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American Megatrends Titan III User Manual

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Titan III PCI EISA
Pentium
Motherboard
User's Guide
MAN-729
5/20/96

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  • Page 1 Titan III PCI EISA Pentium Motherboard User's Guide MAN-729 5/20/96...
  • Page 2 Limited Warranty Buyer agrees if this product proves to be defective, that American Megatrends, Inc. is only obligated to replace or refund the purchase price of this product at American Megatrend's discretion according to the terms and conditions on the motherboard warranty card. American Megatrends shall not be liable in tort or contract for any loss or damage, direct, incidental or consequential.
  • Page 3 This manual was written for the OEM to assist in the proper installation and operation of this motherboard. This manual describes the specifications and features of the Titan III PCI EISA motherboard. It explains how to assemble a system based on the Titan III PCI EISA motherboard and how to use the AMIBIOS that is specifically designed for this motherboard.

  • Page 4: Packing List

    Product Engineering Change Notices, Tech Tips, Technical Notes, and complete technical manuals are available. Data Transmission RatesThe American Megatrends BBS automatically handles modems with data transmission rates from 1,200 to 28,800 bps. BBS Phone Numbers The following table lists the characteristics of the BBS phone numbers.
  • Page 5 Titan III Pentium PCI EISA motherboard. 36 chip SIMMs cause excessive loading in the Titan III motherboard circuitry. The Titan III chipset will have timing problems and the Titan III motherboard will not work reliably. Do not Install 70 ns SIMMs Only 60 ns DRAM SIMMs should be installed in the Titan III motherboard.

  • Page 7: Hardware Installation

    Hardware Installation Overview The American Megatrends Titan III PCI EISA Pentium motherboard features include: one or two Intel Pentium CPUs operating at 90, 100, 120, 133, 150, 166, or higher speeds, 256 MB of system memory, 512 KB pipelined burst mode cache memory,...
  • Page 8 Install an 8 cm 0.2 Amp fan in the front of the computer case to pull air into the case, in addition to the standard computer case fan at the back of the computer chassis. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide 2.0" SIMM...

  • Page 9: Installation Steps

    Installation Steps Step Unpack the motherboard. Configure the CPU. Configure the CPU. Select the CPU 3.3V Power Source Select the CPU Voltage. Select the CPU Speed. Install the CPU. Install memory. Install System Memory. Install the Motherboard. Set Jumpers Attach cables to connectors. Connect the Power Supply.
  • Page 10 Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard Layout Indicates plated screwhole J14 IRQ5/7 Square Pad Arrow Denote Pin 1 in Jumpers and Connectors. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide P3 COM2 Mouse P9 Keyboard P4 COM1 P12 Parallel P11 Floppy BANK0...

  • Page 11: Step 1 Unpack The Motherboard

    Step 1 Unpack the Motherboard Step Inspect the cardboard carton for obvious damage. If damaged, call 770-246-8645. Leave the motherboard in its original packing. Perform all unpacking and installation procedures on a ground- connected anti-static mat. Wear an anti-static wristband grounded at the same point as the anti-static mat.

  • Page 12: Step 2 Configure Cpu

    From 3.3V Power Supply Set J1, J2, J3, and J18 as follows to configure 3.3V power from the 3.3V power supply: Pin 1 Pin 6 Pin 1 Pin 6 Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Important Pin 1 Pin 6 Pin 1 Pin 6...
  • Page 13 Shorted 166 MHz OPEN Call American Megatrends technical support at 770- 246-8645 to support a CPU running at a higher Connect CPU Fan J25 and J27 are two-pin bergs that connect power to the fan on the CPU heat sink. Pentium CPUs are shipped with a heat sink and a CPU fan. The wire from the CPU fan has two leads.
  • Page 14 Make sure that pin 1 of the CPU is aligned with pin 1 of the socket. Make sure you are properly grounded while handling the CPU. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Warning installing the CPU.
  • Page 15 Step Action Complete installation by lifting the ZIF lever to the other side of the socket, as shown below. Important Make sure that the Pentium CPUs have adequate airflow. Install an 8 cm 0.2 Amp fan in the front of the computer case to pull air into the case, in addition to the standard computer case fan at the back of the computer chassis.

  • Page 16: Step 3 Install Memory

    AMIBIOS System Configuration Screen is displayed just before the operating system boots. The memory displayed by AMIBIOS on the System Configuration Screen is 384 KB less than the total memory installed. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Important Cont’d...
  • Page 17 Step 3 Install Memory, Continued Select SIMMs SIMMs must meet the following specifications: Parameter Page Mode Refresh SIMM Part Numbers Type Manufacturer 1 MB x 36 Micron “ Mitsubishi “ “ Motorola “ “ Samsung 2 MB x 36 “ Samsung 4 MB x 36 Micron...
  • Page 18 Step 3 Install Memory, Continued Installing SIMMs The Titan III motherboard has four x 36 SIMM sockets. These sockets can be filled with either 512 KB x 32 (or 36), 1 MB x 32 (or 36), 2 MB x 32 (or 36), 4 MB x 32 (or 36), 8 MB x 32 (or 36), or 16 MB x 32 (or 36) SIMMs.

  • Page 19: Step 4 Install The Motherboard

    Step 4 Install the Motherboard The motherboard mounting hole pattern is the same as the mounting hole pattern on a baby AT motherboard. Standoffs and mounting screws are not supplied with the motherboard. The chassis manufacturer should supply these parts. Step Place the chassis on an anti-static mat.
  • Page 20 Step 4 Install Motherboard, The screw head must not be larger than the plating around the mounting hole. Plated Mounting Hole Non-Plated Mounting Hole Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Continued Plating...
  • Page 21 Step 5 Set Jumpers Jumpers The Titan III motherboard has several jumpers that must be set properly. The non-CPU jumpers are: J21 DMA for ECP J16 DACK for ECP J14 IRQ for Parallel Port J17 Second CPU Type J19 APIC Enable...
  • Page 22 IDE bus master mode. You must also set the IDE Bus Master option in PCI/PnP Setup to Enabled. When IDE bus master mode is enabled, do not install a PCI bus master card in PCI Slot 4, it can only be in Slave mode. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide...
  • Page 23 Step 6 Attach Cables Connectors The Titan III PCI EISA motherboard includes many connectors. Connection instructions, illustrations of connectors, and pinouts are supplied below. A list of all connectors described in this section follows: Power supply connectors P8 and P14...
  • Page 24 The six-pin connector on the power cable with three red wires and two black wires is attached to P14. The other major connector is attached to P8. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Cont’d...
  • Page 25 Step 6 Attach Cables, Continued Power Connector Keys The power connectors are keyed to prevent incorrect installation. The connector keys must be cut to fit some power supplies, as shown below. P8 Pinout Power Good (Orange wire) (Not used) VCC (Red wire) +12 Volts (Yellow wire) -12 Volts (Blue wire) Ground (Black wire)
  • Page 26 P5 provides auxiliary 5V power. Some 400 watt power supplies have an auxiliary 5V connector. P9 Keyboard Connector The keyboard connector (P9) is a six-pin DIN socket. The P9 pinout is shown below. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Description Ground (Black wire) Ground (Black wire) Ground (Black wire) 3.3V...
  • Page 27 Connect Mouse Cable The mouse connector (P13) is a 10-pin berg. The mouse cable is the same as the serial cable in the Titan III PCI EISA motherboard. Two serial cables are shipped with the motherboard. Use one of these cables for the mouse, or you can make your own cable using the following pinouts.
  • Page 28 IDE LED mounted on the drive by changing a jumper or setting a switch on the IDE drive itself, before the IDE drive sends a signal to J22. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Description Ground Keyboard Lock (KBDINH)
  • Page 29 AMIBIOS minimize conflicts between onboard and offboard I/O devices. AMIBIOS automatically checks the adapter cards installed in the expansion slots on the Titan III PCI EISA motherboard for a hard disk or floppy controller and serial or parallel ports. P3, P4 P3 (serial port1) and P4 (serial port 2) are 10-pin connectors that provide an AT-compatible serial port interface.
  • Page 30 All parallel port settings can be configured through Peripheral Setup in WINBIOS Setup. Signal Description STROBE# BUSY SLCT ERROR# SLCTIN# Ground Ground Ground Ground Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Signal Description ACK# AUTOFD# INIT# Ground Ground Ground Ground Ground Cont’d...
  • Page 31 Step 6 Attach Cables, Continued P11 Floppy P11 is a 34-pin dual-inline berg. Connect the cable from the floppy drive to P11, as shown below. The onboard floppy controller cannot be used if a hard disk card with a floppy controller is installed. Choose Standard Setup and Peripheral Setup to configure the floppy controller.
  • Page 32 Step 6 Attach Cables, Continued P11 Floppy Connector Pinout Twist in Floppy Cable Floppy B to A Floppy B to A 10 to 16 11 to 15 Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide DENSE1 DRATE0 -INDEX -MOTOR0 -FDSEL1 -FDSEL0 -MOTOR1...
  • Page 33 Step 6 Attach Cables, Continued IDE Drives Attach the IDE drives in the following manner. Choose Peripheral Setup in WINBIOS Setup to enable the onboard IDE controller. Chapter 1 Hardware Installation Cont’d...
  • Page 34 (over 528 MB), 32-bit data transfer, and fast IDE transfer. These IDE features are configured in Peripheral Setup in the WINBIOS Setup utility. Disable the onboard IDE interface in Peripheral Setup to use an ISA ESDI, RLL, MFM, or SCSI hard disk drive controller. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Cont’d...
  • Page 35 Step 6 Attach Cables, Continued P1 Pinout The P1 pinout is: -RESET DATA7 DATA6 DATA5 DATA4 DATA3 DATA2 DATA1 DATA0 DMARQ0 IDERDY DMACK0 INT14 -IDEACT P2 Secondary IDE Controller P2 is the secondary IDE connector. P2 is a 40-pin dual-inline berg that connects the secondary primary and slave IDE drives to the secondary onboard IDE controller.
  • Page 36 DAMRQ0 IDERDY DMACK0 Bus Master IDE The Titan III EISA motherboard supports bus master IDE. When connecting a device that uses bus master IDE, make sure that the IDE Bus Master option in Peripheral Setup is set to Enabled. Make sure that J4 and J30 are shorted if using bus master IDE. When bus master IDE is enabled, PCI slot 4 (P19) does not support a PCI bus master card.
  • Page 37 Step 7 Test and Configure Review the following points before powering up: make sure that all adapter cards are seated properly, make sure all connectors are properly installed, make sure the CPU is seated properly, make sure there are no screws or other foreign material on the motherboard, plug the system into a surge-protected power strip, and make sure blank back panels are installed on the back of the chassis to...
  • Page 38 Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide...

  • Page 39: Winbios Setup

    Historically, BIOS Setup utilities have been character-based, required keyboard input, and have had user interfaces that were not very intuitive. Graphical BIOS Setup American Megatrends has a new type of system BIOS Setup utility. WINBIOS Setup has a graphical user interface the end user can access using a mouse.

  • Page 40: Using A Mouse With Winbios Setup

    <PgDn> Advance to the next screen. <Home> Returns to the beginning of the text. <End> Advance to the end of the text. <Ctrl><Alt><+> Change to high speed <Ctrl><Alt><-> Change to low speed. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Action...

  • Page 41: Winbios Setup Menu

    WINBIOS Setup Menu The WINBIOS Setup main menu is organized into four sections. Each of these sections corresponds to a section in this chapter. Each section contains several icons. Clicking on each icon activates a specific AMIBIOS function. The WINBIOS Setup main windows and related functions are described on the next screen.

  • Page 42: Section 1 Setup

    Floppy Drive A: and B: Move the cursor to these fields via the PgUp and PgDn keys and select the floppy type. The settings are 360 KB 5¼ inch, 1.2 MB 5¼ inch, 720 KB 3½ inch, 1.44 MB 3½ inch, or 2.88 MB 3½ inch. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Cont’d...
  • Page 43 Standard Setup, Continued Pri Master, Pri Slave, Sec Master, Sec Slave Select one of these hard disk drive icons to configure the hard disk drive named in the option. Select Auto from the drive parameters screen to let AMIBIOS automatically configure the drive. A screen with a list of drive parameters appears.
  • Page 44 Capacity The formatted capacity of the drive is the number of heads times the number of cylinders times the number of sectors per track) times 512 (bytes per sector). Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Description Cont’d...
  • Page 45 Standard Setup, Continued MFM Hard Disk Drive Types Type Cylinders Heads 1024 1024 1024 1024 1024 1024 1224 Chapter 2 WINBIOS Setup Write Landing Sectors Capacity Precompensation Zone 10 MB 20 MB 31 MB 62 MB 47 MB 65535 20 MB 31 MB 65535 30 MB...

  • Page 46: Advanced Setup

    Boot Up Num Lock Set this option to On to turn off the Num Lock key when the system is powered on so you can use the arrow keys on both the numeric keypad and the keyboard. The settings are On or Off. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are On. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Cont’d...
  • Page 47 Advanced Setup, Continued Password Check This option enables password checking every time the system boots or when you run WINBIOS Setup. If Always is chosen, a user password prompt appears every time the computer is turned on. If Setup is chosen, the password prompt appears if WINBIOS is executed.
  • Page 48 Disabled. Caching Controller Set this option to Present if a caching controller is installed in the computer. The settings are Absent or Present. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are Absent. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Cont’d...
  • Page 49 Advanced Setup, Continued C000,32K Shadow These options specify the way that the 32 KB of video ROM beginning at C0000h is handled by AMIBIOS. The settings are: Setting Disabled The contents of the video ROM are not copied to RAM. The contents of the video ROM area from C0000h - C7FFFh Cached are not only copied from ROM to RAM, the contents of the...

  • Page 50: Chipset Setup

    16-bit I/O operations on the ISA bus. The length of the delay is related to the CPU type and frequency. The settings are Disabled, 1 (BUSCLK), 2, 3, or 4. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are 1. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide...

  • Page 51: Power Management Setup

    Power Management Setup The AMIBIOS Setup options described in this section are selected by choosing the Power Management Setup icon from the Setup section on the AMIBIOS Setup main menu. Power Management/APM Set this option to Enabled to enable power management features and APM (Advanced Power Management).
  • Page 52 CPU clock speed when the computer is in the power- conserving state. The settings are 1:1, 1:2, 1:4, 1:8, 1:16, 1:32, 1:64, and 1:128. The Optimal and Fail-Safe defaults are 1:8. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Continued Cont’d...
  • Page 53 Power Management Setup, IRQ3 IRQ4 IRQ5 IRQ7 IRQ8 IRQ9 IRQ10 IRQ11 IRQ12 IRQ13 IRQ14 IRQ15 When set to Monitor, these options enable event monitoring on the specified hardware interrupt request line. If set to Monitor and the computer is in a power saving state, AMIBIOS watches for activity on the specified IRQ line.
  • Page 54 This option must be set to Enabled if any ISA adapter card installed in the system requires VGA palette snooping. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are Disabled. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Action Cont’d...
  • Page 55 PCI/PnP Setup, Continued PCI Slot-1 Latency Timer PCI Slot-2 Latency Timer PCI Slot-3 Latency Timer PCI Slot-4 Latency Timer This option sets latency of the PCI device in the specified PCI expansion slot. The settings are in units equal to PCI clocks. The settings are 32, 64, 96, 128, 160, 192, 224, or 248.
  • Page 56 PCI/PnP Setup Option Optimal Default IRQ3 IRQ4 IRQ5 PCI/PnP IRQ7 IRQ9 PCI/PnP IRQ10 PCI/PnP IRQ11 PCI/PnP IRQ12 IRQ14 PCI/PnP IRQ15 PCI/PnP Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Fail-Safe Default PCI/PnP PCI/PnP PCI/PnP PCI/PnP PCI/PnP PCI/PnP PCI/PnP PCI/PnP PCI/PnP Cont’d...
  • Page 57 PCI/PnP Setup, Continued DMA Channel 0 DMA Channel 1 DMA Channel 3 DMA Channel 5 DMA Channel 6 DMA Channel 7 These options specify the bus that the specified DMA channel is used on. The settings are PnP or ISA/EISA. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are PnP.

  • Page 58: Peripheral Setup

    (such as a VGA card) can then be installed in PCI Slot 4 without using a PCI bus mastering slot. The settings are Disabled or Enabled. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are N/A. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Cont’d...
  • Page 59 Peripheral Setup, Continued Offboard PCI/ISA IDE Card This option specifies if an offboard IDE controller adapter card, installed in either an ISA expansion slot or a PCI expansion slot in the computer, will be used. If an offboard PCI IDE controller is used, the onboard IDE controller on the motherboard is automatically disabled.
  • Page 60 Parallel Port Address This option specifies the base I/O port address for the parallel port. The settings are 378h, 278h, or Disabled. The Optimal default setting is 378h. The Fail-Safe default setting is N/A. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Cont’d...
  • Page 61 Peripheral Setup, Continued Parallel Port Mode This option specifies the parallel port mode. ECP and EPP are both bidirectional data transfer modes that adhere to the IEEE P1284 specifications. The settings are: Setting Normal The standard AT-compatible parallel port mode is used. The parallel port can be used with devices that adhere to the Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP) specification.

  • Page 62: Section 2 Security

    If WINBIOS Setup has an optional password feature. The system can be configured so that all users must enter a password every time the system boots or when WINBIOS Setup is executed. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide...

  • Page 63: Setting A Password

    Setting a Password The password check option is enabled in Advanced Setup by choosing either Always (the password prompt appears every time the system is powered on) or Setup (the password prompt appears only when WINBIOS is run). The password is encrypted and stored in NVRAM. As shown on the above screen, you are prompted for a 1 –...

  • Page 64: Changing A Password

    The following appears after any attempt to format any cylinder, head, or sector of any hard disk drive via the BIOS INT 13 Hard Disk Drive Service: Format!!! Possible VIRUS: Continue (Y/N)? _ Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide...

  • Page 65: Section 3 Utility

    Section 3 Utility The icons in this section of the WINBIOS Setup main screen permit you to choose a different set of colors for the WINBIOS Setup screens. Color Set Color Set sets the Setup screen colors. Chapter 2 WINBIOS Setup...

  • Page 66: Section 4 Default

    Fail-Safe icon from the Default section of the WINBIOS Setup main menu. The Fail-Safe settings provide far from optimal system performance, but are the most stable settings. Use this option as a diagnostic aid if the system is behaving erratically. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide...

  • Page 67: Programming Flash Rom

    Programming Flash ROM All versions of the Titan III PCI EISA motherboard use Flash EPROM to store the system BIOS. The advantage of Flash EPROM is the EPROM chip does not have to be replaced to update the BIOS. The end user can actually reprogram the BIOS, using a ROM file supplied by American Megatrends.
  • Page 68 S729P.ROM S729P.ROM resides on a floppy disk and contains the updated main BIOS code. American Megatrends will provide this file when the AMIBIOS for the Titan III PCI EISA motherboard must be updated. S729P.ROM must be present in the root directory of the floppy disk before the onboard Flash EPROM can be reprogrammed.
  • Page 69 Programming the Flash ROM, Beep Codes The bootblock code produces a series of beeps during Flash ROM programming to: signify completion of a step (as shown on the previous screen), or to signal an error. Error beeps are arranged in a coded sequence and have different meanings depending on when they occur.

  • Page 70: Bootblock Code Checkpoint Codes

    Disable the internal cache. Raise the Vpp. Enable Flash write and reset the Flash ROM. Detect the flash type. Start erasing flash blocks. Program the Flash ROM in the E0000-EFFFFh region. Start programming Flash at F0000-FFFFF region. Flash programming is successful. The computer reboots. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Description...

  • Page 71: Specifications

    Specifications Item Intel Pentium 90, 100, 120, 133, 150, 166 MHz or higher speed CPU Expansion slots Three EISA/ISA expansion slots Four PCI expansion slots One EISA/PCI shared slot L1 internal cache The Intel Pentium has 8 KB data cache and 8 KB memory instruction cache.
  • Page 72 A buzzer sounds when the ambient temperature inside Monitor the computer case goes above or below the standard operating range. Watchdog Timer This timer monitors for a system lock up condition. It automatically resets the system at lock up. Titan III PCI EISA Motherboard User’s Guide Description...

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