Biostar M6VCT User Manual

M6VCT

Federal Communications Commission

(F.C.C) Statement

• This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation of this device is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

• Accessories: This device has been tested and found to comply with the limits of a Class B digital device, the accessories associated with this equipment are as follows:

1. Shielded serial cable. (Can be obtained from multiple retail outlets)

2. Shielded printer cable. (Can be obtained from multiple retail outlets)

3. Shielded video cable. (Can be obtained from multiple retail outlets)

4. Shielded power cord. (Provided by manufacturer)

These accessories are required to ensure compliance with FCC Rules. It is the responsibility of the user to provide and use these accessories properly.

• This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits of a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. There is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, you are encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

1. Reorient / relocate the receiving antenna.

2. Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

3. Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.

4. Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

• Caution: Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the manufacturer could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment.

Disclaimer

• The vendor makes no representations or warranties with respect to the contents here of and specially disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any purpose. Further the vendor reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes the contents here- of without obligation to notify any party beforehand.

Duplication of this publication, in part or in whole, is not allowed without first obtaining the vendor’s approval in writing.

Trademarks and Remarks

MS-DOS, Windows NT, Windows 9X, Windows ME and Windows 2000 are products of Microsoft Corp, with its ownership of trademark, and are distributed by the vendor under a license agreement.

All trademarks used in this manual are the property of their respective owners.

Copyright© 2001

All Rights Reserved

Canadian D.O.C. Statement

• This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class B limits for radio noise emissions from digital apparatus as set out in the radio interference regulations of the Canadian Department of Communications.

Cet appareil numbérique n’emet pas de bruits radioélectriques dépassant les limites appliqués aux appareils numbériques de Class B préscrits dans le reglement du brouillage radioélectrique edict par le ministere Des

Communications du Canada.

Contents

Introduction ................................................................................ 1-1

1 Motherboard Description ....................................................... 1-2

1.1 Features ...................................................................................................1-2

1.1.1 Hardware .........................................................................................1-2

1.1.2 BIOS................................................................................................1-6

1.1.3 Software ..........................................................................................1-6

1.1.4 Accessories......................................................................................1-6

1.2 Motherboard Installation.........................................................................1-7

1.2.1 System Block Diagram....................................................................1-7

1.2.2 Layout of Motherboard ...................................................................1-8

1.2.3 Quick Reference ..............................................................................1-9

1.3 CPU Installation....................................................................................... 10

1.3.1 CPU Installation Procedure: Socket 370 .......................................1-10

1.3.2 CPU & System FAN .....................................................................1-11

1.3.2.1 CPU FAN Header: JCFAN1 ............................................................. 1-11

1.3.2.2 System Fan Header: JSFAN1 ............................................................ 1-11

1.4 RAM Module Installation .....................................................................1-12

1.4.1 DIMM ...........................................................................................1-12

1.4.2 How to install a DIMM Module ....................................................1-14

1.5 Slots ......................................................................................................1-15

1.5.1 AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) Slot..........................................1-16

1.5.2 AMR (Audio Modem Riser) Slot ..................................................1-16 i

Contents

1.5.3 ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) Slot ....................................1-16

1.5.4 PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) Slots ...........................1-16

1.6 Connectors, Headers & Jumpers ...........................................................1-17

1.6.1 Front Panel Connector: JPANEL1 ................................................1-17

1.6.1 Front Panel Connector: JPANEL1 ................................................1-18

1.6.2 ATX 20-pin Power Connector: JATXPWR1 ................................1-20

1.6.3 Hard Disk Connectors: IDE1/IDE2...............................................1-20

1.6.4 Floppy Disk Connector: FDD1 .....................................................1-21

1.6.5 Wake On LAN Header: JWOL1 ...................................................1-21

1.6.6 Clear CMOS Jumper: JCMOS1 ....................................................1-22

1.6.7 Front USB Header: JUSB2 ...........................................................1-22

1.7 Peripheral Port Connectors ...................................................................1-23

1.7.1 PS/2 Mouse / Keyboard Connector: JKBMS1 ..............................1-23

1.7.2 USB Connector: JUSB1 ................................................................1-24

1.7.3 Serial and Parallel Interface Ports .................................................1-25

1.7.3.1 The Serial Interface: COM1/COM2 .................................................. 1-25

1.7.3.2 Connectivity ...................................................................................... 1-26

1.7.3.3 Parallel Interface Port: JPRNT1 ........................................................ 1-27

1.7.4 Game (Joystick) Port Connector: JGAME1 ..................................1-28

1.7.5 Audio (MIDI) Port Connectors .....................................................1-28

1.7.6 Audio Subsystem...........................................................................1-29

1.7.6.1 CD-ROM Audio-In Header: JCDIN1 ............................................... 1-30

1.7.6.2 CD-ROM Audio-In Header: JCDIN2 ............................................... 1-30

1.7.6.3 Front Audio Header: JAUDIO1 ........................................................ 1-30 ii

Contents

1.7.6.4 Telephony Audio Header: JTAD1 (Optional) ................................... 1-31

2. BIOS Setup.............................................................................. 2-1

2.1 Main Menu..............................................................................................2-3

2.2 Standard CMOS Features........................................................................2-6

2.3 Advanced BIOS Features ........................................................................2-9

2.4 Advanced Chipset Features ...................................................................2-13

2.5 Integrated Peripherals ...........................................................................2-16

2.6 Power Management Setup.....................................................................2-21

2.7 PnP/PCI Configurations ........................................................................2-27

2.8 PC Health Status ...................................................................................2-31

2.9 Frequency Control.................................................................................2-33

2.10 Load Optimized Defaults ....................................................................2-34

2.11 Set Supervisor/User Password ............................................................2-35

2.12 Save & Exit Setup ...............................................................................2-37

2.13 Exit Without Saving ............................................................................2-38

3. Trouble Shooting .................................................................... 3-1 iii

Chapter 1 Motherboard Description

Introduction

System Overview

Thanks for buying this product! This manual was written to help you start using this product as quickly and smoothly as possible. Inside you will find adequate explanations to solve most problems. In order for this reference material to be of greatest use, refer to the “expanded table of contents” to find relevant topics.

This board incorporates the all new VIA694X/T, VIA VT82C686B serial chipset, ISA, AGP and PCI IDE into one board that provides a total PC solution. The motherboard, a Celeron

TM

/ Pentium



!!!

/ Tualatin

TM

, processor based PC / ATX system, supports 128kbyte or 256kbyte or

512kbyte cache on CPU, PCI Local Bus to support upgrades to your system performance. On-Board Sound Subsystem to support high 3D sound quality the AMR Slot to support the solution of high performance, low cost modem. It is ideal for multi-tasking and fully supports MS-DOS,

Windows 3x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Novell,

Windows 9x, UNIX, SCO UNIX and LINUX etc. This manual explains how to install the motherboard for operation.

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1 Motherboard Description

1.1 Features

1.1.1 Hardware

CPU

−

The Celeron

TM

processor (PPGA) and the Pentium



!!!

/ Tualatin

TM

Micro-Processor provides the new generation power for high-end workstations and servers.

−

Provides Socket 370 .

Speed

− Running at 66/100 or 133MHz Front Side Bus frequency.

−

Supports up to 1.2 GHz CPU core speeds.

−

Supports 33MHz PCI Bus speed.

DRAM Memory

−

Supports three 8/16/32/64/128/256/512MB DIMM modules.

−

Supports synchronous DRAM (3.3V).

−

Supports a maximum memory size of 1.5GB with SDRAM.

−

133MHz Bus frequency.

Green Function

−

Supports power management operation via BIOS.

−

Power down timer from 1 min to 1 hour.

−

Wake On LAN connector.

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BUS Slots

−

Provide one (2X/4X)AGP slot and one/two 16-bit ISA Bus slots.

−

Four / Five 32-bit PCI bus master slots.

−

PCI V2.2 compliant.

PCI Enhanced IDE Built-in onboard

− Supports 4 IDE hard disk drives.

−

Supports Mode 4, bus master mode, high performance hard disk drives.

−

Supports Ultra DMA33/66/100, bus master mode.

−

Supports IDE interface with CD-ROM.

−

Supports high capacity hard disk drives.

−

Supports LBA mode.

−

Supports booting from LS-120 “SuperDisk” or iomega

™

ZIP disk.

Super I/O Built-in onboard

−

Support one multi-mode Parallel Port.

(1) Standard & Bidirection Parallel Port (SPP).

(2) Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP).

(3) Extended Capabilities Port (ECP).

−

Supports two serial ports, 16550 UART with 16 byte FIFO.

−

UART data rates up to 1.5 Mbaud.

−

Supports one Infrared transmission (IR) port.

−

Supports PS/2 Mouse.

−

Supports 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB and 2.88MB floppy disk drives.

Direct Sound Ready AC97 Digital Audio Controller

−

Single chip audio CODEC with high S/N ratio (>90dB).

−

18-bit ADC and DAC resolution.

−

Compliant with AC’97 2.2 specification.

−

−

Mee performance requirements for audio on PC2001 systems.

18-bit stereo full-duplex CODEC with independed and variable sampling rate.

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−

4 analog line-level stereo input with 5-bit volume control :

LINE_IN,CD.

−

Mono output with 5-bit volume control.

− Stereo output with 5-bit volume control.

−

Power management.

−

3D Stereo Enhancement.

−

Line output with 50Mw/20ohm driving capability (ALC2001A).

−

External Amplifier power down capability.

Power Management

−

Supports both ACPI (Advanced and Configuration and Power

Interface) and legacy (APM) power management.

−

ACPI v1.0 Compliant.

−

APM v1.2 Compliant.

−

CPU clock throttling and clock stop control for complete ACPI C0 to

C3 state support.

−

PCI bus clock run, Power Management Enable (PME) control, and

PCI/CPU clock generator stop control.

−

Supports multiple system suspend types: power-on suspends with flexible CPU/PCI bus reset options, and suspend to disk (soft-off), all with hardware automatic wake-up.

−

Multiple suspend power plane controls and suspend status indicators.

−

One idle timer, one peripheral timer and one general purpose timer, plus 24/32-bit ACPI compliant timer.

−

Normal, doze, sleep, suspend,and conserve modes.

−

Global and local device power control.

−

System event monitoring with two event classes.

−

Primary and secondary interrupt differentiation for individual channels.

−

Dedicated input pins for power and sleep buttons, external modem ring indicator, and notebook lid open/close for system wake-up.

−

Multiple internal and external SMI sources for flexible power management models.

−

One programmable chip select and one microcontroller chip select.

−

Enhanced integrated real time clock (RTC) with date alarm, month alarm, and century field.

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−

Thermal alarm on either external or any combination of two internal temperature sensing circuits.

−

I/O pad leakage control.

Universal Serial Bus

−

USB v.1.1 and Intel Universal HCI v.1.1 compatible.

−

Eighteen level (doublewords) data FIFO with full scatter and gather capability.

−

Root hub and four function ports.

−

Intrgrated physical layer transceivers with optional over-current detection status on USB inputs.

−

Keyboard and mouse support.

Platform

−

ATX Form Factor.

Dimension

−

19.1 cm X 30.6 cm (W x L).

Full Featured Accerated Graphics Port (AGP) Controller

−

Synchronous and pseudo-synchronous with the CPU bus with optimal skew control.

−

AGP v2.0 compliant.

−

Supports SideBand Addressing (SBA) mode (non-multiplexed address

/ data).

−

Supports 266 MHZ 4x mode for AD and SBA signaling.

−

Pipelined split-transaction long-burst transfers up to 1GB /sec.

−

Eight level read request queue.

−

Four level posted-write request queue.

−

Thirty-two level (quadworks) read data FIFO (256 bytes).

−

Sixteen level (quadworks) write data FIFO (128 bytes).

−

Intelligent request reordering for maximum AGP bus utilization.

−

Suppots Flush/Fence commands.

−

Graphics Address Relocation Table (GART).

(1)One level TLB structure.

(2)Sixteen entry fully associative page table.

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(3)LRU replacement scheme.

(4)Independent GART lookup control for host /AGP /PCI master accesses.

−

Windows 95 OSR-2 VXD and integrated Windows 98 / NT2000

/WINNT miniport driver support.

1.1.2 BIOS

BIOS

− AWARD legal & user-friendly BIOS.

−

Supports PnP functions.

1.1.3 Software

Operating Systems

− Offers the highest performance for Windows NT, Windows

2000, Windows 31 / 95 / 98 / ME, Novell, UNIX, SCO UNIT,

LINUX and others.

1.1.4 Accessories

−

HDD Cable.

−

FDD Cable.

−

USB2 Cable (Optional).

−

CD for IDE / VGA Chip Driver, BIOS flash writer utility, Audio

Driver.

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1.2 Motherboard Installation

1.2.1 System Block Diagram

SOCKET

370

HOST BUS HOST BUS

MEM ORY

3 DIMM

VIA

VT82C694X/T

AGP 2X/4X

IDE

IDE

AMR

AC' 97

CODEC

VT82C 686B

PCI BUS

FLASH

BIOS

Serial P ort X2/

Parallel Port X1/

Game Po rt X1

ISA BUS

ISA

M6VCT

ATX

SUPPORTS 3 DIMMS

SUPPORTS 1 4X AGP,5 PCI,1 AMR , 1 ISA

SUPPORTS FRONT USB * 2

SUPPORTS STR FUNCTION

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1.2.2 Layout of Motherboard

Model No.M6VCT

KB

&

Mouse

JKBMS1

JUSB1

USB

JCOM1

JPRNT1

CPU

JATXPWR1

IDE1 IDE2

FDD1

U1

JCOM2

1

JGAME1

JCFAN1

VIA

VT82C694X/T

1 2

JAUDIO1

9

1

1

JCDIN2

1

JTAD1 JCDIN1

Ac97

ROM1

1

AMR SLOT

AMR1

PCI BUS SLOT

JWOL1

PCI BUS SLOT

AGP SLOT

AGP1

PCI1

PCI2

PCI BUS SLOT

PCI3

Clock

Gen

VT82C686B

U2

PCI BUS SLOT

PCI BUS SLOT

ISA BUS SLOT

PCI4

PCI5

BAT1

JPANEL1

24 23

2 1

9

JUSB2

1

2

ISA1

JCMOS1

1

1

JSFAN1

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1.2.3 Quick Reference

I H G F E D C B A

S R Q P O

A. Front Audio Header (JAUDIO1)

N M L K

J. CPU Fan Header (JCFAN1)

J

B. Back panel I/O Connectors

C. AMR BUS Slot (AMR1)

K. DIMMs (DIMM1-3)

L. ATX Power Connector (JATXPWR1)

D. CD Audio-In Header (JCDIN2) M. Floppy Disk Connector (FDD1)

E. Telephony Audio Header ( ＊ JTAD1) N. IDE Ports (IDE1/2)

F. CD Audio-In Header (JCDIN1) O. AGP BUS Slot (AGP1)

G. PCI BUS Slots (PCI1-5)

H. Wake-On-LAN Header (JWOL1)

I. ISA BUS Slot (ISA1)

P. Front Panel Connector (JPANEL1)

Q. Front USB Header (JUSB2)

R. System Fan Header (JSFAN1)

S. Clear CMOS Function (JCMOS1)

Note: The “ ＊ ” mark represent the function is optional.

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1.3 CPU Installation

1.3.1 CPU Installation Procedure: Socket 370

70 t 3 cke

So

1. Pull the lever sideways away from the socket then raise the lever up to a 90-degree angle.

2. Locate Pin A in the socket and look for the white dot or cut edge in the CPU. Match Pin A with the white dot/cut edge then insert the

CPU.

3. Press the lever down to complete the installation.

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1.3.2 CPU & System FAN

JCFAN1

JSFAN1

1

1

1.3.2.1 CPU FAN Header: JCFAN1

Pin No.

1

2

3

Assignment

Ground

+12V

Sense

1.3.2.2 System Fan Header: JSFAN1

Pin No.

1

2

3

Assignment

Ground

+12V

Sense

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1.4 RAM Module Installation

1.4.1 DIMM

DRAM Access Time : 3.3V Unbuffered SDRAM PC66, PC100 & PC133 Type required.

DRAM Type : 8MB/16MB/32MB/64MB/128MB/256MB DIMM Module (168pin)

Total

Memory Size (MB)

8 M

16 M

32 M

64 M

128 M

256 M

512 M

16 M

32 M

64 M

128 M

256 M

512 M

1024 M

24 M

40 M

72 M

136 M

264 M

520 M

1032 M

32 M

48 M

80 M

144 M

272 M

528 M

1040 M

48 M

64 M

96 M

160 M

288 M

544 M

1056 M

Bank 0

DIMM1

8M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

Bank 1

DIMM2

----

----

----

----

----

----

8M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

----

----

8M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

Bank 2

DIMM3

----

----

----

----

----

----

----

----

----

----

----

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Total

Memory Size (MB)

80 M

96 M

128 M

192 M

320 M

576 M

1080 M

144 M

160 M

192 M

256 M

384 M

640 M

1152 M

272 M

288 M

320 M

384 M

512 M

768 M

1280 M

528 M

544 M

576 M

640 M

768 M

1024 M

1536 M

Bank 0

DIMM1

8M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

Bank 1

DIMM2

8M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

8M x 1 pc

16M x 1 pc

32M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

*The list shown above for DRAM configuration is only for reference.

Bank 2

DIMM3

64M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

64M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

128M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

256M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

512M x 1 pc

Note: Don’t stuff or remove the DIMM memory, if the Power LED is lighting or twinkling.

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1.4.2 How to install a DIMM Module

Single Sided DIMM

Double Sided DIMM

1. The DIMM socket has a “ Plastic

Safety Tab” and the DIMM memory module has an asymmetrical notch”, so the DIMM memory module can only fit into the slot in one direction.

2. Push the tabs out. Insert the DIMM memory modules into the socket at a

90-degree angle then push down vertically so that it will fit into place.

3. The Mounting Holes and plastic tabs should fit over the edge and hold the DIMM memory modules in place.

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1.5 Slots

The slots in this motherboard are designed to hold expansion cards and connect them to the system bus. Expansion slots are a means of adding or enhancing the motherboard’s features and capabilities. With these efficient facilities, you can increase the motherboard’s capabilities by adding hardware that performs tasks that are not part of the basic system.

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1.5.1 AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) Slot

Unlike the mouse ports, keyboard ports and printer ports this motherboard does not have built in video facilities and therefore requires a video card for one of the expansion slots. Your monitor will attach directly to that video card. This motherboard supports video cards for

PCI and ISA slots but is also equipped with an Accelerated Graphics Port

(AGP PRO). An AGP card will take advantage of AGP technology for improved video efficiency and performance, especially with 3D graphics.

An AGP compatible card will fit into the AGP (AGP PRO) slot provided by the motherboard.

1.5.2 AMR (Audio Modem Riser) Slot

The AMR specification is an open Industry Standard Architecture and that defines a hardware scalable riser card interface, which supports audio and modem only.

1.5.3 ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) Slot

The motherboard is equipped with one standard ISA slot. ISA stands for

Industry Standard Architecture and was designed as a bus standard for expansion cards in the early 90’s for PC XT/AT machines. This motherboard retains backward compatibility with this older and slower bus architecture.

1.5.4 PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect)

Slots

This motherboard is equipped with 5 standard PCI slots. PCI stands for

Peripheral Component Interconnect and is a bus standard for expansion cards, which has, for the most part, supplanted the older ISA bus standard.

This PCI slot is designated as 32 bit.

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1.6 Connectors, Headers & Jumpers

The connectors, headers and jumpers introduced below provide you lots of capabilities such as power supply, front panel signal revelation, IDE hard disk connection, floppy disk connection, Wake On LAN function and USB connection. Noticeably, a jumper has two or more pins that can be covered by a plastic jumper cap, allowing you to select different system options.

JATXPWR1

IDE1-2

1 JCFAN1

FDD1

24 23

1

JWOL1

JPANEL1

2 1

9

JUSB2

1

2

1

JCMOS1

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2

1.6.1 Front Panel Connector: JPANEL1

SLP POW-LED

( + ) (+ ) ( -)

ON/OFF

K

E

Y

IR

24

1 23

SPK

(+ ) ( -)

HLED RST NA

Pin Assignment Function Pin Assignment

No. No.

Function

1

3

5

7

2 Sleep Control Sleep

Ground Button

17

19

21

23

NA Connector

Speaker

9 HDD LED (+) Hard Drive 10 Power LED (+)

11 HDD LED (-) LED 12 Power LED (-)

13

15 Reset Control Button

14

16

Power Button

Ground

+5V Connector

6 NA

8 Power LED (+)

22

NA

POWER

LED

Power-on

Button

KEY

KEY IrDA

Ground Connector

IRRX

SPK (Speaker Connector)

An offboard speaker can be installed on the motherboard as a manufacturing option. An offboard speaker can be connected to the motherboard at the front panel connector. The speaker (onboard or offboard) provides error beep code information during the Power On

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Self-Test when the computer cannot use the video interface. The speaker is not connected to the audio subsystem and does not receive output from the audio subsystem.

RST (Reset Button)

This connector can be attached to a momentary SPST switch. This switch is usually open and when closed will cause the motherboard to reset and run the POST (Power On Self Test).

POW-LED (Power LED Connector)

This connector can be attached to an LED on the front panel of a computer case. The LED will illuminate while the computer is powered on.

HLED (Hard Drive LED Connector)

This connector can be attached to an LED on the front panel of a computer case. The LED will flicker during disk activity. This disk activity only applies to those IDE drives directly attached to the system board.

IR (Infrared Connector)

This connector is used to attach to an infrared sensing device. After the

IrDA interface is configured, connectionless data transfer to and from portable devices such as laptops, PDAs is possible.

SLP (Sleep/Green Button)

This connector is used to conserve energy by powering down the monitor and the hard disk when not in use. To configure this option, you need to connect a button from the front panel to this connector. Depressing the button will power down the monitor and hard drives until the system is invoked by any keyboard activity, mouse activity, modem activity or when the sleep button is depressed again. APM (Advanced Power Management) must be enabled in the system BIOS and the APM driver must be loaded.

PWR (Power Button)

This connector can be attached to a front panel power switch. The switch must pull the Power Button pin to ground for at least 50 ms to signal the power supply to switch on or off. (The time required is due to internal debounce circuitry on the system board). At least two seconds must pass before the power supply will recognize another on/off signal.

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1.6.2 ATX 20-pin Power Connector: JATXPWR1

This connector supports the power button on-board. Using the ATX power supply, functions such as Modem Ring Wake-Up and Soft Power

Off are supported on this motherboard. This power connector supports instant power-on functionality, which means that the system will boot up instantly when the power connector is inserted on the board.

PIN Assignment PIN Assignment

1 3.3V 11 3.3V

2 3.3V 12 -12V

3 Ground 13 Ground

5 Ground 15 Ground

7 Ground 17 Ground

8 PW_OK 18 -5V

9 5V_SB 19 5V

10 12V 20 5V

1.6.3 Hard Disk Connectors: IDE1/IDE2

The motherboard has a 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controller that provides

PIO Mode 0~4, Bus Master, and Ultra DMA / 33, Ultra DMA / 66,Ultra

DMA / 100 functionality. It has two HDD connectors IDE1 (primary) and

IDE2 (secondary). You can connect up to four hard disk drives, a

CD-ROM, a 120MB Floppy (reserved for future BIOS) and other devices to IDE1 and IDE2. These connectors support the IDE hard disk cable provided.

•

IDE1 (Primary IDE Connector)

The first hard drive should always be connected to IDE1. IDE1 can connect a Master and a Slave drive. You must configure the second hard drive on IDE1 to Slave mode by setting the jumper accordingly.

•

IDE2 (Secondary IDE Connector)

The IDE2 controller can also support a Master and a Slave drive. The configuration is similar to IDE1. The second drive on this controller must be set to slave mode.

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1.6.4 Floppy Disk Connector: FDD1

The motherboard provides a standard floppy disk connector (FDC) that supports 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88M floppy disk types. This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cables.

1.6.5 Wake On LAN Header: JWOL1

Pin No.

1

2

3

Assignment

5V SB

Ground

Wake up

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1.6.6 Clear CMOS Jumper: JCMOS1

JCMOS1 Assignment

1 3

Normal Operation (default)

1-2 Closed

1 3

Clear CMOS Data

2-3 Closed

Remove AC JCMOS1

(2-3) closed power line

AC power on

Wait five seconds

JCMOS1

(1-2) closed

Reset your desired password or clear CMOS data

1.6.7 Front USB Header: JUSB2

Pin Assignment Pin Assignment

1 +5V(fused) 2 +5V(fused)

3 USB1 Data (-) 4 USB2 Data (-)

5

7

9

USB1 Data (+)

Ground

KEY

6

8

10

USB2 Data (+)

Ground

NA

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1.7 Peripheral Port Connectors

JKBMS1

PS/2

Mouse

PS/2

Keyboard

JUSB1

USB

COM1

JCOM1

JPRNT1

Parallel

COM2

JCOM2

Front

Speaker

Out

JGAME1

Game Port

Line In Mic

In

JSPKR1 JLIN1 JMIC1

1.7.1 PS/2 Mouse / Keyboard Connector: JKBMS1

The motherboard provides a standard PS/2 mouse / Keyboard mini DIN connector for attaching a PS/2 mouse. You can plug a PS/2 mouse /

Keyboard directly into this connector. The connector location and pin definition are shown below:

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PS/2 Mouse / Keyboard Connectors

Pin Assignment

1 Data

3 Ground

4 +5 V (fused)

5 Clock

1.7.2 USB Connector: JUSB1

The motherboard provides a OHCI (Open Host Controller Interface)

Universal Serial Bus Roots for attaching USB devices such as: keyboard, mouse and other USB devices. You can plug the USB devices directly into this connector.

Stacked USB Connectors

Pin Assignment

1

2

+5 V (fused)

USBP0- [ USBP1]

3 USBP0+ [ USBP1 +]

4 Ground

Signal names in brackets ( [] ) are for USB Port 1.

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1.7.3

Serial and Parallel Interface Ports

This system comes equipped with two serial ports and one parallel port.

Both types of interface ports will be explained in this chapter.

1.7.3.1 The Serial Interface: COM1/COM2

The serial interface port is sometimes referred to as an RS-232 port or an asynchronous communication port. Mice, printers, modems and other peripheral devices can be connected to a serial port. The serial port can also be used to connect your computer with another computer system. If you wish to transfer the contents of your hard disk to another system it can be accomplished by using each machine’s serial port.

The serial ports on this system have two 9-pin connectors. Some older computer systems and peripherals used to be equipped with only one

25-pin connector. Should you need to connect your 9-pin serial port to an older 25-pin serial port, you can purchase a 9-to-25 pin adapter.

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1.7.3.2 Connectivity

The serial ports can be used in many ways, and it may be necessary to become familiar with the pinout diagram. The following chart gives you the function of each pin on the 9-pin connector and some of the 25-pin connector. This information can be used when configuring certain software programs to work with the serial ports.

Signal Name DB9 PIN DB25 PIN

DCD Data Carrier Detect 1 8

RX Receive 3

TX Transmit 2

DTR Data Terminal Ready 4 20

GND Signal

DSR Data Set Ready

5

6

7

6

RTS

CTS

Request to Send

Clear to Send

7

8

4

5

RI Ring 22

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1.7.3.3 Parallel Interface Port: JPRNT1

Unlike the serial ports, parallel interface port has been standardized and should not present any difficulty interfacing peripherals to your system.

Sometimes called centronics port, the parallel port is almost exclusively used with printers. The parallel port on your system has a 25-pin, DB25 connector (see picture below). The pin-out for the parallel port are shown in the table below.

Signal Pin

-Strobe 1

Data 0

Data 1

Data 2

2

3

4

Data 3

Data 4

Data 5

5

6

7

Data 6

Data 7

8

9

-Ack 10

Busy 11

Paper Empty 12

+Select 13

-Auto FDXT 14

-Error 15

-Init 16

-SLCTN 17

Ground 18

Ground 19

Ground 20

Ground 21

Ground 22

Ground 23

Ground 24

Ground 25

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1.7.4 Game (Joystick) Port Connector: JGAME1

This connector allows you to connect a joystick or game pad for playing computer games. Also, you may play or edit professional music by connecting MIDI devices.

Game/Joystick/MIDI

1.7.5 Audio (MIDI) Port Connectors

Front Speaker Out is used to connect speakers or headphones for audio output.

Line In can be connected to the external CD player, Tape player or other audio devices for audio input. Mic In is used to connect a microphone, which allows you to input sounds and voices.

Front Speaker Out Line In Mic In

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1.7.6 Audio Subsystem

1 2

9

JAUDIO1

1

JCDIN2

1

JTAD1

1

JCDIN1

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1.7.6.1 CD-ROM Audio-In Header: JCDIN1

Pin No.

1

2

3

4

Assignment

Right Channel Input

Ground

Ground

Left Channel Input

1.7.6.2 CD-ROM Audio-In Header: JCDIN2

Pin No.

1

2

3

4

Assignment

Left Channel Input

Ground

Right Channel Input

Ground

1.7.6.3 Front Audio Header: JAUDIO1

Pin

No.

Assignment Pin

No.

Assignment

1

3

5

7

9

Mic In

Mic Power

RT Line Out

Reserved

LFT Line Out

2

4

6

8

10

Ground

Audio Power

RT Line Out

Key

LFT Line Out

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1.7.6.4 Telephony Audio Header: JTAD1 (Optional)

Pin No.

1

2

3

4

Assignment

PHONE_IN

Ground

Ground

MONO_OUT

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Chapter 2 BIOS Setup

2. BIOS Setup

Introduction

This manual discussed Award™ Setup program built into the ROM BIOS. The

Setup program allows users to modify the basic system configuration. This special information is then store in battery-backed RAM so that it retains the Setup information when the power is turned off.

The Award BIOS™ installed in your computer system’s ROM (Read Only

Memory) is a custom version of an industry standard BIOS. This means that it supports Intel processors in a standard IBM-AT compatible input/output system.

The BIOS provides critical low-level support for standard devices such as disk drives and serial and parallel ports.

Adding important has customized the Award BIOS™, but nonstandard, features such as virus and password protection as well as special support for detailed fine-tuning of the chipset controlling the entire system.

The rest of this manual is intended to guide you through the process of configuring your system using Setup.

Plug and Play Support

These AWARD BIOS supports the Plug and Play Version 1.0A specification.

ESCD (Extended System Configuration Data) write is supported.

EPA Green PC Support

This AWARD BIOS supports Version 1.03 of the EPA Green PC specification.

APM Support

These AWARD BIOS supports Version 1.1&1.2 of the Advanced Power

Management (APM) specification. Power management features are implemented via the System Management Interrupt (SMI). Sleep and Suspend power management modes are supported. Power to the hard disk drives and video monitors can be managed by this AWARD BIOS.

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PCI Bus Support

This AWARD BIOS also supports Version 2.1 of the Intel PCI (Peripheral

Component Interconnect) local bus specification. Please see the Intel technical documentation for additional information.

DRAM Support

SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) are supported.

Supported CPUs

This AWARD BIOS support single Intel CPU.

Using Setup

In general, you use the arrow keys to highlight items, press <Enter> to select, use the PageUp and PageDown keys to change entries, press <F1> for help and press

<Esc> to quit. The following table provides more detail about how to navigate in the Setup program using the keyboard.

Keystroke Function

Up arrow

Down arrow

Left arrow

Right arrow

Move Enter

PgUp key

PgDn key

+ Key

- Key

Esc key

F1 key

F5 key

F6 key

F7 key

F10 key

Move to previous item

Move to next item

Move to the item on the left (menu bar)

Move to the item on the right (menu bar)

Move to the item you desired

Increase the numeric value or make changes

Decrease the numeric value or make changes

Increase the numeric value or make changes

Decrease the numeric value or make changes

Main Menu – Quit and not save changes into CMOS

Status Page Setup Menu and Option Page Setup Menu – Exit

Current page and return to Main Menu

General help on Setup navigation keys

Load previous values from CMOS

Load the fail-safe defaults from BIOS default table

Load the optimized defaults

Save all the CMOS changes and exit

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2.1 Main Menu

Once you enter Award BIOS™ CMOS Setup Utility, the Main Menu will appear on the screen. The Main Menu allows you to select from several setup functions and two exit choices. Use the arrow keys to select among the items and press

<Enter> to accept and enter the sub-menu.

!! WARNING !!

The information about BIOS defaults on manual ( Figure 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 ) is just for reference, please refer to the BIOS installed on board, for update information.

Figure 1. Main Menu

CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C ) 1984-2000 Award Software

CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software

Standard CMOS Features

Advanced BIOS Features

Advanced Chipset Features

Integrated Peripherals

Power Management Setup

PnP/PCI Configurations

PC Health Status

Frequency Control

Load Optimized Defaults

Set Supervisor Password

Set User Password

Save & Exit Setup

Exit Without Saving

Esc: Quit F9:Menu in BIOS : Select Item

F10: Save & Exit Setup

Time, Date, Hard Disk Type...

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Standard CMOS Features

This setup page includes all the items in a standard compatible BIOS.

Advanced BIOS Features

This setup page includes all the items of BIOS special enhanced features.

Advanced Chipset Features

This setup page includes all the items of chipset special features.

Integrated Peripherals

This section page includes all the items of IDE hard drive and Programmed Input/

Output features.

Power Management Setup

This setup page includes all the items of power management features.

PnP/PCI Configurations

This setup page includes IRQ Setting by user define or default.

PC Healte Status

This setup page is the System auto detect Temperature, voltage, fan speed.

Frequency Control

This setup page includes the CPU Host frequency control.

Load Optimized Defaults

These settings are more likely to configure a workable computer when something is wrong. If you cannot boot the computer successfully, select the BIOS Setup options and try to diagnose the problem after the computer boots. These settings do not provide optimal performance.

Set Supervisor Password

Change, set, or disable password. It allows you to limit access to the system and

Setup, or just to Setup.

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Set User Password

You can specify both a User and a Supervisor password. When you select either password option, you are prompted for a 1-6-character password. Enter the password and then retype the password when prompted.

Save & Exit Setup

Save CMOS value changes to CMOS and exit setup.

Exit Without Saving

Abandon all CMOS value changes and exit setup.

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2.2 Standard CMOS Features

The items in Standard CMOS Setup Menu are divided into 10 categories. Each category includes no, one or more than one setup items. Use the arrow keys to highlight the item and then use the<PgUp> or <PgDn> keys to select the value you want in each item.

Figure 2. Standard CMOS Setup



Date (mm:dd:yy) Thu, Aug 6 2001 Item Help

Time (hh:mm:ss)

IDE Primary Master

IDE Primary Slave

IDE Secondary Master

IDE Secondary Slave

Drive A

Drive B

11 : 37 : 30

Press Enter None

Press Enter None

Press Enter None

Press Enter None

1.44M, 3.5 in.

None

Menu Level

Change the day, month, year and century

Video

Halt On

EGA/VGA

All, But Keyboard

Base Memory

Extended Memory

Total Memory

XXXX

XXXX

XXXX

: Move Enter :Select +/-/PU/PD :Value F10 :Save ESC :Exit F1 :GeneralHelp

F5 :Previous Values F6 :Fail-Safe Defaults F7 : Optimized Defaults

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Main Menu Selections

This table shows the selections that you can make on the Main Menu.

Date MM DD YYYY Set the system date. Note

That the ‘Day’ automatically changes when you set the date.

IDE Primary Master Options are in its sub menu.

Press <Enter> to enter the sub menu of detailed options.

IDE Primary Slave Options are in its sub menu.

IDE Secondary Master Options are in its sub menu.



IDE Secondary Slave Options are in its sub menu.

Drive A

Drive B

None

360K, 5.25 in

1.2M, 5.25 in

720K, 3.5 in

1.44M, 3.5 in

2.88M, 3.5 in


Select the type of floppy disk drive installed in your system. device.

CGA 40

CGA 80

MONO

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Halt On

Base Memory

Extended Memory

Total Memory

All Errors

No Errors

All, but Keyboard

All, but Diskette

All, but Disk/Key

N/A

Select the situation in which you want the BIOS to stop the POST process and notify you.

N/A

N/A

Displays the amount of conventional memory de-tected during boot up.

Displays the amount of extended memory detected duting boot up.

Display the total memory available in the system.

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2.3 Advanced BIOS Features

Figure 3. Advanced BIOS Setup



Virus Warning Disabled ▲

Item Help

CPU Internal Cache Enabled

External Cache Enabled

CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Enabled

Processor Number Feature

Quick Power On Self Test

Disabled

Enabled

First Boot Device

Second Boot Device

Third Boot Device

Boot Other Dvice

Floppy

HDD-0

CDROM

Enabled

Swap Floopy Drive

Boot Up Numlock Status

Gate A20 Option

Security Option

Disabled

On

Fast

Setup

OS Select For DRAM > 64 MB Non-OS2

Report No FDD For WIN 95 No

Video BIOS Shadow

C8000-CBFFF Shadow

Enabled

Disabled

CC000-CFFFF Shadow

D0000-D3FFF Shadow

D4000-D7FFF Shadow

D8000-DBFFF Shadow

DC000-DFFFF Shadow

Disabled

Disabled

Disabled

Disabled

Disabled

▼

Menu Level

Allows you to choose the VIRUS warning feature for IDE Hard disk boot sector proctection. If this function is enabled and someone attempt to write data into this area, BIOS will show a warning message on screen and alarm beep

: Move Enter :Select +/-/PU/PD :Value F10 :Save ESC :Exit F1 :General Help


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Virus Warning

This option allows you to choose the VIRUS Warning feature for IDE Hard Disk boot sector protection. If this function is enabled and someone attempts to write data into this area, BIOS will show a warning message on screen and alarm beep.

Disabled (default)

Enabled

No warning message appears when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table.

Activates automatically when the system boots up causing a warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector of hard disk partition table.

CPU Internal Cache

These two categories speed up memory access. However, it depends on

CPU/chipset design.

Enabled (default)

Disabled

Enable cache

Disable cache

Extermal Cache

These fields allow you to Enable or Disable the CPU’s “Level 2” secondary cache. Caching allows better performance.

Enabled cache

CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking

This item allows you to enable/disable CPU L2 Cache ECC checking.

The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled.

Procesor Number Feature

The Intel CPU processor serial number control option.

The Choices: Disabled (default), Enabled.

Quick Power On Self Test

This category speeds up Power on Self-Test (POST) after you power up the computer. If it is set to Enable, BIOS will shorten or skip some check items during POST.

Enabled (default) Enable quick POST

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First /Second/Third/Other Boot Device

These BIOS attempts to load the operating system from the devices in the sequence selected in these items.

The Choices: Floppy, LS/ZIP, HDD-0, SCSI, HDD-1, HDD-2, HDD-3

, LAN, Disabled, CDROM, Enabled.

Swap Floppy Drive

If the system has two floppy drives, you can swap the logical drive name assignments.

The Choices: Enabled, Disabled (default).

Boot Up NumLock Status

Select power on state for NumLock.

On (default)

Off

Gate A20 Option

Numpad is number keys.

Numpad is arrow keys.

Select if chipset or keyboard controller should control GateA20.

Normal A pin in the keyboard controller controls

GateA20.

Lets chipset control GateA20. Fast (default)

Security Option

Select whether the password is required every time the system boots or only when you enter setup.

System The system will not boot and access to

Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt.

Setup (default) The system will boot, but access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt.

Note: To disable security, select PASSWORD SETTING at Main Menu and then you will be asked to enter password. Do not type anything and just

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Chapter 2 BIOS Setup press <Enter>, it will disable security. Once the security is disabled, the system will boot and you can enter Setup freely.

OS Selection for DRAM > 64MB

Select the operating system that is running with greater than 64MB of RAM on the system.

The Choices: Non-OS2 (default), OS2.

Report No FDD For WIN 98

Whether report no FDD for Win 98 or not.

The Choices: Yes, No (default ).

Video BIOS Shadow

Determines whether video BIOS will be copied to RAM for faster execution.

Enabled (default)

Disabled

Optional ROM is enabled.

Optional ROM is disabled.

C8000 - CFFFF Shadow / D0000 - DFFFF Shadow

Determines whether the optional ROM will be copied to RAM for faster execution.

Enabled

Disabled (default)

Optional ROM is shadowed.

Optional ROM is not shadowed.

Note : For C8000 - DFFFF option - ROM on PCI BIOS, BIOS will automatically enable the shadow RAM. User does not have to select the item.

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2.4 Advanced Chipset Features

This section allows you to configure the system based on the specific features of the installed chipset. This chipset manages bus speeds and access to system memory resources, such as DRAM and the external cache. It also coordinates communications between the conventional PCI bus. It must be stated that these items should never need to be altered. The default settings have been chosen because they provide the best operating conditions for your system. The only time you might consider making any changes would be if you discovered that data was being lost while using your system.

Figure 4. Advanced Chipset Setup



DRAM Timing By SPD Enabled

Item Help

X DRAM Clock Host CLK

AGP Aperture Size

AGP-4X Mode

AGP Driving Control

X AGP Driving Value

OnChip USB

OnChip USB2

64M

Enabled

Menu Level

Auto

EC

Enabled

Enabled

USB Keyboard Support

OnChip Sound

OnChip Modem

Memory ECC Check

Disabled

Auto

Auto

Disabled



DRAM Timing By SPD

This item determines DRAM clock/timing follow SPD or not.


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DRAM Clock

When synchronous DRAM is installed, the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing.

The Choices: Auto, Host CLK (default),HCLK-33M,HCLK+33M.

AGP Aperture Size

This field let you insert a timing delay between the CAS and RAS strobe signals, used when DRAM is written to, read from, or refreshed. Fast gives faster performance; and Slow gives more stable performance. This field applies only when synchronous DRAM is installed in the system.

The Choices: 64M (default), 32M, 16M, 8M, 4M, 128M, 256M.

AGP-4X Mode

If an insufficient number of cycles is allowed for RAS to accumulate its charge before DRAM refresh, the refresh may be incomplete and the DRAM may fail to retain data. Fast gives faster performance; and Slow gives more stable performance. This field applies only when synchronous DRAM is installed in the system.


AGP Driving Control

The option determines the AGP Output Buffer Drive Strength.

The Choices: Auto (default), Manual.

AGP Driving Value

The option determines the AGP Output Buffer Drive Strength.

The Choice: EC (default).

OnChip USB/USB2

This should be enabled if your system has a USB installed on the system board and you wish to use it. Even when so equipped, if you add a higher performance controller, you will need to disable this feature.


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USB Keyboard Support

Select Enabled if your system contains an Universal Serial Bus (USB) controller and you have an USB keyboard.

The Choices: Disabled (default) , Enabled.

OnChip Sound

Selecting Enabled allows caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h-FFFFFh, resulting in better system performance. However, if any program writes to this memory area, a system error may result.

The Choices: Auto (default), Disabled.

OnChip Modem

Select Enabled allows caching of the video BIOS, resulting in better system performance. However, if any program writes to this memory area, a system error may result.


Memory ECC Check

You can reserve this area of system memory for ISA adapter ROM. When this area is reserved, it cannot be cached. The user information of peripherals that need to use this area of system memory usually discusses their memory requirements.


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2.5 Integrated Peripherals

Figure 5. Integrated Peripherals



On-Chip IDE Channel 0

On-Chip IDE Channel 1

Enabled ▲

Enabled

Item Help

IDE Prefetch Mode

Primary Master PIO

Primary Slave PIO

Secondary Master PIO

Secondary Slave PIO

Enabled

Auto

Auto

Auto

Auto

Primary Master UDMA Auto

Primary Slave UDMA Auto

Secondary Master UDMA Auto

Secondary Slave UDMA Auto

Init Display First

IDE HDD Block Mode

Onboard FDD Controller

PCI Slot

Enabled

Enabled

Onboard Serial Port 1

Onboard Serial Port 2

UART 2 Mode

X IR Function Duplex

X TX,RX inverting enable

Onboard Parallel Port

Onboard Parallel Mode

X ECP Mode Use DMA

X Parallel Port EPP Type

Onboard Legacy Audio

Sound Blaster

SB I/O Base Address

SB IRQ Select

SB DMA Select

MPU-401

MPU-401 I/O Address

Game Port (200-207H)

Auto

Auto

Standard

Half

Hi,LO

378/IRQ7

Normal

3

EPP1.9

Enabled

Disabled

220H

IRQ 5

DMA 1

Disabled

330-333H

Enabled

Menu Level

▼



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On-Chip IDE Channel 0

The integrated peripheral controller contains an IDE interface with support for two IDE channels. Select Enabled to activate each channel separately.

The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled

On-Chip IDE Channel 1

The integrated peripheral controller contains an IDE interface with support for two IDE channels. Select Enabled to activate each channel separately.

The Choices: Enabled (default), Disabled

IDE Prefetch Mode

The onboard IDE drive interfaces supports IDE prefetching for faster drive accesses. If you install a primary and/or secondary add-in IDE interface, set this field to Disabled if the interface does not support prefetching.


Primary / Secondary Master / Slave PIO

The IDE PIO (Programmed Input / Output) fields let you set a PIO mode (0-4) for each of the IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports. Modes 0 through 4 provide successively increased performance. In Auto mode, the system automatically determines the best mode for each device.

The Choices: Auto (default), Mode0, Mode1, Mode2, Mode3, Mode4.

Primary / Secondary Master / Slave UDMA

Ultra DMA /33 implementation is possible only if your IDE hard drive supports it and the operating environment includes a DMA drive (Windows 95 OSR2 or a third party IDE bus master driver). If your hard drive and your system software both support Ultra DMA/33, select Auto to enable BIOS support.


Init Display First

This item allows you decide to active whether PCI Slot or on-chip VGA first.

The Choices: PCI Slot (default), AGP.

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IDE HDD Block Mode

Block mode is also called block transfer, multiple commands, or multiple sector read/write. If your IDE hard drive supports block mode (most new drives do), select Enabled for automatic detection of the optimal number of block mode

(most new drives do), select Enabled for automatic detection of the optimal number of block read/writes per sector the drive can support.


Onboard FDD Controller

Select Enabled if your system has a floppy disk controller (FDD) installed on the system board while you using it. If install and FDD or the system has no floppy drive, select Disabled in this field.


Onboard Serial Port 1/Port 2

Select an address and corresponding interrupt for the first and second serial ports.

The Choices: (3F8/IRQ4), (2F8/IRQ3), (3E8/ IRQ4), (2E8 / IRQ3) ,

Auto (default), Disabled.

UART 2 Mode

This item allows you to determine which Infra Red (IR) function of onboard I/O chip.

The Choices: Standard (default), HPSIR,ASKIR.

IR Function Duplex

This item allows you to decide to active IR transmission delay.

The Choice: Half (default).

Tx, Rx inverting enable

This item allows you to determine the active of Rx, Tx.

The Choice: Hi, Lo (default) .

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Onboard Parallel Port

This item allows you to determine access onboard parallel port controller with which I/O Address.

The Choices: 378/IRQ7 (default), 278/IRQ5, Disabled, 3BC/IRQ7.

Parallel Port Mode

Select an operating mode for the onboard parallel (printer) port. Normal EPP

(Extend Parallel Port) ECP (Extend Capabilities Port) ECP +EPP PC AT parallel port Bidirectional Port Fast, buffered port Fast, buffered, Bidirectional

Port. Select Normal unless you are certain your hardware and software both support EPP or ECP mode.

The Choices: Norma l (default), ECP, ECP/EPP,EPP.

ECP Mode Use DMA

Select a DMA Channel for the port.

The Choice: 3 (default).

Parallel Port EPP type

Select a DMA Channel for the port.

The Choices: EPP1.9

(default), EPP1.7.

Onboard Legacy Audio

Select an operating mode for the second serial port:

The choices: Enabled (default), Disabled.

Sound Blaster

Hardware SoundBlaster Pro for Windows DOS box and real-mode DOS legacy compatibility.

SB I/O Base Address

Change the SoundBlaster Pro Base I/O Address settings.

SB IRQ Select

Change the SoundBlaster Pro interrupt signal.

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SB DMA Select

Change the SoundBlaster Pro direct memory access setting.

MPU-401

Enable or Disable MPU-401 option.

MPU-401 I/O Address

Change the SoundBlaster Pro MPU-401 I/O address.

Game Port (200-207H)

Change the joystick connects port address.

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2.6 Power Management Setup

The Power Management Setup allows you to configure you system to most effectively save energy while operating in a manner consistent with your own style of computer use.

Figure 6. Power Management Setup



X Date (of Month)

X Resume Time (hh:mm:ss)

Power Management

ACPI Suspend Type

PM Control by APM

Video Off Option

Video Off Method

MODEM Use IRQ

Soft-Off by PWRBTN

State After Power Failure

HDD Power Down

Doze Mode

Suspend Mode

PowerOn by PCI Card

Wake Up On LAN/Ring

RTC Alarm Resume

Press Enter

S1 (POS)

0

0

Yes

Suspend > Off

V/H SYNC+Blank

3

Instant-Off

Off

Disabled

Disabled

Disabled

Disabled

Disabled

Disabled

Item Help

Menu Level



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Power Management Option

This category allows you to select the type (or degree) of power saving and is directly related to the following modes:

1.HDD Power Down.

2.Doze Mode.

3.Suspend Mode.

Power Management

There are four options of Power Management, three of which have fixed mode settings.

The Choices:

Min. Power Saving

Minimum power management.

Doze Mode = 1 hr.

Standby Mode = 1 hr

Suspend Mode = 1 hr.

HDD Power Down = 15 min

Max. Power Saving

Maximum power management only available for sl CPU’s.

Doze Mode = 1 min

Standby Mode = 1 min.

Suspend Mode = 1 min.

HDD Power Down = 1 min.

User Defined (default)

Allows you to set each mode individually.

When not disabled, each of the ranges are from 1 min. to 1 hr. except for HDD Power Down which ranges from 1 min. to 15 min. and disable.

ACPI Suspend Type

The item allows you to select the suspend type under ACPI operating system.

Power on Suspend

Suspend to RAM

S1 (POS) (default)

S3 (STR)

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PM Control by APM

The Choices:

No

Yes (default)

System BIOS will ignore APM when power Management is on.

System Bios will wait for APM's prompt before it enters any PM mode.

Video Off Option

This determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked.

Suspend — Off (default) During Suspend mode, the monitor will be turned off.

All Modes —〉 Off During All modes, the monitor will be turned off.

Always On During Always mode, the monitor will be turned on.

Video Off Method

This determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked.

V/H SYNC+Blank ( default) This selection will cause the system to turn off the vertical and horizontal synchronization ports and write blanks to the video buffer.

Initial display power management

Blank Screen signaling.

This option only writes blanks to the video buffer.

MODEM Use IRQ

This determines the IRQ in which the MODEM can use.

The Choices: 3 (default), 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, NA.

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Soft-Off by PWRBTN

Pressing the power button for more than 4 seconds forces the system to enter the

Soft-Off state when the system has “hung”.

The Choices: Delay 4 Sec, Instant-Off (default).

State After Power Failure

This field determines the action the system will automatically take when power is restored to a system that had lost power previously without any subsequent manual intervention. There are 3 sources that provide current to the CMOS area that retains these Power-On instructions; the motherboard battery (3V), the Power

Supply (5VSB), and the Power Supply (3.3V). While AC is not supplying power, the motherboard uses the motherboard battery (3V). If AC power is supplied and the Power Supply is not turned on, 5VSB from the Power Supply is used. When the Power Supply is eventually turned on 3.3V from the Power Supply will be used.

There are 3 options: “Auto”, “On”, “Off”.

“Auto” Means to maintain the last status of the

CMOS when AC power is lost.

“On” Means always set CMOS to the “On” status when AC power is lost

Means always set CMOS to the “Off” status “Off” (default) when AC power is lost.

For example: If set to “Auto” and AC power is lost when system is live, then after

AC power is restored, the system will automatically power on. If AC power is lost when system is not live, system will remain powered off.

HDD Power Down

When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity, the hard disk drive will be powered down while all other devices remain active.

Disabled (default)

1Min, 2Min, 3Min, 4Min, 5Min, 6Min, 7Min, 8Min, 9Min,

10Min, 11Min, 12Min, 13Min, 14Min, 15Min.

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Doze Mode / Suspend Mode

The Doze Mode, and Suspend Mode fields set the Period of time after which each of these modes activate. At Max Saving , these modes activate sequentially (in the given order) after one minute; at Min Saving after one hour.

Disabled (default)

1Min, 2Min, 4Min, 6Min, 8Min, 10Min, 20Min, 30Min, 40Min,

1Hour.

PowerOn by PCI Card

When you select Enabled, a PME signal from PCI card returns the system to Full ON state.


Wake Up On LAN/Ring

When you select Enabled, a PME signal from PCI card returns the system to Full

On state.

The Choice: Enabled, Disabled (default).

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RTC Alarm Resume

When “Enabled”, you can set the date and time at which the RTC

(real-time clock) alarm awakens the system from Suspend mode.

Disabled (default).

Date (of Month) /Time (hh:mm:ss)

You could set the date (of month) and timer (hh:mm:ss), any event occurring at will awaken a system witch has been powered down.

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2.7 PnP/PCI Configurations

This section describes configuring the PCI bus system. PCI, or Personal

Computer Interconnect, is a system which allows I/O devices to operate at speeds nearing the speed the CPU itself uses when communicating with its own special components. This section covers some very technical items and it is strongly recommended that only experienced users should make any changes to the default settings.

Figure 7. PnP/PCI Configurations



Reset Configuration Data

NO

Disabled

Item Help

Resources Controlled By

X IRQ Resources

X DMA Resources

PCI/VGA Palette Snoop

Assign IRQ For VGA

Assign IRQ For USB

Auto (ESCD)

Press Enter

Press Enter

Disabled

Enabled

Enabled

Menu Level

Select Yes if you are using a Plug and Play capable operating system Select NO if you need the BIOS to devices



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PNP OS Installed

When set to YES, BIOS will only initialize the PnP cards used for booting

(VGA, IDE, SCSI). The rest of the cards will be initialized by the PnP operating systems, like Windows

TM

95. When set to NO, BIOS will initialize all the PnP cards. Therefore for non-PnP operating system

(DOS, Netware

TM

), this option must set to “NO”.

Reset Configuration Data

The system BIOS supports the PnP feature so the system needs to record which resource is assigned and proceeds resources from conflict. Every peripheral device has a node, which is called ESCD. This node records which resources are assigned to it. The system needs to record and update ESCD to the memory locations. These locations (4K) are reserved at the system BIOS.

If Disabled (default) is chosen, the system’s ESCD will update only when the new configuration varies from the last one.

If Enabled is chosen, the system is forced to update ESCDs and then is automatically set to the “Disabled” mode.

IRQ-3

IRQ-4

IRQ-5

IRQ-7

IRQ-9

IRQ-10

IRQ-11

IRQ-12

IRQ-14

IRQ-15

DMA-0

DMA-1

assigned to: PCI / ISA PnP












DMA-3

DMA-5

DMA-6

DMA-7





The above settings will be shown on the screen only if “Manual” is chosen for the

Resources Controlled By function.

Legacy is the term, which signifies that a resource is assigned to the ISA Bus and

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Chapter 2 BIOS Setup provides for non-PnP ISA add-on cards. PCI / ISA PnP signifies that a resource is assigned to the PCI Bus or provides for ISA PnP add-on cards and peripherals.


Resources Controlled By

By Choosing “Auto” the system BIOS will detect the system resources and automatically assign the relative IRQ and DMA channel for each peripheral.

By Choosing “Manual”, the user will need to assign IRQ & DMA for add-on cards. Be sure that there are no IRQ/DMA and I/O port conflicts.

The Choices: Auto (ESCD) (default) , Manual.

IRQ Resources

When resources are controlled manually, assign each system interrupt a type, depending on the type of device using the interrupt.

DMA Resources

When resources are controlled manually, assign each system DMA channel a type, depending on the type of device using the DMA channel.

PCI / VGA Palette Snoop

Choose Disabled or Enabled. Some graphic controllers which are not VGA compatible take the output from a VGA controller and map it to their display as a way to provide boot information and VGA compatibility.

However, the color information coming from the VGA controller is drawn from the palette table inside the VGA controller to generate the proper colors, and the graphic controller needs to know what is in the palette of the VGA controller.

To do this, the non-VGA graphic controller watches for the Write access to the

VGA palette and registers the snoop data. In PCI based systems, where the

VGA controller is on the PCI bus and a non-VGA graphic controller is on an ISA bus, the Write Access to the palette will not show up on the ISA bus if the PCI

VGA controller responds to the Write.

In this case, the PCI VGA controller should not respond to the Write, it should only snoop the data and permit the access to be forwarded to the ISA bus. The non-VGA ISA graphic controller can then snoop the data on the ISA bus.

Unless you have the above situation, you should disable this option.

Disabled (default) Disables the function.

Enabled Enables the function.

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Assign IRQ For VGA

Lets the user choose which IRQ to assign for the VGA.


Assign IRQ For USB

Lets the user choose which IRQ to assign for USB.


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2.8 PC Health Status

Figure 8. Frequency/Voltage Control

CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C ) 1984-2000Award Software

PC Health Status

Show H/W Monitor in POST 3sec

Item Help

Current CPU Temp.

CPU FAN Speed

System FAN Speed

Vcore

Menu Leve

+2.5V

+3.3V

+5.0V

+12.0V



Show H/W Monitor in Post

If you computer contain a monitoring system, it will show PC health status during

POST stage. The item offers several delay time to select you want.

3 sec (default).

Current CPU Temp.

This field displays the current temperature of CPU.

CPU FAN Speed

These fields display the current speed of up to CPU and System fans, if your computer contains a monitoring system.

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System FAN Speed

These fields display the current speed of up to CPU and System fans, if your computer contains a monitoring system.

Current Vcore, +2.5V, +3.3V, +5.0V, +12.0V

Detects System Voltage automatically.

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2.9 Frequency Control

Figure 9. Frequency / Clock Control


Frequency / Clock Control

CPU Vcore Select

CPU Host/PCI/Clock

Default

66

Item Help

Menu Level



CPU Vcore Select

This item allows you to select CPU’s Vcore.

CPU Host / PCI Clock

This item allows you to select CPU Host / PCI Clock.

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2.10 Load Optimized Defaults

When you press <Enter> on this item you get a confirmation dialog box with a message similar to:

Figure 9. Load Optimized Defaults



Frequency Control





Set User Password



PC Health Status

Set User Password

Save & Exit Setup

Exit Without Saving

Esc : Quit F9: Menu in BIOS

F10 : Save & Exit Setup

: Select Item


Pressing ‘Y’ loads the BIOS default values for the most stable, minimal-performance system operations.

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2.11 Set Supervisor/User Password

Figure 10. Set Supervisor/User Password


Standard CMOS Features Frequency Control





PC Health Status



Set User Password

Save & Exit Setup

Exit Without Saving



: Select Item

Change / Set / Disable Password

When you select this function, the following message will appear at the center of the screen to assist you in creating a password.

ENTER PASSWORD

Type the password, up to eight characters, and press < Enter >. The password you type now will clear any previously entered password from CMOS memory. You will be asked to confirm the password. Type the password again and press

< Enter >. You may also press < ESC > to abort the selection and not enter a password. To disable password, just press < Enter > when you are prompted to enter password. A message will confirm that you wish to disable the password.

Once the password is disabled, the system will boot and you can enter setup freely.

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PASSWORD DISABLED

If you select “System” at the Security Option of BIOS Features Setup Menu, you will be prompted for the password every time the system is rebooted or any time you try to enter Setup. If you select “Setup” at Security Option of BIOS Feature

Setup Menu, you will be prompted only when you try to enter Setup.

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2.12 Save & Exit Setup

Figure 11. Save & Exit Setup




Frequency Control





Set User Password

Save & Exit Setup


PC Health Status

Exit Without Saving



: Select Item

Save Data to CMOS

Type "Y" will quit the Setup Utility and save the user setup value to RTC CMOS

RAM.

Type "N" will return to Setup Utility.

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2.13 Exit Without Saving

Figure 12. Exit Without Saving


Standard CMOS Features Frequency Control






Set User Password

Power Management Setup Set User Password

Quit Without Saving (Y/N) ? N

PnP/PCI Configurations Save & Exit Setup

PC Health Status

Exit Without Saving



: Select Item

Abandon all Datas

Type "Y" will quit the Setup Utility without saving to RTC CMOS RAM.

Type " N" will return to Setup Utility.

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3. Trouble Shooting

PROBLEM

No power inputs to the system at all. Power light does not illuminate, fan inside power supply does not turn on. Indicator light on keyboard does not turn on.

PROBABLE CAUSE DIAGNOSIS SOLUTION

Power cable is unplugged.

Visually inspect power cable.

Defective power cable. Visually inspect the cable; try another cable.

Make sure power cable is securely plugged in.

Replace cable.

Power supply failure.

Faulty wall outlet; circuit

Breaker or fuse blown.

Power cable and wall socket are OK, but system is still dead.

Contact technical support.

Plug in device known to work in socket and test.

Use different socket, repair outlet, reset circuit breaker or replace fuse.

PROBLEM

System is inoperative. Keyboard lights are on, power indicator lights are lit, hard drive is spinning.


Memory DIMM is partially dislodged from the slot on the motherboard.

Turn off computer.

Take cover off system unit. Check the DIMM to ensure it is securely seated in the slot.

Using even pressure on both ends of the DIMM, press down firmly until the module snaps into place.

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PROBLEM

System does not boot from hard disk drive, can be booted from CD-ROM drive.


Connector between hard drive and system board unplugged.

When attempting to run the FDISK utility you get a message, INVALID

DRIVE

Check cable running from disk to disk controller board. Make sure both ends are

SPECIFICATION. securely plugged in; check the drive type in the standard CMOS setup.

Damaged hard disk or disk controller.

Format hard disk; if unable to do so the hard disk may be defective.

Contact technical support.

Hard disk directory or

FAT is scrambled.

Run the FDISK program, Backing up the hard format the hard drive.

Copy data that was backed up onto hard drive. drive is extremely important. All hard disks are capable of breaking down at any time.

PROBLEM

System only boots from CD-ROM. Hard disk can be read and applications can be used but booting from hard disk is impossible.


Hard disk boot program has been destroyed.

A number of causes could be behind this.

Back up data and applications files.

Reformat the hard drive.

Re-install applications and data using backup disks.

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PROBLEM

Error message reading “SECTOR NOT FOUND” or other error messages not allowing certain data to be retrieved.


A number of causes could be behind this.

Use a file-by-file backup instead of an image backup to backup the hard disk.

Back up any salvageable data. Then, low-level format, partition, and high-level format the hard drive. Re-install all saved data when completed.

PROBLEM

Screen message says “Invalid Configuration” or “CMOS Failure.”

PROBABLE CAUSE

Incorrect information entered into the configuration (setup) program.

DIAGNOSIS SOLUTION

Check the configuration program. Replace any incorrect information.

Review system’s equipment . Make sure correct information is in setup.

PROBLEM

Screen is blank.

PROBABLE CAUSE

No power to monitor.


Check the power connectors to monitor and to system. Make sure monitor is connected to display card.

See instructions above. Monitor not connected to computer.

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PROBLEM

DIAGNOSIS PROBABLE CAUSE

Memory problem.

Computer virus.

SOLUTION

Reboot computer.

Reinstall memory, make sure that all memory modules are installed in correct sockets.

Use anti-virus programs to detect and clean viruses.

PROBLEM

Screen goes blank periodically.

PROBABLE CAUSE DIAGNOSIS

Screen saver is enabled.

PROBLEM

Keyboard failure.

PROBABLE CAUSE

Keyboard is disconnected.

DIAGNOSIS

SOLUTION

Disable screen saver.

SOLUTION

Check keys again, if no improvement replace keyboard.

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PROBLEM

No display on screen.

PROBABLE CAUSE

Faulty Monitor.


If possible, connect monitor to another system. If no color replace monitor.

Call technical support. CMOS incorrectly set up.

PROBLEM

C: drive failure.

PROBABLE CAUSE

Hard drive cable not connected properly.


Check hard drive cable.

PROBLEM

Cannot boot system after installing second hard drive.


Master/slave jumpers not set correctly.

Hard drives not compatible / different manufacturers.

SOLUTION jumpers correctly.

Run SETUP program and select correct drive types. Call drive manufacturers for compatibility with other drives.

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PROBLEM

Missing operating system on hard drive.


CMOS setup has been changed.

PROBLEM

Certain keys do not function.


Keys jammed or defective.

PROBLEM

Keyboard is locked, no keys function.


Keyboard is locked.

SOLUTION

Run setup and select correct drive type.

SOLUTION

SOLUTION

Unlock keyboard.

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08/16/2001

MADE IN TAIWAN

R.O.C.

Biostar M6VCT User Manual

Federal Communications Commission

(F.C.C) Statement

Disclaimer

Trademarks and Remarks

Canadian D.O.C. Statement

Introduction

System Overview

1 Motherboard Description

1.1 Features

1.2 Motherboard Installation

1.3 CPU Installation

1.4 RAM Module Installation

1.5 Slots

1.6 Connectors, Headers & Jumpers

1.7 Peripheral Port Connectors

2. BIOS Setup

2.1 Main Menu

2.2 Standard CMOS Features

2.3 Advanced BIOS Features

2.4 Advanced Chipset Features

2.5 Integrated Peripherals

2.6 Power Management Setup

2.7 PnP/PCI Configurations

2.8 PC Health Status

2.9 Frequency Control

2.10 Load Optimized Defaults

2.11 Set Supervisor/User Password

2.12 Save & Exit Setup

2.13 Exit Without Saving

3. Trouble Shooting

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Biostar M6VCT User Manual

Federal Communications Commission

(F.C.C) Statement

Disclaimer

Trademarks and Remarks

Canadian D.O.C. Statement

Introduction

System Overview

1 Motherboard Description

1.1 Features

1.2 Motherboard Installation

1.3 CPU Installation

1.4 RAM Module Installation

1.5 Slots

1.6 Connectors, Headers & Jumpers

1.7 Peripheral Port Connectors

2. BIOS Setup

2.1 Main Menu

2.2 Standard CMOS Features

2.3 Advanced BIOS Features

2.4 Advanced Chipset Features

2.5 Integrated Peripherals

2.6 Power Management Setup

2.7 PnP/PCI Configurations

2.8 PC Health Status

2.9 Frequency Control

2.10 Load Optimized Defaults

2.11 Set Supervisor/User Password

2.12 Save & Exit Setup

2.13 Exit Without Saving

3. Trouble Shooting

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