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New Intel D850GB Pentium 4 MotherBoard P08 Bios

Time: 00:50 EST/05:50 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: Byron Hinson

Intel has just released a bios update carrying the P8 number for its D850GB motherboard, the only Intel one that supports the latest Santa Clara baby called Pentium 4. This new release comes with several enhancements and fixes making it an essential one, owners should install right now. Thanks to the Intel Express Bios Update mechanism updating your bios is a child game as you can update directly from Windows! Below is the list of fixes:

Fixed issue where SMI (System Management Interrupt) was not initialized coming out of ACPI S3.
Fixed an issue where BIOS could not detect PME wakeup correctly (SMBIOS type 1 structure would wakeup for the wrong reason and was incorrectly updated).
Added feature to disable Wake on PME from ACPI S4.
Fixed an issue where onboard audio detection was not happening properly in some situations.
Fixed multi-channel CNR audio upgrade detection.
Added new code for USB polling.
Added support for PCI IDE Bus Mastering (DMA) for BIOS INT 13h hard disk reads and writes on IDE devices that support IDE Bus Mastering.
Added BBS Runtime function support to the BIOS.
Added new release of PXE code.
Changed Type 8 SMBIOS structures to correctly reflect internal connectors. Internal connectors in Type 8 structures now conform to version 2.3.1 of the "System Management BIOS Reference Specification".
Corrected problem with SCSI controller resource conflict in Windows� 2000 when using AGP video.
Fixed APM so that drives would correctly power down in APM mode.
Updated ICH2 code to account for ICH2 BIOS Specification Update (for B4 Stepping ICH2 Support).
Added support to update the VPD area in BIOS recovery process.
Fix a potential issue with the boot sequence could take longer due to the boot data not being correctly initialized
Updated Intel Express BIOS to Version 1.11
SMBIOS corrected to reflect that the SMBus is routed to PCI slot # 2
Fixed issue where the system was always reporting 80-conductor IDE cable type (regardless of actual cable type) when certain ATAPI devices were connected as the slave device on the IDE channel.
Added support for doing 32-bit IDE PIO mode data transfers inside BIOS INT 13h.
Added AMI BBS 3.0 and USB boot functionality
Added support for programming the back-panel diagnostic LEDs to all green on resume from ACPI S3 (Suspend-to-RAM).
Changed Setup and POST to eliminate issues regarding shifted characters.
Optimized AGP Timer settings according to Intel 82850/82860 Chipset BIOS Specification rev 0.77.
Made "Language" setup item non-editable when user setup access level is set to "View Only".

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