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- Page 1 P6F40-B5 MAINBOARD User’s Manual REV: 1.1 Date: 01/97 * All other products names are trademarks or copyrights of their respective owners.
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Floppy Drives ....................14 IDE Hard Drives and CD-ROMs ............... 14 MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP..............15 Using Setup ....................... 15 Getting Help...................... 15 A Final Note About Setup.................. 15 MAIN MENU....................16 STANDARD CMOS SETUP................17 P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... - Page 3 FLASH BIOS PROGRAMMING UTILITY ........40 DMI UTILITY ..................41 DC-310U PCI ULTRA SCSI ADAPTER ..........42 þ MAINBOARD DIAGRAMS Board Level Features ..................5 Comprehensive Mainboard View ............... 7 Jumper Locations ....................11 P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual...
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Page 4: Introduction
Universal Serial Bus (USB) onto the mainboard, optimum system performance is assured and system design and implementation is simplified. Fully “Plug & Play” compatible via an Award BIOS, the P6F40-B5 facilitates easy system configuration and peripheral setup. With support for up to 512MB of System RAM, Fast Page mode, EDO, and BEDO, the P6F40-B5 is the ideal foundation for high-end computer systems. -
Page 5: Board Level Features
Real Time Clock/Battery 7. COM1 connector CPU socket 8. COM2 connector ISA slots 9. Printer port connector PCI slots 10. Power connector * Board Size: Baby AT 220mm x 280mm (8.66” x 11”) Power connector P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... - Page 6 17. CPU SOCKET: ZIF Socket 8 for Pentium Pro CPUs. This mainboard supports CPU speeds of 150/166/180/200mhz for Intel. 18. ISA SLOTS: (3) 16-bit ISA slots 19. PCI SLOTS: (5) 32-bit PCI slots are provided. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual...
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Page 7: Comprehensive Mainboard View
Bus Clock (JP3, JP4) x2.5 x3.5 Clock 66MHz (MHz) 60MHz Bus Clock 66MHz 60MHz Clear CMOS Clear normal CPU Clock ratio x3.5 x2.5 Turbo Keyboard Lock Speaker HD LED (IDE) Reset Fan Power IrDA (IR) P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... -
Page 8: Installing The Cpu And Memory
JP13 is a small 3-pin Header Connector that provides 12-Volt power for CPU Cooling Fans. This is useful if your Fan provides this type of connector, instead of the normal Molex-Type Power-Supply connector. Pin-2 corresponds to the RED power lead as shown: P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... -
Page 9: Setting The Cpu Clock Selection Jumpers
These jumpers automatically set the ISA Clock as well. * If you are uncertain about the speed or voltage requirements of your particular CPU, you should obtain Technical Documentation from the manufacturer. Such information is available via the Intel WWW site. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... -
Page 10: Installing The Memory (Dram Simms)
INSTALLING THE CPU AND MEMORY INSTALLING THE CPU AND MEMORY Installing the Memory (DRAM SIMMS) • The P6F40-B5 mainboard supports 72-pin SIMMS of three types: • Fast Page Mode (Asymmetric or Symmetric) • EDO (Extended Data Output) • BEDO (Burst EDO) •... -
Page 11: Setting The Jumpers
[2-3] to disable the onboard Floppy Controller, Serial Ports, Parallel Port, and IrDA support. JP2: PS/2 Mouse on IRQ12 - JP2 enables or disables the on-board PS/2 mouse lead connector. When closed, the port becomes active and uses IRQ12. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... - Page 12 JP6: Clear CMOS RAM - When closed, the CMOS information is reset to default. All user-entered information is cleared. To clear the CMOS, first turn the computer off, then connect a jumper cap over the two pins for a moment. Remove the jumper and power the system on. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual...
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Page 13: Connections
You must first configure through the BIOS setup where UART2 is directed, COM2 or IrDA. USB Connector This 8-pin connector permits connection of two USB peripheral devices directly to the system without an external hub. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... -
Page 14: Keyboard Connector
Make sure to align the RED stripe on the ribbon cable with Pin-1 on the mainboard IDE connector. On most hard drives and CD-ROMs, the RED stripe should be oriented towards the power connector of the device. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... -
Page 15: Mainboard Bios Setup
CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) refers to the chip in which the BIOS information is stored. The P6F40-B5 mainboard features Award BIOS, which provides an easy to use Setup program to aid in hardware configuration. In this section we will look at the various menus and options contained in the Award BIOS Setup Program. -
Page 16: Main Menu
Esc : Quit F10 : Save & Exit Setup (Shift) F2 : Change Color Time, Date, Hard Disk Type... Note that a brief description of each highlighted selection appears at the bottom of the screen. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... -
Page 17: Standard Cmos Setup
The first option available is the most important: Type. This is where you will specify the type of device and how it is represented in the BIOS Setup. If the device is a hard disk or P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... - Page 18 Operating Systems that do not use the FAT file system do not need LBA Mode, and can use the Normal or Large Modes. Examples would be Netware and Unix. • When configuring a new hard drive greater than 528MB in capacity, always make sure LBA mode is enabled. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual...
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Page 19: Scsi Hard Drives
The system boot will not stop for a keyboard or disk error; it will stop for all other errors. Memory - This category is display-only. All memory detected by the POST (Power On Self Test) of the BIOS is shown as the following types: P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... -
Page 20: Bios Features Setup
If you will be running such a program, you can disable Virus Protection first, or choose “Y” to accept the boot sector modification when this message shows up. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... - Page 21 Note that there will not be any warning message if the drive installed is 360K. Floppy Disk Access Control - When R/W, the floppy disk can be read and written. The other option is Read Only. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual...
- Page 22 The contents of C0000h-C7FFFh are written to the same address in system memory (RAM) for faster execution. Disabled The video ROM is not copied to RAM. The contents of the video ROM cannot be read from or written to cache memory. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual...
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Page 23: Chipset Features Setup
60ns is the fastest rate. The 70ns timing is slower and may be required in certain system designs to support loose layouts or slower memory. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... - Page 24 Memory parity SERR# (NMI). When parity DRAM modules are used, you may select Parity or ECC (Error Checking and Correcting) to correct 1 bit memory errors in the memory. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual...
- Page 25 Memory Hole At 15M-16M - In order to improve performance, certain space in memory can be reserved for ISA cards. This memory must be mapped into the memory space below 16 MB. *Disabled is the default. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual...
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Page 26: Power Management Setup
Suspend Mode = 1 hr., and HDD Power Down = 15 min. Max. Saving Maximum power management -- ONLY AVAILABLE FOR SL CPUs. Doze Mode = 1 min., Standby Mode = 1 min., Suspend Mode = 1 min., and HDD Power Down = 1 min. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... - Page 27 IRQ. Suspend & Resume Events - Suspend and Resume events are I/O events whose occurrence can prevent the system from entering a power saving mode or can awaken the system from P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual...
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Page 28: Pnp/Pci Configuration Setup
: PCI/ISA PnP F1 : Help PU/PD/+/- : Modify DMA-5 assigned to : PCI/ISA PnP F5 : Old Values (Shift) F2 : Color DMA-6 assigned to : PCI/ISA PnP F6 : Load BIOS Defaults P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... -
Page 29: Load Bios Defaults
To load the default values, highlight this option and press [ENTER]. Enter “Y” in the confirmation screen and press [ENTER] again. User-defined options in the Standard CMOS Setup are not affected. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... - Page 30 Loads the default values for best system performance into the BIOS Setup program. To load the default values, highlight this option and press [ENTER]. Enter “Y” in the confirmation screen and press [ENTER] again. User-defined options in the Standard CMOS Setup are not affected. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual...
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Page 31: Integrated Peripherals
This will probably result in loss of data. 383 ns 240 ns • The relation between the IDE PIO mode value and IDE 180 ns cycle timing is shown in the following table: 120 ns P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... - Page 32 ECP Mode Use DMA - Options are 1 and 3. This field is available only when one of the two following options in Parallel Port Mode is selected: ECP or ECP/EPP. EPP Version - Options are 1.7 (Default) and 1.9 (IEEE 1284 compliant). P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual...
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Page 33: Supervisor Password And User Password Setting
[ENTER]. You will see a message indicating that the password is disabled. If you do not know the current password, the CMOS must be cleared via the Clear CMOS Jumper, JP3 (See page 10). *This will clear all user-defined BIOS Setup options. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... -
Page 34: Ide Hdd Auto Detection
Modify Bad Track - Modify information about the added bad tracks in the window at the right side of the screen. Delete Bad Track - Delete the added bad tracks in the window at P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... - Page 35 Device Class Specifies one of the following device classes: Mass storage controller, Network controller, Display controller, Multimedia device, Bridge device, Simple communication controller, Base system peripherals, Input device, Docking station, Processor and Serial bus controller. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual...
- Page 36 MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP The PCI device listing is useful for troubleshooting purposes. More detailed information for each field may be obtained through the PCI specification documentation. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual...
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Page 37: Built-In Symbios Scsi Bios
Queue Tags Enabled If you decide to press Ctrl-C during boot, the following message appears: Please wait, invoking Configuration Utility … After a brief pause, your computer will display the Main Menu of the utility. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... - Page 38 Mono/Color - Allows you to choose between a black and white or color display for the SCSI Configuration utility. Help - Brings up a help screen with information about the Main menu. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual...
- Page 39 SCSI bus from low to high (o to max) SCSI ID, or from high to low (max to 0) SCSI ID. If you have more than one device on the SCSI bus, changing the scan order changes the order in which drive letters are assigned by the system. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual...
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Page 40: Flash Bios Programming Utility
16 bit data transfers have this option enabled. Disconnect - SCSI devices have the ability to disconnect from the bus during an I/O transfer. This option tells the host adapter whether or not to allow a device to disconnect. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... -
Page 41: Device Drivers
Device Drivers To function properly with different SCSI devices under different operating systems you’ll need to install device drivers. The device driver information should be available in your SCSI adapter’s package. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... -
Page 42: Dc-310U Pci Ultra Scsi Adapter
The Utility can be aborted at this time by hitting “n”. To begin programming, hit “y”… When the Flash programming starts, a bar indicator will show the progress of the programming operation. After successful completion, hit the reset button or power off the computer. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... -
Page 43: Dmi Utility
Port Connector Port Connector Port Connector Port Connector Port Connector System slots áâßà Move cursor Enter-Accept DEL-Delete ESC-Abort&Exit without memory Note: The DMI utility must be run in real mode the EMM386 manager loaded P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual... - Page 44 • Drivers & Utilities DOS, Win3.1, Win95, NT 3.5/4.x, Netware 3.x/4.x, SCO 3.2v4.2/5.0, UnixWare 2.x., OS/2 Warp • BIOS (& Flush utility), Installation, Low Level Format. P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual...
- Page 45 DC-310U PCI ULTRA SCSI ADAPTER DC-310U PCI ULTRA SCSI ADAPTER Mainboard BIOS Support Adapter Setup Device Setup P6F40-B5 User’s Manual P6F40-B5 User’s Manual...