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  • Page 1 Copyright and Warranty Notice The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on part of the vendor, who assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors that may appear in this manual. No warranty or representation, either expressed or implied, is made with respect to the quality, accuracy or fitness for any particular part of this document.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    BH6 Motherboard USER’S MANUAL Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction of BH6 Features Specifications Layout diagram The system block diagram Chapter 2 Installing the Motherboard Installing the Motherboard to the Casing Standard External Connectors Jumper and Switches ™ Installation of the Pentium...
  • Page 4 Appendix A Quick Installation Appendix B General Discussion About HDD Installation Appendix C Flash BIOS User Instructions Appendix D How to install the IDE Bus Master driver Appendix E How to install the PCI bridge driver for 440BX chipset Appendix F Install HighPoint XStore Pro Utility Appendix G Technical Support...

  • Page 5: Chapter 1 Introduction Of Bh6 Features

    Introduction Of BH6 Features Chapter 1 Introduction Of BH6 Features The motherboard is designed for a new generation CPUs. It supports the Intel SLOT1 ™ structure (Pentium II/III and Celeron processors), up to 768MB of memory, super I/O, and Green PC functions. The motherboard provides high performance for server systems and meets the requirements for desktop system for multimedia in the future.

  • Page 6: Atx Form Factor

    Chapter 1    Multi I/O Functions !!Floppy port supports up to 2.88MB, and 3 mode floppies !!Ultra DMA/33 bus master IDE supports up to 4 IDE devices (Including LS-120 MB floppy drive) !!Built-in Standard/EPP/ECP parallel port connector !!Two built-in 16550 fast UART compatible serial port connectors !!Built-in PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse port connectors ! Built-in standard IrDA TX/RX header !!Two built-in USB connectors...

  • Page 7: Layout Diagram

    Introduction Of BH6 Features Layout Diagram Figure 1-1 Motherboard Component Locations...

  • Page 8: The System Block Diagram

    Chapter 1 The System Block Diagram...

  • Page 9: Chapter 2 Installing The Motherboard

    Installing the Motherboar Chapter 2 Installing the Motherboard This BH6 motherboard not only provides all standard equipment for classic personal computers, but also provides great flexibility for meeting future upgrade demands. This chapter will introduce step by step all the standard equipment and will also present, as completely as possible, future upgrade capabilities.

  • Page 10: Installing The Motherboard To The Casing

    Chapter 2  Installing the Motherboard to the Casing Most computer chassis will have a base on which there will be many mounting holes that allows the motherboard to be securely attached and at the same time, prevents short circuits. There are two ways to attach the motherboard to the base of chassis: ! with stud ! or with spacer...
  • Page 11 Installing the Motherboar Note: If the motherboard has mounting holes, but don’t line up with the holes on the base and their are no slots to attach the spacers, don’t worry, you can still attach the spacers to the mounting holes. Just cut the button portion of spacers (the spacer may be a little and hard to cut off, so be careful of your hands).

  • Page 12: Standard External Connectors

    Chapter 2  Standard External Connectors Inside the case of any computer several cables and plugs have to be connected. These cables and plugs are usually connected one-by-one to connectors located on the motherboard. You need to carefully pay attention to any connection orientation the cables may have and, if any, notice the position of the first pin of the connector.
  • Page 13 Installing the Motherboar PN1 (Pin 8-9): Power Switch Header Pin number Name or significance of signal Ground Power On/Off switch PN1 (Pin 10-11): Hardware Suspend Switch (SMI Switch) Header Attach the cable from the case’s suspend switch (if there is one) to this switch. Use this switch to enable/disable the power management function by hardware.
  • Page 14 Chapter 2 PN2(Pin 9-10): Suspend LED Header Pin number Name or significance of signal LED power Suspend LED active KM1 MOUSE: PS/2 Mouse Connector Attach a PS/2 mouse to this 6-pin Din-connector. Pin number Name or significance of signal Mouse data No connection Ground +5VDC...
  • Page 15 Installing the Motherboar CONT1: ATX Power Input Connector Caution: If power supply connectors are not properly attached to ATX PWR, the power supply or add-on cards may be damaged. Attach the connectors from the power supply to CONT1. Pin number Name or significance of signal +3.3VDC +3.3VDC...
  • Page 16 Chapter 2 IR1: IR Header (Infrared) Pin number Name or significance of signal No connection IR_RX Ground IR_TX I/O Port Connectors Name Pin number Description IDE1 IDE channel 1 connector IDE2 IDE channel 2 connector Floppy disk connector Parallel port COM1 Serial port COM1 connector COM2...

  • Page 17: Jumper And Switches

    Installing the Motherboar (3) Jumper and Switches You can set jumper switches on the motherboard to configure various hardware options. See Figure 1-1 for jumper locations. Throughout this section, the following symbols are used to indicate jumper settings. For 3-pin jumpers, the symbols below are used: Short Pins 1 and 2 with a jumper cap.

  • Page 18: Ii/Iii, Celeron

    ™ additional adapter that allows you to use a Celeron PPGA processor in a slot 1 board. For this ABIT makes the SlotKET adapter. Note: ! Installing a heat sink and cooling fan is necessary for proper heat dissipation from your CPU. Failing to install these items may result in overheating and damage of your CPU.

  • Page 19: Installing System Memory

    Installing the Motherboar 2-11 (5)    Installing System Memory The motherboard provides three 168-pin DIMM sites for memory expansion.. The DIMM socket supports 1Mx64(8MB), 2Mx64(16MB), 4Mx64(32MB), 8Mx64(64MB), 16Mx64(128MB), and 32Mx64(256MB) or double sided DIMM modules. Minimum memory size is 8MB and maximum memory size is 768MB SDRAM.
  • Page 20 2-12 Chapter 2 Supported SDRAM Memory Configurations DARM DRAM DRAM DRAM DRAM DRAM DIMM DRAM Size Type Tech Depth Width Addressing Row Banks (1 row) (2 row) SDRAM Asymmetric 16MB Asymmetric 16MB 32MB Asymmetric 16MB 32MB Asymmetric 32MB 64MB Asymmetric 32MB 64MB SDRAM Asymmetric...

  • Page 21: Chapter 3 Introduction Of Bios

    Introduction of BIOS Chapter 3 Introduction of BIOS The BIOS is a program located on a Flash Memory chip on the motherboard. This program will not be lost when you turn the computer off. This program is also referred to as the boot program. It is the only channel for the hardware circuit to communicate with the operating system.
  • Page 22 Chapter 3 Fig 3-1 CMOS Setup Utility In the BIOS Setup main menu of Figure 3-1, you can see several options. We will explain these options step by step in the following pages of this chapter, but let us first see a short description of the function keys you may use here: ! Press Esc to quit the BIOS Setup.

  • Page 23: Cpu Setup

    Introduction of BIOS ™ (1) CPU Setup <CPU SOFT MENU II> ™ The CPU can be setup through a programmable switch (CPU SOFT MENU II), that replaces traditional manual hardware configuration. This feature allows the user to complete more easily the installation procedures. You can install the CPU without configuring any jumpers or switches.
  • Page 24 Chapter 3 CPU Operating Speed: This option sets the CPU speed. In this field, the CPU speed is indicated like this: CPU speed = External clock * Multiplier factor, select the CPU speed according the type and the speed of your CPU. ®...
  • Page 25 Introduction of BIOS Note 2: "S" means this frequency implements spread spectrum modulation. For EMC (Electro-Magnetic Compatibility Test) testing you may want to choose these options for optimal results, we do not recommend you use these "S" frequencies, except for special reasons.
  • Page 26 Chapter 3 <Note 6> Speed Error Hold: Default setting is “Disable”. If you choose the setting to “Enable”, when CPU speed setting is wrong, then system will hold. Normally, we do not recommend that you use the “User Define” option to setup CPU speed and multiplier factor.
  • Page 27 Introduction of BIOS Attention: After setting up the parameters and you leave the BIOS SETUP, and you have verified that the system can be booted, do not press the Reset button or turn off the power supply. Otherwise the BIOS will not read correctly, the parameters will fail and you must enter ™...

  • Page 28: Standard Cmos Setup Menu

    Chapter 3 (2)    Standard CMOS Setup Menu This contains the basic configuration parameters of the BIOS. These parameters include the settings of date, hour, VGA card, FDD and HDD. Fig 3-3 Standard CMOS Setup Menu Date (mm:dd:yy): You can set the date information in this item, month (mm), date (dd) and year (yy).
  • Page 29 Introduction of BIOS The HDD auto detection option in the Main Menu will automatically detect the parameters of your hard disk and the mode supported. " Normal mode: Standard normal mode supports hard disks of 528MB or less. This mode directly uses positions indicated by Cylinders (CYLS), Heads, and Sectors to access data.
  • Page 30 3-10 Chapter 3 FDD supporting 3 Mode: 3 Mode floppy disk drives (FDD) are 3 1/2” drives used in Japanese computer systems. If you need to access data stored in this kind of floppy, you must select this mode, and of course you must have a 3 Mode floppy drive.

  • Page 31: Bios Features Setup Menu

    Introduction of BIOS 3-11 (3) BIOS Features Setup Menu BIOS Features Setup Menu has already been set for maximum operation. If you do not really understand each of the options in this menu, we recommend you use default values. In each item, you can press <F1> at any time to display all the options for this item.

  • Page 32: External Cache

    3-12 Chapter 3 External Cache: This item is used to enable or to disable the CPU level 2 cache. When the external cache is enabled, the system works faster. The default is Enable. CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking: This item is used to enable or to disable the CPU level 2 cache ECC checking function.

  • Page 33: Boot Up Numlock Status

    Introduction of BIOS 3-13 Boot Up Floppy Seek: When computer boots up, the BIOS detects if the system has FDD or not. When this item is enabled, if the BIOS detects no floppy drive, it will display a floppy disk drive error message. If this item is disabled, the BIOS will skip this test.

  • Page 34: Security Option

    3-14 Chapter 3 Security Option: This option can be set to System or to Setup. After you have created a password through PASSWORD SETTING, this option will deny access to your system (System) or modification of computer setup (BIOS Setup) by unauthorized users. "...

  • Page 35: Processor Number Feature

    Introduction of BIOS 3-15 Processor Number Feature: This feature can let the program read the data inside your processor. This ® ® feature only works with Intel Pentium III processors. When you install a ® Pentium III processor into your motherboard, and when your system boots-up then this item will show up in BIOS.
  • Page 36 3-16 Chapter 3 Shadowing address ranges (D8000-DBFFF Shadow): This option allows you to decide if the memory block (BIOS) of an interface card at the address D8000-DBFFF uses the shadow feature or not. If you have no interface card using this memory block, don’t enable this option.

  • Page 37: Chipset Features Setup Menu

    Introduction of BIOS 3-17 (4) Chipset Features Setup Menu The Chipset Features Setup Menu is used to modify the contents of the buffers in the chipset on the motherboard. Since the parameters of the buffers are closely related to hardware, if the setup is not correct or false, the motherboard will become unstable or you will not be able to boot up.

  • Page 38: System Bios Cacheable

    3-18 Chapter 3 SDRAM CAS latency Time: Three options are available: Auto, 2 and 3. You can select SDRAM CAS (Column Address Strobe) latency time according your SDRAM specification. SDRAM Precharge Control: Two options are available: Enabled and Disabled. This option specifies the length Disabled of the RAS precharge part of the DRAM system memory access cycle when SDRAM system memory is installed.

  • Page 39: Delayed Transaction

    Introduction of BIOS 3-19 Memory Hole At 15M-16M: This option is used to free up the 15M-16M memory block. Some special peripherals need to use a memory block located between 15M and 16M, and this memory block has a size of 1M. We recommend that you disable this option.
  • Page 40 3-20 Chapter 3 There are small differences in the chipset feature setup according to different motherboard models, but this has no influence upon performance. Our default setup should be the best one.

  • Page 41: Power Management Setup Menu

    Introduction of BIOS 3-21 (5) Power Management Setup Menu The difference between Green PCs and traditional computers is that Green PCs have a power management feature. With this feature, when the computer is powered on but inactive, the power consumption is reduced in order to save energy.
  • Page 42 3-22 Chapter 3 2. Use arrow keys to go to the item you want to configure. To change the settings, use PgUP, PgDn, + or - key. 3. After you have configured the Power Management feature, press Esc to go back to the Main Menu.

  • Page 43: Power Management

    Introduction of BIOS 3-23 System States and Power States Under ACPI, the operating system directs all system and device power state transitions. The operating system puts devices in and out of low-power states based on user preferences and knowledge of how devices are being used by applications.

  • Page 44: Pm Control By Apm

    3-24 Chapter 3 " Max Saving When the three saving modes are enabled, the system is set up for maximum power savings. Doze = 1 minute Standby = 1 minute Suspend = 1 minute " Disable Disable the power management function. PM Control by APM: Power Management is completely controlled by the APM.

  • Page 45: Doze Mode

    Introduction of BIOS 3-25 Doze Mode: When the setting selected for "Power Management" is "User Define", you can define for this mode any delay from 1 minute to 1 hour. If no power management event occurs during this time period, meaning that computer is inactive during this period, the system will enter the Doze power saving mode.

  • Page 46: Power On By Alarm

    3-26 Chapter 3 Resume by LAN: To enable this feature, you must make sure your network software and network adapter (LAN card) support such a function. This function is also called “ Wake on LAN “ (WOL). Power on by Ring: If you connect an external modem to the onboard serial port, the system will be turned on when a telephone ring-up occurs.
  • Page 47 Introduction of BIOS 3-27 "IDE Secondary Slave: If any IDE secondary slave I/O activity occurs, it will cause the computer to re-count the time elapsed. "Floppy Disk: If any floppy disk I/O activity occurs, it will cause the computer to re- count the time elapsed.

  • Page 48: Pnp/Pci Configuration

    3-28 Chapter 3 (6) PNP/PCI Configuration In this menu, you can change the INT# and IRQ of the PCI bus and the onboard I/O device, I/O port address and other hardware settings. Fig 3-7 PNP/PCI Configuration Menu PNP OS Installed: Device resource assigned by PnP OS or BIOS.

  • Page 49: Resources Controlled By

    Introduction of BIOS 3-29 Resources Controlled By: When resources are controlled manually, assign each system interrupt as one of the following types, depending on the type of device using the interrupt: Legacy ISA devices compliant with the original PC AT bus specification, requiring a specific interrupt (such as IRQ4 for serial port 1).

  • Page 50: Load Setup Defaults

    3-30 Chapter 3 You must be familiar with the PCI interrupt distribution mechanism to adjust this setting. This feature is for the operating system which will record and fix the PCI configuration status, if you want to change it. For the relations between the hardware layout of PIRQ (the signals from the PIIX4 chipset), INT# (means PCI slot IRQ signals) and devices, please refer to the table below: Signals...

  • Page 51: Integrated Peripherals

    Introduction of BIOS 3-31 (8) Integrated Peripherals In this menu, you can change the onboard I/O device, I/O port address and other hardware settings. Figure 3-8. Integrated Peripherals Menu Onboard IDE-1 Controller: The onboard IDE 1 controller can be set as Enabled or Disabled. # # # # Master Drive PIO Mode: "...
  • Page 52 3-32 Chapter 3 # # # # Master Drive Ultra DMA: Ultra DMA is a DMA data transfer protocol that utilizes ATA commands and the ATA bus to allow DMA commands to transfer data at a maximum burst rate of 33 MB/sec. "Auto: When you select Auto, the system automatically determines the optimal data transfer rate for each IDE device.

  • Page 53: Init Display First

    Introduction of BIOS 3-33 # # # # Slave Drive Ultra DMA: "Auto: When you select Auto, the system automatically determines the optimal data transfer rate for each IDE device. (Default) "Disabled: If you encounter the problem of using Ultra DMA devices, you can try to Disable this item.

  • Page 54: Onboard Parallel Port

    3-34 Chapter 3 # # # # Onboard IR Function: Three options are available: " IrDA (HPSIR) mode. " ASK IR (Amplitude Shift Keyed IR) mode. " Disabled. # # # # RxD , TxD Active: Set IR transmission/reception polarity as High or Low. # # # # IR Transmission Delay: Set IR transmission delays 4 character-time(40 bit-time) when SIR is changed from RX mode to TX mode.

  • Page 55: Password Setting

    Introduction of BIOS 3-35 (9) Password Setting This option allows you to set a password required to start the system (System) or to access to the BIOS (Setup). After you have set a password through the PASSWORD SETTING option, you can enter the Security Option in the “BIOS Features Setup Menu”...

  • Page 56: Save & Exit Setup

    3-36 Chapter 3 (11) Save & Exit Setup Fig 3-9 Save & Exit Setup You can save all your selection to CMOS and exit BIOS to reboot your computer. (12) Exit Without Saving Fig 3-10 Exit Without Saving You can exit and without saving all your selection to CMOS, then exit BIOS to reboot your computer.

  • Page 57: Appendix A Quick Installation

    Quick Installation Appendix A Quick Installation Appendix A will give you a simplified installation procedure, in order to allow you to install your motherboard quickly and correctly. If you need further information or if you need to change some other settings, start reading from Chapter 1.
  • Page 58 Appendix A Installing CD-ROM drive Watch the pin position and the orientation IDE2 (Secondary IDE): Connect one end of the 40-pin cable that comes with the drive to the CD-ROM connector, and the other end to the IDE2 pin connector on the motherboard. Note: Be sure that the red line on the cable connects to the first pin of the connectors.
  • Page 59 Quick Installation Installing suspend switch connector PN1 Pin 10-11: There is no specific orientation for pin 10 and pin 11. Connect the two-threads suspend switch connector of the computer case to correct pins of header on the motherboard. You can ignore this connector since most of computer cases do not support this feature (the motherboard itself supports it).
  • Page 60 Appendix A Pin number Name or significance of signal LED Power Suspend LED active Watch the pin position and Installing ATX Power input connector the orientation CONT1: Connect the power supply unit to the correct connectors on the motherboard. Name of the signal or Name of the signal or Pin number signification...

  • Page 61: Bios Setup

    Quick Installation Pin number Name of the signal or signification Ground +12V Sense signal Adjusting other jumpers Some jumpers are reserved for future functions or are not to be adjusted in normal operation. Adjust them according to the following recommendations. CCMOS Always put jumper on pin 1 and pin 2, this is default setting.
  • Page 62 Appendix A...
  • Page 63 General Discussion about HDD Installation Appendix B General Discussion About HDD Installation Most of the present HDDs use IDE interface. Installing an IDE hard disk does not require a lot of knowledge like installing the driver for a SCSI hard disk, but this means that the user often must install the hard disk by himself and cope with all the problems they may encounter.
  • Page 64 Appendix B The higher the MODE value is, the best is the hard disk data transfer rate. But this does not mean that you can select the highest mode value as you like. You must be sure that your hard disk supports that type of fast data transfer, otherwise your hard disk will not be able to operate correctly.
  • Page 65 General Discussion about HDD Installation Installing a hard disk: In the Standard CMOS Setup Menu, Primary means the first connector on the motherboard, that is, connector IDE1 on our motherboard. Secondary means the second connector on the motherboard, that is, connector IDE2 on our motherboard. Two HDDs can be connected to the each connector: The first HDD is referred to as Master, The second HDD is referred to as Slave.
  • Page 66 Appendix B Installing two HDDs: The red line on the connection cable must be lined up with pin 1 on the connector. Method 1: Set the hard disk drive used for boot up at Master, and the other drive at Slave. Connect one of the connectors of the 40-pin cable to the first drive, another connector to the second drive, and the other end of the cable to connector IDE1 on the motherboard.
  • Page 67 General Discussion about HDD Installation Installing three HDDs: The red line on the connection cable must be lined up with pin 1 on the connector. Method 1: Set the hard disk drive used for boot up at Master, set the second drive at Slave.
  • Page 68 Appendix B BIOS Setup: If all your HDDs are new, you can use the IDE HDD Auto Detection option in the CMOS to auto detect the parameters of all your drives. You don’t need to set any hard disk parameter. If one or several of your HDDs are old, and if you don’t know their parameters, and you want to reconfigure your drives, you can still use the IDE HDD Auto Detection option in the CMOS to auto detect the...
  • Page 69 General Discussion about HDD Installation reboot automatically. Boot from a system floppy disk, and type FORMAT C: /S $Using FORMAT: (DOS command) This command is found in the DOS disks. FORMAT is used to format the hard disk. The HDD have to be formatted before use.
  • Page 70 Appendix B...
  • Page 71 BIOS Flashing User Instructions Appendix C BIOS Flashing User Instructions When your motherboard needs to be upgraded with new features or to fix some compatibility problems of a BIOS, you will need to use this BIOS flash utility. This utility is provided by Award Software, and it’s easy to flash by yourself.
  • Page 72 Appendix C When you have finished updating your BIOS, you will see the screen as in Figure C-2. You then need to press the “F1” key to reset the system, or press the “F10” key to exit the writer. Figure C-2. Award Flash Memory Writer V7.05 Complete Screen Figure C-3 shows you what commands you can use for the flashing program, you need to go into the pure DOS environment and type awdflash /?, then you will see Figure C-3.
  • Page 73 AWDFLASH NEWBIOS /PN SAVEBIOS Notes: “NEWBIOS” indicates the file name for the new BIOS which can be downloaded from our WEB site at http://www.abit.com.tw (the user can choose a different file name in place of NEWBIOS). “SAVEBIOS” indicates the filename of the old system BIOS (the user can choose a different file name in place of SAVEBIOS).
  • Page 74 Startup system files (COMMAND.COM, MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS...) b. AWDFLSH.EXE c. The NEWBIOS file which can be downloaded from ABIT’s website. d. AUTOEXEC.BAT, which has the following content: A:\AWDFLASH NEWBIOS /PY /SN /CC For example, to update the IT6B BIOS version to FZ (it6b_fz.bin), you need to type:...
  • Page 75 How to install the IDE Bus Master driver Appendix D How to install the IDE Bus Master driver This motherboard not only supports the IDE Bus Master, it also supports the Ultra DMA/33 HDD . If your hard disk drive supports this function you need to install the Ultra DMA driver software on the CD-ROM included with this motherboard for better performance (Some model’s packaging may only have a floppy diskette).
  • Page 76 Appendix D 1. Welcome: Click ‘NEXT’ 2. License screen: Notepad will show the content, close the notepad to continue.
  • Page 77 How to install the IDE Bus Master driver 3. Question: Click ‘Yes’ 4. Select Components: Click ‘INSTALL 5. Question: Click ‘Yes’...
  • Page 78 Appendix D 6. Information: Click ‘OK’ After previous instructions have been followed, the driver will automatically install. It will automatically restart the computer after it has finished installing. ® 7. When you restart your Windows 95, just follow the step shows on the screens.
  • Page 79 How to install the PCI bridge driver for the 440BX chipset Appendix E How to install the PCI bridge driver for the 440BX chipset This CD-ROM (Or floppy diskette) has the Intel’s 82371xB INF update 3.2.2 drives version. It can be used to update the 440BX chipset motherboard. The following procedure describes how to install and update the PCI bridge.
  • Page 80 Appendix E Step2. Execute the Product CD-Title ABITCD.EXE and choice Driver ( PCI ® Bridge Driver for Windows 95, then you will see the screen below: Step3. Click NEXT Step 4. You will see the license agreement dialog screen, click Yes.
  • Page 81 How to install the PCI bridge driver for the 440BX chipset Step 5. Click Next, then wait a while, until you see the installation complete screen. Step 6. Click OK, the system will restart.
  • Page 82 Appendix E Step 7. Restart your computer, then check the Device Manager again. First, you can check Hard Disk Controller, then take a look to see if the Bus Master driver is already recognized.
  • Page 83 How to install the PCI bridge driver for the 440BX chipset Step 8. Also check System Device, to find out if four devices are identified as well. (Please see the arrows below) You have completed all things now.
  • Page 84 Appendix E...
  • Page 85 Install HighPoint XStore Pro Utility Appendix F Install HighPoint XStore Pro Utility We provide a useful and powerful utility in our product package, the HighPoint XStore Pro. What does XStore do? The XStore Pro is a hard disk enhancement utility which can improve the system performance. The basic concept is using read-ahead caching algorithm to improve the hard disk performance.
  • Page 86 Appendix F otherwise it will cause system conflict when you install the second bus master driver! ® 2. This Windows 95/98 driver does not support CD-ROM Changers. If you have an ATAPI CD-ROM Changer installed in your system, please do not install this driver! ®...
  • Page 87 Install HighPoint XStore Pro Utility This CD-ROM (Or floppy diskette) has the HighPoint XStore Pro drivers. (version 1.2) The following procedure describes how to install the HighPoint XStore Pro to your system. If you have a floppy diskette but not the CD-ROM, just insert the diskette and run the Setup.exe file to start installation.
  • Page 88 Appendix F Step 3. Press the “Next” key, you will see the license screen.
  • Page 89 Install HighPoint XStore Pro Utility Step 4. Press the “Yes” to continue screen below. Step 5. When install process done, you will see the screen below. This screen will show up only when you select install both XStore Pro and CD Xpress. If you want to see the ReadMe file, you can click on to the circle.
  • Page 90 Appendix F Step 6. Choose the “Yes, I want to restart my computer now.” button, then system will restart. Or you can choose the “No, I will restart my computer later.”. Note: You must restart your computer after you installed the XStore Pro utility. Otherwise, software may works not properly.
  • Page 91 Technical Support Appendix G Technical Support * * * * If you have a problem during operation & In order to help our technical support personnel to quickly find out what is the problem of your motherboard and to give you the answers you need, before filling in the technical support form, eliminate any peripheral that is not related to the problem, and indicate on the form the key peripherals.
  • Page 92 Appendix G ) ) ) ) Example 2: With a system including the motherboard (with CPU, DRAM, COAST...) HDD, CD-ROM, FDD, VGA CARD, LAN CARD, MPEG CARD, SCSI CARD, SOUND CARD, after assembly and after having installed the Sound Card Driver, when you restart the system, when it runs the Sound Card Driver, it resets automatically.
  • Page 93 To fill in this “Technical Support Form”, refer to the step-by-step instructions given below: MODEL: Note the model number given in your user’s manual. Example: BX6, BH6, etc… Motherboard model number (REV): Note the motherboard model number labeled on the motherboard as “REV:*.**”.
  • Page 94 Appendix G OS/APPLICATION: Indicate what are the operating system and the applications your are running on the system. ® ® ® Example: MS-DOS 6.22, Windows 95, Windows NT..CPU: Indicate the brand and the speed (MHz) of your CPU. Example: (A) In the “Brand” space, write “Intel”, in the ®...
  • Page 95 Technical Support System Memory (DRAM): Indicate the brand and specifications (SIMM / DIMM) of your system memory. Examples: In the Brand space, write “Panasonic”, in the Specifications space, write “SIMM-FP DRAM 4MB-06”. Or, in the Brand, write “NPNX”, in the Specifications space, write “SIMM-EDO DRAM 8MB-06”.
  • Page 96 Appendix G...

  • Page 97: Technical Support Form

    Technical Support & & Technical Support Form & & 1 Phone #: Company name: , Contact: 2Fax #: Model BIOS ID # Motherboard model no. DRIVER REV OS/Application Hardware name Brand Specifications C.P.U IDE1 IDE2 CD-ROM IDE1 IDE2 Drive System Memory (DRAM) ADD-ON CARD Problem Description:...
  • Page 98 Appendix G...

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