User manual VIA TECHNOLOGIES P4MA PRO 533 VERSION 1.0

[. . . ] VIA Mainboard User's Manual VIA P4MA PRO 533 Version 1. 00 - February 12, 2003 P/N 99-51-012411 i Copyright Copyright by VIA Technologies Inc. No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without express written authorization from VIA. Trademarks All trademarks are the property of their respective holders. Data protection All data should be backed-up prior to the installation of any drive unit or storage peripheral. VIA will not be responsible for any loss of data resulting from the use, disuse or misuse of this or any other VIA product. No Warranty VIA has made every effort to ensure the accuracy of the content of this manual. However, it is possible that it may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical or other errors. [. . . ] System halts for all errors (except disk/keyboard error) 3-6 BIOS Setup IDE Primary Master/Slave and Secondary Master/Slave Press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu and the following screen appears: The specifications of your drive must match with the drive table. The hard disk will not work properly if you enter improper information for this category. If you select Manual, make sure the information provided is from your hard disk vendor or system manufacturer. IDE Primary Slave Access Mode Capacity Cylinder Head Precomp Landing Zone Sector PIO Mode Ultra DMA Mode The settings are None, Auto, Manual. The settings are Disabled and Auto. 3-7 Chapter 3 Advanced BIOS Features Virus Warning Set the Virus Warning feature for IDE Hard Disk boot sector protection. If the function is enabled, any attempt to write data into this area will cause a beep and a warning message will be displayed. CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Set the ECC (Error-Correcting Code) feature for Level 2 cache. Facilitates error detection/correction when data passes through Level 2 cache. Quick Power On Self Test Shorten Power On Self Test (POST) cycle and enable shorter bootup time. First/Second/Third Boot Device Set the boot device sequence as BIOS attempts to load the disk operating system. The settings are: Floppy LS120 HDD-0 The system will boot from floppy drive. The system will boot from first HDD. 3-8 BIOS Setup SCSI CD-ROM HDD-1 HDD-2 HDD-3 ZIP100 USB-FDD USB-ZIP USB-CDROM USB-HDD LAN Disabled The system will boot from SCSI. Disable this sequence. Boot Other Device Enable the system to boot from other devices if the system fails to boot from the First/Second/Third boot device. Swap Floppy Drive If the system has two floppy drives, choose enable to assign physical drive B to logical drive A and vice-versa. Boot Up Floppy Seek Set floppy seek during POST, BIOS will determine whether the floppy is 40 or 80 tracks. Boot Up NumLock Status Set the NumLock status when the system is powered on. "On" will turn key pad into number keys, and "Off" will turn key pad into arrow keys. This item allows you to set the rate (characters/second) at which the keys are accelerated. Settings: 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 24 and 30. 3-9 Chapter 3 Typematic Delay (Msec) When Typematic Rate Setting is enabled. This item allows you to select the delay between when the key was first pressed and when the acceleration begins. Security Option Specifies the type of BIOS password protection that is implemented. Settings are described below: Option Description Setup The password prompt appears only when end users try to run Setup. [. . . ] It consists of the following topics: Smart 5. 1 - Intelligent 6 Channel Audio Hyper-Threading Technology 5-2 5-9 5-1 Chapter 5 Smart 5. 1 - Intelligent 6 Channel Audio Enabling Smart 5. 1 Intelligent 6 Channel Audio Smart5. 1 allows the user to output 6 channel audio directly from the audio jacks on the mainboard, using the traditional line-in and microphone jacks as output jacks. For it to work properly, both the OS and the software application used need to support 6 channel audio. Win98 supports 4 channel only. Please follow the example A and B to enable the Smart 5. 1 funtion, and the examples are based on Windows XP. Start the settings in Control Panel of your computer. Example A 1. [. . . ]