------ P3B-F ------ ------- Manual --------------- p3bf-105.pdf v1.05 English (E485) (January 2000) p3bf-104.pdf v1.04 English with UDMA/66 info attached (E467) (October 1999) p3bf-chi102.pdf v1.02 Traditional Chinese (T427) (July 1999) p3bf-101.pdf v1.01 English (E427) ------- BIOS --------------- bx3f1006.zip P3B-F (Intel 440BX chipset) M/B, PnP BIOS ver. 1006 30/Jun/2000 1. Fix Windows 2000 cannot be installed if all PnP devices in Super I/O are disabled. 2. Support 566MHz and 850MHz CPU with clock ratio equal or greater than 8.5x. 3. Revise Coppermine Vcore limit for 128K cache Coppermine. 4. Fix Hardware Monitor false alarm of CPU vcore when using old celeron CPU. bx3f1005.zip P3B-F (Intel 440BX chipset) M/B, PnP BIOS ver. 1005 29/Mar/2000 1. Fix ASUS PC Probe shows CPU temperature much higher than the actual one after resuming from Suspend-to-RAM. 2. Remove Set off APM Mode 1.0 checking, fix Win 2000 APM cannot shut down. 3. The choice of 3mode floppy can only be disabled and enabled. 4. Add microcode update for Katmai & Coppermine. 5. Reserve IRQ 12 for PS/2 device other than mouse in Windows 98 ACPI mode when "PS/2 mouse function control" menu item is forced to be "Enabled". 6. Fix IDE hard drive having a formatted partition larger than 8.4G bytes cannot be enumerated by OS in "User Type HDD" mode. 7. Fix the system cannot boot from Sony DDU220E DVD-ROM. 8. Fix PME not enabled for some cards. 9. Add keyboard features setting in the setup menu. 10. Fix the system can't boot from its LS-120 drive if a CD-R is inserted in its CD-RW (or CD-ROM) drive. 11. Add L2 disable functionality for Cu-Mine. 12. Fix that there is a yellow exclaimation mark on the display card in Windows 98 ACPI mode when the printer port is set to "Normal" and "3BCH" mode in setup menu. 13. Patch for SunDisk 3DP3B-10 flash disk. bx3f1004.zip P3B-F (Intel 440BX chipset) M/B, PnP BIOS ver. 1004 25/Oct/99 1. Added Type 32 report for passing SMBIOWFM test. 2. Fix setup screen cluttered after selecting "CPU Vcore" option. 3. Revise and add one more choice of Power Loss Restart. 4. Boot from ZIP instead if no legacy floppy drive and LS-120 drive. 5. Added platform ID check for P6 microcode update loader. 6. Failure to report floppy error in POST if a LS-120 drive detected. 7. Support Phoenix bit-shift translation mode for an IDE hard disk larger than 32G bytes. 8. Fix the 1.44M diskette in A: been destroyed during Win98 (ACPI mode) installation if A: is a LS-120 drive. 9. Fix BSDI UNIX (bootable CD) cannot be installed from an IDE CD-ROM drive. 10. Upgrade Deschutes and Katmai microcode updates. 11. Fix Win98 SE cannot create a Startup Disk with a LS-120 drive. 12. Fix Windows 98 SE cannot be installed from a SCSI CD-ROM drive. 13. Fix the system cannot boot from any bootable device if booting from a 3Com 3C905C-TXM LAN card is failed or bypassed. 14. Support Multiple Choices for Keyboard Wakeup. 15. Add FULL_LOGO_OPTIONAL flag to fix the logo item without effect. 16. Support temperature display of JTPWR. 17. Fix CMOS Hardware monitor item does not appear when ignored. 18. Fix keyboard Power Up is always enabled. 19. Fix the system hang-up bug at POST while enumerating the KCT hub compound device. 20. Support low speed fan. 21. Fix wrong CPU Speed setup options for Klamath CPU. 22. Fix a 40-pin IDE cable is detected as an 80-pin one. 23. Fix LITE-ON LTN-382 or CNet CDL-36X ATAPI CD-ROM cannot be detected after warm boot. 24. Fix some out of Spec. USB keyboards not working. bx3f103a.zip P3B-F (Intel 440BX chipset) M/B, PnP BIOS ver. 1003A 11/Aug/99 1. Disable Temp Sensor 2(CPU) OVT output initially. 2. Revise Keyboard power up handling. 3. Fix Power Button override failed in suspend mode (APM). 4. Fix Keyboard hang when PS/2 Mouse and CAPS Lock key activiated at the same time if USB Mouse/KB enabled. 5. Fix UDMA Mode 4 drive slow spin when resume from standby. 6. Fix Russian Y2K Test Program failed. 7. Use hardware method to do write protect. Fix floppy disappeared in Win98 if floppy access is read only. 8. Revise setup options and warning messages for jumper-free mode. bx3f1003.zip P3B-F (Intel 440BX chipset) M/B, PnP BIOS ver. 1003 02/Aug/99 1. Modify CPU temperature CMOS item help string. 2. Add USB Keyboard Error Recovery mechanism. 3. Support Z100IDE ZIP (ATA interface). 4. Fix LPT will be shown as an ECP in PNP node. 5. Support booting from a BEV (Bootstrap Entry Vector) device. 6. Support Intel PIII-600MHz CPU. bx3f1002.zip P3B-F (Intel 440BX chipset) M/B, PnP BIOS ver. 1002 15/Jul/99 1. Revise Y2K Patch to fix com port failure as using Audio. 2. Fix Maxdata hardware test program v2.3 fails in testing INT13 extensions. 3. Fix NT bootable CD can't be booted from a SCSI CD-ROM. 4. Fix for Microsoft Pre-OS test failure. 5. Add USB Mouse Error Recovery mechanism. 6. Added microcode update support for Coppermine cA-0. 680-> 00b Upgraded microcode update data for 650-> 040; 651-> 040; 652-> 02a; 653-> 00a 672-> 00b; 673-> 007 7. Don't touch PCI device's PME_EN bit during POST. 8. Fix PC-Doctor hang. 9. NCR Option ROM update. 10. Revise DSDT_OEM_ID & DSDT_OEM_REV support (ACPI table)