virtual machines or multi

interface systems.

Options: Disabled (Default) / Enabled

Power Technology

This item enables the power management features.

Options: Energy Efficient (Default) / Disabled / Custom

CPU C3 Report

This item enables/disables CPU C3 (ACPI C2) report to OS.

Options: Disabled (Default) / ACPI C-2 / ACPI C-3

CPU C6 Report

This item enables/disables CPU C6 (ACPI C3) report to OS.

Optio ns: Enabled (Default) / Disabled

Package C State Limit

This item sets Package C S tate Limit.

Options: No Limit (Default) / C0 / C1 / C6 / C7

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