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What’s in this manual ........................2 You Must Notice ..........................11 Before You Start ..........................12 Quick Installation Procedure......................13 Motherboard Map .......................... 14 Block Diagram ..........................15 JP14 Clear CMOS ......................... 17 CPU Installation..........................18 CPU Fan Connector ........................19 JP23 FSB/PCI Clock Ratio ......................
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Front Panel Connector ........................29 ATX Power Connector ........................30 AC Power Auto Recovery ......................31 IDE and Floppy Connector ......................32 IrDA Connector..........................35 WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem)..................36 WOL (Wake on LAN) ........................39 PC99 Color Coded Back Panel ..................... 41 JP12 Enable/Disable Onboard Sound ...................
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Hardware Monitoring ........................51 Resettable Fuse ..........................52 BIOS Write Protection ........................53 Low ESR Capacitor ........................55 Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall) ....................57 Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD Disc ..................... 59 Installing Windows 95 ........................60 Installing Windows 98 ........................61 Installing Windows 98 SE &...
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Change Language ......................... 75 Standard CMOS Features Setup....................76 Advanced BIOS Features Setup....................82 Advanced Chipset Features Setup ....................91 Integrated Peripherals ......................... 101 Power Management Setup ......................116 PNP/PCI Configuration Setup ..................... 129 PC Health Status ......................... 134 Frequency/Voltage Control ......................135 Load Setup Defaults ........................
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AC97............................149 ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ..............149 AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ....................150 AMR (Audio/Modem Riser)......................150 AOpen Bonus Pack CD ....................... 150 APM............................. 151 ATA/66 ............................151 ATA/100 ............................151 BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) ....................152 Bus Master IDE (DMA mode) ......................
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ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ..................153 EDO (Extended Data Output) Memory ..................153 EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM) ..............154 EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM) ..................154 EV6 Bus............................154 FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) ..................155 FC-PGA ............................155 Flash ROM ..........................
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PnP (Plug and Play) ........................158 POST (Power-On Self Test) ......................158 RDRAM (Rambus DRAM) ......................158 RIMM ............................159 SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM)....................159 Shadow E PROM ........................159 SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module) ..................159 SMBus (System Management Bus)..................... 160 SPD (Serial Presence Detect) .....................
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Part Number and Serial Number ................170 ...
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Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage your processor, disk drives, expansion boards, and other components. Always observe the following precautions before you install a system component. 1.Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you are ready to install it. 2.Wear a wrist ground strap and attach it to a metal part of the system unit before handling a component.
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When should I Clear CMOS? 1. Boot fail because of overclocking… 2. Forget password… 3. Troubleshooting…
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If you do not match the CPU socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, it may damage the CPU. ...
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Some CPU fans do not have sense pin, so that cannot support fan monitoring. ...
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VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset supports maximum 133MHz FSB and 66MHz AGP clock, higher clock setting may cause serious system damage.
If your system hangs or fails to boot because of overclocking, simply use <Home> key to restore the default setting.
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The driving capability of new generation chipset is limited due to the lack of a memory buffer (to improve performance). This makes DRAM chip count an important factor to take into consideration when you install DIMMs. Unfortunately, there is no way that the BIOS can identify the correct chip count, you need to calculate the chip count by yourself.
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To identify 2-clock and 4-clock DIMM, you may check if there are traces connected to the golden finger pins 79 and 163 of the SDRAM. If there are traces, the SDRAM is probably 4-clock; otherwise, it is 2-clock. To identify single-side or double-side DIMM, check golden finger pin 114 and pin 129.
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The specification of the IDE cable is a maximum of 46cm (18 inches). Make sure your cable does not exceed this length. For better signal quality, it is recommended to set the far end side device to master mode and follow the suggested sequence to install your new device.
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ATA/66 uses both rising edge and falling edge but doubles UDMA/33 transfer rate. The data transfer rate is 4 times of the PIO mode 4 or DMA mode 2, 16.6MB/s x4 = 66MB/s. To use ATA/66, you need special ATA/66 IDE cable. ...
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Although we have implemented protection circuit try to prevent any human operating mistake, there is still certain risk that CPU, memory, HDD, add-on cards installed on this motherboard may be damaged because of component failure, human operating error or unknown nature reason.
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Installing this Bus Master IDE driver may cause Suspend to Hard Drive failure. If you want to uninstall the VIA AGP Vxd driver, please remove the AGP card driver first. Otherwise, the screen may go black at rebooting after the un-installation. ...
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""#$ #$ "02" means Windows 98 is ACPI acknowledged but the ACPI function is disabled. ...
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Currently we found only ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP card would support ACPI suspend to disk. Please refer to AOpen web site for latest update Because the BIOS code is the most often changed part of the motherboard design, the BIOS...
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Because the BIOS code is the most often changed part of the motherboard design, the BIOS information contained in this manual may be different with actual BIOS that come with your motherboard. ...
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Please avoid of using "Load Turbo Defaults", unless you are sure your system components (CPU, DRAM, HDD, etc.) are good enough for turbo setting. ...
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Make sure you fully understand the items contained in this menu before you try to change anything. change parameter settings improve system performance. However, it may cause your system to be unstable if the setting is not correct for your system configuration. ...
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You cannot use both USB driver and USB legacy keyboard at the same time. Disable “USB Keyboard Support” if you have USB driver in the operation system. ...
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If CPU speed detected does not match the CPU speed setup, it is probably caused by the CPU has a fixed FSB clock or ratio If you fail to reboot the system, please press < > key first and then press at the same time ...
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AOpen Easy Flash BIOS programs are designed to be compatible with the Award BIOS. At the date of this note, AOpen Easy Flash BIOS programs are not available for AMI BIOS. AMI BIOS appears mostly only on old 486 boards and some early Pentium boards. Please be sure to view the README compressed inside the BIOS package before upgrading, and follow upgrade instructions carefully.
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The new BIOS upgrade will permanently replace your original BIOS's settings and PnP information when flashing. You may need to reconfigure your BIOS setting and re-install Win95/Win98 as well as your add-on cards, so that your system can go back to work as normal. ...
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The design of this product follows CPU and chipset vendor's design guideline. Any attempts to push beyond product specification are not recommended and you are taking your own risk to damage your system or important data. Before doing overclocking, you must make sure your components are able to tolerate such abnormal setting, especially CPU, DRAMs, hard disks, and AGP VGA cards.
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If registering products purchased from different dealers/retails and/or purchased on different dates, please submit a separate form for each product. ...