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- Page 1 AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INC. AMI 386SX MOTHERBOARD (Intel Chipset) PRELIMINARY MANUAL S10C 05/14/90 American Megatrends, Inc. Ph. (404) 263-8181 1346 Oakbrook Drive, Suite 120 Norcross, 30093...
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Page 2: Installation
Introduction ... iii Section 1 UNPACKING INSTRUCTIONS 1.1Unpacking the AMI 386SX Motherboard ... 1-1 1.2Video Display Select Switch Setting ... 1-3 1.3Installing the AMI 386SX Motherboard ... 1-4 1.4Connecting the AMI 386SX Motherboard ... 1-5 1.5Installing Input/Output ... 1-9 Section 2 POWERING UP YOUR MOTHERBOARD 2.1Before Power-Up... -
Page 3: System Overview
2.6Summary ... 2-12 2.7Errors Reported ... 2-12 2.8User Selectable Options Through Keyboard ... 2-14 Section 3 SYSTEM OVERVIEW 3.1The 3.2System Section 4 ADVANCED ROM DIAGNOSTICS 4.1 Selecting the various Advanced Diagnostics ... 4- Diagnostics . 4-2 Hard Disk ... 4-3 Floppy Keyboard ... -
Page 4: Hard Disk Drive Types
4-11 Miscellaneous ... 4-12 Section 5 INSTALLING MOTHERBOARD DRAM Installing ... 5-1 Section 6 INSTALLING A 387SX COPROCESSOR Installing Appendix A HARD DISK DRIVE TYPES Diagnostics SIMM modules 387SX... - Page 5 Our number is 1-800-U-BUY-AMI (1-800-828-9264) or 1-404-263-8181 THANK YOU from AMERICAN MEGATRENDS, INCORPORATED 1346 Oakbrook Drive, Suite 120 Norcross, GA (C) COPYRIGHT AMERICAN MEGATRENDS, INC. 1990 All rights reserved. is protected by copyright. installed ... 30093 This publication contains proprietary information which...
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Page 6: Limited Warranty
American Megatrends, Inc. LIMITED WARRANTY Buyer agrees if this product proves to be defective, that American Megatrends, Incorporated (hereafter referred to as AMI) is only obligated to replace or refund the purchase price of this product at AMI's discretion. - Page 7 AMI 386SX S10C USER MANUAL This manual edited and designed by James C. Helman. Release date May 14, 1990.
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- Page 9 WARNING !!! 386SX motherboard instructions to prevent damage to these components by static electricity. 1.1 Unpacking the AMI 386SX Motherboard Please read this section carefully to ensure that you do not damage the AMI 386 SX through a commonly ignored hazard: electro-static discharge (ESD). Use a pencil and check off each step as you go.
- Page 10 motherboard, then firmly and gently press down on all socketed IC's to ensure they are properly seated. Inspect all the connectors for foreign material and ensure that all the pins on the berg-pins are straight. the foreign material, do not use any metal tools in the connectors. the material cannot be removed using pressurized spray, contact your distributor.
- Page 11 section 6 at this time. Before proceeding, attach a ground wire from any bare metal area on the main chassis to the same grounding point as you wrist strap. motherboard from electro-static discharge. If you are replacing an existing motherboard with the AMI 386SX motherboard remove the I/O cards, power connectors, and berg connectors.
- Page 12 J1: Keyboard Connector - 5 pin DIN socket. keyboard. Assignments Keyboard clock Keyboard data Not used Ground J2: Keyboard Reset Disable Jumper - 2 pin single-in-line BERG. normal operation of soft reset is enabled, if opened the keyboard reset is disabled.
- Page 13 Assignments Data out Ground J11: Keyboard Lock Connector - 5 pin single-in-line BERG. to lock-out the keyboard, protecting the system from unauthorized use. connector is keyed with a blank hole. Assignments LED power Ground Keyboard Inhibit Ground J14: TURBO LED Connector - 2 pin single-in-line BERG. board is running at "hi"...
- Page 14 PS8 and PS9: Power Supply Connectors - 6 pin Power Supply Connectors. The connectors are keyed. Assignments Power Good +12 V -12 V Ground Ground Ground Ground -5 V 1.5 Installing Input/Output Cards. The AMI 386SX uses standard add-on cards to interface to the real world. cards may be any IBM compatible 8-bit or 16-bit Input/Output (I/O) card.
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- Page 16 The following are HARD DRIVE TYPES as implemented in the AMI BIOS. used in the BIOS Setup and Diagnostics. Type Cylinders Heads NONE NONE NONE NONE NONE NONE NONE NONE 1024 NONE NONE NONE 1024 NONE 1024 NONE 1024 1024 1024 NONE 1024...
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- Page 18 Allow the monitor to warm up for a few minutes, then turn on the system power. The message you will get on the screen should be: 386SX BIOS (C)1990 American Megatrends Inc ▓▓▓▓▓ KB OK Press <ESC> to bypass MEMORY test (C) American Megatrends Inc.,...
- Page 19 a. KB CONTROLLER ERROR b. CMOS INOPERATIONAL c. 8042 GATE-A20 ERROR d. INVALID SWITCH/ MEMORY FAILURE e. DMA #1 ERROR f. DMA #2 ERROR g. DMA ERROR h. INTR #1 ERROR i. NO ROM BASIC For any of the above mentioned errors the BIOS will not allow the system proceed booting.
- Page 20 The BIOS will ask you to RUN SETUP UTILITY when any number of the following conditions exist: a. CMOS battery state low b. CMOS system options not set c. CMOS checksum failure d. CMOS memory size mismatch e. CMOS time & date not set f.
- Page 21 2.5 SETUP Screen Display The following section will assist you in answering the questions asked by BIOS in set up. The SETUP screen is shown in figure 2-1. friendly and has a HELP window at the bottom left corner of the screen. HELP window displayed...
- Page 22 Time Setup The screen displays: Time (hour/min/sec): 00: 00: 00 The help window displays: Time is 24 hour format:- Hour:(00-23), Minute:(00-59), Second:(00-59) (1:30 AM = 01:30:00), To change each reverse video portion of the time, use the PgUp and PgDn keys. to move on to the next area of the time use the Left and Right arrow keys.
- Page 23 FIXED type = 01...46, For type 47 Enter: Cyln,Head,WPcom, LZone,Sec, (WPcom is 0 for ALL, To change disk C: type, use the PgUp and PgDn keys. information Cyln, Head, WPcom, LZone, Sec, and Size will be displayed for each type disk. A complete table is given in Appendix A of this manual.
- Page 24 To change the keyboard option, use the PgUp and PgDn keys. Video BIOS shadow Setup The screen displays: Video BIOS shadow The help window displays: Options:- Enabled : Shadow RAM ON Disabled : Shadow RAM OFF The BIOS enables the Shadow RAM feature initially. shadow the ROM of video display adapters which have their video driver routines kept inside the adapter ROM.
- Page 25 512KB-640KB memory Setup The screen displays: 512KB-640KB memory : Enabled The help window displays: Options:- Enabled : 512KB-640KB at system board Disabled : 512KB-640KB at AT BUS This option allows you to place the 512KB-640KB DOS area in system board memory or AT BUS memory.
- Page 26 b) Time c) Floppy drive A: d) Floppy drive B: e) Hard Disk C: type f) Hard Disk D: type g) Primary display The Setup procedure automatically detects the following: a) Base memory size b) Extended memory size c) Presence of Weitek Coprocessor . Note : The Setup option is available even after a soft reset.
- Page 27 CMOS INOPERATIONAL 8042 GATE-A20 ERROR INVALID SWITCH/MEMORY ERROR DMA #1 ERROR DMA #2 ERROR DMA ERROR INTR #1 ERROR NO ROM BASIC Non-Fatal Errors through video display device CH-2 timer error Keyboard error KB/Interface error INTR #1 error INTR #2 error Display switch not proper Keyboard is locked ...
- Page 28 The following User Selectable options require you to PRESS <CTRL><ALT> keys and at the same time press: <DEL> This key sequence is called SOFT RESET. pressed the system reboots. <+> This key sequence allows the system to jump to high speed of operation (25MHz) with cache memory enabled for maximum system throughput.
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- Page 30 The system board is approximately 8.5 by 13 inches integration (VLSI) technology. *80386SX Microprocessor *8/16 MHz System Clock *Optional EGA/VGA RAM Shadow *Optional 80387SX Numeric Coprocessor (16 MHz) *Upto 8 MB of on board page interleaved memory *System support function: -7 Channel Direct Memory Access (DMA) -16 level interrupt -Three programmable timers...
- Page 31 includes address translation protection mechanism to support operating systems. code compatible with 8086 family of microprocessor. features support coprocessors, non-maskable). It has two modes of operation: Real address mode and Protected virtual address mode. In real address mode it operates as a fast 8086 with 32-bit extension if desired.
- Page 32 8-bit bus, is located in this area. makes the video I/O sluggish. this space into the 16 bit system board RAM. The EGA/VGA bios can be copied in the 16-bit RAM and executed from there. since the EGA BIOS can now be accessed through a 16-bit bus. then memory address 0C0000 through 0DFFFF cannot be accessed on the 16-bit I/O slot.
- Page 33 Table 3.1 Wait States for DRAM Access Mode Max Pages Active Wait States Page Hit Bank Hit : Bank Miss: Page Miss Bank Hit : Bank Miss: New RAS DRAM Speed (ns) Type Page Mode J8 Jumper Setting : J9 Jumper Setting : Page DRAM DRAM...
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- Page 35 The AMI 386SX System BIOS has a built in Advanced Diagnostics program which has several diagnostics features for the various hardware components of the system. BIOS diagnostics hardware: * Hard disk - Physical drives C: and D: * Floppy drives - Physical Drives A: and B: * Keyboard * Video...
- Page 36 Hard Disk Diagnostics Options Window - detailing the various hard disk diagnostics that are available. Note that the Block Cursor is on the Hard Disk & the first option under hard disk diagnostics - Hard Disk Format. Key Conventions Use the Left & Right arrow keys to move in the Diagnostics Options Line. Use the Up &...
- Page 37 * Disk Drive * Drive Type * Interleave Factor * Bad Track List * Start Cylinder * End Cylinder * Start Head * End Head above input necessarily key-in all the inputs. The nature of the various input parameters are discussed as follows. Drive Name Enter the Hard disk drive on which you want the diagnostics function to be performed.
- Page 38 The default value for the interleave factor is 3. Mark Bad Tracks With every Hard disk drive you get a list of bad tracks , if there is any, from the manufacturer. If you have such a list answer 'Y' to this question. You will then get a menu which will then allow you to edit the complete bad track list.
- Page 39 To integrate a new hard disk to the system To reformat an used hard disk which has developed some bad patches due to aging or bad handling. Auto Interleave Option WARNING: The Auto interleave option is a destructive operation. You will loose all the data you may have on the hard disk.
- Page 40 Seek Test This test checks the seek capability of the Hard Disk on the specified Cylinder & Head range. First a sequential seek is performed & then a random seek is performed. Any errors during the test are reported. Read/Verify Test This test performs sequential &...
- Page 41 use these diskettes with. Drive Speed Test This test determines the speed of rotation of the drive. Please note that the following are the allowable speeds for the various drives: * 1.2 MB drive - 360 rpm with a 1.2 Mb diskette. 300 rpm with a 360 Kb diskette.
- Page 42 The objective of this test is to determine whether the keys depressed match with their Scan and ASCII codes. the ASCII code of the key is shown. Use <CTRL><BREAK> key to abort this test. 4.6 Video Diagnostics The Video diagnostics include the following for both Monochrome and Color display adapter cards: * Sync Test Checks the Sync capability.
- Page 43 * CTS & RTS Shorted. This test exercises the port for different : * Baud Rates * 7 Bit / 8 Bit & * Odd / Even Parity The results of the test are displayed on the screen. Printer Port Test This test writes a pattern on the Printer &...
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- Page 45 Your AMI 386SX motherboard memory system consists of four 32-bit Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) memory banks. line memory module (SIMM) DRAM's. memory bank location. NOTE If your motherboard is installed in the system and you are adding memory, it is highly recommended to remove the motherboard before attempting to install SIMM cards.
- Page 46 Place 386SX motherboard anti-static mat as outlined in the beginning of section 1. Rotate the board until the keyboard connector (J1) is to the top left side, this will place the SIMM area to your bottom right. Please Note that the banks are split , this is to say that each pair of sockets contain either a pair of bank HI or bank LO sockets.
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- Page 49 This section describes the procedure you should use to install an Intel 80387SX Coprocessor on you SX motherboard. 6.1 Installing the 387SX Using figure 1-1, locate U21 on the motherboard. It is the empty 144 pin PGA socket adjacent to the on-board battery socket. Pin 1 of the socket is marked by a diagonal corner of the square etched on the motherboard adjacent to the word "80387SX".
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- Page 51 Jumper J8 Setting : 1-2 Jumper J9 Setting : 1-2 Mode : F4 Max Pages Active Wait States Page Hit Bank Hit : Bank Miss: Page Miss Bank Hit : Bank Miss: New RAS DRAM Speed (ns) : 100 Type : Page Mode Page...