P4C800-E Deluxe BIOS Question

[Jeff]

Hi,

Just picked up the P4C800-E Deluxe today and noticed it has AMIBIOS. i have
used AWARD BIOS on prvious Gigabyte, Tyan and ABIT MB's. IS AMIBIOS
comapable to AWARD?

Comments?

TIA,

Jeff

 

[John]

I prefer the award bioses. I'm on 1015 bios and I can't set the boot order
to floppy then DVD then hard drive.

Also when you press DEL to enter the bios you have to wait for the entire
bios boot procedure to complete before you can change the settings.

There were a couple of other things too, but I can't recall them right now.

 

[GB]

I am with John on this bios. I have the P4C880-E Deluxe (1015) also
and I have always had Award bios. It is quite different but
managable. I don't think you will regret getting this board. I still
can't figure out how to make the system come out of suspend from the
keyboard. I have to touch the power button and it springs back to
life. Also I had to turn off the voice prompt. It kept saying
something that sounded like "UPS power failure" on boot up.

 

[M.L]

Well,

You can't force an IRQ on PCI slots like we did on Award's.

Indeed this is a problem when sharing PCI/USB on Asus P4

ML

 

[DanO]

My memory may be confusing the P4C800-E with my P4B533-E, but I think you
need to set a jumper on the MB to provide power to the keyboard when the pc
is off or in standby. You also probably want to enable the "power on by
keyboard" feature in the BIOS.

Also, is your KB USB or PS2? My PS2 KB always wakes up my PC's.

 

[GB]

My KB is a PS2. I am going to check the book and see about the
jumper. I was unaware of a jumper for this.
I think "power on by keyboard" was my selection on that bios setting.
Seems like I remember changing to that and re-booting then I entered
suspend mode and it still would not come back up by the keyboard.

 

[Derek Hawkins]

Make sure the "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby" box
is checked in the Power management property for the keyboard (Windows Device
Manager). Do the same for the mouse. You should be able to wake the computer
from standby or hibernation with a click of the PS/2 mouse or the keyboard.
IIRC, the BIOS setting governs "wake" from power off. Enable wake for both
mouse and keyboard in BIOS and Device Manager and you should be able to use
either to wake the system from any condition. Happy waking.

 

[Derek Hawkins]

Keyboard jumper setting info is on page 2-19. First jumper you should have
set. Check the rest too.