Amd socket a processor based agp (8x) mainboard (200/266/333mhz) supports pc1600/pc2100/pc2700 memory modules (ddr memory) (89 pages)
Summary of Contents for EPOX EP-3S1M
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EP-3S1M EP-3S1M EP-3S1M EP-3S1M EP-3S1M An Intel 815 series chipset based An Intel 815 series chipset based An Intel 815 series chipset based An Intel 815 series chipset based An Intel 815 series chipset based Soc k k k k k et370 mainboar...
EP-3S1M User Notice The product name and revision number are both printed on the mainboard itself. Handling Procedures CAUTION The EP-3S1M mainboard is subject to damage by static electricity. Always observe the handling procedures.
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EP-3S1M Technical Support Services EP-3S1M serial number: Contacting Technical Support North American website (English language) European website (Multi-language) Taiwan website (Chinese language) Thank you for using EPoX mainboards! Copyright 2000 EPoX Computer Company. All rights reserved.
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EP-3S1M Table of Contents Page Section 1 Introduction Overview ® Section 2 Features Section 3 Installation Easy Installation Procedure Section 4 Award BIOS Setup...
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EP-3S1M Section 5 815 Series VGA and Sound Driver Installation Appendix Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D...
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Introduction EP-3S1M EP-3S1M Form-Factor AT X Power Supply 3 1/2" 5 1/4" Figure 2: Summary of Micro-ATX chassis features Page 1-6...
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PS/2 Mouse USB port PS/2 KEYBOARD COM1 VGA1 Speaker Line_in Figure 3: I/O back panel layout Power-On/Off (Remote) The EP-3S1M Remote On/Off The EP-3S1M POWER SUPPLY Case (chassis) Power Figure 4: Simple ATX Power ON/OFF button ON/OFF Controller Page 1-7...
EP-3S1M Installation Easy Installation Procedure 3-1. CPU Insertion 3-2. Jumper Settings 3-3. System memory Configuration 3-4. Device Connectors External Modem Ring-in Power ON and Keyboard Power ON Functions (KBPO) 3-6. STR (Suspend To RAM) Function Section 3-1 CPU Insertion Page 3-3...
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Installation EP-3S1M Note: Intels reference design thermal solution is an active heatsink; an extruded alumi- num heatsink based and a fan attached to the top on the fin array. (See Figure 5) Page 3-4...
EP-3S1M Installation Section 3-2 Jumper Settings CMOS Clear JP1 = 1-2 Normal (Default) = 2-3 Clear CMOS JP10 CPU Type Select JP11 * : Reserved JP13 Keyboard Power-ON Function JP13= 1-2 Enabled = 2-3 Disabled (Default) ReservedFor Cyrix CPU Page 3-5...
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Installation EP-3S1M Section 3-3 System Memory Configuration Memory Layout Bank 2/3 DIMM 2 -Synchronous Bank 0/1 DIMM 1 * SDRAM only supports 32, 64, 128, 256MB DIMM modules. * We recommend to use PC100 Memory Module for bus speed (FSB) between 66MHz/100MHz and PC133 Memory for bus speed (FSB) between 100MHz/ 133MHz.
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EP-3S1M Installation Line_Out_R Line_Out_L Line_In_L Line_In_R MIC_In Note: Either Front Panel Audio or onboard rear audio could be used at one time. -Data +Data +Data -Data Page 3-9...
Installation EP-3S1M Device Connectors (continued) Power On/Off Turbo LED indicator - IDE LED indicator - IR Connector KeyLock - * The power LED lights when the system is powered on and blinks in SLEEP MODE or STR mode. Speaker -...
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Installation EP-3S1M Section 3-5 External Modem Ring-in Power ON and Keyboard Power ON Functions (KBPO) Exclusive Keyboard Power ON Function JP13 Keyboard Power-ON Function Selection 1-2 : Enabled 2-3 : Disabled (Default) Page 3-12...
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Installation EP-3S1M 3-6 STR (Suspend To RAM) Function ® ® Page 3-14...
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EP-3S1M Installation ACPI Onboards LED Status Indicator Table Status Onboards Shutdown Plug in the ATX Power ON Green Mode (Soft-OFF) Location Power Core J3(PW-ON) (S1) (S3) (S5) (Red LED) Blinking Blinking PW_LED Page 3-15...
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Installation EP-3S1M Page Left Blank Page 3-16...
EP-3S1M BIOS Section 4 BIOS SETUP Main Menu Setup Items Standard CMOS Features Page 4-1...
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BIOS EP-3S1M Advanced BIOS Features Advanced Chipset Features Integrated Peripherals Power Management Setup PnP / PCI Configuration PC Health Status Frequency/Voltage Control Load Fail-Safe Defaults Load Optimized Defaults Supervisor / User Password Save & Exit Setup Exit Without Save Page 4-2...
BIOS EP-3S1M Main Menu Selections Item Options Description Date Month YYYY Set the system date. Note that the Day automatically hanges when you set the date Time HH : MM : SS Set the system time Options are in its sub menu Press <Enter>...
EP-3S1M BIOS IDE Adapters Figure 2 IDE Primary Master sub menu Page 4-5...
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BIOS EP-3S1M Item Options Description IIDE HDD Auto-detection Press Enter Press Enter to auto-detect the HDD on this channel. If detection is successful, it fills the remaining fields on this menu. IDE Primary Master None Selecting manual lets you set the Auto remaining fields on this screen.
EP-3S1M BIOS 4-2 Advanced BIOS Features Virus Warning CPU Internal Cache/External Cache Page 4-7...
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BIOS EP-3S1M CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Processor Number Feature Quick Power On Self Test First/Second/Third/Other Boot Device Swap Floppy Drive Boot Up Floppy Seek Boot Up NumLock Status Gate A20 Option Page 4-8...
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EP-3S1M BIOS Typematic Rate Setting Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) Typematic Delay (Msec) Security Option Note: To disable security, select PASSWORD SETTING at Main Menu and then you will be asked to enter password. Do not type anything and just press <Enter>, it will disable security. Once the security is disabled, the system will boot and you can enter Setup freely.
BIOS EP-3S1M 4-3 Advanced Chipset Features DRAM Settings (This field is no function) Page 4-10...
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EP-3S1M BIOS SDRAM CAS Latency Time SDRAM Cycle Time Tras/Trc SDRAM RAS-to-CAS Delay Fast Slow SDRAM RAS Precharge Time Fast Slow System BIOS Cacheable Enabled Video BIOS Cacheable Memory Hole At 15M-16M Page 4-11...
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BIOS EP-3S1M CPU Latency Timer Delay Transaction Enabled On-Chip Video Window Size AGP Graphics Aperture Size (MB) Display Cache Frequency System Memory Frequency Onboard Display Cache Setting CAS # Latency Page 4-12...
BIOS EP-3S1M 4-4 Integrated Peripherals OnChip Primary/Secondary PCI IDE Enabled IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave PIO IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave UDMA Page 4-14...
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EP-3S1M BIOS USB Controller Enabled USB Legacy Device Support Enabled Init Display First AC97 Audio IDE HDD Block Mode Power On Function Button Only Hot Key Any key Page 4-15...
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BIOS EP-3S1M KB Power On Password Hot Key Power On Onboard FDC Controller Onboard Serial Port 1/Port 2 UART Mode Select Onboard Parallel port Page 4-16...
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EP-3S1M BIOS Parallel Port Mode EPP+ECP EPP Mode Select ECP Mode USE DMA DMA1 DMA3 PWRON After PW-Fail Fomer-Status Page 4-17...
BIOS EP-3S1M 4-5 Power Management Setup ACPI Function ACPI Suspend Type Power Management Page 4-18...
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EP-3S1M BIOS Disable (default) No power management. Disables all four modes Min. Power Saving Minimum power management. Doze Mode = 1 hr. Standby Mode = 1 hr., Suspend Mode = 1 hr., and HDD Power Down = 15 min. Max. Power Saving Maximum power management -- ONLY AVAILABLE FOR SL CPUs.
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BIOS EP-3S1M HDD Power Down Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN PowerOn By Ring CPU Thermal-Throttling Resume by Alarm PM Events Enabled Primary IDE 0 Primary IDE 1 Secondary IDE 0 Secondary IDE 1 FDD, COM, LPT Port PCI PIRQ[A-D] # Page 4-20...
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EP-3S1M BIOS 4-6 PnP/PCI Configuration Setup Reset Configuration Data Resource controlled by Page 4-21...
BIOS EP-3S1M PCI/VGA Palette Snoop Disabled INT Pin1 to Pin4 Assignment 4-7 PC Health Status C/91 C/138 0 RPM 0 RPM 0 RPM 1.53V 2.09V 3.42V 4.97V 12.16V 12.28V 5.09V 3.48V 4.89V CPU Warning Temperature Page 4-22...
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EP-3S1M BIOS Current CPU Temperature Current System Temp Current CPU Fan/ Power Fan/ Chassis Fan Speed CPU(V) +5V, +12V, -12V, -5V, VBAT, 5VSB Shutdown Temperature Page 4-23...
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BIOS EP-3S1M 4-8 Frequency/Voltage Control Auto Detect DIMM/PCI Clk CPU/SDRAM/AGP/PCI/Spd Spec CPU Clock Ratio Page 4-24...
EP-3S1M Drivers Installation Section 5 815 Series VGA and Sound Driver Installation Easy Driver Installation Step 1 : To Click the Intel Chipset INF Files that enable the Intel(R) 815 Chipsets to be recognized by listed operating systems. This installer will unpack updated .INF files into a specified folder.
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Drivers Installation EP-3S1M Page Left Blank Page 5-2...
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EP-3S1M Appendix Appendix D D-1 GHOST 5.1 Quick User’s Guide Installation is very easy. You only need to copy the Ghost5 folder or Ghost.exe to your hard disk. The current market version is for single Client, so the LPT and NetBios portions will not be explained further.
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Appendix EP-3S1M There are 3 hard disk functions: 1. Disk To Disk (disk cloning) 2. Disk To Image (disk backup) 3. Disk From Image (restore backup) Important! 1. To use this function, the system must have at least 2 disks. Press the Tab key to move the cursor.
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EP-3S1M Appendix 4. Click OK to display the following confirmation screen. Select Yes to start. Disk To Image (Disk Backup) 1. Select the location of the Source drive. 2. Select the location for storing the backup file. A-17...
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Appendix EP-3S1M 3. Click OK to display the following confirmation screen. Select Yes to start. Disk From Image(Restore Backup) 1. Select the Restore file. 2. Select the Destination drive of the disk to be restored. A-18...
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EP-3S1M Appendix 3. When restoring disk backup, set the required partition size as shown in the following figure. 4. Click OK to display the following confirmation screen. Select Yes to start. Partition A-19...
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Appendix EP-3S1M There are 3 partition functions: 1. Partition To Partition (partition cloning) 2. Partition To Image (partition backup) 3. Partition From Image (restore partition) Partition To Partition (Partition Cloning) The basic unit for partition cloning is a partition. Refer to disk cloning for the operation method.
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EP-3S1M Appendix 3. Select the path and file name for storing the backup file. 4. Is the file compressed? There are 3 options: (1) No: do not compress data during backup (2) Fast: Small volume compression (3) High: high ratio compression. File can be compressed to its minimum, but this requires longer execution time.
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Appendix EP-3S1M Partition From Image (Restore Partition) Select the backup file to be restored. 2. Select the source partition. 3. Select the disk to be restored. A-22...
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EP-3S1M Appendix 4. Select the partition to be restored. 5. Select Yes to start restoring. Check This function checks the hard disk or backup file for backup or restoration error due to FAT or track error. A-23...