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1. NA Bytes N EN 9 Ze EI 6 10 ASUS SOFTWARE PECIFICATION 3 BIOS Function The main features of the BIOS are shown at table 3 1 It s major change is not supporting APM function because all supported Operating Systems except DOS are ACPI Enabled and the core chipset doesn t support S1 sleep power on suspend state It thus has no suspend state available at DOS Table 3 1 Features of System BIOS Item Description BIOS AMI CORE8 4Mbits Firmware Hub FWH EEPROM CPU Cache Automatic frequency and cache size detection Dynamic CPU speed control at Windows XP Windows Native Processor Performance Control and Windows 2000 Intel SpeedStep Technology Applet Static CPU speed control during POST and at DOS DRAM Sizing and timing detection by SPD HDD CDROM 4 drive Fast DMA UDMA fast PIO block PIO 32 bit IO SMART disk and INT 13 extensions support automatic model typing size detection and parameters setting drive geometry transfer mode block size LBA bootable CDROM hot swapping Quiet boot quick boot multi boot from HDD CDROM LAN PXE and USB devices peripheral boot sequence control at setup menu and pop up boot selection menu Setup Menu Press F2 to enter setup menu during POST For details please refer to setup menu section Boot Selection Menu Press ESC to pop up this menu to select a boot device for one time Display Multipl2. As well as keyboard controller the embedded controller also includes the smart battery host controller and ACPI embedded controller EC 3 10 1 Functional Events To easily adjust some system hardware settings such as flat panel backlight audio volume display device s or quickly bring up some predefined applications the system implements the combination hot keys and buttons When pressing those hot keys or buttons the EC triggers SCI or SMI events depending on if ACPI mode is enabled or not Additionally the EC also triggers SCI or SMI event when plugging in or removing an AC power adapter a battery or an IDE device at swapping bay For the event codes and types please refer to the section entitled Events of Embedded Controller For SMI events the EC s SMI handler of BIOS at SMM mode will query the SMI notification code of the EC event being triggered and dispatch its corresponding handler to toggle display devices adjust LCD brightness adjust audio volume or change device in out state and trigger polarity accordingly For SCI events the EC driver will query the notification code say 2Ah and call the corresponding _Q control method say _Q2A to handle the event In turn the _Q control method notify ASUS s proprietary ATK driver to show On Screen Display OSD icons and do actions accordingly Please refer to the ATK driver specification for the notification values of those events 6 18 ASUS SOFTWARE PECIFICATION
3. SOFTWARE PECIFICATION Chapter Software Specifications Get to know more about the Z93E series Notebook with a detailed look at the software specifications he information contained in the chapter can be quite useful when you are troubleshooting the system s hardware Each item has its individual usage for you to understand the software side of the notebook s architecture 6 1 ABUS SOFTWARE PECIFICATION 1 Introduction This BIOS specification describes the major features of key components and system BIOS the usage of general purpose input output GPIO pins of south bridge SB and embedded controller EC the hardware IRQ routing and resource allocation setup menu system power management mechanism system security policy and so on The system BIOS is designed to comply with all industry standards specifications and design guides of PC AT system including PC 2001 System Design Guide Version 1 0 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI Specification Revision 1 0b amp 2 0 Simple Boot Flag Specification Revision 2 0 PCI BIOS Specification Revision 2 0 Plug and Play BIOS Specification Version 1 0A Extended System Configuration Data ESCD Specification System Management BIOS SMBIOS i e DMI Reference Specification Version 2 3 oystem Management Bus BIOS Interface Specification Revision 1 0 BIOS Boot Specification Multiprocessor Specification Revision 1 4 Universal Serial Bus Specif
4. 2 Display In system BIOS it includes several copies of VGA BIOS for Intel s built in P E G controller The BIOS will automatically detect the VGA chipset vendor and load VGA BIOS accordingly The VGA BIOS callback function and or MBI interface are also ready for each VGA controller to select boot display device s and toggle them The display device combinations of each VGA controller are shown at tables in this section Additionally the resolutions and timings of display devices are determined by their EDID data Table 3 2 Display Device Combinations for Intel s VGA Display Device s CRT LCD TV Y could display on the pipe N couldn t display on the pipe 3 3 Enhanced IDE The BIOS supports the LBA re mapping method to translate the geometry of a hard disk drive and the INT 13 extension functions for removable devices and hard drives On the system it has two built in IDE controllers one is parallel ATA PATA interface and the other is serial ATA SATA interface that could be configured to run at legacy IDE mode or AHCI mode Both controllers support only one channel i e two controllers totally support two channels The BIOS will configure these two IDE controllers based on the attached IDE drives and user s selection at setup menu The configurations are shown at table below Table 3 3 PATA and SATA Configurations Configuration Present Device s Controller Running Mode Selection PATA SATA PATA SATA Compat
5. 3 10 2 Wake Up Event The EC will be put into suspend state and powered when a system enters S3 state It will pulse its wake up pin when any key of the internal keyboard is pressed Because the wake up pin is connected to the power button switch it thus seems to press the power button to wake the system 3 10 3 Battery System The battery system includes a charger and two smart batteries Both charger and batteries are connected to the SMBus host interface of EC A general purpose pin is used to select one of two batteries to be connected to the SMBus interface at a time The working mechanism of the battery system is as follows e The charger will stop charge the battery when the following condition is detected The temperature of the system is too high The battery voltage is too high e Battery Life is around 4 2 5 Hours for 8 cells amp 4cells Note that the battery life depends on different configuration running E g the battery life is shorter with CDROM running the battery life is longer with document keyin only battery life is short while power management is disabled battery life is longer while power management is enabled e Battery reading methodology is through power meter applet of control panel in Windows The BIOS passes battery information to ACPI enabled O S via control methods _BIF and BST e When the battery capacity remains 10 the charger will generate a battery warning SMI at none ACPI enabled O S envi
6. Network Boot lt LAN 2 9 Im 6 28 ASUS SOFTWARE PECIFICATION 4 7 Exit Menu AMI BIOS Setup Utility Main Advanced Display Security Power Saving Boot Exit Options Exit system setup after Save Changes and Exit saving the changes Discard Changes and Exit F10 key can be used for Discard Changes this operation Load Optimal Defaults V02 36 C Copyright 1985 2002 American Megatrends Inc Exit BIOS setup users may make final decision 1f they want to save the change just made or load BIOS default setting lists are o lt gt 2 2 m au 6 29
7. SOFTWARE PECIFICATION 4 4 Security Menu AMI BIOS Setup Utility Main INNATA Security LEONCE ale se o Security Settings The password for this hard Supervisor Password Not Installed drive can be set or cleared User Password Not Installed here Power must be cycled for the hard drive to lock Change Supervisor Password Change User Password Clear User Password Boot Sector Virus Protection Disable I O Interface Security Hard Drive Security Hard Disk Password Not Installed Primary Master HD Password V02 36 C Copyright 1985 2002 American Megatrends Inc 6 25 SOFTWARE PECIFICATION AMI BIOS Setup Utility Main INNATA Security Zoe RESET RN sole RN Security Settings e The password for this hard Supervisor Password Not Installed drive can be set or cleared User Password Not Installed here Power must be cycled for the hard drive to lock Change Supervisor Password Change User Password Clear User Password Boot Sector Virus Protection Disable I O Interface Security Hard Drive Security Hard Disk Protection Disabled V02 36 C Copyright 1985 2002 American Megatrends Inc BIOS supports two levels of password for security protection 1 Supervisor password Users may set change or erase system password the password data is saved in non volatile device CMOS system password check is done during POST Power On Self Test The BIOS will prompt a dialog message
8. either be powered off or isolated and the embedded controller is put into suspend sate However the system memory and graphic frame buffer are powered and refreshed by the memory controller and the graphics controller respectively The system provides a 32kHz clock SUSCLK in this suspend mode to support refresh of these memory subsystems Only enabled resume event such as internal keyboard RTC alarm power button LAN WLAN Modem USB device s can bring the platform out of this sleep state 3 S4 state The context of entire system devices and memory are saved to disk All components are powered off and all clocks are stopped Any enabled resume event such as power button RTC and or LAN can bring the platform out of the S4 state 4 S5 state Same as S4 except not saving system context Table 3 5 Wake Up Events Resume Event RTC Alarm IRQ 8 Power Button LID Switch Modem RI PCI PME LAN Azalia Modem CODEC The EC s Any Key wake up event pin is connected to the power button switch 3 CPU Speed Control To fulfill the Geyserville Ill technology of Intel s Pentium M CPU the BIOS implements the ACPI control methods including PDC PCT PSS and PPC for supporting Windows Native Processor Performance Control to dynamically change CPU speed based on system loading and power scheme selected in Windows XP 6 15 SOFTWARE PECIFICATION e PDC Called by native processor performance driver to
9. the applet e INITIALIZE SMI Port 81h Detect and identify operating states of onboard CPU e CONTROL SMI Port 82h EAX 47534982h EBX 0 Enable or disable SMI applet interface e GET STATUS SMI Port 82h EAX 47534982h EBX 1 Reports to the applet software the current CPU state the maximum number of states supported the current available number of states the SpeedStep capability of the CPU the setup mode the AC status the revision of this SMI interface and the current state of CPU throttling e SET STATE SMI Port 82h EAX 47534982h EBX 2 Initiate a transition to the requested state e SET SETUP SMI Port 82h EAX 47534982h EBX 3 Save changes of operating mode to the CMOS register location of the setup menu item for Intel s Applet control e GET INFO SMI Port 82h EAX 47534982h EBX 4 Reports to the applet software the highest and lowest performance states as well as the duty cycle of throttling e GET STATES SMI Port 82h EAX 47534982h EBX 5 Reports the frequency of all supported states For details please refer to the Intel s orange document RS Geyserville Technology BIOS Porting Guide 3 8 Thermal Management To prevent a CPU from being over heated the BIOS implements the active cooling policy to keep CPU and system temperatures as low as possible Additionally the thermal control circuit TCC of a CPU is also enabled to let it perform an automatic performance
10. to ask user for password check when The system has password stored and Password on boot setting in BIOS SETUP is enabled If password verification fails for 3 times the system BIOS will halt the machine to inhibit users from operating 2 User Password If other has modified your setting of BIOS you can setting the function Enable And type in your password and confirm don t modify BIOS setting if no password 3 Hard disk password Users may set change or erase hard disk password the password data is stored in the drive itself the BIOS prompts a dialog message for hard disk password verification whenever it finds the hard disk locked in POST lf hard disk password verification fails for 3 times the system BIOS will halt the machine to inhibit users from operating 6 26 ASUS SOFTWARE PECIFICATION 4 5 Power Menu AMI BIOS Setup Utility Main Advanced Display afeto VA Power Boot Exit Power management Setting LCD Power Saving Enabled Press Enter to start calibrating a battery The Wake up On LAN Disabled calibration should charge the battery to full and then discharge it to empty gt Start Battery Calibration IDIN V02 31 C Copyright 1985 2002 American Megatrends Inc LCD Power Saving LCD exhausts the most part of power while the system is operating A5EP notebook system BIOS support auto backlight saving mode When the system BIOS detects AC adapter removal the LCD brightness is tu
11. Device Sub Vendor Sub System ID ID ID ostBridge Intel O O O 8086 2590 1043 1087 O VGA tel O 2 O 8086 2592 1043 1882 Do IPE j Intl O 31 O 8086 2641 1043 1087 O PATAIDE Intl O 31 1 8086 266F 1043 1087 O USBO intel O 29 O 8086 2658 1043 1087 USBI Ite O 29 1 8086 2659 1043 1087 O USB2 Ite O 29 2 8086 265A 1043 1087 o USB3 X Intel O 29 3 8086 265B 1043 1087 pC f Ite O 29 7 8086 265C 1043 10B7 L Azalia controller Intel O 27 O 8086 2668 1043 1083 O LAN Realtek 1 O O 10EC 8139 1043 1045 Cardbus Ricoh 1 1 o 1180 0476 1043 1087 6 4 ASUS SOFTWARE PECIFICATION Ricoh 1 1 T 1180 0552 1045 1087 SD Card Ricoh 1180 0822 10B7 Memory stick Ricoh 1 1 3 H80 0592 1043 i087 MiniPCH Intel 1 3 O option option 1043 1087 MiniPCI2 Intel 1 2 O option option 1043 1087 The SSID SVID of Modem is 1043 1966 in the codec 2 5 Chipset Strapping The strapping signals are used for static configuration Table 2 6 and 2 7 show the strapping pins driven states of SB and EC for the system Table 2 6 ICH6 GPIO Definition Multiplex Description Pin Type W Pin O REQ5 NOTUSED NA 4 REO e 3
12. NOTUSE NA 2 pires PIRQER NoasGPIO 3 PiRaFK NOTUSED Pul hinav L4 PlRaGK A PIRQGR Notas GPIO OoOO 5 PIROH PIRQH Notas GPIO OZ F 6 1 BMBUSY BMBUSYE NoGPlO L7 Noe NOTUSED Pul Hinay 8 Noe EXISMM ECsSMleventriggerpin 9 locas 9 oc USBOC4R 10 ocs oc use oc se O O LM SMBALERTH NOTUSED NA S 12 Nome X KB SC CsSClevntWiggepn 13 Noe SIO SMM SlOsSMleventtiggerpn 1 oc 66 NOTUSED PPulHgh3V 15 c 74 NOTUSED Pul Hinay 16 O ente NOTUSED NA AZ O GNTs NOTUSED NA ae O STP PCH STP PCM Notas GPIO L8 O one PWRLED IHZ Power LED wil be blinking at suspending sate 20 O STPCPUH STP CPU Notas GPO O O Oooo EE BACK OFF Back light on off control pin LOW On HIGH Off 122 NA NA _ NA S MCAFEE 23 O None FWH WP Firmware Hub EEPROM write protection pin 24 O None 802 LED EN Indicates that Wireless LANison iu None CB SD Assert LOW to meet power sequence of Ricoh s Cardbus controller before entering S3 state and keep asserted at S3 26 SATAO GP SATA DETHO Notas GPIO J O 27 Noe NOTUSED N A i None OP SD Avoid the Audio no
13. ating System reads current temperature through ACPI BIOS periodically and process the thermal handler depends on its thermal policy 3 9 Brightness Control of LCD LCD brightness is controlled via Intel DPST Display Power Saving Technology It s a advance power saving of LCD BIOS will corporate with VGA driver to control LCD brightness for max power saving without impact user view Intel DPST will analyze display image produced by the OS or application Intel DPST applies an image specific enhancement to increase image contrast brightness and or attributes with decrease to backlight brightness This produces an image with similar user perceived quality as the original image Without VGA driver If users press Fn F5 Fn F6 brightness down brightness up BIOS invoke video BIOS function call to change brightness This will change LCD brightness directly With VGA driver If users press Fn F5 Fn F6 brightness down brightness up BIOS invoke video BIOS function call to change brightness VGA driver will read it and update some setting accordingly Then set LCD brightness INT 10h Backlight Brightness Interface Calling Registers AX 5F6th Local Flat Panel Support function BH Q8h Set Backlight Control sub function Brightness Level Setting 0 255 where 0 minimum brightness and 255 7 maximum brightness Calling Registers AX OO5Fh Function supported and successful AX 015Fh Function supported but failed 3 10 Embedded Controller
14. dition it also supports a DOS and a Windows SMBIOS DMI utility for changing data of type 1 2 and 3 3 13 1 Extended 32 Bits Application Interface 6 20 o ASUS SOFTWARE PECIFICATION 4 Setup Menu ASEP system BIOS allows users to change some system hardware function settings during POST power on self test stage users may hit F2 key to enter SETUP mode in POST the setup feature is categorized into 6 menus described in next few sections 4 1 Main Menu Main menu describes system overall information with some user changeable setting it contains below items AMI BIOS Setup Utility Main Advanced Display Security Power Boot Exit System Overview Use ENTER TAB or AMIBIOS SHIFT TAB to select at Version 200 field Use or to configure system Time Processor Type Intel R Pentium R M Speed 2133MHZ System Size 1008MB System Time 08 15 59 System Date Thu 05 03 2005 V02 56 C Copyright 1985 2004 American Megatrends Inc 1 2 3 4 O 4 2 Advanced Menu Version xxxx xxx Current version for the system bios Type String What kind for CPU Speed The BIOS auto detect CPU speed It s only show so user don t modify System Time hh mm ss Current time System Date mm dd yy Current date In advanced menu the users may configure I O device resource such as I O base interrupt vector or DMA Direct Memory Access channel some auxiliary settings
15. e Fn F1 FHK1 SC SM OQgSimulateasleepbutton Fn F2 FHK2 SCI SM Switchwireless LAN on off _ ENn FS FHK5 SCI SM Q QpDecreaseLCD brightness Fn F6 FHK6 SCI SM 4 Jncrease LCD brightness Fn F7 FHK7 SCI SM JTumoffLCDbacklight Fn F8 FHK8 SCI SM q rToggledisplay devices En F10 FHK10 SCI SM G9 rTum audio volume on off Cisse om eee audio volume FnsFiz FRG Fn F12 FHK12 E Mail Button P6 0 SCI E E Mail application program Internet Button P6 1 SCI X Launch internetbrowser T cC oe application program e ee pp canon program Fn ESC FHK13 1 M En P6 4 SCI SMI E if the AC vier IS supplied or cut off LID Switch SCI SM Notify if the LID is closed EE a hie ae in or removed OoOO JC E attached or removed Any Key being pressed at Wake up a system from sleep O NOTE The WKI KBCRSM pin is connected to power button switch So it looks like a power button is being pressed when typing any key of internal keyboard 2 11 Clock To reduce EMI it should disable these clock source not being used according In the system the clock generator is the clock source for all chipsets and the memory controller provides the clock source for DRAM DIMM modules The connections of these clock sources are shown at table 2 14 and 2 15 Table 2 14 Clock Sourc
16. e P E G controller support LCD CRT and TV presence detection and toggle Keyboard US JP EU internal keyboards and USB keyboard support Mouse _ Internal touch pad PS 2 mouse and USB mouse Support Parallel port Security User amp Supervisor password control for setup menu and boot Hard disk locking and password freezing control USB LAN WLAN MODEM CardBus and 1397 interfaces m control IA Order INN PnP ISA and PCI run time BIOS services support APM jJNotsuport 0 000000000 0000000 ACPI CO C1 C2 C3 or C4 SO S3 S4 and S5 power management states control method battery proprietary on screen display utility support Windows DMI data update interface support Mme CPU speed control TTE EEE Simple Boot Flag i provides a very simple boot flag register or variable that can be used by an operation system to communicate boot options to the system firmware and add in card option ROMs This allows firmware and operation systems to automatically optimize their behavior and boot performance base on the installed operation system and previous boots Others Daylight savings time Fast A20 32 bit BIOS services graphic setup menu English only 3 1 Memory The BIOS automatically detects the amount of memory in the system and configure the DRAM timing based on the SPD data of DIMM module s at beginning of POST Power On Self Test 6 11 SUS scrmmnerccircanion 3
17. e on Memory Controller Source Pin s Connected to Control Register SM CK 4 3 nm HO MCHBAR 18Ch 1 0 SM_CK 4 3 SM CK 1 0 DIMM 1 MCHBAR 10Ch 1 0 SM CK 1 0 GMCH Register Range Base Address Bus 0 Dev 0 Func 0 Reg 44h Table 2 15 Clock Source on Clock Generator Source Pin s Connected to Control Register Free Running E af DREFCLK Byte 7 MA 27Mbz ONA Byte1 6 p bus NA SII SIO 48M and Byte1 5 CLK USB48 REFO CLK ICH14 Byte1 4 LO 6 9 SOFTWARE PECIFICATION REFI CLK SSC IN Byel1 3 CPUCLKTIC1T CLIK CPU BCLK Bytei2 CPUCLKTICO NA BAAN PCICLKS CLIK MniPCH Bye2 PCICLK4 ICLKKBCPCI Byte2 0 gt PCICLK3 CLK LANPCI Bye2 PCICLKRO 1 CLK CPCI A Bye PCICLK1 CLK MnPCI2 Bye2 3 PCICLKO 1 ICLKSIOPCI Bye2 p PCICLK FT CLK_ICHPCI Byte Y lt lt PCICLK FO CLK FWHPCI BytetlO AY CPUCLK2ISRCCLKS CLK MCH BCLK Bye3 Y SRCCLKT CA 1 CLK MCH 3GPLL Bye3 Y SRCCLKT Ca STAT NA Bye34 N SRCCLKT C2 CLK PCIE ICH Bye3 3 Y SRCCLKTIC1T NA _ Bytes ON SRCCLKTICO
18. esthat EMAIL button is pressed N A 6 1 INTERNET _ It indicates that INTERNET buttonispressed 6 2 MARATHON _ Read VID s voltage 6 3 X DISTP amp Iltindicates that Power4 Gear button is pressed Can use for PAD Lock 6 6 SOFTWARE PECIFICATION 1 ACIN High level indicates that AC adapter is existed O RE I e LOW closed HIGH open If software DJ button is pressed it will be latched on SWDJ EN and let system know the software DJ have been launched GPI 6 7 O CHG FULL OC In AC mode only indicates the battery is full charge 2 6 System Management Bus Connections The system has three independent system management bus SMBus interfaces on SB and EC chipsets respectively The devices connected to these 3 host interfaces are shown at table 2 10 and 2 11 Table 2 8 SMBus Connections on South Bridge Device Address 1 DIMM Module 1010000xb Read DRAM timing and configuration stored on Serial Presence Detect SPD device of a DIMM module for determining memory size and optimum timing 2 DIMM Module 1010001xb Dito o O spectrum Set thermal trip and automatic fan on points Provide current temperature A Where x 1 READ x 0 WRITE Table 2 9 SMBus Connections on Embedded Controller Device Address Usage Smart Battery 0001011xb Access gas gauge for getting design remaining capacity charging dischargi
19. event handler LOO Table 3 6 Thermal Transition States Temperature CPU Temperature C at Transition State Trend Fan Off Fan On Tran Tran To Throttling Throttling Critical CPU ACO Speed Lowest Off On Shutdown Thermal Back Speed PSV CRT Trip ler 100 105 125 EE Dothan Processor Please see the EMTS document of a processor to check out these two values Table 3 7 Thermal Control Actions Fan Voltage 4 5V 4 0V 3 2V 2 1 V Throttling 100 C Shutdown TOS C 35 C 40 C 43 C 480 58C BE gre 87 is Idel mode 2 7V 40 C on 35 C off DVD mode 3 2V 48 C on 43 C off Med mode 4 0V 63 C on 58 C off High mode 4 5V 87 C on 82 C off The thermal sensor and CPU will automatically turn on off fan and transit CPU speed respectively 2C to from high and low thermal trip limits to prevent the CPU temperature from frequently jumping back and forth at a transition state and triggering too many thermal events For overall ACPI BIOS thermal control activity the thermal management can be categorized into two strategies 1 A thermal device triggers an event to ACPI BIOS the BIOS notifies to the Operating System to process such event The event trigger temperature setting of the device has an upper and lower limit when the CPU temperature goes above the upper limit or below the lower limit the 6 17 ASUS SOFTWARE PECIFICATION thermal event become active 2 Oper
20. h Set it low for charging a battery or batteries and high for discharging a battery or batteries 23 DJ LED Indicates that is the Audio enable 2 4 SET PLTRSTNS When setting this pin as high will gate the PCI RST signal from KBC LAN CardBus devices When setting this pin as low those devices will be reset by PCI_RST 25 O CAP LED CAP Lock Indicator 2 6 O NUM LED Number Lock Indicator 2 7 O SCROLL _LED Scroll Lock Indicator DS feliy ihe system thet some everts happened MEP notify the system that some events happened 41 O EMAIL LED Emailreceivedindicator 4 2 O WATCHDOG Shouldcreatea event to EC then cleanthetimer oo c NN LOW Off HIGH On 4 4 O KBCPURST 3Q CPUresetsignalromKBC 0 0 0 0 O 4 5 O KBC GA20 This pin from KBC gatesA20 10 0 0 10 0 4 6 O KBCSCI 3Q SCI pin to notify system of runtime or wake up events from KBC CLKRUN Standard PCI clock run protocol E O pay e Sotes ow representa tal batey In voy iow capacity MGE c PN LOW Speaker HIGH head phone Bo see d erae OOOO LOW Non press HIGH Power button press CLR DJZ Clear SWDJ_EN status 4 BAT SEL Indicates the battery type Bt eee ma 5 5 BAT1_IN OC Low level indicates that battery is existed 22222 56 O FAN DA It controls the FAN speed S3 should pulllow 5 7 O PORT BAR IN SetHighForPortBar 6 0 EMAIL Itindicat
21. ible None or PATA only Enabled Disabled Legacy Compatible SATA only Disabled Disabled Legacy Compatible SATA amp PATA Disabled Disabled Legacy Enabled Native AHCI Because none of current Windows Operation Systems O S supports AHCI mode for IDE drives it will run into a blue screen when installing a Windows or failure to boot up an installed Windows not loading AHCI mode driver if selecting Enhanced configuration Please check out the README file of Intel s IAA driver to load the AHCI mode driver when installing a Windows Additionally the BIOS also supports the IDE hot swapping function for the drive on PATA controller if the booting hard disk drive is on SATA controller 6 12 o ASUS SOFTWARE PECIFICATION 3 4 Legacy USB In addition to USB keyboard and mouse the BIOS also support USB 2 0 and 1 1 peripheral devices including flash hard disk and optical drives for Operating Systems having no USB driver In DOS it should load an ASUS s proprietary USB driver to support DVDROM CDROM drives 3 5 Plug and Play The BIOS supports the PnP PCI and ACPI specifications for dynamically allocating system resources The resource allocation of system board devices is listed at table below Table 3 4 System Resource Allocation Device Connect Resources Type I O Hex IRQat IRQat PIC APIC DMA Controller Static 00 0F 81 8F PIC Controller Static 20 21 AO A1 Local APIC Dynamic m IOAPIC Dynam
22. ic BEEN System Timer tatic 43 System Speaker tatic DMA Memory Hex FEE00000 FEEx XXXX FECOO000 FECy yyyy E0000 FFFFF E0000000 EFFFFFFF FED14000 FED17FFF FED18000 CD OS WD 2 System Board Static l 400 41F 480 4BF NB Chipset System Board FED18FFF FED19000 FED19FFF FED1C000 FED1FFFF Static SB Chipset System Board 800 87F Embedded Static 60 62 64 66 Controller Math Coprocessor otatic Touch Pad PS 2 Static Mouse Video Controller Static 3BO 3BB 3CO 3DF FF Fast IR IrDA tatic 6 1 1 13 13 12 12 11 A0000 BFFFF C0000 CFFFF ECP Parallel port Static NO PATA IDE Controller DISABLED Compatible Mode 13 SOFTWARE PECIFICATION SATA IDE Controller NO Compatible Mode PATA IDE Controller Static 1FO 1F7 3F6 14 14 Enhanced Mode SATA IDE Controller NO Enhanced Mode CardBus Controller 3E0 3E1 a o USB Host Controller Dmamc J o LAN Controller Dynamic J Co WLAN Gontrolr Dynamic Do om Note 1 The dynamic resource of devices will be changed if users change the settings 2 The system has no super I O 3 6 Power Management The BIOS supports CO C1 C2 C3 or C4 SO S3 S4 and S5 power management states for ACPI Enabled Operating Systems In DOS it has no power management because the SB chipset doesn t support S1 sleep s
23. ication Revision 1 1 amp 2 0 Universal Host Controller Design Guide Universal Serial Bus PC Legacy Compatibility Specification Enhanced Host Controller Interface Specification for Universal Serial Bus Revision 1 0 PCI Express Base Specification Revision 1 0 PCI Local Bus Specification Revision 2 3 PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification 6 2 o ASUS SOFTWARE PECIFICATION 2 Hardware Overview 2 1 Key Components The onboard key components and optional mini PCI modules are listed at table 2 1 and 2 2 Table 2 1 Key Ter List Item Vendor Part s Name Features CPU Intel Dothan Geyserville Hl Speed Step ee iN nnn e VGA intel GM USB Intel CHOMP LAN Realtek RTL810CL Cardbus Ricoh RS5CBe41 IEEE1394 Ricon mJR5Ce4M1 Azalia Audio Realtek ALC880 MEE Gen ICS954213 Be O Thermal MAXIM MAX6657 A Aza Modem Modem Realtek ALC880 ITE8705 Supero EER M38857 Controller Table 2 2 Optional Component List Item Vendor Part s Name Revision Wireless LAN Intel jCalexicoChipset 1 11 TV turn Card AVerMedia M103 amp M104 J gt FM module MAOTEK JFR60 J o gt gt Blue Tooth ASUS tis y 2 2 Bus Number Allocation The bus number allocation for PCI to PCI PCI Express Graphic and CardBus bridges are listed at table 2 3 Table 2 3 Bus Number Allocation Device Bus Dev Fun Primary Secondary S
24. ise Before system runs the code of POST pulls low Before the ACPI pull high After the ACPI free it 29 SATA1 GP PCB ID2 Main board revision identification pinO 30 SATA2GP PCB IDO Mainboard revision identification pin 0 31 SATAS GP PCB ID T Main board revision identification pin 0 32 O CLKRUN CLKRUN NotasGPIO 1 33 None CPUFAN_SPD_Alindicate the CPU Fan speed None WLAN ONE o on off control pin LOW On HIGH Off SOFTWARE PECIFICATION 35 NA NA NA COINA J J 136 NA NA NAU NA J J J J 38 NA NA NA COINA J0 9 J 39 NANA NA COINA 40 REQ4 PANEL IDO NotneededforLCD supporting DDC 41 LDRQ1 PANEL ID1 _ Not needed for LCD supporting DDC 142 NANA NA COINA O 143 NANA NAU U U ONA O 144 NANA NA COINA OO 45 N A N A NA COINA O ENT D 5 NMO A NA NIA CNA S A PRE _AMP_K Add the voltage DPS TOSSE or audio of DVO Lane AUS Rave audio of DVD Let the Audio have loud volume LOW 6v v HIGH Normal 49 O CPUPWRGD H PWRGD Notas GPIO Table 2 7 M38859 GPIO Definition Pin I O Usage Description Type DO ems Prese cord um of the system power events Press 4 second turn off the system power 2 1 O KNCP21_ NOTUSED Pull High o e BAT LEARN This pin is used for battery learning refres
25. k Multi Sector Transfer Auto PIO Mode Auto DMA Mode Auto S M A R T Auto 32Bit Data Transfer Enabled V02 36 C Copyright 1985 2002 American Megatrends Inc At system boot the Intel Ultra ATA Storage Driver configures each ATA ATAPI device to transfer data at particular transfer modes These transfer modes are defined by ATA standards and are either Programmed I O PIO or Direct Memory Access DMA or UltraDMA type transfers The Intel Ultra ATA Storage Driver usually configures devices for their fastest capable transfer modes however there may be times when a different perhaps slower transfer mode is appropriate for a particular device or system configuration For hard disk and CD ROM drives BIOS detect them automatically The users may enter the selected highlighted item to get more detailed information which contains 3 selectable setting Auto BIOS default setting User Type HDD Users may configure the disk geometry by changing below item Translation Methods Cylinders Head Sector Multi Sector Transfer Smart Monitoring PIO Mode Ultra DMA Mode None Hide the drive 6 23 ASUS SOFTWARE PECIFICATION 4 3 Display Menu AMI BIOS Setup Utility V02 36 C Copyright 1985 2002 American Megatrends Inc Boot Display devices LFP CRT CRT LCD lt Select boot display device default mode is LFP amp CRT mode TV Standard NTSC PAL PAN M PAL 60 NTSC J PAL CM PAL N SCART RGB 6 24 ASUS
26. l Purpose Events of South Bridge The general purpose inputs of the south bridge could trigger SCI SMI and or wake up events These inputs come from LID switch EC USB LAN modem CardBus and audio interfaces Table 2 14 lists the general purpose event GPE connections Table 2 12 GPE Connections on SB Source GPE ACPI Mode Legacy Mode SMI Wake SCI SMI Wake hermal THRM EC s SCI Pin GPI12 EC s SMI Pin GPI8 AN s PME Ring Indication RI Modem CODEC Audio CODEC USBO USB1 USB2 USB3 EHCI CardBus PME Power Management Event Because the chipset doesn t support S1 state and the BIOS do not support S3 state for none ACPI O S either it actually has no sleep state at legacy mode lt 4 Thermal THRM 0 EC s SCI Pin GPM2 EC s SMI Pin GPI8 LAN sPME Ring Indication RIF Audio CODEC USBO J J USBI 2G J USB2 J USB3 EHCI 0 0 0 CadBus 43 2 10 Events of Embedded Controller The internal keys and general purpose input pins are the SCI SMI and WKI event sources of the embedded controller EC The event sources of this system are shown at table below 6 8 o ASUS SOFTWARE PECIFICATION Table 2 13 SCI SMI and WKI Events of Embedded Controller Source Notification Trigger Pin Function Code Hex ACPI Mode Legacy Mod
27. may be changed as well Detailed I O device setting are described below 6 21 SOFTWARE PECIFICATION AMI BIOS Setup Utility Advanced DEJEN security Power Boot Exit Advanced Settings Configure the IDE i a devices Warning Setting wrong values in below Sections may cause system to malfunction gt IDE Configuration Start Easy Flash Internal Pointing Device Enabled Internal Numeric Pad Lock Enabled V02 36 C Copyright 1985 2002 American Megatrends Inc 1 IDE configuration See 5 2 1 2 Internal pointing device Enable lt Touch Pad enable disable you can choice 3 Internal Numeric Pad Lock Enable Num LK Number Lock enable disable 4 2 1 IDE Configuration AMI BIOS Setup Utility Advanced IDE Configuration TT While entering setup BIOS gt Primary IDE Master Hard Disk auto detect the presence of gt Primary IDE Slave ATAPI CDROM IDE devices This displays the status of auto detection of IDE devices V02 36 C Copyright 1985 2002 American Megatrends Inc 6 22 SUS SOFTWARE PECIFICATION 4 2 2 Primary Master Slave IDE AMI BIOS Setup Utility Primary IDE Master Select the type of device connected of the system Device Hard Disk Vendor HTS541080G9AT00 oize 80 0GB LBA Mode Supported Block Mode 16Sectors PIO Mode 4 Async DMA Multiword DMA 2 Ultra DMA Ultra DMA 5 S M A R T Supported Type Auto LBA Large Mode Auto Bloc
28. ned down to 80 of its original setting and back to normal when AC adapter is back inserted Wake Up On LAN Enable it system can wake up form magic package from Ethernet Battery refresh After long time incomplete charge discharge cycles the battery meter becomes less and less accurate the total power capacity is not significantly affected however Battery gauge needs to learn this item helps users to recalibrate the battery gauge In the learning process users need to follow system BIOS instruction to Insert remove the AC adapter so that a complete reset and learning cycle may start 6 27 ASUS SOFTWARE PECIFICATION 4 6 Boot Menu AMI BIOS Setup Utility Main Advanced Display Security Power Saving Boot Settings O_o Configure Settings during gt Boot Setting Configuration system Boot gt Boot Device Priority gt Hard Disk Drives gt Removable Drives gt ATAPI CDROM Drives Onboard LAN BOOT ROM Disabled V02 31 C Copyright 1985 2002 American Megatrends Inc In this menu users can decide the boot sequence as long as the device with highest boot priority exists system BIOS will boot from it device boot priority is adjusted by pressing or space key on the selected highlighted item 4 bootable devices for ASEP system are listed in this menu BIOS default boot sequence 1 Removable device lt Legacy floppy IDE Hard Drive lt hard disk ATAPI CD ROM lt CD ROM
29. ng state etc Smart battery is charged by the PIC PIC16C534C It is a processor operating is independence 2 7 Display Data Channels DDC and GMBus The VGA controller supports display data channels DDC on LCD and CRT interfaces as well as SMBus on SDVO Thus the VGA BIOS and driver could determine the resolution and timing of a display device by reading its EDID data The system BIOS doesn t have to provide callback function for reporting LCD type Table 2 10 DDC and Connections on VGA Controller Device Address Usage LCD Panel EDID data for determining the resolution and timing of the display device CRT Monitor E m lt Dit O 6 cuU gt SOFTWARE PECIFICATION 2 8 LED Indicators The colors and states of system LED indicators are described at table below Table 2 11 Colors and States of LED Indicators LED State Color Indication Power Steady On Systempowerissupplied Power Flashing S3 suspendto RAM state Battery Charging Steady On Charge a battery or batteries Battery Low Power Flashing Battery capacity is below 10 HardDisk Flashing Accessaharddrive EMail SteadyOn_ THiavenew E mails WLAN _SteadyOn__ 9 pEnabetheWLAN Audio SteadyOn sn the Audio DJ mode CAPS Lock StedyOn 0 NUM Lock StedyOn FP SCROLL Lock Steady On 0 O 2 9 Genera
30. o set on the drive The hard disk will be locked when it s being hard reset During POST the BIOS will ask a user to input a password to unlock the drive This password could be the user or master hard disk password If the master password is input the hard disk lock function will be disabled forever unless being re locked again Additionally the user and master passwords are frozen after the drive is unlocked to prevent them from being changed by any application program This input master password would be different everyday 3 11 4 Trusted Platform Module TPM Based Security The TMP module is an optional device and functions like a smart card The BIOS will initialize it and load it s driver accordingly However it needs other licensed application program to utilize it for security 3 12 Crisis Recovery A proprietary debug card is used for doing crisis recovery The steps are 1 Prepare one ISA EPROM with correct bios image 2 Insert the ISA EPROM into a debug card 3 Select SW1 ON and SW3 OFF on debug card 4 Plug the debug card into a system 5 Turn on the system 6 The BIOS will execute normal POST and turn on screen before automatically recovering the system BIOS 7 The BIOS will shutdown the system after finishing recovery 8 Take out the debug card and turn on system power to boot from system BIOS 3 13 Supported Utility The BIOS supports 3 flash utilities that are running during POST at DOS or at Windows In ad
31. pass it s capabilities to BIOS The BIOS saves the capability flag for other control methods This flag indicates if a native performance processor driver is loaded e PCT If native driver is loaded the processor native interface is used for the Performance Control Object by declaring the CPU s performance control and status registers as functional fixed hardware objects Otherwise the SMI interface is used for the Performance Control Object by declaring the ACPI command 0x82 and status 0x83 ports as performance control and status ports e PSS If native driver is loaded reports the control and status values based on CPU s performance control and status registers Otherwise these values are reported based on ACPI command and status ports e PCT Report 0 as the highest state to allow all states to be used when running on both AC adapter and battery DC The BIOS also supports Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology System Management Mode Interface for Intel s SpeedStep Applet in Windows 2000 The O S and Intel s SpeedStep Applet program will issue software SMI to get BIOS support The default SMI port is OB2h at Intel s Applet program Here are functions on this SMI interface e DISABLE SMI Port OS Command value located in ACPI FADT table offset 55 Called by the O S supporting native processor performance control The CPU speed transition should be controlled by the O S The BIOS only responds to get status and reports to
32. ronment or a SCI at ACPI enabled O S environment e When AC power is supplied the battery system will do the following action The charger will charge the Battery The Battery Charging Indicator will turn on if the battery is in changing mode The Battery Low warning condition will be removed When AC or battery power is supplied or removed the EC will trigger events and the EC driver will call the _Q control methods for AC and battery to handle these power events and notify O S to re emulate the state and information of the battery system 3 11 Security To protect storage data and system the BIOS implements several security mechanisms including setup menu protection booting prevention hard disk lock I O peripheral interface disable and optional TMP module function 3 11 1 Setup Menu and Booting Security There are a supervisor and a user password for entering setup menu and booting a system It could select to check these passwords only when entering setup menu Please refer to Security Menu section for detail 3 11 2 I O Interface Security The supervisor of a system could disable the modem LAN wireless LAN USB CardBus 1394 and 6 19 ASUS SOFTWARE PECIFICATION optical drive devices at setup menu and limit user s access right to re enable them 3 11 3 Hard Disk Drive Protection A user could set a password on a hard disk drive to lock it At same time a back door master password is als
33. state transition to a lower operating point as specified in the GV THERM control register if the CPU temperature is over the maximum operating temperature or to assert THERMTRIP signal to shutdown the system if the CPU temperature keeps rising and reaches a temperature where permanent damage to the processor is imminent The temperatures of these two trip points are set at on die digital thermal sensor of a CPU in a factory and different among all family and or stepping CPUs The thermal trip points of the system are shown at table 3 8 The control mechanism for both ACPI and legacy modes is as follows 1 Set the lowest bus ratio to control register GV THERM and enable TCC control of a CPU to let 6 16 o ASUS SOFTWARE PECIFICATION CPU automatically transit CPU speed back and forth near maximum operating temperature 2 Initialize the automatic fan control thermal sensor to drive fan on temperature to 40 C and turn fan off near 35 C if it was on The fan will be automatically turned on and off 3 At initialization or whenever a thermal trip event occurs do the action for the first true condition listed from highest to lowest priorities at first column in table 3 9 4 In ACPl enabled O S reports ACO PSV and CRT temperatures listed at table 3 8 as well as implementing thermal zone related control methods TMP TSP SCP TC1 TC2 name objects PSL ALO fan device node PNPOCOB fan s power resource STA ON OFF and
34. tate It doesn t support Advanced Power Management APM either Figure 1 shows the global system power states and transitions Power Fallure CPU C G3 Mech OTT GO 50 Working d Sleeping G2 85 Soft Off Figure 1 Global System Power States and Transitions 6 14 fSU gt SOFTWARE PECIFICATION 3 6 1 C States To enhance system performance and save battery life the BIOS uses the _CST control method to dynamically report the supported C States when powered by AC or by DC e Powered By AC C2 e Powered By DC C2 C4 In CST control method it reports level 4 I O port at C3 state package buffer to force system entering C4 state when an O S puts CPU to C3 state because C4 state is not a standard C state of ACPI specification and not implemented by current Windows O S The system supports C2 pop up and pop down function The CO and C1 states are supported on all power sources Any IRQ SMI SCI bus master or FERR event will bring the system to CO state from C1 C2 C3 or C4 For those O S such as Windows Me doesn t recognize _CST control method the BIOS always reports the system supports C2 and C3 at Fixed ACPI FACP description table The worst case hardware latency times of C2 and C3 are 10 and 100 microseconds respectively 3 6 2 Sleep States 1 SO state The CPU and all devices are working 2 S3 state The CPU and PCI busses are powered off All PCI devices must
35. ubordinate Onboard Devices On Bus m Secondary Bus PCI to PCl LAN CardBus 1394 Bridge MiniPCI WLAN P E G Bridge X X X X X X PCI Express Graphic Controller P E G PCI Express Graphic 6 3 o ASUS SOFTWARE PECIFICATION 2 3 IRQ Routing of PCI Devices The IRQ routing of onboard PCI chipsets and mini PCI slot are shown at table 2 4 Table 2 4 IRQ Routing of Onboard PCI Chipsets and mini PCI Slot Device Vendor IDSEL Bus Dev Fun INTA INTB INTC INTD VGA Intel 0 PIRQA user me E Zon PROD UsB 2 Intel JO 92992 PROC mo 1 00 55 pe IDESO PATA mei Flo Bi 3 Pres Cardbus Rcoh DIT pre Hei Ron hor nn Lol PRO Sb Cad Rech Wo 1 P 2 RB XD Picture Card Ricoh Jaor 4 PROB 1 LAN Marvel JADIO Q0 p PIRQE j MiniPCH JADi92 ii 93 Q0 PIROG PROH Minc ADi9 2 Jo PROH PIROG j Chipset Internal Routing Chipset Internal Routing at NATIVE mode IRQs Available for PIRQA PIRQH on PIC Enabled O S are 3 4 5 6 7 11 IRQs Available for PIRQA PIRQH on APIC Enabled O S are PIRQA 16 PIRQB 17 PIRQC 18 PIRQD 19 PIRQE 20 PIRQF 21 PIRQG 22 PIRQH 23 2 4 PCI Device IDs The vendor device and sub system sub vendor IDs of onboard PCI devices are listed at table 2 5 Table 2 5 Vendor Device amp Sub System Sub Vendor IDs Device Vendor Bus Dev Fun Vendor
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