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DOC No.: M02502
Rev.
: A1
Date
: 9, 2002
Part No. : 25-12154-01

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  • Page 1 DOC No.: M02502 Rev. : A1 Date : 9, 2002 Part No. : 25-12154-01...

  • Page 2: Handling Precautions

    Notice Handling Precautions Warning: 1. Static electricity may cause damage to the integrated circuits on the motherboard. Before handling any motherboard outside of its protective packaging, ensure that there is no static electric charge in your body. 2. There is a danger of explosion if the battery is incorrectly replaced.
  • Page 3 Table of Contents Table of Contents Quick Reference (German) Quick Reference (French) Quick Reference (Spanish) Quick Reference (Japanese) Quick Reference (Chinese) Quick Reference (Simplified Chinese) |||||||||||||SC-1 Chapter 1 Overview Chapter 2 Installation Procedures...
  • Page 4 AM37 Mainboard Manual Chapter 3 BIOS Setup...
  • Page 5 Overview Chapter 1 Overview The new 1stMainboard AM37™ is an Micro ATX sized motherboard sup- ® porting the latest generation of AMD processors at industry leading speeds. ® By utilizing DDR ( Double Data Rate ) transfer rate the 100/133 MHz system bus effectively reaches Front Side Bus speeds of 200/266 MHz.
  • Page 6 AM37 Mainboard Manual Package Checklist If you discover any item below was damaged or lost, please contact your vendor. The mainboard This user manual þ þ þ þ One FDD cable CD software þ þ One ATA100 cable I/O shielding IMPORTANT: AMD CPU HEAT SINK INSTALLATION Be ware finish heat sink install.
  • Page 7 Overview The AM37 Mainboard 1 - 3...

  • Page 8: Main Features

    AM37 Mainboard Manual Main Features Easy Installation ||BIOS with support for Plug and Play, auto detection of IDE hard drives, ||LS-120|drives, IDE ZIP drives, Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows ||NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and OS/2. Leading Edge Chipset VIA KM266 is a single-chip North Bridge for AMD CPUs with 200/266 MHz Front Side Bus with AGP and PCI plus advanced memory controller that supports DDR266/200 SDRAM.
  • Page 9 Overview AGP and PCI Expansion Slots One AGP Bus and three PCI Bus expansion slots provided the room to install a full range of add-on cards. Compact Onboard Audio Subsystem Embeded in VIA VT82335, an integrated high bandwidth V-Link client controller, direct sound AC97 audio subsystem.

  • Page 10: Fic Unique Innovation For Users (Novus)

    AM37 Mainboard Manual FIC Unique Innovation for Users (NOVUS) - Enhanced Mainboard Features and System Support BIOS Guardian BIOS Guardian effectively acts as a fire-wall against viruses that can at- tack the BIOS while the system is running and by default is enabled. WARNING: BIOS Guardian must be disabled before reflash BIOS.

  • Page 11: Installation Procedures

    Installation Procedures Chapter 2 Installation Procedures WARNING: Excessive torque may damage the mainboard. When using an electric screwdriver on the mainboard, make sure that the torque is set to the allowable range of 5.0 ~ 8.0kg/cm. Mainboard components contain very delicate Integrated Circuit (IC) chips.

  • Page 12: Quick Reference (From Page 2-2 To 2-4)

    AM37 Mainboard Manual Quick Reference (from Page 2-2 to 2-4) Mainboard Layout 2 - 2...
  • Page 13 Installation Procedures Clear CMOS, Clear Password, FSB Speed Select Front Panel Block Cable Connection 2 - 3...

  • Page 14: Set System Jumpers

    AM37 Mainboard Manual CPU Fan Installation CAUTION: 1. The heatsink and fan you installed must be approved by AMD. 2. The mainboard must be placed on a solid place to avoid shaking |||||while install the heatsink and fan on the board. 3.
  • Page 15 Installation Procedures 2 - 5...

  • Page 16: Install Memory Modules

    AM37 Mainboard Manual 2). Install Memory Modules 2 - 6...

  • Page 17: Install The Cpu

    Installation Procedures 3). Install the CPU CAUTION: 1. The heat sink and fan you installed must be approved by AMD. 2. The mainboard must be placed on a solid place to avoid shaking |||||while install the heat sink and fan on the board. 3.

  • Page 18: Install Expansion Cards

    AM37 Mainboard Manual 4). Install Expansion Cards CAUTION: Make sure to unplug the power supply when adding or removing expansion cards or other system components. Failure to do so may cause severe damage to both the mainboard and expansioncards. Always observe static electricity precautions. Please read Handling Precautions at the start of this manual.

  • Page 19: Connect Devices

    Installation Procedures 5). Connect Devices 2 - 9...
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  • Page 25 Installation Procedures 2 - 15...
  • Page 26 AM37 Mainboard Manual NOTE: The CD in the board package supports Windows XP/2000. For a user who installs Windows 98/ME, please go to VIA site to download the latest USB 2.0 driver.) 2 - 16...
  • Page 27 Installation Procedures NOTE: When the front headphone is plugged in, the rear audio output will be disabled. If you do not use the front audio pinheader, please keep the pinpair 5-6, 9-10 short as default. NOTE: If your mainboard has 5.1-channel audio option, the LINE_IN, LINE_OUT, MICROPHONE jacks will be the 5.1-channel audio out- put.
  • Page 28 AM37 Mainboard Manual 2 - 18...

  • Page 29: Cmos Setup Utility

    BIOS Setup Chapter 3 BIOS Setup CMOS Setup Utility 3 - 1...

  • Page 30: Standard Cmos Setup

    AM37 Mainboard Manual Standard CMOS Setup Date Time 3 - 2...
  • Page 31 BIOS Setup Hard Disks Hard Disk Configurations Drive A / Drive B Floppy 3 Mode Support Video Halt On 3 - 3...

  • Page 32: Advanced Bios Features

    AM37 Mainboard Manual Advanced BIOS Features Virus Warning CPU Internal Cache External Cache Processor Number Feature Hard Disk Boot Priority 3 - 4...
  • Page 33 BIOS Setup First/Second/Third Boot Device Boot Other Device Swap Floppy Drive Boot Up Floppy Seek Boot Up Numlock Status Gate A20 Option Typematic Rate Setting Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) 3 - 5...
  • Page 34 AM37 Mainboard Manual Typematic Delay (Msec) Security Option APIC Mode MPS Version Control For OS OS Select For DRAM > 64MB HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability Report No FDD For WIN 95 Video BIOS Shadow 3 - 6...
  • Page 35 BIOS Setup BIOS Guardian NOTE: Please disable this BIOS feature about BIOS Guardian before you start to reflash BIOS. BIOS Guardian and Reflash BIOS 3 - 7...

  • Page 36: Advanced Chipset Features

    AM37 Mainboard Manual Advanced Chipset Features DRAM Clock/Drive Control Current FSB Frequency, Current DRAM Frequency DRAM Clock DRAM Timing DRAM CAS Latency Bank Interleave 3 - 8...
  • Page 37 BIOS Setup Precharge to Active (Trp) Active to Precharge (Tras) Active to CMD (Trcd) DRAM Burst Length DRAM Queue Depth DRAM Command Rate AGP & P2P Bridge Control AGP Aperture Size AGP Mode AGP Driving Control / AGP Driving Value 3 - 9...
  • Page 38 AM37 Mainboard Manual AGP Fast Write AGP Master 1 WS Write AGP Master 1 WS Read CPU & PCI Bus Control PCI1/2 Master 0 WS Write PCI1/2 Post Write PCI Delay Transaction Memory Hole System BIOS Cacheable 3 - 10...

  • Page 39: Integrated Peripherals

    BIOS Setup Video RAM Cacheable VGA Share Memory Size Integrated Peripherals VIA OnChip IDE Device OnChip IDE Channel0 OnChip IDE Channel1 3 - 11...
  • Page 40 AM37 Mainboard Manual IDE Prefetch Mode Primary Master PIO Primary Slave PIO Secondary Master PIO Secondary Slave PIO Primary Master UDMA Primary Slave UDMA 3 - 12...
  • Page 41 BIOS Setup Secondary Master/Slave UDMA VIA OnChip PCI Device VIA-3058 AC97 Audio VIA-3068 MC97 Modem SuperIO PCI Device Onboard FDC Controller Onboard Serial Port 1 Onboard Serial Port 2 UART Mode Select 3 - 13...
  • Page 42 AM37 Mainboard Manual UR2 Duplex Mode Onboard Parallel Port Parallel Port Mode ECP Mode Use DMA Init Display First OnChip USB Controller USB Keyboard Support IDE HDD Block Mode Onboard Lan Device 3 - 14...

  • Page 43: Power Management Setup

    BIOS Setup Onboard Lan Boot ROM Power Management Setup ACPI function ACPI Suspend Type 3 - 15...
  • Page 44 AM37 Mainboard Manual Power Management HDD Power Down Suspend Mode Video Off Option Video Off Method 3 - 16...
  • Page 45 BIOS Setup MODEM Use IRQ Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN State After Power Failure IRQ/Event Activity Detect USB Resume From S3 LPT & COM HDD & FDD PCI Master 3 - 17...
  • Page 46 AM37 Mainboard Manual PowerOn by PCI Card Modem Ring Resume RTC Alarm Resume Date (of Month) Resume Time (hh:mm:ss) Primary INTR IRQs Activity Monitoring 3 - 18...

  • Page 47: Pnp/Pci Configurations

    BIOS Setup PnP/PCI Configurations PNP OS Installed Reset Configuration Data Resources Controlled By PCI/VGA Palette Snoop 3 - 19...

  • Page 48: Pc Health Status

    AM37 Mainboard Manual Assign IRQ For VGA Assign IRQ For USB INT Pin 1/2/3/4 Assignment PC Health Status 3 - 20...

  • Page 49: Frequency/Voltage Control

    BIOS Setup Voltage VCORE / Voltage + 2.5 V / Voltage +3.3 V / Voltage +5 V / Voltage +12 V / Voltage 5VSB / Voltage Battery / SYSTEM Temp. / CPU Temp. / CPU FAN Speed / Chassis FAN Speed Frequency/Voltage Control Auto Detect DIMM/PCI Clk Spread Spectrum...
  • Page 50 AM37 Mainboard Manual Load Fail-Safe Defaults Load Optimized Defaults Supervisor/User Password Save and Exit Setup Exit without Saving 3 - 22...
  • Page 51 Addendum (25-12154-10) USB 2.0 Driver for Windows ME/98 System...

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