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- Page 1 American Megatrends, Inc. Titan-II PCI Pentium EISA Motherboard User's Guide MAN-711 1/6/95...
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Page 2: Limited Warranty
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 Megatrends' 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: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents System Overview ... 1 Installation ... 9 Unpacking the Motherboard ... 9 Step 1 ... 11 Step 2 Install Memory ... 17 Step 3 Install CPU ... 18 Step 4 Install the Motherboard ... 19 Step 5 Connect the Power Supply ... 20 Step 6 Connect the Keyboard Cable ... - Page 4 Preface Technical Support If an American Megatrends motherboard fails to operate as described or you are in doubt about a configuration option, please call technical support at 404-246-8645. Acknowledgments This manual was written by Sudhakaran Valappil and Julia McDonald. Preface...
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Page 5: System Overview
CPU External Clock Frequency The frequency will vary according to the version of the motherboard ordered. The PCI expansion slots are automatically configured by the onboard American Megatrends WINBIOS system BIOS. Motherboard Dimensions The Titan-II PCI Pentium EISA motherboard is approximately 12.1 inches wide by 13.8 inches long (the standard full AT®... - Page 6 Description Heat Sink with Fan A heat sink with fan must be used with all Intel Pentium CPUs on all Pentium motherboards. Main System Memory The motherboard requires Fast Page Mode SIMMs operating at 70 ns (RAS access time). The motherboard supports up to 256 MB of onboard system memory via four 64-bit banks with the following types of SIMMs (Single Inline Memory Modules).
- Page 7 Description, Continued L2 Secondary Cache Memory • The motherboard supports 256 KB or 512 KB of direct mapped, write-back L2 external (secondary) cache memory. • Thirty-two (32) pin sockets exist for 256 KB/512 KB of DIP L2 cache memory. • The external (secondary) cache memory is mounted on the motherboard in two rows of four SRAMs each.
- Page 8 Description, Continued Shadow RAM The system BIOS ROM is always shadowed. Video BIOS and Adaptor ROM shadowing can be enabled via Advanced Setup in 16 KB increments. System BIOS The Titan-II PCI Pentium EISA motherboard has a 128 KB WINBIOS with built-in WINBIOS Setup and user- definable hard disk drive types.
- Page 9 Description, Continued Up to Four IDE Drives The motherboard supports up to four IDE drives through two 40-pin IDE connectors, marked Primary and Secondary. IDE Drive Assignments If four IDE drives are connected, WINBIOS assigns the physical drive numbers; DOS assigns the logical drive letters as follows: IDE Drive Primary Master...
- Page 10 Description, Continued Seven DMA Channels There are seven DMA channels. Timer Features The motherboard has three programmable 16-bit counter/timers. Refresh Generation The Titan-II PCI Pentium EISA motherboard has a refresh generation feature. I/O Capability The motherboard accesses 32-, 16- or 8-bit I/O devices on the EISA bus and 32-bit devices on the PCI bus. Green PC Monitor Connector A 10-Pin dual-in-line connector for Green PC monitor support through the feature connector.
- Page 11 • six EISA expansion slots for EISA/ISA adapter cards. All PCI expansion slots are bus mastering. All 6 EISA slots are bus mastering. The PCI expansion slots are automatically configured by the onboard American Megatrends WINBIOS system BIOS. PS/2 Mouse A 10-pin berg header that can be attached via a customized serial cable to a PS/2-type mouse.
- Page 12 Chapter 1 System Overview...
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Page 13: Installation
Titan-II PCI Pentium EISA Motherboard User's Guide Action Inspect the cardboard carton for obvious damage. If damaged, call American Megatrends Technical Support at 404-246-8645. Leave the motherboard in its original packing. Perform all unpacking and installation procedures on a ground connected anti-static mat. - Page 14 Chapter 2 Installation...
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Page 15: Step 1
Step 1 Set all user-configurable jumpers and switches, and then install upgrade processors before installing the motherboard in the chassis. The jumpers are: Jumpers J28, J29 J16 and J17 J1, J2, J3, J11, J19 J9 Cache Memory Configuration J9 is a three-pin berg that controls the L2 secondary cache memory configuration on the motherboard. Titan-II PCI Pentium EISA Motherboard User's Guide Warning This motherboard contains sensitive electronic... -
Page 16: Step 1 Set Jumpers
J23 Clear Password The J8 DIAG switch is not used to clear CMOS RAM in Rev C Titan II motherboards. On Rev.B and B1 Titan II motherboards, J8 was used to clear CMOS RAM. On Rev C motherboards, use the J23 Sleep switch to erase CMOS RAM, which erases the password. - Page 17 Step 1 Set Jumpers, Continued J28 and J29 Bus Frequency Select The Titan-II EISA motherboard supports Intel CPUs that operate at voltage levels between 3.135 and 3.6V. J28 and J29 are two-pin jumpers that support the 150 MHz P54C CPU. These jumpers should be shorted when a 150 MHz P54C CPU is installed.
- Page 18 Step 1 Set Jumpers, J16 and J17 Extended Parallel Port DMA Select J16 and J17 are three-pin single-inline bergs that select the EPP (Enhanced Parallel Port) DMA channels, shown below. None (the factory setting) J7 Set CPU Speed J7 is a two-pin berg. Leave J7 OPEN if the CPU operates at 60 Mhz externally and 90, 120, or 150 MHz internally or 66 MHz externally and 100 MHz internally or 50 MHz externally and 75 MHz internally.
- Page 19 Step 1 Set Jumpers, Continued Using an External 3.3V Power Supply Set the jumpers and connectors as follows if using a 3.3V power supply: Jumper or Connector J6 APIC Configuration J6 is a three-pin jumper that enables or disables the local APIC. In dual processor mode, APIC should be enabled. J6 Setting Short Pins 1-2 Short Pins 2-3...
- Page 20 Step 1 Set Jumpers, J24 Flash Programming Voltage Pins 2-3 of this jumper should always be shorted to provide +12V to the Flash BIOS for reprogramming. J22 Password LED Select This three-pin berg is used to select the LED, which will toggle when the system is waiting for the Password J22 Setting Short Pins 1-2 Short Pins 2-3...
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Page 21: Step 2 Install Memory
Step 2 Install Memory The main memory subsystem on the Titan-II PCI EISA motherboard consists of four 64-bit memory banks. All banks house SIMM (Single Inline Memory Module) DRAM packages. You can use 256 KB x 36, 512 KB x 36, 1 MB x 36, 2 MB x 36, 4 MB x 36, 8 MB x 36, or 16 MB x 36 SIMMs. -
Page 22: Step 3 Install Cpu
There are different versions of the CPU available in the same stepping which have different voltage requirements. For this reason, call American Megatrends Technical Support before you purchase or install a P54C CPU to upgrade to a dual processing system. -
Page 23: Step 4 Install The Motherboard
Step 4 Install the Motherboard The mounting hole pattern on the Titan-II PCI Pentium EISA motherboard is the same as the mounting hole pattern on a standard AT motherboard. Standoffs and mounting screws are not supplied with the motherboard. The standard 12 slot chassis should be used. -
Page 24: Step 5 Connect The Power Supply
Step 4 Install the Motherboard, Adequate air flow in the chassis must be provided when using dual processors. Installation of an 8 cm 0.2 amp fan at the front of the chassis is recommended to pull air in. This is in addition to the fan at the back of the case which pulls air out. - Page 25 Step 5 Connect the Power Supply, P5 and P6 can only be used with 3.3V power supplies. Power Supply Connectors are Keyed The power connectors are keyed. The connector keys must be cut to fit some power supplies, as shown below. Titan-II PCI Pentium EISA Motherboard User's Guide Continued Important...
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Page 26: Step 6 Connect The Keyboard Cable
Step 5 Connect the Power Supply, 3.3 V Power Supply Connector The 3.3V connectors for the power supply are shown below. Make sure jumpers J1, J2, J3, J11, and J19 are set properly when using the 3.3V power from the power supply. On the 66/100 MHz motherboard, the regulator has to be used and the 3.3V power connector from the power supply should not be used. -
Page 27: Step 7 Connect Cables
Step 7 Connect Cables When connecting chassis connectors to the motherboard, make sure to connect the correct connector end. Most connector wires are color-coded. Match the color of the wires leaving the switch or LED to the same pin on the connector end. -
Page 28: Step 8 Connect The Mouse Cable
DB9 port connector mounted externally on the chassis for the mouse. You can order this cable from the American Megatrends Sales Department (800-828-9264). Ask for Cable Assembly DB9, Male, 10-Pin, part number CBLSUB1-10. Cut Pin 10 on P17. -
Page 29: Step 9 Connect Onboard I/O
Step 9 Connect Onboard I/O Onboard Adapters The motherboard has two serial ports (P1 and P2), a parallel port (P13) onboard, and has IDE and floppy controllers. The serial and parallel port connectors are described below. The IDE connectors are described on page 27. The floppy connector is described on page 26. -
Page 30: Step 10 Install Floppy Drive
Step 9 Connect Onboard I/O, Attaching the Parallel Port Cable A parallel port cable is supplied with the motherboard to connect the parallel port connector (P13) to the external parallel port connector. Step 10 Install Floppy Drive P7 Floppy Disk Drive Connector A 34-pin dual-inline berg. -
Page 31: Step 11 Install Hard Disk
Step 11 Install Hard Disk Attach IDE Cable to P3 P3 is the primary IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) hard disk drive connector. Both the primary master and the primary slave IDE drives must be connected by cable to P3, as shown below. P3 IDE Hard Disk Connector P3 is a 40-pin dual-inline berg that connects a hard disk drive that has an IDE interface to the primary onboard IDE Controller. -
Page 32: Step 12 Install Adapter Cards
Step 12 Install Adapter Cards The Titan-II PCI Pentium EISA motherboard provides full EISA bus mastering adapter card support and full compatibility with all IBM XT and AT-compatible adapter cards via six EISA expansion slots. The Titan-II PCI Pentium EISA motherboard also has four PCI Local Bus expansion slots, all capable of bus mastering. NCR SCSI BIOS The NCR SCSI BIOS for PCI SCSI Host Adapter cards is part of the Titan-II PCI Pentium EISA motherboard WINBIOS. -
Page 33: Step 13 Test And Configure
Run WINBIOS Setup. • Run the American Megatrends EISA Configuration Utility (ECU) to properly configure the system. The ECU and the !AMI7111.CFG and AMI7111.OVL. files are shipped on a floppy disk with all Titan-II PCI EISA motherboards. The American Megatrends EISA Configuration Utility User's Guide provides complete details about running the ECU. - Page 34 Chapter 2 Installation...
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Page 35: Amibios
AMIBIOS WINBIOS Setup has a graphical user interface that permits mouse access, and is so compact that it can reside on the same ROM as the system BIOS. The system configuration parameters are set via WINBIOS Setup. Since WINBIOS Setup resides in the ROM BIOS, it is available each time the computer is turned on. The WINBIOS Setup consists of the following option groups: •... - Page 36 Standard Setup, Continued Primary Master Primary Slave Select one of these hard disk drive icons to configure the drive named in the option. WINBIOS supports up to four IDE hard disk drives: the primary master, primary slave, secondary master, and secondary slave. If the hard disk drive is an IDE drive, select Detect Primary or Detect Slave from the Utility section of the WINBIOS Setup main menu to have WINBIOS automatically detect the IDE drive parameters and report them to this screen.
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Page 37: Advanced Setup
Advanced Setup The WINBIOS Setup options described in this section are selected by choosing the Advanced Setup icon from the WINBIOS Setup main menu. Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) Sets the rate at which characters on the screen repeat when a key is pressed and held down. The Optimal default is 30 characters per second. - Page 38 Advanced Setup, Continued Parity Error Check Enables or disables parity error checking for system RAM. The settings are Enabled (all system RAM parity is checked) or Disabled (parity is checked only on the first 1 MB of system RAM). The Optimal default setting is Enabled.
- Page 39 Advanced Setup, Continued Cache Memory Enables or disables the internal and/or L2 secondary cache. The Optimal default setting is Both. The Fail-Safe default setting is Disabled. Internal Cache Mode Specifies the type of caching algorithm used for L1 internal cache memory on the CPU. The mode can be either write-back or write-thru.
- Page 40 Advanced Setup, Continued Video Shadow C000,32K When Enabled, the video ROM area from C0000h - C7FFFh is copied (shadowed) to RAM for faster execution. The Optimal default setting is Enabled. The Fail-Safe default setting is Disabled. Shadow C800,16K Shadow CC00,16K Shadow D000,16K Shadow D400,16K Shadow D800,16K...
- Page 41 Advanced Setup, Continued IRQ 3 through IRQ 15 These options specify the bus that the Interrupt request line in the option title can be used on. The settings are ISA (the IRQ can only be used on the ISA bus) or PCI (the IRQ can only be used on the PCI bus). The Optimal and Fail- Safe default settings are ISA, except for IRQ 5, IRQ 9, IRQ10, IRQ11, and IRQ15 where the Optimal default settings are PCI.
- Page 42 Advanced Setup, Continued If the primary IDE controller is enabled, IRQ 14 can only be used by the onboard primary IDE controller. IRQ 14 If IRQ 14 must be used for an ISA adapter card, set the Onboard Primary/Secondary IDE option in Peripheral If IRQ 14 must be used for a PCI adapter card, set the Onboard Primary/Secondary IDE option in Peripheral If the secondary IDE controller is enabled, IRQ 15 can...
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Page 43: Chipset Setup
Chipset Setup The WINBIOS Setup options described in this section are selected by choosing the Chipset Setup icon from the WINBIOS Setup main menu. Base Memory Size This option specifies the size of the base memory. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings for this option are 640KB. -
Page 44: Power Management Setup
Power Management Setup The WINBIOS Setup options described in this section are selected by choosing the Power Management Setup icon from the WINBIOS Setup main menu. Advanced Power Management Enables or disables the motherboard power management features. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are Disabled. - Page 45 Power Management Setup, Continued DPMS VGA Power Down Set this option to Enabled to enable VGA adapter cards that have the power down feature to power down when the system enters suspend state. The VGA adapter cards must support the VESA DPMS (Display Power Management Services) specification Revision 1.0.
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Page 46: Peripheral Setup
Peripheral Setup The WINBIOS Setup options described below are selected by choosing the Peripheral Setup icon from the WINBIOS Setup main menu. Onboard FDC Set this option to Enabled to use the floppy drive controller on the motherboard. The Optimal default setting is Enabled. -
Page 47: Peripheral Setup
Peripheral Setup, Continued Primary Master Disk Mode Specifies the IDE mode used by the master IDE drive attached to the primary IDE controller. Selecting a mode not supported by the primary master IDE drive will cause data loss. Primary Slave Disk Mode Specifies the IDE mode used by the slave IDE drive attached to the primary IDE controller. - Page 48 Peripheral Setup, Continued Secondary Master/Slave Disk Mode Specifies the IDE mode used by the master and slave IDE drives attached to the secondary IDE controller. Selecting a mode not supported by the secondary master IDE drive will cause data loss. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are Disabled.
- Page 49 Peripheral Setup, Continued Serial Port 1 Specifies the base I/O port address used for onboard serial port 1. The serial port uses eight consecutive I/O port addresses. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are Disabled. Serial Port 1 FIFO Set this option to Enabled to enable the FIFO (First In, First Out) buffer for serial port 1. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are Disabled.
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Page 51: Flash Programming
The Flash portion of Flash EPROM is not programmed. S711P.ROM resides on a floppy disk and contains the updated main BIOS code. American Megatrends will provide this file when the WINBIOS for the Titan-II PCI Pentium EISA motherboard must be updated. - Page 52 Chapter 4 Flash Programming...
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Page 53: A Upgrading Cache Memory
Upgrading Cache Memory L2 secondary (external) cache memory on the American Megatrends Titan-II PCI Pentium EISA motherboard can be upgraded from 256 KB to 512 KB by removing the existing 32 KB x 8 15 ns SRAMs and installing 64 KB x 8 15 ns SRAMs in their place. - Page 54 Appendix A Upgrading Cache Memory...
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Page 55: Engineering Specifications
You must make sure that there is adequate air flow over the CPU inside the case. Humidity The recommended humidity range for operation of the American Megatrends Titan-II EISA PCI Pentium motherboard is 20% to 80% non-condensing. Titan-II PCI Pentium EISA Motherboard User's Guide... - Page 56 Engineering Specifications, The Titan-II EISA PCI Pentium motherboard requires +5V ~7A. The ISA bus requirements are: ~13A -5V 1.6A +12V -12V 2.4A The +5V supply current to the EISA Bus is limited by the power connector. Power Consumption The two SIMM memory banks consume 2 Amps each, for a total of 4 Amps. Each EISA expansion slot is rated at 3.0 Amps maximum.
- Page 57 Index 3.3V Power Source Enable 13 Above 1 MB Memory Test 31 Adapter Shadow Cacheable 33 Advanced Setup 31 Board Layout 10 Cache Memory 33 Cache memory configuration 11 Chipset Setup 37 COM1 23 COM2 23 Configuring System 27 Connectors Expansion slots 26 Floppy disk 24 IDE Activity Indicator 22...
- Page 58 Index, Continued IRQ 3 39 IRQ 3 through IRQ 15 35 J1, J2, J3, J11, and J19 3.3V Power Source Enable 13 J10 PLL Test Mode 12 J13 Turbo LED Connector 22 J14 IDE Activity Indicator LED 22 J16 and J17 Extended Parallel Port DMA Select 12 J18 Parallel Port IRQ Select 12 J20 Green PC Power 14 J21 Password LED 14...
- Page 59 Index, Continued Primary IDE 32-Bit Transfer 40 Primary IDE Block Mode 39 Primary IDE LBA Mode 40 Primary Master Drive Mode 40 Primary Slave Drive Mode 40 PS/2 Mouse 7 PS/2-type mouse 31 Reset Switch Connector 21 Secondary IDE 32-Bit Transfer 40 Secondary IDE Block Mode 40 Secondary IDE Controller 25 Secondary IDE LBA Mode 41...
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