BIOS

Since we have already discussed the BIOS of Biostar mainboards in great detail before, we would like to cut the long story short this time and focus only on the major distinguishing features of the Biostar TP35D3-A7 Deluxe BIOS.

Biostar TP35D3-A7 Deluxe mainboards arrived in our lab with BIOS version 31.05, however there was a version 15.06 on the company web-site already. This time, everything turned out to be as it was supposed to, the new version was really newer, but nevertheless, the surprised awaited us right from the start. The old BIOS revision displayed a pretty common Standard CMOS Features window:

However, in the new version we again discovered some vanishing features: two Serial ATA ports disappeared:

Unlike its younger sister, Biostar TP35D3-A7 Deluxe allows setting the SATA-drives work modes manually:

This time they didn?t even include the processor fan rotation speed management option into the PC Health Status section, but all the other parameters remained the same:

OverClock Navigator Engine section also remained pretty unchanged, only the maximum FSB speed dropped to 600MHz, and the maximum additional memory voltage changed 0.35V with 0.05V increment.

The older BIOS version allowed setting the memory frequency at 677 (667), 800 or 1066MHz. The new version allows setting the memory frequency with coefficients, which haven?t really become more numerous at all:

I would only like to add that memory timings are still set independently from one another and support the same value intervals as the previous mainboard model we have just talked about.

The rest of the Biostar TP35D3-A7 Deluxe BIOS features are the same as those of Biostar Biostar TP35D2-A7.