Biostar T Power I45 BIOS thread

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Bit of a generic title to cover both findings and the eventuality of mBIOS(es) released.

As you guys all know I don't have the T Power yet, but I have been looking at it's BIOS to see what I can dig up, so heres what I found so far!

The first is called Energy Lake Feature. I can't find any information about this what-so-ever. So anything people can find on it will be useful. Its an option that is not displayed in the BIOS by default and is disabled.

Next is Restore On AC Power Loss. We all should be familiar with this setings, just wondering if anyone would find it useful me making it visible in the BIOS.

Another option is something I first come across in the AW9D-Max BIOS when modding it, SLP_S4# min. Assertion Width. This is another option I can't find any info on at all, it's not hidden in the BIOS, I'm just wondering what the hell it is. There must be some info out there about this option surely

The next is the Auto Overclock System. By default as T Power users will know it displays "V6-Tech Engine". The curiosity about this is investigating the BIOS there are two other "Tech Engines", V8 and V12 Who wants me to whack it up to V12 so people can see what it does? Maybe it'll turbocharge our boards for uber out-of-this-stratosphere overclocks or something...

Changed \ added so far:

- Added a bunch of CPU patches to the P6 CPU microcode table which should allow support for FSB800 P4s and Celerons.

- Changed boot timeouts for HDD, optical drives and USB sticks. This should help speed up the boot process.

HDD timeout changed from 35 seconds to 10
Optical timeouts changed from 35 seconds to 5
USB timeouts changed from 20 seconds to 10

So, your thoughts, and info folks?

This mBIOS has the custom P6 CPU table, its naturally untested as I don't have the TPower yet, so use it at your own risk.

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