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Declaration of conformity
QUANTUM DESIGNS(HK) LTD.
20th Floor, Devon House, TaiKoo Place 979 King's Road,
(reference to the specification under which conformity is declared in
accordance with 89/336 EEC-EMC Directive)
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EN 55022
Limits and methods of measurements of radio disturbance
characteristics of information technology equipment
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EN 50081-1
Generic emission standard Part 1:
Residential, commercial and light industry
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EN 50082-1
Generic immunity standard Part 1:
Residential, commercial and light industry
European Representative:
QDI Computer ( UK ) Ltd.
Legend QDI Spain S.L.
QDI Computer(France)SARL
QDI Computer Handels GmbH
Signature :
Lv Yan
Printed Name :
Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
declares that the product
Mainboard
Advance 6A/Advance 6B
is in conformity with
QDI Europe B.V
QDI System Handel GmbH
QDI Computer(SWEDEN) AB
QDI Computer (SCANDINAVIA)A/S
Place / Date :
Position/ Title :
HONG KONG/2001
Assistant President
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- Page 1 20th Floor, Devon House, TaiKoo Place 979 King’s Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong declares that the product Mainboard Advance 6A/Advance 6B is in conformity with (reference to the specification under which conformity is declared in accordance with 89/336 EEC-EMC Directive) þ...
- Page 2 Declaration of conformity Trade Name: QDI Computer ( U. S . A. ) Inc. Model Name: Advance 6A/Advance 6B Responsible Party: QDI Computer ( U. S. A.) Inc. Address: 41456 Christy Street Fremont, CA 94538 Telephone: (510) 668-4933 Facsimile: (510) 668-4966...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
C O N T E N T S QDI BootEasy(Italiano) ..............S.1 QDI BootEasy(Español) ..............S.2 QDI BootEasy(Deutsch) ..............S.3 Advance 6A/6B (Francais) ............... S.4 1. Introduction ..............Overview .................... 1 Key Features ..................1 QDI BootEasy ..................4 Introduction to New Features .............. 5 2. - Page 4 C O N T E N T S Jumper Settings ............... FSB Frequency Selection(JFSB1, JFSB2) .......... 13 Overclocking Jumper Setting(JCLK1, JCLK2) ........13 CPU bus ratio selection(JX1, JX2, JX3, JX4) ........14 Enable/Disable On-board audio(JSD) ..........15 Clear CMOS(JCC) ................15 BIOS-ProtectEasy Jumper(JAV).............
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Page 5: Qdi Booteasy-Italiano
Non spegnere o resetta il PC durante l’avvio di BOOT EASY Disabilita il “QDI BootEasy Feature” prima di sostituire le periferiche ad esso collegate ( HDD, CD-ROM, ecc.) solo dopo riabilita il “QDI BootEasy Feature”. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 6: Qdi Booteasy(Español)
2. No apague su ordenador mientras se inicia BootEasy. 3. Desactive “QDI BootEasy Feature” seleccionándolo como “Disabled” antes de cambiar algún componente de su PC. Puede restaurar la opción “QDI BootEasy Feature” como “Enabled” al terminar la instalación de nuevos componentes. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 7: Qdi Booteasy(Deutsch)
Falls Fehler im Flash ROM den Bootvorgang behindern, versucht das System drei Mal den Rechner hochzufahren, bei Misserfolg schaltet es auf die althergebrachte Art zu booten um, das heißt, es dauert wieder ebenso lang wie früher. Anschließend kann die BootEasy – Technik wieder aktiviert werden. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 8: Advance 6A/6B -Francais
Advance 6A/6B -Francais Installation de la carte mère Advance 6A/6B Assurez-vous que votre ensemble est complet: carte mère, câbles IDE et FLOPPY, notice d’utilisation et CD-ROM d’installation. Vérifiez que l’alimentation est débranchée et reliez-vous à la terre par une courroie à... - Page 9 Voir figure page 13 du manuel en anglais. BootEasy permet au PC de démarrer plus rapidement lorsqu’on allume, reset ou relance le Avec le BootEasy, le PC peut démarrer en un instant, sans attente redondante pour afficher le démarrage du système d’exploitation. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B...
- Page 10 N’arrêtez pas ou ne redémarrez pas le système lorsque BootEasy s’initialise Placez «QDI BootEasy Feature» sur «Disabled» avant de changer un composant du système Placez «QDI BootEasy Feature» sur «Enabled» après avoir effectué le changement. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B...
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Page 11: Introduction
Introduction Overview The Advance 6A green mainboard utilizes the VIA PLE133 chipset consists of the VIA8601A (North Bridge) and the VT82C686A(South Bridge) , the other Advance 6B green mainboard utilizes the VIA PLE133 chipset consists of the VIA8601A (North Bridge) and the VT82C686B(South Bridge). - Page 12 Provides four USB ports, on-board PS/2 mouse and PS/2 keyboard ports Provides infrared interface Support PC99 color- coding connector Specification Supports wake-up on LAN and wake-up on external modem supports system monitoring (monitors system temperature, CPU temperature, voltages and fan speed) Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B...
- Page 13 Supports QDI Innovation: LogoEasy, RecoveryEasy, BIOS-ProtectEasy, BootEasy Green function Supports ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) and ODPM (OS Directed Power Management) Supports ACPI power status: S0, S1, S4(STD), S5(Soft-off) Expansion slots 1 ISA slots 3 PCI slots 1 AMR slots Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B...
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Page 14: Qdi Booteasy
(3) PC fail to boot-up continually over three times. 2. Don’t power off or reset system while BootEasy initializing. 3. set “QDI BootEasy Feature” as “Disabled” before you replace system equipment. set “QDI BootEasy Feature” as “Enabled” after you accomplished replacing. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 15: Introduction To New Features
ATA/100 will provide an inexpen- sive, simple, non-proprietary, high-speed method of host to storage access. The 80-conductor, 40-pin cable standard in ATA/66 has enhanced reliability and bee carried forward to ATA/100. of course, backwards compatible with ATA/33. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... - Page 16 -- This page is intentionally left blank-- Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B...
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Page 17: Installation Instructions
Two USB ports are available for connecting USB devices. USB1 USB2 USB3, USB4 Two USB ports are not available on the back panel. Therefore, we provide a 10-pin ribbon cable with bracket to connect Built-in on-board USB header. ( manufacturing option) Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 18: Parallel Port Connector And Serial Port Connector Monitor Output Connector
The Speaker-out jack allows you to connect speakers or headphones for audio output from the internal amplifier. The MIDI/Joystick connector allows you to connect a game joystick or a MIDI device. MIDI/Joystick Microphone in Speaker out Line in Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 19: Atx Power Supply Connector & Power Switch
LED is green on. When the system is in suspend status, the LED is green blink. When the system is in soft-off status, the LED is off. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 20: Green Led Connector (Green_Led)
Except BKFAN, The fan speeds of CPUFAN and CHSFAN can be detected and viewed in “PC Health” section of the BIOS. CPUFAN FAN GND +12V SENSE BKFAN FAN GND +12V CHSFAN FAN GND +12V SENSE Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 21: Wake-Up On Lan (Wol)
It also allows the sharing of mono_in (such as a phone) and mono_out (such as a speaker) between the onboard audio and the voice modem card. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 22: Infrared Header (Irda)
Riser, or no audio with modem on the Riser Either AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) card or MR (Modem Riser) card can be used on this system. This software configurable AC’97 audio and modem system gives customers an advanced, multimedia solution at an extremely low price. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 23: Jumper Settings
JCLK1 JCLK2 JCLK1 CPU FSB JCLK2 66MHz Pin2&Pin3 closed Pin2&Pin3 closed 100MHz Pin1&Pin2 closed Pin2&Pin3 closed 133MHz Pin1&Pin2 closed Pin1&Pin2 closed Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 24: Cpu Bus Ratio Selection(Jx1, Jx2, Jx3, Jx4)
Socket 370 processpors can adjust specified bus ratio through hardware jumper setting . Warning: Dot not set CPU frequency higher than its working frequency. If you do, we will not be responsible for any damages caused. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 25: Enable/Disable On-Board Audio(Jsd)
If you want to clear CMOS, unplug the AC power supply first, close JCC (pin1 & pin2) once, set JCC back to the normal status with pin2 & pin3 connected, then power on the system. Normal status: Clear CMOS: (Unplug the AC power supply) Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 26: Bios-Protecteasy Jumper(Jav)
BIOS to the Flash ROM. Setting the jumper JAV as closed, the ® Processor Number can be not readable Pentium whatever disabling or enabling “Processor Number Feature” item from “BIOS Features Setup” in AWARD BIOS CMOS Setup. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 27: Bios Description
Follow the instruction through the process. Don’t turn off power or reset the system until the BIOS upgrade has been completed. If you require more detailed information concerning AWDFLASH Utility, for example, the different usage of parameters, please type A:\>AWDFLASH /? Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 28: Award Bios Description
The basic CMOS settings included in “Standard CMOS Features” are Date, Time, Hard Disk Drive Types, Floppy Disk Drive Types, and VGA etc. Use the arrow keys to highlight the item, then use the <PgUp> or <PgDn> keys to select the value desired in each item. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... - Page 29 Enter the information directly from the keyboard and press < Enter>: CYLS number of cylinders HEAD number of heads PRECOMP write pre-compensation LANDZ landing zone SECTOR number of sectors MODE HDD access mode Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B...
- Page 30 To support LBA or LARGE mode of HDDs, there must be some softwares involved which are located in Award HDD Service Routine(INT13h).It may fail to access a HDD with LBA (LARGE) mode selected if you are running under an Operating System which replaces the whole INT 13h. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B...
- Page 31 (or conventional) memory installed in the system. Extended Memory The BIOS determines how much extended memory is presented during the POST. Total Memory Total memory of the system equals the sum of the above memory. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B...
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Page 32: Advance Bios Features Setup
III Processor Number can be unreadable. Enabled Quick Power Enables quick POST. BIOS will shorten or skip some On Self Test check items during POST to speed up POST after you power on the computer. Disabled Normal POST. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... - Page 33 BIOS from being attacked by severe virus such as CIH. Therefore disable this item item only when wanting to flash BIOS, afterwards set this item as Enabled (default). Disabled Disabling this item allows you to upgrade the BIOS. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B...
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Page 34: Advance Chipset Features Setup
ISA card. Disabled Do not set this memory hole. Enabled P2C/C2P Enabled P2C/C2P concurrency Disabled Concurrency Disable P2C/C2P concurrency Fast R-W Turn Enabled Enable Fast R-W Turn Around. Around Disabled Disable Fast R-W Turn Around. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... - Page 35 AGP Master 1 WS Enabled Enable AGP Master 1 WS Read. Read Disabled Disabled AGP Master 1 WS Read. Enabled Memory Parity/ECC Enables the Error Checking&Correction if ECC Check memory is used. Disabled Disable the ECC function. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B...
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Page 36: Power Management Setup
Video Off Option Suspend -> Off Screen blanks after the system enters either standby mode or suspend mode. All Modes -> Off Screen blanks after the system enters all modes. Always On Screen is always on. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... - Page 37 You can set any date or any time to power up the system. Disabled RTC has no alarm function. Reloads global timer. IRQs Activity Press Enter Monitoring Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B...
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Page 38: Pnp/Pci Configuration Setup
Does not assign an IRQ for the VGA card, in order to release the IRQ. Assign IRQ For Enabled Assigns an IRQ for USB. If an USB device is used enables this item. Disabled Does not assign an IRQ for USB. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 39: Integrated Peripherals
Onboard Serial 3F8/IRQ4, Defines the onboard serial port address and required Port 1/2 2F8/IRQ3, interrupt number. 3E8/IRQ4, 2E8/IRQ3, Auto Onboard serial port address and IRQ are auto- matically assigned Disabled Onboard serial port is disabled. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... - Page 40 SB DMA Select DMA0~DMA3 Select SB DMA. MPU-401 Enabled Enable MPU-401 Disabled Disable MPU-401 MPU-401 I/O 310/313H~ Define MPU-401 I/O address. 320-323H Address Disabled Game port Enabled Enable game port. (200-207H) Disabled Disable game port. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B...
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Page 41: Pc Health Status
2.5V 2.49 significant voltages of the mainboard. +3.3V, 3.3V 3.32V +2.5V, +12V and 5V are voltages from the 4.83V ATX power supply, Vcore Voltage is the 11.79V CPU core voltage from the on board switching Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 42: Supervisor/User Password
Password when booting the system or entering “CMOS Setup” to modify all settings. Also you can use User Password when booting the system or entering “CMOS Setup” but can not modify any setting if Supervisor Password is enabled. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 43: Appendix Aqdi Driver Cd 2000
You could read all the contents contained in this CD, including Utility and Documents. The files included in Utility are: Awdflash.exe Lf.exe CBlogo The files included in Documents are: Adobe Acrobat Reader V3.0 - Ar32e301.exe French Manual - AD11M FR.doc, ect. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 44: Appendix B Boot Logo
“Show Bootup Logo” option as Disabled in the ‘BIOS FEATURES SETUP’ section of the BIOS * We reserve the right of modifying the default full-logo of QDI without further notification. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... -
Page 45: Recoveryeasy
In this way, the original extension partitions will be changed to normal ones, and probably the sequence of the partitions will be changed also, but the contents contained in each partition will remain the same. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... - Page 46 : After choosing this function, only the final partition can be deleted in order to keep the continuous disk space. If the warning message is confirmed, the partition will be deleted. By pressing “N” or “ESC” key, the system quits. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B...
- Page 47 ESC : Exits from the Partition User Interface. If users made some mistakes, for example, wrongly delete a partition, do not press the “ESC” key, press the reset button on your system at once, in this way users can save their system. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B...
- Page 48 The time when the latest backup was done will be displayed in the status line. After confirming the warning message, the system performs the content recovery. By pressing “N” or “ESC” key, the system quits. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B...
- Page 49 : After choosing this function, the latest backup of the CMOS settings will be recovered. The system needs reboot in order to validate the new CMOS settings. Note : If users have never backuped the CMOS settings, a wrong message will be shown after choosing this function. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B...
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Page 50: Faq
RecoveryEasy build-in BIOS means all functions of RecoveryEasy including creating partition, backuping and restoring partition are built in BIOS. Users just need to down load the latest BIOS from our Website (http://www.qdigrp.com) when wanting to upgrade (It’s free!). Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B... - Page 51 Why does the converting of FAT16->FAT32 in PQ Magic go wrong? MBR will be accessed when converting FAT16 to FAT32 with PQ Magic, which is protected by RecoveryEasy, therefore the conversion will be invalidate. Enabling the “ ATTRIB PAR” switch from Recovery User Interface Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B...
- Page 52 Recovery User Interface. Remember to create a mirror partition and backup before virus attacks the system. Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B...
- Page 53 Item Checklist Completely check your package. If you discover damaged or missing items, contact your retailer. Advance 6A mainboard or Advance 6B mainboard QDI Driver CD 2000 I/O shield 1 IDE ribbon cable 1 floppy ribbon cable 1 10-pin ribbon cable with bracket for USB3 and USB4(manufacturing option) User’s manual...
- Page 54 Mainboard Layout Mainboard Layout...
- Page 55 (Coppermine) CPU and the FAN to keep them fully contact , meanwhile to meet the heat sink requirement. Caution 3 The Advance 6A/Advance 6B mainboard supports PC100/133 SDRAM only. If your processor FSB speed is 66MHz, please set item “DRAM Clock” of Advanced Chipset Features in BIOS as “Hclk+33M” .
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