BIOS Walkthrough

Biostar has equipped the TA75A+ with a full UEFI BIOS, with the same layout that we saw in the TZ68A+. The main page has date and time settings, while the "Advanced" page features settings for devices and such normally found here, including PC health monitoring and SmartFan controls, which allows adjustment of only the CPU fan, but has a handy feature that will calibrate its slope according to the speed and type of fan used, something we've never seen before. Once complete it'll offer suggested settings, which can then be input into the appropriate areas. Nice!


The "Chipset" page of the TA75A+ hold settings for the CPU's internal northbridge as well as the AMD A75 southbridge. We find a few critical options here, including enabling or disabling the onboard GPU.


The "Boot" and "Security" pages are pretty straight forward, containing options to select which device boots first, with a separate option for choosing HDD boot order. "Security" allows you to set passwords for BIOS access, and that's about it.


Next up is the "meat" of the BIOS, the "O.N.E." page. Inside we find all the options for setting voltages, clock speeds, and memory timings, as well as a specific page for adjusting P-State values. The memory page allows setting timings for each channel individually, a nice thing that allows tweaking to the max. Settings for the memory controller itself are under their own heading, making the individual pages a bit less overwhelming, and easier to navigate.


The "Memory Insight" page leads to an area that lists information from each stick's SPD table individually, something we've seen on a few other products that really goes a long way to making initial setup fairly painless. We do wish there was a bit more correlation between what you find here, and the settings on the DRAM timing page, but there's more than enough info to get things working perfectly. The "Exit" page has an area for saving BIOS profiles, an added bonus that we were quite glad to see.