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A Dual FC-PGA Pentium
AGP mainboard Supports PC133 Memory
TRADEMARKS
These specifications are subject to change without notice.
III Processors based
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Manual Revision 1.1
November 24 , 2000

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  • Page 1 User’ User’ s s s s s User’ User’ User’ Manual Manual Manual Manual Manual A Dual FC-PGA Pentium III Processors based ® AGP mainboard Supports PC133 Memory TRADEMARKS These specifications are subject to change without notice. Manual Revision 1.1 November 24 , 2000...
  • Page 2 Components Checklist USER’S MANUAL D (2)
  • Page 3 Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction ® Chapter 2: Hardware Installation Chapter 3: Software Installation ® ® ®...
  • Page 4 Chapter 4: Award BIOS Setup Chapter 5: HPT370 UltraDMA-100 & RAID Appendix A: Load Optimized Defaults Appendix B: GHOST 5.1 Quick User’s Guide...
  • Page 5 Additional Sources of Information HighPoint Intel Corporation Microsoft Corporation...
  • Page 6 Page Left Blank...
  • Page 7 Introduction pter 1 pter 1 Cha pter 1 pter 1 pter 1 Intr Intr oduction & F oduction & F Intr oduction & F oduction & F ea ea tur tur es Intr Intr oduction & F Overview of Main Features •...
  • Page 8 Introduction • Expansion Slots • IDE Bus Master UltraDMA-66 & UltraDMA-100 RAID • Super Multi I/O • BIOS • USB 2=CA&...
  • Page 9 Introduction Pentium III FC-PGA Processor ® Key features of Pentium III FC-PGA: 2=CA'...
  • Page 10 Introduction Accelerated Graphics Port (4X AGP MODE) The benefits of AGP: 2=CA...
  • Page 11: Atx Form Factor

    Introduction ATX Form Factor Chassis fan for Expandable I/O system (airflow comes into system) ATX Power Supply (airflow ISA slot leaves system) Easy to access memory modules ATX power 3 1/2" 5 1/4" connectors Floppy / IDE connectors .ECKHA 2=CA...
  • Page 12: Hardware Monitoring

    Introduction POWER SUPPLY Case (chassis) Power ON/OFF button (J 3) Figure 2: Simple ATX Power ON/OFF Controller Hardware Monitoring 2=CA...
  • Page 13 Introduction I/O Shield Parallel Port Figure 3: PS/2 Mouse I/O back panel layout PS/2 Keyboard COM1 COM2 Power ON Remotely Keyboard power on (KBPO) Modem Ring-IN Wake On Lan (WOL) Wake On Modem (WOM) 2=CA!
  • Page 14: Universal Serial Bus (Usb)

    Introduction Universal Serial Bus (USB) Symmetrical Multi-Processing (SMP) ® ® ® ® ® NOTE: Not all FC-PGA Intel Pentium III processors support dual CPU operation. Please refer to processor documentation or Intel’s website for more information. to be more specific http://www.intel.com 2=CA"...
  • Page 15 Introduction Operating Systems that support Dual Processing Table 1: SMP O/S support 2=CA#...
  • Page 16: System Block Diagram

    Introduction System Block Diagram FC-PGA FC-PGA Pentium III Pentium III Processor Processor 133/100/66MHz 133/100/66 MHz 66 MHz MA [0:14] PCI Bridge 4X AGP Bus MD [0:63] & memory MPE [0:7] Controller VT82C694X AGP Slot HPT370 IDE4 ATA100 with Raid IDE Devices VT82C596B Graphic Primary &...
  • Page 17 Hardware Installation Cha pter 2 pter 2 pter 2 pter 2 pter 2 Har d d d d d w w w w w ar e Installa e Installa tion tion ar e Installa e Installa tion tion e Installa tion Directions &...
  • Page 18 Hardware Installation Detailed Board Layout 2=CA&...
  • Page 19: Configuration Of Jumpers

    Hardware Installation Configuration of Jumpers Note: The jumpers as shown below are in their correct physical orientation. CMOS Clear JP1: CPU Speed Selection JP3: Keyboard Power-ON function (see page 31) JP13: JP13 NOTE: Not all FC-PGA Intel Pentium III processors support dual CPU operation.
  • Page 20 Hardware Installation Installing into ATX case 2=CA ...
  • Page 21: Installing Connectors

    Hardware Installation Installing connectors Power On/Off - Turbo LED indicator IDE LED indicator Infrared - Infrared connector 1. Vcc 4. GND 2. IRTX 5. IRTX2 3. IRRX2 KeyLock Speaker Reset 2=CA ...
  • Page 22: Installing Memory

    Hardware Installation Installing Memory DIMM1 DIMM2 DIMM3 DIMM4 =1.5GB Maximum 512MB x 1 512MB x 1 512MB x 1 none =1.0GB 256MB, or 256MB, or Maximum 512MB x 1 512MB x 1 256MB x 1 none 128MB, =512MB 256MB, or 128MB, or Maximum 512MB x 1...
  • Page 23 Hardware Installation DIMM Module Installation & Removal .ECKHA (UNBUFFERED) .ECKHA .ECKHA! 2=CA !
  • Page 24 Hardware Installation Installing Processor(s) 2=CA "...
  • Page 25 Hardware Installation Note: Intel’s reference design thermal soluion is an active heatsink; an extruded aluminum heatsink base and a fan attached to the top of the fin array. 2=CA #...
  • Page 26 Hardware Installation Device Connector Descriptions Parallel Port PS/2 Mouse PS/2 Keyboard COM2 COM1 Figure 8 AGP1: AGP slot BAT1: Battery Holder (3v Lithium Cell) DIMM1~4: SDRAM DIMM slots FDD1: Floppy controller IDE1: Primary IDE (UltraDMA-66 on VIA chipset) IDE2: Secondary IDE (UltraDMA-66 on VIA chipset) IDE3: Primary IDE (UltraDMA-100/RAID on Highpoint HPT 370 chipset) (Blue Color) IDE4:...
  • Page 27 Hardware Installation Configuring KBPO & Alternate Power On Methods Keyboard power on (KBPO) Modem Ring-IN 2=CA %...
  • Page 28 Hardware Installation Page Left Blank 2=CA &...
  • Page 29 Software pter 3 pter 3 Cha pter 3 pter 3 pter 3 Softw Softw e Installa e Installa tion tion Softw ar ar e Installa e Installa tion tion Softw Softw e Installa tion Included Software & Drivers Copyright notice 2=CA '...
  • Page 30 Software Microsoft Windows 95/98 Setup Installation of Windows 95 is a fairly simple task but for proper system VIA Service Pack (VIA 4 in 1). 2=CA!...
  • Page 31 Software 2=CA!...
  • Page 32 Software Additional information 2=CA!
  • Page 33 Software Windows 2000 ACPI Multiprocessor PC. 2=CA!!
  • Page 34 Software Installing HighPoint HPT370 driver after Windows 2000 was already installed. Additional information 2=CA!"...
  • Page 35 Software Windows NT 4 Setup MPS Multiprocessor PC. VIA Service Pack (VIA 4 in 1). 2=CA!#...
  • Page 36 Software Installing HighPoint HPT370 driver after Windows NT was already installed. Note: for CD installations, if using an ATAPI CD-ROM, you must be using the IDE Controller. Additional information 2=CA!$...
  • Page 37: Bios Setup

    BIOS setup Cha pter 4 pter 4 pter 4 pter 4 pter 4 A A A A A w w w w w ar d BIOS Setup d BIOS Setup ar d BIOS Setup d BIOS Setup d BIOS Setup BIOS Instructions Figure 1: CMOS Setup Utility 2=CA!%...
  • Page 38: Standard Cmos Features

    BIOS Setup Standard CMOS Features Figure 2: Standard CMOS Setup Notes 2=CA!&...
  • Page 39 BIOS setup Advanced BIOS Features Figure 3: BIOS Features Setup 2=CA!'...
  • Page 40 BIOS Setup 2=CA"...
  • Page 41 BIOS setup Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec): This is the number of characters that will be repeated by a keyboard press. The default is 6. 2=CA"...
  • Page 42 BIOS Setup 2=CA"...
  • Page 43 BIOS setup 2=CA"!
  • Page 44 BIOS Setup Chipset Features Setup 2=CA""...
  • Page 45 BIOS setup 2=CA"#...
  • Page 46 BIOS Setup 2=CA"$...
  • Page 47 BIOS setup 2=CA"%...
  • Page 48 BIOS Setup Integrated Peripherals 2=CA"&...
  • Page 49 BIOS setup 2=CA"'...
  • Page 50 BIOS Setup 2=CA#...
  • Page 51 BIOS setup 2=CA#...
  • Page 52 BIOS Setup 2=CA#...
  • Page 53 BIOS setup Power Management Setup 2=CA#!
  • Page 54 BIOS Setup 2=CA#"...
  • Page 55 BIOS setup 2=CA##...
  • Page 56 BIOS Setup PNP/PCI Configuration Setup 2=CA#$...
  • Page 57 BIOS setup 2=CA#%...
  • Page 58: Pc Health Status

    BIOS Setup PC Health Status C/87 C/32 C/32 0 RPM 0RPM 0 RPM 1.67V 1.67V 3.35V 5.15V 11.09V 11.08V 4.98V 3.48V 2=CA#&...
  • Page 59 BIOS setup Frequency/Voltage Control Enabled: Disabled: 2=CA#'...
  • Page 60 BIOS Setup Change Supervisor or User Password 2=CA$...
  • Page 61 BIOS setup Save & Exit Setup Exit Without Saving 2=CA$...
  • Page 62 BIOS Setup Page Left Blank 2=CA$...
  • Page 63 HPT370 UltraDMA-100 & RAID pter 5 pter 5 Cha pter 5 pter 5 pter 5 HPT370 UltraDMA-100 & RAID RAID Introduction Page 63...
  • Page 64 HPT370 UltraDMA-100 & RAID Channel Status Array Status Page 64...
  • Page 65 HPT370 UltraDMA-100 & RAID 1. Create RAID Array Mode Select Disk Drives Page 65...
  • Page 66 HPT370 UltraDMA-100 & RAID Block Size Start Creation Process 2. Delete RAID 3. Duplicate Mirror Disk Page 66...
  • Page 67 HPT370 UltraDMA-100 & RAID Select Source Disk Select Target Start Duplication Process 4. Create Spare Disk Select Mirror Array Select Spare Drive Page 67...
  • Page 68 HPT370 UltraDMA-100 & RAID 5. Remove Spare Disk 6. Set Drive Mode 7. Select Boot Disk Page 68...
  • Page 69 HPT370 UltraDMA-100 & RAID Page 69...
  • Page 70 HPT370 UltraDMA-100 & RAID Page Left Blank Page 70...
  • Page 71: Load Optimized Defaults

    Appendix Appendix A NOTE: The "LOAD Optimized DEFAULTS" function loads the system default data directly from ROM and initializes the associated hardware properly. This function will be necessary when you accept this mainboard, or the system CMOS data is corrupted. CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright ( C ) 1984-1998 Standard CMOS Feature Frequency/Voltage Control...
  • Page 72 Appendix Page Left Blank...
  • Page 73 Appendix Appendix B B-1 GHOST 5.1 Quick User’s Guide Description of Menus Disk...
  • Page 74 Appendix There are 3 hard disk functions: Important! Disk To Disk (Disk Cloning)
  • Page 75 Appendix Disk To Image (Disk Backup)
  • Page 76 Appendix Disk From Image(Restore Backup)
  • Page 77 Appendix Partition...
  • Page 78 Appendix Partition To Partition (Partition Cloning) Partition To Image (Partition Backup)
  • Page 79 Appendix...
  • Page 80 Appendix Partition From Image (Restore Partition)
  • Page 81 Appendix Check...
  • Page 82 Appendix How to Reinstall Windows in 2 Minutes Emergency Recover Floppy B-10...
  • Page 83 Appendix B a c k u p B a c k u p B a c k u p B a c k u p B a c k u p Restore Restore Restore Restore Restore B-11...
  • Page 84 Appendix Recover CD B-12...
  • Page 85 Appendix Ghost Command Line Switches Reference B-13...
  • Page 86 Appendix Available y Options: B-14...
  • Page 87 Appendix B-15...
  • Page 88 Appendix B-16...
  • Page 89: User Notice

    EPoX has been advised of the possibility of such damages arising from any defect or error in the manual or product. EPoX may revise this manual from time to time without notice. For updated BIOS, drivers, or product release information you may visit our websites at http://www.epox.com or http://www.epox.com.tw.
  • Page 90 EP-D3VA serial number: ____________________________ Contacting Technical Support EPoX technical support is working hard to answer all of your questions online. From our website you can find answers to many common questions, drivers, BIOS updates, tech notes, and important technical bulletins. If you are still unable to locate the solution you are seeking, you always have the option to contact our support technicians directly.

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