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MS-6552 (v1.X) M-ATX Mainboard
Version 1.0
G52-MA00485
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  • Page 1 MS-6552 (v1.X) M-ATX Mainboard Version 1.0 G52-MA00485...
  • Page 2 V1.0 First release Nov. 2001 V OIR L A NOTICE D’ INSTA L LATION AVA NT DE R ACCORDER A U RESEAU. Micro-Star International MS-6552 Tested to comply with FCC Standard For Home or Office Use...
  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Safety Instructions CONTE NTS Chapter 1. Introduction ..................1-1 Read the safety instructions carefully. Save this User’ s Guide for possible use later. Mainboard Specification ................1-2 Keep this equipment away from humidity. Mainboard Layout ..................1-4 Lay this equipment on a stable and flat surface before setting it up. Quick Components Guide ................
  • Page 4 Aux Line-In Connector: CDIN2 ............2-15 Power Manag ement Setup ................. 3-19 Modem-In Connector: MDM_IN1 ............ 2-15 PNP/PCI Config urations ................3-24 Fan Power Co nnectors: PWR_FAN/SYS_ FAN/CPUFAN1 ..2-16 PC Health Status ..................3-26 Wake On Ring Connector: JMDM1 ..........2-17 Frequency/V oltag e Control ................
  • Page 5 Getting Started Chapter 1. Getting Started Getting Started Thank you for your purchase of the MS-6552 M-ATX mainboard. Powered by the Intel ® Brookdale and ICH2 chipsets, the MS-6552 mainboard is desig ned to fit the advanced Intel ® Pentium ®...
  • Page 6: Mainboard Specification

    Chapter 1 Getting Started Mainboard Specification PIO, Bus Master and DMA33/100 operation modes Can connect up to four IDE devices ® ® Supports sing le socket 478 for Intel Pentium 4 “ Northwood” processor On-Board Peripherals Supports up to core clock speed of 2GHz and 2.2 GHz On-Board Peripherals include: - 1 floppy port su pports 2 FDDs with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M a nd Chipset...
  • Page 7: Mainboard Layout

    W O L 1 PWR_SW1 Power switch connector See p. 2-21 JGS1 Power saving switch connector See p. 2-21 MS-6552 v1.X M-ATX Mainboard JGLED1 Power saving LED connector See p. 2-22 Chassis intrusion switch connector See p. 2-23 CLR_CMOS Clear CMOS jumper See p.
  • Page 8: Chapter 2. Hardware Setup

    Hardware Setup Chapter 2. Hardware Setup Hardware Setup This chapter provides yo u with the information about hardware setup pro cedure s. While do ing th e ins tallation, b e careful in holding the compo- nents and follow the in stallation pro cedure s. For some c omponen ts, if you install in the wrong orientation, the compone nts will not work properly.
  • Page 9: Central Processing Unit: Cpu

    Chapter 2 Hardware Setup Central Processing Unit: CPU Installing the CPU Fan ® ® The mainboa rd s uppo rts Inte l Pe ntiu m 4 proces sor in th e 478 pin As processor technolog y pushes to faster speeds and hig her performance, pa ckag e.
  • Page 10: Cpu Core Speed Derivation Procedure

    Chapter 2 Hardware Setup Memory Connect the fan power cable from the mounted fan to the 3-pin fan power connector The mainboa rd provides 2 slo ts for 184-pin, 2.5V DDR DIMM with 4 on the board. me mory banks . You c an ins tall PC1600/PC2100 DDR S DRAM modules on th e DDR DIMM s lots (DDR 1~ 2).
  • Page 11: Power Supply

    Chapter 2 Hardware Setup Power Supply DDR Module Combination To e nable normal operation, at least one DIMM mod ule sho uld be in- The mainboa rd supports ATX power supply for the power system. Be- stalled on the motherboard. You may install memory modules in the following fore insertin g the power supply connec tor, always make sure th at all compo- combination: nents are installed properly to ensure that no damag e will be caused.
  • Page 12: Back Panel

    Chapter 2 Hardware Setup Back Panel Keyboard Connector: KBMS1 The Back Pane l provides the following connectors: ® The mainboard provides a standard PS/2 keyboard mini DIN connector ® ® for attaching a PS/2 keyboard. You can plug a PS/2 keybo ard directly into this connector.
  • Page 13: Audio Port Connectors

    Chapter 2 Hardware Setup Audio Port Connectors Parallel Port Connector: LPT1 Line Out is a connecto r for Spe akers or Headphone s. Line In is u sed The mainboard provides a 25-pin fe male ce ntronic connector for LPT. for exte rnal CD player, Tape player, or other audio dev ices.
  • Page 14: Lan Jack

    Chapter 2 Hardware Setup Connectors LAN Jack (optional) The mainboard provides connectors to connect to FDD, IDE HDD, case, The mainboard provide s on e standard RJ-45 jack for c onnec tion to mod em, LAN, USB Po rts, IR mod ule and CPU/Sys tem FAN. Loc al Area Network (LAN).
  • Page 15: Hard Disk Connectors: Ide1 & Ide2

    Chapter 2 Hardware Setup Hard Disk Connectors: IDE1 & IDE2 CD-In Connector: CDIN1 The main board has a 32-b it En hanced PCI IDE and Ultra DMA 33/ 66/ The co nnector is for CD-ROM audio conn ector. 100 controller that provides PIO mod e 0~4, Bus Maste r, and Ultra DMA/33/ Aux Line-In Connector: CDIN2 66/100 func tio n.
  • Page 16: Wake On Ring Connector: Jmdm1

    Chapter 2 Hardware Setup Fan Power Connectors: PWR_FAN/SYS_FAN/CPUFAN1 Wake On Ring Connector: JMDM1 The PWR_FAN (power supply fan), CPUFAN1 (CPU fan) & S YS_FAN This c onnector allows you to connect to a modem c ard with Wake On (system fan) support system cooling fan with +12V. It supports three-pin head Ring function.
  • Page 17: Case Connector: Panel1

    Chapter 2 Hardware Setup Case Connector: PANEL1 Front Panel Audio Connector: F_AUDIO The case connecto r block PANEL1 allows you to con nect to the Power You can conne ct an optional audio con necto r to the F_AUDIO front Switch, Reset Switch, Speaker, Power LED, and HDD LED on the case..
  • Page 18: Power Switch Connector: Pwr_Sw1

    Chapter 2 Hardware Setup Power Switch Connector: PWR_SW1 Front USB Connectors: USB2 Attach a power switch to this connec tor. Pressing the switch will turn Depe nding on the model you h ave purchased , your mainb oard c ould on/off the system.
  • Page 19: Power Saving Led Connector: Jgled1

    Chapter 2 Hardware Setup Power Saving LED Connector: JGL ED1 Chassis Intrusion Switch Connector: J8 JGLED 1 is connected to a power saving LED. There a re three types of This connector is connected to a 2-pin chassis switch. If the chassis is LED th at you can use: 3-pin dual color or 2-pin s ing /dual co lor LED.
  • Page 20: Jumpers

    Chapter 2 Hardware Setup Jumpers The moth erboa rd provide s one jumper for yo u to set the co mpute r’ s BIOS Flash Jumper: BIOS_WP function. This s ection will explain h ow to chan g e your motherboard’ s func- Th is jumper is u sed to loc k or un loc k th e b oot blo ck a rea on BIOS.
  • Page 21: Onboard Audio Codec Jumper: Jp3

    Chapter 2 Hardware Setup Slots The motherboard provides five 32-bit Master PCI bu s slots , one 1.5V Onboard Audio Codec Jumper: JP3 AGP s lot and one CNR slot. The jumper is used to enable or disable the onboard software audio codec. Whe n enabling the o nboard audio cod ec, the sys tem will u se the onbo ard codec as the PRIMARY audio adapter and the installed CNR card as the SEC- ONDARY one.
  • Page 22 Chapter 2 to make any n ecessary hardware or software setting s for the expansion card, such as jumpers, switches or BIOS co nfig uration. CNR (Communication Network Riser) The CNR slot allo ws you to ins ert the CNR e xpansio n cards . CNR is a spec ia lly d es ig n ed n etwork, au dio, or mode m riser c ard for ATX fa mily motherboards.
  • Page 23 AWARD BIOS Setup ® C h a p t e r AW A R D ® B I O S Chapter 3. BIOS Setup Setup ® AWARD BIOS Setup ® If yo ur motherb oard comes with the AWARD BIOS ROM, read this ®...
  • Page 24: Chapter 3. Award® Bios Setup

    Chapter 3 AWARD BIOS Setup ® Entering Setup Getting Help Power on the computer and the system will start POST (Power On Self Test) process. When the messag e below appears on the screen, press After entering the Setup utility, the first screen you see is the Main Menu. <DEL>...
  • Page 25: The Main Menu

    Chapter 3 AWARD BIOS Setup ® The Main Menu PnP/PCI Configurations Once you enter AWARD ® BIOS CMOS Setup Utility, the Main Menu will This entry appears if your system supports PnP/PCI. appear on the screen. The Main Menu displays twelve config urable functions and two exit choices.
  • Page 26: Standard Cmos Features

    Chapter 3 AWARD BIOS Setup ® Standard CMOS Features IDE Primary Master/Primary Slave/Secondary Master/Secondary Slave The items inside Standard CMOS Features menu are divided into 13 Press Pg Up/<+> or Pg Dn/<-> to select the hard disk drive type. The categ ories.
  • Page 27: Advanced Bios Features

    Chapter 3 AWARD BIOS Setup ® Advanced BIOS Features Halt On The item determines whether the system will stop if an error is detected at boot. Available optio ns are: All Errors The system stops when any error is detected. No Errors The system doesn’...
  • Page 28 Chapter 3 AWARD BIOS Setup ® When Normal is selected, A20 is controlled by a keyboard controller or 1st/2nd/3rd Boot Device chipset hardware. The items allow you to set the sequence of boot devices where BIOS attempts to load the disk operating system. The setting s are: Typematic Rate Setting Floppy The system will boot from floppy drive.
  • Page 29: Advanced Chipset Features

    Chapter 3 AWARD BIOS Setup ® Advanced Chipset Features use, consult the vendor of your operating system. Setting s: 1.4 and 1.1. Boot OS/2 for DRAM > 64MB ® This allows you to run the OS/2 operating system with more than 64MB ®...
  • Page 30: Integrated Peripherals

    Chapter 3 AWARD BIOS Setup ® Integrated Peripherals 7, 6 and 5 (clocks). RAS# to CAS# Delay This field allows you to set the number of cycles for a timing delay between the CAS and RAS strobe sig nals, used when DRAM is written to, read from or refreshed.
  • Page 31 Chapter 3 AWARD BIOS Setup ® USB Controller Serial Port A/B The item enables or disables the USB (Universal Serial Bus) Ports. Setting s: The items specify the base I/O port address and IRQ for the onboard Serial Port Enabled and Disabled. A (COM A)/Serial Port B (COM B).
  • Page 32: Power Management Setup

    Chapter 3 AWARD BIOS Setup ® Power Management Setup Parallel Port Mode This item s elects the operating mode for the parallel port: SPP, EPP, ECP o r ECP+EPP. EPP Version The item selects the EPP version used by the parallel port if it is set to EPP or ECP+EPP mode.
  • Page 33 Chapter 3 AWARD BIOS Setup ® Suspend Time Out system context is saved to main memory. The informa- If system activity is not detected for the leng th of time specified in this field, tion stored in memory will be used to restore the PC to all devices except CPU will be shut off.
  • Page 34 Chapter 3 AWARD BIOS Setup ® ** Reload Global Timer Events ** Date(of Month) Alarm Primary/Secondary IDE 0/1, FDD,COM,LPT Port, PCI PIRQ[A-D]# The field specifies the date for Resume By RTC Alarm. Setting s: 0~31. The g lobal timer is the hardware timer that counts down to the power saving modes.
  • Page 35: Pnp/Pci Configurations

    Chapter 3 AWARD BIOS Setup ® PnP/PCI Configurations IRQ Resources This item is adjustable only when Resources Controlled By is set to Manual. Press <Enter> and you will enter the sub-menu of this item. The item lists IRQ resources and allows you to set each IRQ a type depending on the type of device using the IRQ.
  • Page 36: Pc Health Status

    Chapter 3 AWARD BIOS Setup ® PC Health Status Frequency/Voltage Control This section is to monitor the current hardware status including CPU temperature, CPU Fan speed, Vcore etc. This is available only if there is hardware monitoring mechanism onboard. CPU Ratio Selection End users can overclock the processor by specifying the CPU ratio (clock multiplier) in this field.
  • Page 37: Load Fail-Safe/Optimized Defaults

    Chapter 3 AWARD BIOS Setup ® Set Supervisor/User Password Load Fail-Safe/Optimized Defaults The two options on the main menu allow users to restore all of the BIOS When you select this function, a messag e as below will appear on the screen: setting s to the default Fail-Safe or Optimized values.
  • Page 38: Glossary

    Glossary Glossary Glossary ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) This power management specification enables the OS (operating system) to control the amount of power given to each device attached to the computer. Windows 98/98SE, Windows 2000 and Windows ME can fully support ACPI to allow users managing the system power flexibly.
  • Page 39 Glossary Glossary example, a modem chipset contains all the primary circuits for transmitting and receiv- ECC Memory (error correcting code memory) ing data; a PC chipset provides the electronic interfaces between all subsystems. A type of memory that contains special circuitry for testing the accuracy of data and correcting the errors on the fly.
  • Page 40 Glossary PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) A local bus standard developed by Intel that first appeared on PCs in late 1993. PCI provides “ plug and play” capability and allows IRQs to be shared. The PCI controller can exchange data with the system's CPU either 32 bits or 64 bits at a time. PnP (Plug and Play) A set of specifications that allows a PC to configure itself automatically to work with peripherals.

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