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  • Page 1 User’s Manual M003 Motherboard with Sound Blaster Live! onboard...
  • Page 2 ZLWK&UHDWLYH6RXQG%ODVWHU/LYHRQERDUG Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Creative Technology Ltd. No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, for any purpose without the written permission of Creative Technology Ltd.
  • Page 3 CAUTION: This device is intended to be installed by the user in a Communications Radio Interference Regulations. CSA/TUV/UL certified/listed IBM AT or compatible personal Importer’s Name: Creative Labs Inc. Cet appareil est conforme aux normes de CLASSE “B” d’interference computers in the manufacturer’s defined operator access area. Check Importer’s Address: 1901 McCarthy Boulevard radio tel que spe’cifie’...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Contents ,QWURGXFWLRQ 7KH00RWKHUERDUG Features..........................1-1 The Sound Blaster Live! Component ..............1-2 Hollywood-Quality Audio Re-creation..................1-2 Powerful Audio Processing Engine............. 1-3 Environmental Audio Enhances Existing Contents........1-3 Multiple Speaker Output................1-3 1024-Voice Music Synthesis................ 1-3 Environmental Audio Extensions (EAX)/ Broad Driver Support................. 1-4 Sound Blaster Live! Web site: www.sblive.com.........
  • Page 5 Onboard Sound Blaster Live! Features ..............1-7 EMU10K1.....................1-7 Stereo Digitized Voice Channel ..............1-7 AC ’97 Codec Mixer..................1-8 Volume Control.....................1-8 E-mu Environmental ModelingTM .............1-8 DynaRAMTM....................1-8 Creative Multi Speaker SurroundTM (CMSSTM)........1-8 Onboard Sound Blaster Live! Connectivity.............1-9 Audio Inputs....................1-9 Audio Outputs....................1-9 Interface......................1-9 Connectors and Jumpers on the Motherboard..............1-9...
  • Page 6 &RQQHFWRUV Front Panel Connectors......................2-2 Back Panel Connectors......................2-4 Audio Connectors ......................... 2-6 Other Connectors ........................2-7 -XPSHU6HWWLQJV About Jumpers ........................3-1 Changing Jumper Settings....................3-2 To configure the CPU bus clock multiplier............. 3-3 To configure the PCI bus clock................3-5 To clear the CMOS....................
  • Page 8 Introduction A highly integrated IBM PC/AT compatible system board, M003 is designed to meet and exceed the requirements of the most advanced and demanding desktop applications. In ® addition, Sound Blaster Live!, representing a definitive leap in digital audio technology, has been seamlessly integrated into the M003 motherboard.

  • Page 10: Features

    The M003 Motherboard This chapter is organized as follows: Features Specifications Features M003 is a highly integrated IBM PC/AT compatible system board designed to meet the industry’s most demanding desktop applications. ® This motherboard is based on the Intel 82440BX AGPset chipset which features the Intel ®...

  • Page 11: The Sound Blaster Live! Component

    The Intel’s 82440BX AGPset chipset provides an integrated Bus Mastering IDE controller with two high-performance IDE interfaces. You can connect up to four IDE devices to the controller and achieve data transfer rates of up to 33 MB/sec. The onboard I/O controller provides standard PC I/O functions: floppy drive interface, two First In First Out (FIFO) serial ports, an Infrared Data Association (IrDA) device port, and a parallel port that supports Standard Parallel Port (SPP), Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP), and Extended Capabilities Port (ECP).

  • Page 12: Powerful Audio Processing Engine

    ™ Powerful Audio The EMU10K1 audio processor is the most powerful integrated music, audio and effects engine available. Every signal is processed at 32-bit, 48 kHz using 8-point interpolation to Processing Engine smoothen the sound—instantly improving any audio source. Besides advanced signal processing, the EMU10K1 also provides real-time effects including Reverb, Chorus, Flanger, Echo, and Pitch Shifter, that rival a stand-alone effects processor worth US$500.

  • Page 13: Environmental Audio Extensions (Eax)/ Broad Driver Support

    Environmental Audio Environmental Audio Extensions is an open standard that allows the broadest support from software developers. Extensions (EAX)/ Broad Driver Support ® Supports Microsoft DirectSound and DirectSound3D and derivative technologies. Advanced architecture is ready for the coming generations of WDM and DLS devices. Sound Blaster Live! Web Exciting new applications and developer support will be available on the Sound Blaster Live! Web site.

  • Page 14: Expansions

    Synchronous coupling to the host bus frequency Expansions One AGP slot Four 32-bit PCI slots Two 16-bit ISA slots One floppy drive port One parallel port with SPP, EPP, and ECP capabilities Two high-speed 16C550 compatible UART serial ports that support infrared communication.

  • Page 15: Acpi

    ACPI Support Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) function. ACPI provides more energy-saving features for future operating systems that support OS Direct Power Management (OSPM) functionality. Board Size ATX form factor 305mm x 180mm. Advanced Features CPU Plug and Play CPU Plug and Play function.

  • Page 16: Ps/2 Keyboard & Mouse Power-On

    PS/2 Keyboard & Mouse Automatic switching on of the system by stroking the keyboard or double-clicking the PS/2 mouse. For details, see “To enable or disable the keyboard & PS/2 mouse Power-On Power-on function” on page 3-8. Modem Ring Power-on must be enabled before this feature can be enabled.

  • Page 17: Ac '97 Codec Mixer

    Highly accurate positioning of audio objects in 3D space Exceptional reproduction of various ambient and environmental effects DynaRAM Dynamically allocating host memory for storing and processing sound samples Need not rely on onboard audio card memory Creative Multi Speaker Multispeaker technology Surround (CMSS Professional-quality panning and mixing algorithm...

  • Page 18: Onboard Sound Blaster Live! Connectivity

    Onboard Sound Blaster Live! Connectivity Audio Inputs One mono Microphone analog input via stereo jack on front panel One line-level analog Line input via stereo jack on front panel One mono Microphone analog input via stereo jack on rear bracket CD_IN line-level analog input via 4-pin Molex connector on card AUX_IN line-level analog input via 4-pin Molex connector on card TAD line-level analog input via 4-pin Molex connector on card...
  • Page 19 Serial Port connector (COM2) Floppy connector Parallel connector Serial Port connector (COM1) Two E-IDE connectors 440BX AGPSet Creative Audio controller CD DIGITAL-In connector Four DIMM sockets AGP slot Audio Signal connector I2S connectors TAD (Telephone Answering Device) connector Creative Peripheral Bus...
  • Page 20 Connectors This chapter is organized into the following sections: Front Panel Connectors Back Panel Connectors Audio Connectors Other Connectors Connectors 2-1...

  • Page 21: Front Panel Connectors

    Speaker Connector (SPEAKER, JP24) You may attach a 4-pin PC speaker cable to the PC speaker connector. Creative Peripheral Bus (JP47) Volume Control Connector (VOL_CON) Controls the volume level of all audio output through the front panel volume control knob.
  • Page 22 Creative iNFRA remote control to BlasterPC’s COM2 serial port. Thus, the COM2 serial port will not be available when Creative infrared receiver is enabled. To free up COM2 for connecting to devices, you need to disable the infrared receiver first.

  • Page 23: Back Panel Connectors

    Figure 2-2: The back panel connectors. • The COM2 serial port will not COM1 and COM2 Connectors be available when Creative infrared receiver is enabled. To Attach the serial device cables to these connectors. free up COM2 for connecting to devices, disable the infrared PS/2 Keyboard &...
  • Page 24 Microphone In Jack Connects to an external microphone for input. Rear Out Jack Line Out and Rear Out jacks can Connects to powered speakers or an external amplifier for audio ouput. be used simultaneously to power 4.1 channel speaker systems, Line Out Jack ™...

  • Page 25: Audio Connectors

    Audio Connectors Figure 2-3 below shows the onboard Sound Blaster Live! connectors of your motherboard. Figure 2-3: The audio connectors. Telephone Answering Device Connector (TAD) Provides for a Mono connection to a standard voice modem, and transmits microphone signals to the modem. CD Audio Connector (CD) Connects to the Analog Audio output on a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive using a CD audio cable.

  • Page 26: Other Connectors

    Connects to the SPDIF (Digital Audio) output (where available) on a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. S In Connector (I Connects to an I S source such as the Digital Out connector of the Creative MPEG2 decoder card. Other Connectors ATX Power Supply Connector (J31) It is a twenty-pin male connector.
  • Page 27 CPU, Chassis & AGP cooling FAN connectors (JP28, JP29, J43 and J47) The motherboard provides three onboard 12 V cooling fan power connectors for the CPU (JP28 and JP29), Chassis (J43) and AGP device (J47) cooling fans. Depending on the fan’s manufacturer, the wiring and plug type may be different.

  • Page 28: About Jumpers

    Jumper Settings This chapter is organized into the following sections: About Jumpers Changing Jumper Settings About Jumpers Several hardware settings are made through the use of jumper caps to connect jumper pins on the motherboard. Pin 1 of each jumper on the motherboard is either on the top or the left of the jumper when holding the motherboard with the keyboard connector away from yourself.

  • Page 29: Changing Jumper Settings

    To close a 2-pin jumper Place a jumper cap over the two jumper pins. To open a 2-pin jumper Instead of removing the jumper Remove the jumper cap from the two jumper. cap completely, you can place the cap over one pin so that the cap will not be misplaced.

  • Page 30: To Configure The Cpu Bus Clock Multiplier

    To configure the CPU The JP37 jumper is used to configure the CPU bus clock multiplier. If you want the CPU clock speed to be set by BIOS, do not remove the jumper pack from the JP37 jumper (Auto setting). bus clock multiplier As the motherboard features CPU Plug &...
  • Page 31 Table 3-3 shows some of the multipliers that the motherboard supports. Table 3-3: Jumper Settings for Multiplier. Multiplier JP37 Jumper Multiplier JP37 Jumper Setting 3.5x from (233/66 or BIOS 350/100) (133/66 or (266/66 or 200/100) 400/100) 2.5x 4.5x 166/66 or (300/66 or 250/100) 450/100)

  • Page 32: To Configure The Pci Bus Clock

    To configure the PCI The motherboard’s clock generator provides an adjustable system clock frequency. The JP39 jumper is used to indicate the system clock frequency which can range from 66 MHz to 133 bus clock MHz. The CPU Plug & Play function is supported with a default 100 MHz system frequency. Table 3-4 shows various speeds of the system bus clock that the motherboard supports.

  • Page 33: To Clear The Cmos

    To clear the CMOS Under some unusual circumstances, the configuration record created by the CMOS Setup utility can become corrupted and unusable. This can cause the motherboard to stop functioning properly. In such cases, you need to clear the CMOS record by using jumper JP19. To clear the CMOS 1.

  • Page 34: To Flash The Eeprom Vpp

    To flash the EEPROM The M003 motherboard supports two types of flash EEPROM: 5V and 12V. By setting up jumper J17, the motherboard can use either 5V or 12V to flash the EEPROM with new system BIOS files when necessary. Table 3-6: Jumper Settings for Flash EEPROM.

  • Page 35: To Enable Or Disable The Keyboard & Ps/2 Mouse Power-On Function

    To enable or disable The M003 motherboard supports a power-on by keyboard and PS/2 mouse. Enable this function and you can switch on the system with any keystroke (or with an assigned hot-key) or the keyboard & PS/2 by double-clicking the PS/2 mouse. mouse Power-On J44 and JP38 are jumpers used to enable or disable the keyboard and PS/2 mouse power-on function...

  • Page 36: Memory Configuration

    Memory Configuration and BIOS Settings This chapter is organized into the following sections: Memory Configuration BIOS Settings Memory The motherboard provides four 168-pin DIMM sockets that make it possible to install from 8 MB up to 512 MB of 66 MHz or 100 MHz SDRAM. The DIMM sockets support 8 MB, Configuration 16 MB, 32 MB, 64 MB, 128 MB, and 256 MB 3.3 V single- or double-sided SDRAM DIMM.

  • Page 37: Bios Settings

    Table 4-1: Install memory in any or all of the banks in any combination as follows DIMM Module Memory Modules Socket Quantity 8 MB, 16 MB, 32 MB, 64 MB, 128 MB, 256 MB DIMM 0 168-pin 3.3V 66 MHz or 100 MHz PC SDRAM DIMM 8 MB, 16 MB, 32 MB, 64 MB, 128 MB, 256 MB DIMM 1 168-pin 3.3V 66 MHz or 100 MHz PC SDRAM DIMM...

  • Page 38: To Change Bios Settings In Cmos

    To change BIOS 1. Switch on your computer. 2. During the memory check, press the <Delete> key. settings in CMOS The CMOS Setup Utility menu similar to Figure 4-1 on page 4-3 appears. If you did not respond in time, restart your system by pressing the Reset button on your computer.

  • Page 39: The Cmos Setup Utility Menu

    The CMOS Setup Utility Menu Table 4-2: The CMOS Setup Utility menu options. This Option Allows You To Do This Selecting an option in the CMOS Setup Utility menu will Standard CMOS Set the date, time, disk drive, video display and error handling. display the corresponding Setup screen or perform a function...
  • Page 40 Table 4-2: The CMOS Setup Utility menu options. This Option Allows You To Do This IDE HDD Auto Automatically detect and configure IDE hard disk drives (HDD) Detection in your system. Save & Exit Setup Exit setup and save any changes you have made. Exit Without Saving Exit setup without saving any changes.

  • Page 41: Standard Cmos Setup

    Standard CMOS Setup Display this screen if you want to set the date and time of the system clock. This screen also allows you to configure your hard disks, floppy disks, video display and error handling procedure. Figure 4-2: The Standard CMOS Setup screen. Table 4-4: The Standard CMOS Setup Screen items.
  • Page 42 Table 4-4: The Standard CMOS Setup Screen items. Item Description Identifies the types of hard disk drives that have been installed in your system. There are 46 predefined types and a user-defined type. Warning: The information entered in this Hard Disk table must match the actual specifications of your hard disk.
  • Page 43 Table 4-4: The Standard CMOS Setup Screen items. Item Description The last drive parameter, MODE, has four available settings: Normal, LBA, Large, and Auto. These settings are for IDE hard disks only. Normal: For IDE hard disks of 528 MB or less. LBA: Logical Block Addressing, the current standard access mode for large IDE hard disk drives.

  • Page 44: Bios Features Setup

    Table 4-4: The Standard CMOS Setup Screen items. Item Description This item is for display only. The value is automatically determined by POST (Power On Self Test) of the BIOS. Base Memory refers to the amount of base (or conventional) memory installed in the system.
  • Page 45 Table 4-5: The BIOS Features Setup Screen items. Option Description When this is enabled, the BIOS will monitor the boot sector and partition table of the primary hard disk drive and warn of any attempt to write to it. If an attempt is detected, the BIOS will halt the system and the following warning message will appear: Virus Warning...
  • Page 46 Table 4-5: The BIOS Features Setup Screen items. Option Description Swap Floppy When this is enabled, the BIOS will swap floppy drive assignments so that Drive Drive A: will function as Drive B: and Drive B: as Drive A:. Boot Up When this is enabled, the BIOS will determine whether the installed floppy Floppy Seek disk is 40-track or 80-track.
  • Page 47 Table 4-5: The BIOS Features Setup Screen items. Option Description When the Typematic Rate Setting (see description on previous page) is Typematic enabled, this item allows you to specify the amount of time that elapses Delay (Msec) before repetition of the character or movement takes place when you hold down a key.

  • Page 48: Chipset Features Setup

    Table 4-5: The BIOS Features Setup Screen items. Option Description Determines whether video display card BIOS will be copied into the Video BIOS system DRAM to increase display speed and improve system performance. Shadow The default setting is Enabled. C8000-CBFFF Shadow to DC000-DFFFF Shadow are address ranges for C8000- shadowing other expansion card ROMs.
  • Page 49 Table 4-6: The Chipset Features Setup Screen items. Item Description Auto If this is enabled, the system will select and apply the pre-determined Configuration optimal chipset parameters. If it is disabled, chipset parameters revert to CMOS setup information. EDO DRAM Sets the EDO DRAM Read/Write timings that the system uses.
  • Page 50 Table 4-6: The Chipset Features Setup Screen items. Item Description DRAM Idle Timer Sets the number of CPU clocks allocated for the DRAM controller to remain in the idle state before precharging all pages (blocks of memory). This field is used for both EDO and SDRAM memory. SDRAM CAS Sets the CAS latency time to HCLKS of 2 or 3.
  • Page 51 Table 4-6: The Chipset Features Setup Screen items. Item Description Video RAM This is a new cache technology for the CPU’s video memory. By Cacheable caching the display data, the display speed can be greatly improved. Warning: If your display card cannot support this feature, you must disable this item.
  • Page 52 Table 4-6: The Chipset Features Setup Screen items. Item Description AGP Aperture Size Specifies the maximum amount, in MB, of system memory an AGP (MB) display card can use to store 3D texture mapping data. The larger the aperture, the better the performance of the card’s 3D function. The settings range from 4 MB to 256 MB.

  • Page 53: Power Management Setup

    Power Management Setup Display this screen if you want to set up the power management features. Figure 4-5: The Power Management Setup screen. Table 4-7: The Power Management Setup Screen items. Item Description This item defines whether the Advanced Configuration Power Interface ACPI Function (ACPI) is to be supported.
  • Page 54 Table 4-7: The Power Management Setup Screen items. Item Description If this item is set to Yes, the Advanced Power Management (APM) feature in Microsoft Windows will control power management PM Control by operation. The available Power Management (PM) modes include Doze, Standby or Suspend.
  • Page 55 Table 4-7: The Power Management Setup Screen items. Item Description When this item is enabled, the CPU clock will run at a slower speed Doze Mode after the preset period of system idle time, while all other devices operate at full speed. When this item is enabled, the fixed disk drive and video display will Standby Mode shut off after the preset period of system idle time.
  • Page 56 Table 4-7: The Power Management Setup Screen items. Item Description This item defines the duty cycle for the clock control thermal throttling Throttle Duty mode. The duty cycle indicates the percentage of time while in the Cycle thermal throttle mode. The available settings are between 12.5% and 87.5%.

  • Page 57: Pnp/Pci Configuration Setup

    Table 4-7: The Power Management Setup Screen items. Item Description This item defines if the system will resume by activity of LAN. If this feature is enabled, the system will switch itself from power-off back to PowerOn by the power-on state when there is activity through the LAN. LAN (Wake-On- LAN) Notes:...
  • Page 58 Table 4-8: The PnP/PCI Configuration Screen items. Item Description PnP OS Installed When this item is set to Yes, it will allow the PnP OS (Windows 95) to control the system resources except PCI and PnP boot devices. Default setting is No. Resources The Award Plug and Play BIOS has the capability to automatically Controlled By...
  • Page 59 Table 4-8: The PnP/PCI Configuration Screen items. Item Description PCI Latency Timer The PCI Latency Timer is used to ensure that the PCI agents are given a minimum amount of the system resource. The number of clocks programmed in the PCI Latency Timer represents the guaranteed time slice allocated to the 440BX, after which it must complete the current data transfer phase and surrender the bus as soon as its bus grant is removed.

  • Page 60: Integrated Peripherals

    Table 4-8: The PnP/PCI Configuration Screen items. Item Description Used MEM base This item is used to select a base address for the memory area used addr by any peripheral that requires high memory. The available settings are C800, CC00, D000, D400, D800, DC00 and N/A.
  • Page 61 Table 4-9: The Integrated Peripherals Screen items. Item Description If your IDE Hard Disk supports block mode, you can enable this item to IDE HDD speed up the hard disk drive (HDD) access time. Otherwise, disable this Block Mode item to avoid HDD access error. In this item, there are five settings (0, 1, 2, 3, and 4) defined for the manual Primary mode and one setting (Auto) for the automatic mode.
  • Page 62 Table 4-9: The Integrated Peripherals Screen items. Item Description On this motherboard, Intel PIIX4 improves IDE transfer rate using Bus Primary Master UltraDMA/33 IDE which can handle data transfer up to 33 MB/sec. Slave The setting can be Disabled, Enabled or Auto. The default setting is Auto. UDMA Note: To use this feature, your hard disk drive must also support UDMA.
  • Page 63 Table 4-9: The Integrated Peripherals Screen items. Item Description OnBoard Enables or disables the onboard sound chip. Sound Chip Specifies whether the PC Speaker signal should be routed to the PC Speaker PC Speaker input on the sound chip. Initial Allows you to select either PCI or AGP as the initial device when the system Display powers up.
  • Page 64 UR2 Mode to the COM2 serial port. Thus, the COM2 serial port will not be available when the Creative infrared receiver is in use. To use the COM2 port, disable the infrared receiver by changing this setting to Standard. UR2 Duplex...

  • Page 65: Password Setting

    Table 4-9: The Integrated Peripherals Screen items. Item Description Specifies the DMA (Direct Memory Access) channel when ECP device is in ECP Mode use. The settings are DMA 1 and DMA 3. This item will not be displayed Use DMA when SPP or EPP printer mode is selected.
  • Page 66 Table 4-10: The Password Setting options. Item Description The options on the Password screen menu make it possible to restrict access to the Setup program by enabling you to set passwords for two different Supervisor access modes: Supervisor mode and User mode. Password and User Supervisor mode has full access to the Setup options, whereas User mode...
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