KP915GV Product Manual
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4 Motherboard BIOS
4.1 BIOS Features
• Phoenix Award BIOS
• Intel® Pentium® 4 "Prescott" processor in an LGA775 socket with an 800MHz or 533MHz
FSB and microcode patch
• Intel 915GV chipset initialization modules and Intel memory sizing reference code
• Dual channel DDR2 400/533 MHz
• 4 DDR2 DIMMs with 4GB Maximum capacity
• Mixed speed DIMM configuration will default to the slowest speed DIMM installed
• NS PC8374K initialization module (supports swappable PS/2 interfaces for keyboard and
mouse)
• NS LM96000 CIM initialization module and healthy monitor module
• 4MB FWH flash ROM in PLCC package
• PC2001 compliant
• PCI bus specification v.2.2 compliant
• PCI Express specification Rev. 1.0a compliant
• SMBus 2.0 compliant
• Plug and play specification version 1.0A compliant
• APM 1.2 compliant
• ACPI 2.0 compliant
• SMBIOS 2.3 compliant
• UHCI and EHCI support
• Fully USB legacy boot
• USB keyboard/mouse support
• 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M, 2.88M FDD, LS-120, 120Mbyte floptical drive support
• Enhanced IDE HDD
• Auto-detect HDD type & access mode (LBA / CHS / Large)
• Auto detect & Up to PIO mode 4 support
• Ultra DMA 33/66/100 support
• INT13 extension support
• BIOS Boot Specification 1.0x compliant
• Boot from CD-ROM drive (FDD or HDD image - el Torito)
• Boot from any one of 4 hard drives (C, D, E, F)
• Boot from SCSI (need SCSI option ROM)
• Boot from LS-120, IOMEGA ATAPI ZIP drive
• Boot from network (int18)
• SATA interface support for Legacy IDE, Native IDE, and Enhanced non-AHCI modes
• Setup utility
4.2 Post and Boot
After power-up or reset, the BIOS perform a self-test, POST, that attempts to determine if further
operation is possible and that the detected configuration is expected. This process can complete
normally or result in a warning or an error. The boot process does not stop after a warning but
displays a message on the primary display device. If an error is detected, the boot process is
halted. If possible, a message is displayed but failures early on in the test can only be indicated by
POST codes.
Once the initial part of the self-test process is completed, the display device is initialized and boot
messages can then be sent to the display. By default, the display is in Quietboot mode in which the
customizable logo is visible on screen. If the Quietboot mode is disabled (BIOS Setup) then sign-on
