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MX3L
User's Guide
Printed in Taiwan
PART NO.: 49.88101.081
DOC. NO.: MX3L-1-E9901A

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  • Page 1 MX3L User's Guide Printed in Taiwan PART NO.: 49.88101.081 DOC. NO.: MX3L-1-E9901A...
  • Page 3 MX3L Motherboard User's Guide Document Number : MX3L-1-E9901A Model and revision : For MX3L rev 1.xx Manual version : English, rev A Release Date : Jan 18, 1999 More help for latest information: Taiwan http://www.aopen.com.tw http://www.aopenusa.com Europe http://www.aopen.nl...
  • Page 4 Copyright Copyright  1999 by this company. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of this company.
  • Page 5 Disclaimer This company makes no representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any warranties, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Any software described in this manual is sold or licensed "as is". Should the programs prove defective following their purchase, the buyer (and not this company, its distributor, or its dealer) assumes the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair, and any incidental or consequential damages resulting from any defect...

  • Page 6: Declaration Of Conformity

    Type of Product : Intel Celeron PPGA Micro ATX Motherboard Chipset(s) : Intel 82440LX MX3L Test To Comply With FCC Standards FOR HOME OR OFFICE USE The limits of FCC Part 15 Class B are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
  • Page 7 Organization Chapter 1, Overview, covers the introduction and specifications of the system board and special features. Chapter 2, Hardware Installation, describes hardware jumpers, connectors and memory configuration. There are user friendly drawings to locate jumper and connector. Chapter 3, AWARD BIOS, explains the system BIOS and tells how to configure the system by setting the BIOS parameters.
  • Page 8 Conventions The following conventions are used in this manual: Text entered user, Represent text input by the user, default settings, default settings and recommended recommended selections selections <Enter>, <Tab>,<Ctl>, <Alt>, Represent the actual keys that you <Ins>, <Del>, etc have to press on the keyboard. Note: Gives bits and pieces of additional information related to the current topic.

  • Page 9: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 OVERVIEW 1.1 S ..................4 PECIFICATIONS 1.2 APM S ..............5 USPEND TO RIVE 1.3 Z ............8 OLTAGE ODEM 1.4 S ............10 YSTEM OLTAGE ONITORING 1.5 F ..................10 ONITORING 1.6 CPU T ..............11 HERMAL ROTECTION 1.7 B ................11 ATTERY LESS ESIGN CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION ...........1...
  • Page 10 2.5.1 Setting Up in Windows 95/98 ............20 2.5.2 Setting Up in NT4.0................21 CHAPTER 3 AWARD BIOS ................1 3.1 E BIOS S ..........2 NTERING THE WARD ETUP 3.2 S CMOS S ................3 TANDARD ETUP 3.3 BIOS F ................6 EATURES ETUP 3.4 C ..............10 HIPSET EATURES...

  • Page 11: Chapter 1 Overview

    AGP graphic port, SDRAM, Ultra DMA/33, Bus master IDE and USB port. It has three Dual in-line Memory Module (DIMM) that allow to install EDO and SDRAM and expand up to a maximum of 768MB. Also, MX3L uses 2M bit Flash ROM BIOS to reserve for future new functions.
  • Page 12 The most important break through is not only external box modem but also internal modem card can be used to support Wake On Modem. The MX3L and MP56 internal modem card implement special circuit (patent applied) to make sure the modem card work properly without any power.
  • Page 13 Resetable Fuse This motherboard implements resetable fuses to prevent any accidental short circuit caused by keyboard or USB devices hot plug. FCC DoC certificate MX3L has passed FCC DoC test. The radiation is very low, you can use any kind of housing.

  • Page 14: Specifications

    Overview Specifications Form Factor Micro ATX 244 mm x 220 mm Board Size Celeron PPGA 168-pin DIMM x3, maximum 768MB EDO or 384 System Memory SDRAM. Chipset Intel 82440LX AGPset ISA x1, PCI x3 and AGP x1 Expansion Slots Two serial ports UART 16C550 compatible, and the Serial Port 3rd UART for IR function.

  • Page 15: Apm Suspend To Hard Drive

    If your memory is 16MB, normally, you need to reserve at least 16MB HDD space to save your memory image. Note that you have to use VESA compatible PCI VGA (AOpen PV70/PT70), Sound Blaster compatible sound card and sound driver that supports APM (AOpen AW32/AW35) for Suspend to Hard Drive to work properly.
  • Page 16 Overview Option2: Use /partition switch (applied to FAT16/FAT32 file system): To create a separate partition for Suspend to Hard Drive, please make sure you have reserved a free partition. We suggest you reserve the free partition which space is appropriate for your future memory expansion. For example, if you have 32MB of system memory and 4MB of VGA memory currently, but you plan to upgrade system memory to 64MB in the near future, then you may reserve a 68MB (64MB+4MB) space by using a disk...
  • Page 17 Overview Tip: The following VGA cards have been tested & recognized as VESA compatible VGA device. AOpen PV90 (Trident 9680) AOpen PT60 (S3 Virge/BIOS R1.00-01) AOpen PV60 (S3 Tiro64V+) AOpen PT70 (S3 Virge/DX) ProLink Trident GD-5440 ProLink Cirrus GD-5430 ProLink Cirrus GD-5446...

  • Page 18: Zero Voltage Wake On Modem

    Wake Up, but if you use external modem, you have to keep the box modem always power-on. AOpen MX3L and internal modem card implement special circuit (patent applied) and make sure the modem card works properly without any power. We recommend you choose AOpen modem card (MP56) for Wake On Modem applications. TEL Line...
  • Page 19 Hard Drive function. 3. Turn system power off by soft power switch. 4. Connect 4-pin Modem Ring-On cable from MP56 RING connector to MX3L WOM connector. 5. Connect telephone line to MP56. You are now ready to use Modem Ring- For External Box Modem: 1.

  • Page 20: System Voltage Monitoring

    Overview System Voltage Monitoring This motherboard implements a voltage monitoring system. As you turn on your system, this smart design will continue to monitor your system working voltage. If any of the system voltage is over the component's standard. There will be alarm through application software such as Hardware Monitor utility for a warning to user.

  • Page 21: Cpu Thermal Protection

    EEPROM, only the system clock needed to be re-set to current date/time. For the convenience of end user, MX3L still shipped with one Lithium (CR- 2032) battery. If you prefer to use battery, you can still insert it into battery socket.

  • Page 22: Chapter 2 Hardware Installation

    Chapter 2 Hardware Installation This chapter gives you a step-by-step procedure on how to install your system. Follow each section accordingly. Caution: 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.

  • Page 23: Jumper And Connector Locations

    Hardware Installation 2.1 Jumper and Connector Locations The following figure shows the locations of the jumpers and connectors on the system board: CD-IN JP12 MODEM-CN COM2 COM1 PRINTER IrDA PS/2 MS JP28 PWR2 CPUFAN2 CPU FAN1 DIMM3 DIMM2 DIMM1 BIOS IDE2 JP14 PANEL...

  • Page 24: Hardware Installation

    Hardware Installation Jumpers: JP12: Enable/Disable Onboard Audio JP14: Clear CMOS JP28: Enable/Disable KB/MS Wake Up Connectors: PS2: PS/2 mouse connector PS/2 keyboard connector COM1: COM1 connector COM2: COM2 connector PRINTER: Printer connector PWR2: ATX power connector USB: USB connector FDC: Floppy drive connector IDE1: IDE1 primary channel...

  • Page 25: Jumpers

    Hardware Installation 2.2 Jumpers With the help of VID signal and SMbus, this motherboard is jumper-less design. 2.2.1 Selecting the CPU Frequency VID signal and SMbus clock generator provide CPU voltage auto-detection and allow user to set CPU frequency through CMOS setup, no jumper or switch is needed.

  • Page 26: Setting The Cpu Voltage

    Hardware Installation 2.2.2 Setting the CPU Voltage This motherboard supports Celeron PPGA VID function, the CPU core voltage is automatically detected, the range is from 1.3V to 2.05V. 2.2.3 Clearing the CMOS JP14 Clear CMOS You need to clear the CMOS if you forget your system password.

  • Page 27: Onboard Audio

    Hardware Installation press Power button at the same time. Note that do not release <Home> key until POST screen appearing. 2.2.4 Onboard Audio JP12 Onboard Audio If you want to install another sound card, you have to disable the onboard audio by Enabled (default) setting this jumper to Disabled.

  • Page 28: Connectors

    Hardware Installation 2.3 Connectors 2.3.1 Power Cable The ATX power supply uses 20-pin connector shown below. Make sure you plug in the right direction. Caution: Make sure that the power supply is off before connecting or disconnecting the power cable. 3.3V 5V SB 3.3V...

  • Page 29: Ps/2 Mouse

    Hardware Installation 2.3.4 PS/2 Mouse The onboard PS/2 mouse connector is a 6-pin Mini-Din connector marked PS2. The view angle of drawing shown here is from back panel of the housing. PS/2 Mouse 2.3.5 Keyboard The onboard PS/2 keyboard connector is a 6-pin Mini-Din connector marked KB2.

  • Page 30: Printer

    Hardware Installation COM1 COM2 2.3.7 Printer The onboard printer connector is a 25-pin D-type connector marked PRINTER. The view angle of drawing shown here is from back panel of the housing. PRINTER 2.3.8 USB Device You can attach USB devices to the USB connector. The motherboard contains two USB connectors, which are marked as USB.

  • Page 31: Floppy Drive

    Hardware Installation 2.3.9 Floppy Drive Connect the 34-pin floppy drive cable to the floppy drive connector marked as FDC on the system board. 2.3.10 IDE Hard Disk and CD ROM This mainboard supports two 40 pin IDE connectors marked as IDE1 and IDE2.

  • Page 32: Panel Connector

    Hardware Installation Caution: The specification of IDE cable is maximum 46cm (18 inches), make sure your cable does not excess this length. Caution: For better signal quality, it is recommended to set far end side device to master mode and follow the suggested sequence to install your new device.

  • Page 33: Irda Connector

    Hardware Installation SPWR Keylock IDE LED ACPI & Power LED Speaker Reset 10 20 PANEL 2.3.12 IrDA Connector The IrDA connector can be configured to support wireless infrared module, with this module and application software such as Laplink or Win95 Direct Cable Connection, user can transfer files to or from laptops, notebooks, PDA and printers.

  • Page 34: Wake On Modem Connector

    Internal Modem card consumes no power when system RING power is off, it is recommended to use Internal Modem. To use AOpen MP56, connect 4-pin cable from RING connector of MP56 to WOM connector on the mainboard. 2.3.14 Wake On LAN Connector Description This mainboard implements a WOL connector.

  • Page 35: Cd Audio Connector

    Hardware Installation 2.3.15 CD Audio Connector Description This connector is used to connect CD audio cable. CD-IN 2.3.16 Mono In/Mic Out Connector Description This connector is used to connect Mono In/Mic Out connector of an internal modem card. The pin 1-2 is Mono In Mono In, and the pin 3-4 is Mic Out.

  • Page 36: Configuring The System Memory

    Hardware Installation 2.4 Configuring the System Memory The DIMM types supported are EDO (Extended Data Out) SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM). This mainboard has three 168-pin DIMM sockets (Dual-in-line Memory Module) that allow you to install system memory up to 768MB EDO DRAM or 384MB SDRAM.
  • Page 37 Hardware Installation III. Buffered and non-buffered: This motherboard supports non-buffered DIMMs. You can identify non-buffered DIMMs and buffered DIMMs according to the position of the notch, following figure is for your reference: non-buffered Reserved buffered Because the positions are different, only non-buffered DIMMs can be inserted into the DIMM sockets on this motherboard.
  • Page 38 Hardware Installation The following table lists the recommended DRAM combinations of DIMM: DIMM Bit size Single/ Chip DIMM size Recommended Data chip per side Double side count 1M by 16 1Mx64 1M by 16 1Mx64 16MB 2M by 8 2Mx64 16MB 2M by 8 2Mx64...

  • Page 39: Onboard Audio

    Hardware Installation 2.5 Onboard Audio This motherboard comes with a 16-bit sound processor (ESS Solo-1) onboard. Game Port LINE-IN To fully utilize the audio functions, you may connect various peripheral devices that the audio chip supports. The following figure shows the different devices that you can connect.
  • Page 40 Hardware Installation The onboard audio has the following features: Advanced technology support ESS Solo-1 PCI audio accelerator in 16 bits stereo chip High-quality ESFM music synthesizer 64 voices software wavetable 3-D stereo effects processor Support DLS (downloadable sound) Support Microsoft DirectMusic Support Microsoft positional 3D Support DirectSound and DirectSound 3D ADPCM data compression...

  • Page 41: Setting Up In Windows 95/98

    Hardware Installation 2.5.1 Setting Up in Windows 95/98 This motherboard comes with CD-ROM disc (AOpen Bonus Pack) containing the Windows 95/98 drivers and software (including the Music Center application). Refer to their online help for details. Note: Refer to your Windows 95/98 manual or online help for any questions on Windows 95/98.

  • Page 42: Setting Up In Nt4.0

    Windows 95/98 makes final changes to the system settings. Install the Application 1. Insert AOpen Bonus Pack disc, setup the applications from “Motherboard Drivers” of the autorun program, or browse CD and select X:\Mx3l\ Sound\Setup.exe. Dos Legacy mode Setup 1. Insert AOpen Bonus Pack disc, setup the applications from “Motherboard Drivers”...
  • Page 43 Hardware Installation Press the ADD button. Select MPU-401 Compatible Driver /Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro Joystick and press OK.. Place your NT4.0 installation CD and press OK (the default path is the i386 directory). The Generic MPU-401/Joystick Setup dialog box will pop up. Select the default configuration resource and press OK.

  • Page 44: Chapter 3 Award Bios

    Chapter 3 Award BIOS This chapter tells how to configure the system parameters. You may update your BIOS via AWARD Flash Utility. Important: Because the BIOS code is the most often changed part of the mainboard design, the BIOS information contained in this chapter (especially the Chipset Setup parameters) may be a little different compared to the actual BIOS that came with your mainboard.

  • Page 45: Entering The Award Bios Setup Menu

    AWARD BIOS Entering the Award BIOS Setup Menu The BIOS setup utility is a segment of codes/routines residing in the BIOS Flash ROM. This routine allows you to configure the system parameters and save the configuration into the 128 byte CMOS area, (normally in the RTC chip or directly in the main chipset).

  • Page 46: Standard Cmos Setup

    AWARD BIOS Standard CMOS Setup The "Standard CMOS Setup" sets the basic system parameters such as the date, time, and the hard disk type. Use the arrow keys to highlight an item and to select the value for each item. Standard CMOS Date To set the date, highlight the Date parameter.
  • Page 47 AWARD BIOS Standard CMOS Primary Master Type Standard CMOS Primary Slave Type Standard CMOS Secondary Master Type Standard CMOS Secondary Slave Type Type This item lets you select the IDE hard disk parameters that your system supports. These parameters are Size, Auto Number of Cylinder, Number of Head, Start Cylinder for User...
  • Page 48 AWARD BIOS Standard CMOS Drive A Standard CMOS Drive B These items select floppy drive type. The available settings Drive A and types supported by the mainboard are listed on the None left. 360KB 5.25" 1.2MB 5.25" 720KB 3.5" 1.44MB 3.5" 2.88MB 3.5"...

  • Page 49: Bios Features Setup

    AWARD BIOS BIOS Features Setup This screen appears when you select the option "BIOS Features Setup" from the main menu. BIOS Features Virus Warning Set this parameter to Enabled to activate the warning Virus Warning message. This feature protects the boot sector and partition Enabled table of your hard disk from virus intrusion.
  • Page 50 AWARD BIOS BIOS Features External Cache External Cache Enabling this parameter activates the secondary cache (currently, PBSRAM cache). Disabling the parameter Enabled slows down the system. Therefore, we recommend that Disabled you leave it enabled unless you are troubleshooting a problem.
  • Page 51 AWARD BIOS BIOS Features Swap Floppy Drive Swap Floppy Drive This item allows you to swap floppy drives. example, if you have two floppy drives (A and B), you Enabled can assign the first drive as drive B and the second Disabled drive as drive A or vice-versa.
  • Page 52 64 MB. OS/2 Non-OS/2 BIOS Features Show Logo On Screen Show Logo On This item lets you decide if AOpen logo will appear in Screen the POST screen. Enabled Disabled BIOS Features Video BIOS Shadow...

  • Page 53: Chipset Features Setup

    AWARD BIOS Chipset Features Setup The "Chipset Features Setup" includes settings for the chipset dependent features. These features are related to system performance. Caution: Make sure you fully understand the items contained in this menu before you try to change anything. You may change the parameter settings improve...
  • Page 54 AWARD BIOS Chipset Features Auto Configuration Auto Configuration When Enabled, the DRAM and cache related timing are set to pre-defined value according to CPU type Enabled and clock. Select Disable if you want to specify your Disabled own DRAM timing. Chipset Features DRAM Speed Selection DRAM Speed...
  • Page 55 AWARD BIOS Chipset Features EDO DRAM Read Burst EDO DRAM Read Read Burst means to read four continuous memory Burst cycles on four predefined addresses from the DRAM. The default value is x222 for 60ns EDO DRAM. x333 Which means the 2nd,3rd and 4th memory cycles x222 are 2 CPU clocks for EDO.
  • Page 56 AWARD BIOS Chipset Features DRAM ECC Function DRAM ECC This item lets you enable or disable DRAM ECC Function function. The ECC algorithm has the ability to detect double bit error and automatically correct single bit Enabled error. Disabled Chipset Features CPU-to-PCI IDE Posting CPU-to-PCI IDE To enable or disable CPU to PCI IDE post write...
  • Page 57 AWARD BIOS Chipset Features 8 Bit I/O Recovery Time 8 Bit I/O Recovery For some old I/O chips, after the execution of an I/O Time command, the device requires a certain amount of time (recovery time) before the execution of the next I/O command.
  • Page 58 AWARD BIOS Chipset Features Delayed Transaction Delayed Transaction This item lets you control the Delayed Transaction function of the PIIX4 chipset (Intel PCI to ISA bridge). Enabled This function is used to meet latency of PCI cycles to Disabled or from ISA bus. Try to enable or disable it, if you have ISA card compatibility problem.
  • Page 59 AWARD BIOS Chipset Features System Frequency System Frequency This item lets you set CPU frequency. If you want to set other value, please choose "Manual " to set CPU 300 MHz clock frequency and clock ratio manually. 333 MHz 366 MHz 400 MHz 433 MHz 466 MHz...
  • Page 60 AWARD BIOS 3-17...

  • Page 61: Power Management Setup

    AWARD BIOS Power Management Setup The Power Management Setup screen enables you to control the mainboard green features. See the following screen. Power Management Power Management Power Management This function allows you to set the default parameters of power-saving modes. Set to Disable to turn off Max Saving power management function.
  • Page 62 AWARD BIOS Power Management PM Controlled by APM PM Controlled by If "Max Saving" is selected, you can turn on this item, transfer power management control (Advanced Power Management) and enhance power saving function. For example, stop CPU internal clock. Power Management Video Off Method Video Off Method...
  • Page 63 AWARD BIOS Power Management Doze Mode Doze Mode This item lets you set the period of time after which the system enters into Doze mode. The system Disabled activity (or event) is detected by monitoring the IRQ 1 Min signals or other events (such as I/O). 2 Min 4 Min 8 Min...
  • Page 64 AWARD BIOS Power Management HDD Power Down HDD Power Down This option lets you specify the IDE HDD idle time before the device enters the power down state. This Disabled item is independent from the power states previously 1 Min described in this section (Standby and Suspend).
  • Page 65 AWARD BIOS Power Management Throttle Duty Cycle Throttle Duty Cycle Clock Throttling means at the Doze/Standby state, the CPU clock count in a given time (not the 2.5 % frequency) is reduced to the ratio specified in this 25.0 % parameter.
  • Page 66 AWARD BIOS Power Management Date (of Month) Alarm Date (of Month) This item is displayed when you enable the Wake On Alarm RTC Timer option. Here you can specify what date you want to wake up the system. For Example, setting to 15 will wake up the system on the 15th day of every month.
  • Page 67 AWARD BIOS Power Management Primary IDE 0 Power Management Primary IDE 1 Power Management Secondary IDE 0 Power Management Secondary IDE 1 Power Management Floppy Disk Power Management Serial Port Power Management Parallel Port Primary IDE 0 These items enable or disable the detection of IDE, floppy, serial and parallel port activities for power Enabled down...

  • Page 68: Pnp/Pci Configuration Setup

    AWARD BIOS PNP/PCI Configuration Setup The PNP/PCI Configuration Setup allows you to configure the ISA and PCI devices installed in your system. The following screen appears if you select the option "PNP/PCI Configuration Setup" from the main menu. PNP/PCI Configuration PnP OS Installed PnP OS Installed Normally, the PnP resources are allocated by BIOS...
  • Page 69 AWARD BIOS PNP/PCI Configuration Resources Controlled By Resources Controlled Setting this option to Manual allows you to individually assign the IRQs and DMAs to the ISA and PCI devices. Set this to Auto to enable the auto- Auto configuration function. Manual PNP/PCI Configuration Reset Configuration Data...
  • Page 70 AWARD BIOS PNP/PCI Configuration DMA 0 PNP/PCI Configuration DMA 1 PNP/PCI Configuration DMA 3 PNP/PCI Configuration DMA 5 PNP/PCI Configuration DMA 6 PNP/PCI Configuration DMA 7 If your ISA card is not PnP compatible and requires a DMA 0 special DMA channel to support its function, set the Legacy ISA selected DMA channel to Legacy ISA.
  • Page 71 AWARD BIOS PCI Slot Location 1 Location 2 Location 3 Location 4 (pin A6) (pin B7) (pin A7) (pin B8) Slot 1 INTA INTB INTC INTD Slot 2 INTB INTC INTD INTA Slot 3 INTC INTD INTA INTB Slot 4 INTD INTA INTB...
  • Page 72 AWARD BIOS PNP/PCI Configuration PCI Slot1 IRQ (Right) PNP/PCI Configuration PCI Slot2 IRQ PNP/PCI Configuration PCI Slot3 IRQ PCI Slot1 IRQ This item is reserved for engineering purpose to let you assign an IRQ manually to the add-on card on each PCI slot.

  • Page 73: Load Setup Defaults

    The "Load Turbo Defaults" option gives better performance than Optimal values. However, Turbo values may not be the best setting of this mainboard but these values are qualified by the AOpen RD and QA department as the reliable settings especially if you have limited loading of add-on card and memory size (for example, a system that contains only a VGA/Sound card and two DIMMs).

  • Page 74: Integrated Peripherals

    AWARD BIOS Integrated Peripherals The following screen appears if you select the option "Integrated Peripherals" from the main menu. This option allows you to configure the I/O features. Integrated Peripherals IDE HDD Block Mode IDE HDD Block This feature enhances disk performance by allowing Mode multisector data transfers and eliminates the interrupt handling time for each sector.
  • Page 75 AWARD BIOS Integrated Peripherals IDE Primary Master PIO Integrated Peripherals IDE Primary Slave PIO Integrated Peripherals IDE Secondary Master PIO Integrated Peripherals IDE Secondary Slave PIO IDE Primary Master Setting this item to Auto activates the HDD speed auto-detect function. The PIO mode specifies the data transfer rate of HDD.
  • Page 76 AWARD BIOS Integrated Peripherals USB Keyboard Support USB Keyboard This item lets you enable or disable the USB Support keyboard driver within the onboard BIOS. The keyboard driver simulates legacy keyboard Enabled command and let you use USB keyboard during Disabled POST or after boot if you don't have USB driver in the operating system.
  • Page 77 AWARD BIOS Caution: To implement Wake On Keyboard/Mouse function, you must set JP28 to Enabled. Caution: Wake On Mouse function applies to PS/2 mouse only. Caution: If you set a Password but forget it, please clear CMOS. Integrated Peripherals Keyboard Power On Password Keyboard Power On You can specify 1-5 keys as a password.
  • Page 78 AWARD BIOS Power Management AC PWR Auto Recovery AC PWR Auto A traditional ATX system should remain at power off Recovey stage when AC power resumes from power failure. This design is inconvenient for a network server or Former-Sts workstation, without an UPS, that needs to keep power-on.
  • Page 79 AWARD BIOS Integrated Peripherals UART Mode Select This item is configurable only if the "Onboard UART UART Mode Select 2" is enabled. This allows you to specify the mode Standard of serial port2. The available mode selections are: HPSIR ASKIR •...
  • Page 80 AWARD BIOS Integrated Peripherals Parallel Port Mode This item lets you set the parallel port mode. The Parallel Port Mode mode options are SPP (Standard and Bidirection Parallel Port), EPP (Enhanced Parallel Port) and ECP (Extended Parallel Port). SPP is the IBM AT and PS/2 compatible mode.

  • Page 81: Password Setting

    AWARD BIOS 3.10 Password Setting Password prevents unauthorized use of your computer. If you set a password, the system prompts for the correct password before boot or access to Setup. To set a password: At the prompt, type your password. Your password can be up to 8 alphanumeric characters.

  • Page 82: Load Eeprom Default

    AWARD BIOS 3.13 Load EEPROM Default Except "Load Setup Default" and "Load Turbo Default", you may also use "Save EEPROM Default " to save your own settings into EEPROM, and reload by using this item. 3.14 Save EEPROM Default You may use this item to save your own settings into EEPROM. Then, if the data in CMOS is lost or you forget the previous settings, you may use "Load EEPROM Default "...

  • Page 83: Bios Flash Utility

    AWARD BIOS 3.17 BIOS Flash Utility AOpen Easy Flash is more user friendly than traditional flash method. The BIOS binary file and flash routine are combined together and you simply run a single file to complete the flash process. 1. Get new BIOS upgrade program from AOpen's web site. For example, MX3L200.EXE.

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