An amd socket a processor based mainboard (100/133mhz) (95 pages)
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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...
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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 ...
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Introduction Expansion Slots IDE Bus Master UltraDMA-66 & UltraDMA-100 RAID Super Multi I/O BIOS USB 2=CA&...
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Introduction Pentium III FC-PGA Processor ® Key features of Pentium III FC-PGA: 2=CA'...
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Introduction Accelerated Graphics Port (4X AGP MODE) The benefits of AGP: 2=CA...
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...
Introduction POWER SUPPLY Case (chassis) Power ON/OFF button (J 3) Figure 2: Simple ATX Power ON/OFF Controller Hardware Monitoring 2=CA...
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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!
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 Intels website for more information. to be more specific http://www.intel.com 2=CA"...
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Introduction Operating Systems that support Dual Processing Table 1: SMP O/S support 2=CA#...
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 &...
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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 &...
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.
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Hardware Installation Installing into ATX case 2=CA ...
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...
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Hardware Installation Note: Intels 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 #...
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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:...
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Hardware Installation Configuring KBPO & Alternate Power On Methods Keyboard power on (KBPO) Modem Ring-IN 2=CA %...
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Hardware Installation Page Left Blank 2=CA &...
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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 '...
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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!...
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Software Windows 2000 ACPI Multiprocessor PC. 2=CA!!
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Software Installing HighPoint HPT370 driver after Windows 2000 was already installed. Additional information 2=CA!"...
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Software Windows NT 4 Setup MPS Multiprocessor PC. VIA Service Pack (VIA 4 in 1). 2=CA!#...
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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!$...
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!%...
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...
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.
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