Biostar I945P-A7 (Intel 945P)
BIOS
The BIOS of Biostar I945P-A7 is built on the Award BIOS Phoenix version.
The section dealing with memory settings contains only a standard set of latency timings - ("CAS Latency", "Precharge to Active"(Trp), "Active to precharge" (Tras), and "Active to CMD"(Trcd)).
The next parameter that affects the performance is setting the memory operating frequency.
So, the user gets all whatever divisors for the memory frequency: 1:2(DDR2-400), 2:3 (DDR2-533), and 5:6(DDR2-667).
It should be noted that the board refused to run with Kingmax DDR2-533 memory at DDR2-533 frequency. So we had to run all the tests with DDR2-533 noname modules made on Samsung chips. In fact, this issue is typical of the vast majority of i945P-based motherboards (there is no such issue with i915Pi925X-based boards).
Now move on to the section to do with the system monitoring.
The board displays the current temperatures for the processor, rotational speeds of all the two fans, as well as voltage levels. Besides, for the processor cooler the Smart Fan feature is accessible, which allows adjusting the rotational speed versus the processor temperature.
Note that the board has the feature for displaying system monitoring data on the POST screen:
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