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65MV/65MV-X PCI bus commands. --- PCI-2.2 compliant with delay transaction and remote power management. --- Supports ATAPI compliant devices including DVD devices. --- Supports PCI native and ATA compatibility modes. --- APM v1.2 and ACPI v1.0 compliant. 1-4 MEMORY • Supports 3 DIMMs or 6 banks for up to 1.5GB of DRAM (256MB DRAM technology) •...
65MV/65MV-X • 2 to 32MB frame buffer using system memory. • Single cycle 128-bit 3D architecture. • Full AGP 4x, including sideband addressing and execute mode. • S3 DX7 texture compression (S3TC). • High quality DVD video playback. • Digital Visual Interface (DVI) 1.0 compliant. •...
65MV/65MV-X 1-12 FLAT PANEL DESKTOP MONITOR SUPPORT • The VT8605 / 86C370 has the capability of displaying graphics on TFT flat panel desktop monitors using a 12-bit digital interface to an external encoder. The VT8605 / 86C370 also supports autoexpansion and center- ing of all VGA text and graphics modes to ensure that the entire flat panel display will be utilized.
65MV/65MV-X 1-14 CHIPSET DIAGRAM • The VT8605 is a high performance, cost-effective and energy efficient SMA chip set for the implementation of AGP / PCI / LPC desktop personal computer system with 66MHz, 100MHz, and 133MHz CPU host bus (“Front Side Bus”) frequencies and based on 64-bit Socket-370 (Intel Pentium III, Celeron) super-scalar processors.
65MV/65MV-X CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE SETUP 2-1 CPU INSTALLATION 1. Pull the lever sidways away from the socket, and then raise the lever up to a 90-degree angle. 2. Take note of the red circle as below picture. When insert the CPU into socket, you can find out there is a definite pin orientation for CPU and socket.
65MV/65MV-X 3. Make sure that the CPU positions in the socket tightly, and then put the lever down to complete the CPU installation. 2-2.1 BUS RATIO SELECT SW1 DIP1 ~ DIP4 SETTING 3.0x 3.5x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 4.0x 4.5x...
65MV/65MV-X 2-3 JUMPER DEFINITIONS • The figure below shows the location of the motherboard’s jumper blocks. CAUTION • Do not move the jumper with the power on. Always turn off the power and unplug the power cord from the computer before changing the jumper. Otherwise, the motherboard could be damaged.
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65MV/65MV-X JP7/JP8: USB PORT SELECT (2) Redirect USB port 2 to USB 2 connector (default) Redirect USB port 2 to AGP JP9: POWER LOST RESUME Normal (default) Enabled JP10/JP11: VOICE DIAGNOSTIC LANGUAGE SELECT Chinese Language JP10 JP11 English Language (default) JP10 JP11 Japanese Language...
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65MV/65MV-X WOL1 : WAKE ON LAN (WOL) FUNCTION Connect the Wake On LAN signal from LAN card WOL1 to WOL1 This connector connects to a LAN card with a Wake On LAN output. The connector powers up the system when a wake-up packet or signal is received through the LAN card.
65MV/65MV-X 2-4 CONNECTORS • In this section we list all external connectors that user will use them. 2-4.1 J2 AND J3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 HDD LED CONNECTOR PIN 1 PIN 2 HDD LED SIGNAL PIN 3...
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65MV/65MV-X 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ATX POWER SWITCH PIN 12 ATX POWER SWITCH PIN 13 The system power is controlled by a momentary switch connected to this lead. Pressing the button once will switch the system between ON and SOFT OFF.
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65MV/65MV-X 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 SPEAKER CONNECTOR PIN 1 SPEAKER SIGNAL PIN 2 NONE PIN 3 PIN 4 This SPEAKER connector connects to the case- mounted speaker. Two sources (LINE OUT and DESCRIPTION SPEAKER) allow you to hear system beeps and warnings.
65MV/65MV-X 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 SUSPEND LED PIN 14 SUSPEND LED SIGNAL PIN 15 DESCRIPTION Connect to Suspend indicator light. 2-4.2 CHASSIS PANEL CONNECTOR A : PS/2 MOUSE PORT B : USB 0 PORT C : LPT1 PORT D : GAME/MIDI PORT...
65MV/65MV-X 2-4.3 FLAT-PANEL DISPLAY CONNECTOR • This motherboard provides a special socket “ DVC1 ” for user to connect to a flat-panel display adapter kit, and then connect it to a LCD monitor. This flat-panel display adapter kit can be purchased from your motherboard’s vendor and manufacturer.
65MV/65MV-X 2-4.5 SECOND USB CONNECTOR • This motherboard provides 4 sets of USB connector. Besides 2 sets of them can be connected directly by USB devices, the other are built onboard for user to extend the USB function. 2nd USB Connector (Optional) Black Black Red Green...
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65MV/65MV-X card, requires that you configurate the card’s jumpers manually and then install it in any available slot on the ISA bus. To see a map of your used and free IRQs in Windows 98, the Control Panel in My Computer, contains a System icon, which gives you a Device Manager tab.
65MV/65MV-X 2-5 VOICE DIANOSTIC FUNCTION --- 65MV-X • The Voice Diagnostic Function provides user an indispensable assistance on troublieshooting while assembling your computer components. If there is any conflict or other latent problem triggers a boot-up failure, this new VD-TECH technology will voice you relistically where the conflict/problem is, then user can remove the malfunction quickly.
SOFTWARE SETUP 3-1 ABOUT SOLTEK SUPPORT CD • In Soltek support CD, it contains most informations for user’s requirement, such as Acrobat Reader, BIOS, User’s Manual, Driver, Hardware Monitor (if motherboard supports this function), Patch, and Utility etc,. User can browse the CD and get further details in regard of our motherboard.
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65MV/65MV-X Step 5: • Press Next button to continue. Step 6: • Click “Yes” to continue. Step 7: • Press select the checkbox as below: Bus Master PCI IDE Driver AGP VxD Driver VIA Chipset Function’s Registry IRQ Routing Miniport Driver Note: In Windows 95/98 environment, user does not need to add “VIA Chipset Function’s Registry”...
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65MV/65MV-X Step 9: • We recommend user to leave “Enable / Disable [Ultra] DMA” checkbox empty. Note: Whether select this item or not, user needs to enable the Hard Disk DMA function in Control Panel manually. (For further details, please refer to next page) Step 10: •...
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65MV/65MV-X Step 13: • After all the setup process is finished, please restart your computer by clicking on Finish. bout Hard Disk DMA Function Last but not least, user must enable the Hard Disk DMA function. The process is below: 1.
65MV/65MV-X ® 3-3 ONBOARD S3 SAVAGE4 VGA DRIVER INSTALLATION ® • We provide a simple process for user to install the S3 Savage4 VGA driver. Whichever Microsoft Windows operating system user adopts, they have similar installation below. 1. Start system with Windows 9X installed. 2.
65MV/65MV-X 3-4 AC’97 AUDIO CODEC INSTALLATION Step 1: • Please put the Support CD attached to motherboard into the CD-ROM drive. • When appears a welcome window as left screen, then user should choose “Install Driver”. Step 2: • Click on the “VIA Chipsets Driver”. Step 3: •...
65MV/65MV-X 3-5 HARDWARE MONITOR INSTALLATION Step 1: • Please put the Support CD attached to motherboard into the CD-ROM drive. • When appears a welcome window as left screen, then user should choose “Install Driver”. Step 2: • Click on the “VIA Chipsets Driver”. Step 3: •...
65MV/65MV-X CHAPTER 4 BIOS SETUP 4-1 INTRODUCE THE BIOS • BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System. It is sometimes called ROM BIOS because it is stored in a Read-Only Memory(ROM) chip on the motherboard. BIOS is the first program to run when you turn on your computer.
65MV/65MV-X lected and configures your computer accordingly. If the battery charge runs too low, the CMOS content will be lost and POST will issue a “CMOS in- valid” or “CMOS checksum invalid” message. If this happens, you may have to replace the battery. After the battery is replaced, the proper set- tings will need to be stored in SETUP.
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65MV/65MV-X Create a Boot Floppy (using a DOS system to create the bootable floppy) • Place an unformatted floppy diskette in the floppy drive and format the floppy using the /S option. Example: format a: /s • Alternatively, place a formatted floppy in the floppy drive and use the “sys” command.
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65MV/65MV-X • Then appears a program window as below: • After upgraded, the system will reboot itself automatically. • NOTE: You will see a message “CMOS checksum error - Default loaded” during booting the system. Please press <Del> to run BIOS program, then reload “LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS”...
65MV/65MV-X 4-7 CMOS SETUP UTILITY • This VIA PM-133 motherboard comes with the AWARD BIOS from AWARD Software Inc. Enter the Award BIOS program Main Menu by: 1. Turn on or reboot your system. After a series of diagnostic checks, the following message will appear: PRESS <DEL>...
65MV/65MV-X 4-8 STANDARD CMOS SETUP • Standard CMOS Setup allows you to record some basic system hardware configuration and set the system clock and error handling. You only need to modify the configuration values of this option when you change your system hardware configuration or the configuration stored in the CMOS memory gets lost or damaged.
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65MV/65MV-X Date (mm:dd:yy) Set the current date and time. Time (hh:mm:ss) Primary / Secondary This field records the specifications for all non-SCSI Master / Slave hard disk drives installed in your system. Refer to the respective documentation on how to install the drives. CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software IDE Primary Master IDE HDD Auto-Detection...
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65MV/65MV-X Video Set this field to the type of video display card installed in the system. The choices are: Mono, EGA / VGA (default) , CGA 40, CGA 80 Halt On Set this warning feature for the type of errors that will cause the system to halt.
65MV/65MV-X 4-9 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES • ADVANCED BIOS FEATURS allows you to improve your system perfor- mance or set up sysem features according to your preference. Run the ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES as following: 1. Choose “ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES” from the Main Menu and a screen with a list of option will appear: 2.
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65MV/65MV-X CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Advanced BIOS Features Item Help Virus Warning Disabled Menu Level CPU Internal Cache Enabled External Cache Enabled CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Enabled Processor Number Feature Disabled Quick Power On Self Test Enabled First Boot Device Floppy...
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65MV/65MV-X Virus Warning Enabled: Activates automatically when the system boots up causing a warning message to appear if there is anything attempting to access the boot sector or hard disk parti- tion table. Disabled: No warning message will appear when there is something attempting to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table.
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65MV/65MV-X Boot Up Floppy Seek Enabled : During POST, BIOS checks the track num- ber of the floppy disk drive to see whether it is 40 or 80 tracks. Disabled: During POST, BIOS will not check the track number of the floppy disk drive. Boot Up NumLock Choose ON (default) or OFF.
65MV/65MV-X 4-10 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES • ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES allows you to change the values of chipset registers. These registers control the system options. Run the ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES as following: 1. Choose “ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES” from the Main Menu and a screen with a list of option will appear: 2.
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65MV/65MV-X CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Advanced Chipset Features Item Help Bank 0/1 DRAM Timing SDRAM 8/10ns Menu Level Bank 2/3 DRAM Timing SDRAM 8/10ns Bank 4/5 DRAM Timing SDRAM 8/10ns SDRAM Cycle Length DRAM Clock Host CLK DRAM Drive Strength Auto...
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65MV/65MV-X Bank 0/1 2/3 4/5 DRAM This item allows you to select the value in this field, Timing depending on whether the board has paged DRAMs or EDO (Extended Data Output) DRAMs. The choice: SDRM 8 / 10ns Normal Medium Fast Turbo SDRAM Cycle Length...
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65MV/65MV-X System BIOS Choose Enabled or Disabled (default). When enabled, the access to the system BIOS ROM addressed at Cacheable F0000H - FFFFFH is cached. Video RAM Cacheable Choose Enabled or Disabled (default). When enabled, the access to the VGA RAM addressed is cached. Frame Buffer Size 4M/8M(default)/16M/32M/NA.This option allows you select memory size shared to onboard VGA.
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65MV/65MV-X USB Mouse Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus (USB) controller and you have a Support USB mouse. The choice:Enabled,Disabled. OnChip Sound Enabled (default): Turn on AC’97 codec chip controller. Disabled: Turn off AC’97 codec chip controller or user can plug external add-on sound card.
65MV/65MV-X 4-11 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS • INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS option allows you to get some informations inside your system when it is working. Run the INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS as following: 1. Choose “INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS” from the Main Menu and a screen with a list of option will appear: CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Integrated Peripherals Item Help...
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65MV/65MV-X 2. Use one of the arrow keys to move between options and modify the se- lected options by using PgUp / PgDn / + / - keys. An explanation of the <F> keys follows: <F1>: “Help” gives options available for each item. <F5>: Get the previous values.
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65MV/65MV-X On-Chip IDE channel The chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with sup- port from two IDE channels. Select Enabled to acti- vate the first and/or the second IDE interface. Select Disabled to deactivate an interface if you install a pri- mary and/or second add-on IDE interface.
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65MV/65MV-X Onboard FDC Select Enabled if your system has a floppy drive con- Controller troller (FDC) installed on the system board and you want to use it. If you install add-in FDC or the system has no floppy drive, select Disabled in this field. The choice: Enabled, Disabled.
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65MV/65MV-X Parallel Port EPP Type Select EPP port type 1.7 or 1.9 The choice: EPP1.7, 1.9. Onboard Legacy Audio This field controls the onboard audio. • Sound Blaster • SB I/O Base Address • SB IRQ Select • SB DMA Select •...
65MV/65MV-X 4-12 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP • POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP allows you to set the system’s power saving functions. Run the POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP as following: 1. Choose “POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP” from the Main Menu and a screen with a list of option will appear: CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Power Management Setup ACPI Function...
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65MV/65MV-X ACPI Function Enabled: Turn on ACPI function. Disabled (default): Turn off ACPI function. • Press <Enter> on the Power Management item, then there is a list of it appears for you to choose further setting. CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Power Management Power Management User Define...
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65MV/65MV-X ACPI Suspend Type This item will allow you to select the ACPI suspend type. You can select S3(STR) for suspending to DRAM or S1(POS) for power on suspend under Windows 98 ACPI mode. The choice: S1(POS), S3(STR). PM Control by APM When enabled, an Advanced Power Management device will be activated to enhance the Max.
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65MV/65MV-X Soft-Off by PWRBTN Instant-Off (default): Turn off the system poer at once after pushing the power button. Delay 4 Sec: Turn off the system power 4 seconds after pushing the power button. (to meet PC97/98 spec) State after Power This field lets you determine the state that your PC Failure returns to after a power failure.If set to off, the PC will...
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65MV/65MV-X HDD & FDD When On of HDD & FDD, any activity from one of the listed system peripheral devices wakes up the system. PCI Master When On of PCI Master, any activity from one of the listed system peripheral devices wakes up the system. Wake Up On LAN/Ring An input signal on the serial Ring Indicator (RI) line (in other words, an incoming call on the modem) awak- ens the system from a soft off state.
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65MV/65MV-X The following is a list of IRQ’s (Interrupt ReQuests), which can be exempted much as the COM ports and LPT ports above can. When an I/O device wants to gain the attention of the operating system, it signals this by causing an IRQ to occur.
65MV/65MV-X 4-13 PNP / PCI CONFIGURATION • PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION allows you to set the system’s power saving functions. Run the PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION as following: 1. Choose “PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION” from the Main Menu and a screen with a list of option will appear: CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software PnP/PCI Configurations PNP OS Installed...
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65MV/65MV-X PNP OS Installed Yes: OS supports Plug and Play function. No (default): OS doesn’t support Plug and Play function. NOTE: BIOS will automatically disable all PnP resources except the boot device card when you select Yes on Non-PnP operating system. Choose Enabled or Disabled (default).
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65MV/65MV-X DMA Resources Press Enter. Please refer to the below list. CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software DMA Resources DMA-0 assigned to PCI/ISA PnP Item Help DMA-1 assigned to PCI/ISA PnP Menu Level DMA-3 assigned to PCI/ISA PnP DMA-5 assigned to PCI/ISA PnP DMA-6 assigned to...
65MV/65MV-X 4-14 PC HEALTH STATUS • This section helps you to get more information about your system including CPU temperature, FAN speed and voltage. It is recommended that you contact with your motherboard supplier to get proper value about your set- ting of the CPU temperature.
65MV/65MV-X 4-15 FREQUENCY/VOLTAGE CONTROL CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Frequency Control Item Help Auto Detect DIMM/PCI CLK Enabled Spread Spectrum Disabled Menu Level CPU Host Clock :Move Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit F1:General Help F5:Previous Values F6:Fail-Safe Defaults F7:Optimized Defaults Auto Detect This item allows you to enable/disable detect DIMM/ DIMM/PCI CLK...
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65MV/65MV-X 4-16 LOAD OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS • When you press <Enter> on this item you get a confirmation dialog box with a message similar to: “ L o a d O p t i m i z e d D e f a u l t s ( Y / N ) ? N ”...
65MV/65MV-X 4-17 SET SUPERVISOR / USER PASSWORD • These two options allow you to set your sysem passwords. Normally, the supervisor has a higher ability to change the CMOS setup option than the user. The way to set up the passwords for both Supervisor and User are as follows: 1.
65MV/65MV-X 4-18 SAVE & EXIT SETUP • SAVE & EXIT SETUP allows you to save all modifications you have speci- fied into the CMOS memory. Highlight this option on the Main Menu and the following message appears: “SAVE to CMOS and EXIT (Y/N) ? Y “...
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