VIA 82C693 TABLE OF CONTENTS MAINBOARD TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter & Section Page 1. INTRODUCTION ..................1-1 OVERVIEW ....................1-1 MAINBOARD LAYOUT ................1-2 SPECIFICATIONS..................1-3 2. INSTALLATION ...................2-1 UNPACKING ....................2-1 AMAZING WAYS TO POWER ON THE PC SYSTEM......2-1 POWER OFF THE PC SYSTEM ..............2-5 3.
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VIA 82C693 MAINBOARD SOMETHING IMPORTANT ! ¶ TRADEMARKS All trademarks used in this manual are the property of their respective owners. ¶ LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS “LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS” is the function which will have the BIOS default settings loaded into the CMOS memory, these default settings are the best-case values which will optimize system performance and increase system stability This function will be necessitated when you receive this mainboard, or when the system CMOS data is corrupted.
VIA 82C693 INTRODUCTION MAINBOARD 1. INTRODUCTION OVERVIEW This mainboard is a high performance personal computer mainboard with100MHz ultra high front side bus frequency designed for Pentium™ II and Celeron™ processors. It is an ATX form-factor mainboard with A.G.P. (Accelerated Graphics Port) and PCI Local Bus on board, Designed based on the VIA 82C693 chipset and Winbond®...
VIA 82C693 INTRODUCTION MAINBOARD SPECIFICATIONS ¥ CPU Intel® Pentium™ II and Celeron™ processor 233 MHz, 266 MHz, 300 MHz, 333MHz. 350MHz, 400MHz and up to 450MHz. ¥ CPU VCC Switching Voltage Regulator circuits on board, supports +1.80V DC through +3.5V DC CPU Core Voltage. Note : The CPU Core Voltage will be Detected and adjusted automatically by the VID-pin on the CPU, so there is no manual-adjustment required to select the CPU voltage.
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VIA 82C693 INTRODUCTION MAINBOARD ¥ EXPANSION SLOTS AGP Slots 32-bit x 1 (Supports 1x or 2x AGP graphics cards) PCI Slots 32-bit x 5 (All Master/Slave, PCI 2.1 Compliant) ISA Slots 16-bit x 2 (One of the slot is PCI/ISA shared) ¥...
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VIA 82C693 INTRODUCTION MAINBOARD ¥ HARDWARE MONITORING (optional) Winbond W83781D is designed on the board to monitor hardware healthy status like system voltage, system temperature, and cooling fans. When the CPU is over heated, the system BIOS will tell the system board to give a series of beeping alarm and then slow down the CPU speed (throttling speed) so that you can take proper action to prevent your system from damage.
VIA 82C693 INSTALLATION MAINBOARD 2. INSTALLATION UNPACKING The mainboard contains the following components. Please inspect the following contents and confirm that everything is there in the package. If anything is missing or damaged, call your supplier for instructions before proceeding. l This mainboard.
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VIA 82C693 INSTALLATION MAINBOARD POWER BUTTON The power button can be programmed by COMS setup program and it has different features. Please refer to page 3-23 and page 3-24 for detail function description. Note: This power button can not be used to power-on the PC system if the ”Password“...
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VIA 82C693 INSTALLATION MAINBOARD When you have a PS/2™ mouse connected to the system, you may change the setup in the BIOS and use the mouse click to turn on the PC system power. Please refer to section 4.8 for the BIOS setting To use the mouse key to turn on the PC system power, the mouse click must be done quickly and continually.
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VIA 82C693 INSTALLATION MAINBOARD is the incoming message, the PC system will be triggered by the ring-in signal and wake up automatically to receive the message for you. From now on, you can tell your PC system to receive the fax message for you. In order to use the ring-in signal to wake up your PC system, you will have to use the EXTERNAL MODEM and have it connected to one of the SERIAL PORTS ( COMA or COM B ).
VIA 82C693 INSTALLATION MAINBOARD 2.3 POWER OFF THE PC SYSTEM There are two ways to power off the system. They are “Shut Down by Power Button” and “ Shut Down by OS”. (such as Windows® 95 and Windows® 98, you can choose the Shut Down from the file menu and the system will be powered off immediately ).
VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD 3. HARDWARE SETUP Before you can start to install this mainboard, some hardware settings is required to make sure it will work perfectly with the component which you are going to install in your PC system. To configure the mainboard is a simple task, only a few jumpers, connectors, cables and sockets needs to be selected and configured.
VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD processor are identical, The major difference between these two processors is the boxed CPU has head sink, cooling fan and heat sink supporter, while the OEM Pentium™ II CPU doesn’t. As for the Celeron™ processor, it will need the different mechanism to hold the CPU, please check with your CPU supplier for the require materials.
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VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD If the system BIOS can not detect the SPD on the DIMM module. the system BIOS will use the default parameters which is saved in the BIOS for the memory subsystem. Such parameter will work with most DRAM modules, but it will reduce the system performance because it is not optimized.
VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD 1. Always use the SDRAM module with SPD so that the PC system will have the best performance. 2. Always install DIMM module starting from DIMM 1 socket first, and then DIMM 2 and DIMM 3. In the DRAM subsystem, the ECC feature can be used in the DRAM sub-system and make sure there is no mistake on the data transmission (this feature can be selected in the BIOS CMOS setup, please refer to Section 4.6 for the BIOS setting, the default...
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VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (B) CN1: PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard Connector PS/2 Mouse Connector PS/2 Keyboard Connector BIOS CN14 SPKR KBLOCK Pin assignment of PS/2 mouse connector: Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name Mouse Data Ground Mouse Clock...
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VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (C) CN2: USB Port (Universal Serial Bus) Connector USB 1 USB 2 BIOS CN14 SPKR KBLOCK Pin assignment of USB connector: Pin1: +5VDC USB 1 USB 2 Pin2: DATA- Pin3: DATA+ Pin4: Ground Pin5: Ground Pin6: Ground...
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VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD CN3 & CN7 : COM A & COM B connector COM A COM B BIOS CN14 SPKR KBLOCK Ping assignment of serial port connector: Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name DCD (Data Carrier Detect) DSR (Data Set Ready) (Received Data) RTS (Request To Send)
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VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD Pin assignment of ATX power connector 11 1 Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name + 3.3V DC + 3.3V DC - 12V DC + 3.3V DC Ground Ground PS-ON + 5V DC Ground Ground Ground + 5V DC...
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VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD Pin assignment of parallel port: 1 14 Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name STROBE AUTO FEED Data Bit 0 ERROR Data Bit 1 INIT Data Bit 2 SLCT IN Data Bit 3 Ground Data Bit 4 Ground Data Bit 5...
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VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (H) CN9, CN10: IDE Connectors Primary IDE Port: 1F0H, IRQ 14 Secondary IDE Port: 170H, IRQ 15 CN14 BIOS SPKR KBLOCK CN9: IDE 2 CN10: IDE 1 (I) CN11: Floppy Disk Control Port Connector (Using IRQ6, DMA channel 2) BIOS CN14 SPKR...
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VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD CN 12 BIOS CN14 SPKR KBLOCK Pin assignment of WOL Connector Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name 5V standby Ground WOL Signal (K) CN13: SB-LINK Connector (For PCI bus sound cards. such as Creative™ Labs EMU8008 sound chip) CN 13 SB-LINK BIOS...
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VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD ( this connector is available only when LM78 or LM79 is installed on the board ) BIOS CN14 SPKR KBLOCK Ground +12V DC Fan Sense Signal CN 14 Chassis Fan Power Connector (M) CN15: IR / FIR (Infrared Rays) Connector Consumer IR Connector ( Consumer IR connector is active only when W83977CTF-AW I/O Chip is installed on position U11 ) BIOS...
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VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (N) Push buttons and LED connectors A series of connectors are designed on the board to connect the push buttons and LED indicators. Followings are the details: CN14 BIOS SPKR KBLOCK RS: Reset Button connector HL: HDD LED connector SL: Sleep LED connector PW: Power On / Off Suspend switch...
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VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD If the setup in CMOS is “Delay 4 Sec.”, the function of “PW” will be: A. When system is power off : Press this switch, the system will power on. (when “password” is selected in the CMOS setup program, you will be unable to use the PW button to turn on the power of the PC system, please see Section 2.2 and Section 4.8 for more details.
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VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (O) Speaker and Key Lock connector: BIOS CN14 SPKR KBLOCK 1 2 3 4 5 SPKR 1 2 3 4 5 PWR-LED & KBLOCK SPKR & KBLOCK CONNECTORS (X) SPKR: Speaker connector Pin # Signal name + 5V DC No Connection No Connection...
VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD 3.4 JUMPERS This section will discuss the jumper setting on the mainboard. In order to let you have better idea of the jumper setting, please see below for the explanation of jumper settings before you start this section. open short The following jumpers which labeled with “optional”...
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VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD USB2 function enabled on J2 (AGP slot). (B) JP4: Clear CMOS Data Button CN14 BIOS SPKR KBLOCK Normal Setting Clear CMOS Note: Improper BIOS setting may cause hang-up to the PC system, Should it be happened, you may use JP4 to clear the information which is stored in the CMOS memory and get the PC system back to normal.
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VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (C) JP5-JP7: CPU Speed Selection CN14 BIOS SPKR KBLOCK CPU Clock Ratio 233, 350MHz 3.5X Open Open Short JP 5 266, 400MHz Short Short Open JP 6 300, 450MHz 4.5X Open Short Open JP 7 333, 500MHz Short Open...
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VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD 100MHz processors: Pentium™ II-350, 400, 450 and 500MHz: 100, 103 or 112MHz selectable Celeron™ -350 and 400MHz: 100, 103 or 112MHz selectable BIOS Ddefault: 100 or 103MHz (depends on the clock chip on the mainboard) HOW TO SELECT THE CPU CLOCK RATIO: Please modify the formula mentioned mentioned in previous page and we will get: CPU Frequency ÷...
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VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (D) JP9 Flash ROM (BIOS) Selection ( optional ) BIOS CN14 SPKR KBLOCK Pin # Function For +5V FLASH ROM For +12V FLASH ROM ( default ) Note: you may not be able to see JP9 on your mainboard because you don’t have to change the setting until you change different type of flash ROM.
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VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD CN 1 JP100 CN14 BIOS SPKR KBLOCK SHORT: Normal setting ( default ) JP100 OPEN: Over clock setting The speed of front side bus is decided by the BIOS setup program. There is no jumper setting required when selecting the front side bus speed.
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VIA 82C693 HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD increase to 37.7MHz and 75.3MHz respectively. So it is quite clear that the system will become very unstable when the system devices connected to the PC system is not fast enough. When the CPU is running at 100MHz high speed, the CPU temperature will be much higher than running at 66MHz.
VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP 4.1 GETTING STARTED When the system is first time power on or reset by user, the BIOS will enter the Power On Self Test routines ( POST, which will display a copyright message on the screen and execute a diagnostics and initialization procedure.) In case that there is any error or malfunction detected, the BIOS will give a series of beeping sound or display the error message on screen.
VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.2 MAIN MENU ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP SAVE &...
VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD The following pages will show all the setup screens which you will find in the CMOS SETUP routine, each figure contains the selection options and its default settings. At the bottom of some screen, you may find the description of all function key which can be used to change the settings.
VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Auto : This mode will auto-detect your IDE driver during boot-up. (Note : Some certain operation systems ( such as SCO®-UNIX™ ), only "NORMAL mode" is allowed when installation.) Floppy 3 Mode Support: (Default setting: disabled ) This mode is for the Japanese 3.5 inch high capacity floppy disk drive.
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VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD When you find the message on your screen, please run the anti-virus program to see whether your system is infected by a virus or not. Enabled : A warning message will be displayed on the screen when something attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table.
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VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Enable this feature will tell the system to seek and check on the floppy drive when boot up the system. Boot Up NumLock Status : ( default setting: On ) Select "ON' in this field will light the " NumLock LED" when boot up the system. When select "Off", the Numlock LED will be darkened.
VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.6 CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. Bank 0/1 DRAM Timing : SDRAM 10ns Auto Detect DIMM / PCI Clk : Enabled Bank 2/3 DRAM Timing : SDRAM 10ns Spread Spectrum Modulated : Disabled Bank 4/5 DRAM Timing...
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VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD make this selection, please make sure that your SDRAM is fast enough otherwise your PC system will be unstable. DRAM Clock : (default setting: CPU CLK) If your SDRAM modules support the specification of PC-100, please select CPU CLK. SDRAM do not compatible with PC-100, select AGP CLK for operation.
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VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Enabled Video RAM access cached Disabled Video RAM access not cached AGP Aperture Size : ( default setting: 64MB ) There is the AGP slot on the board and which allows user to install the AGP display card in the system.
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VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Auto Detect DIMM/PCI Clk: ( Default setting: Enabled ) When you select “Enabled”, the mainboard will detect the presence of devices on DIMM and PCI slots. When there is no device presented, the clock on the related DIMM and PCI slot will be disabled to reduce the electro magnetic interference (EMI).
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VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD IMPORTANT: As you may have noticed,the higher FSB frequency will surely give you the higher system performance. However, the PCI clock also increased at the same time. If the peripherial is not fast enough, your PC system will become very unstable when you change the Host clock.
VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.7 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. ACPI function Enabled Primary INTR : ON Power Management : User Define IRQ3 (COM 2) : Primary PM Control by APM : Yes IRQ4 (COM 1) : Primary...
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VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD option which will suggest the values of four parameters for you, - “Doze Mode”, “Standby Mode”, “Suspend Mode” and “HDD Power Down”. PM control by APM: ( Default setting: Yes ) The Advanced Power Management feature in Windows will control the power management operation when you select yes, If you select no, Windows will not use the power management feature.
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VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD modem to your PC system and tell the PC system which serial port connects to the modem by selecting the IRQ in this field. ( officially, COM A uses IRQ4, and COMB uses IRQ3 ). Soft-Off by PWR-BTN : (Default setting: “Instant-Off.”) This field allows user to define the feature of the “PW”...
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VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD LPT & COM : (Default setting: LPT/COM) When set to On (default), any event occurring at a COM(serial)/LPT (printer) port will awaken a system which has been powered down. HDD & FDD : (Default setting: ON) When set to On (default), any event occurring at a hard or floppy drive port will awaken a system which has been powered down.
VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD IRQ12(PS/2 Mouse) IRQ13(Coprocessor) IRQ14(Reserved) IRQ15(Reserved) PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. PNP OS Installed CPU to PCI write Buffer : Enabled Resources Controlled By : Manual PCI Dynamic Bursting : Enabled Reset Configuration Data : Disabled...
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VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Instead, it will refer to the information recorded in this field when assigning the IRQ & DMA resource. ( anyhow, the system BIOS will always refer to the ESCE data to assign the I/O and memory space resources ). Auto : The system BIOS will refer to the ESCD segment for all legacy information.
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VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD CPU to PCI Write Buffer : (Default setting: Enabled) When enabled, up to four Dwords of data can be written to the PCI bus without interrupting the CPU. When disabled, a write buffer is not used and the CPU read cycle will not be completed until the PCI bus signals that it is ready to receive the data.
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VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Assign IRQ For USB/VGA : (Default setting: Enabled) The system’s IRQ signals are limited and sometimes you may feel like to some more IRQ signals for your add-on cards. The system BIOS allows you to disable the IRQ which is supposed to be connected to VGA and USB ports.
VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.9 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. OnChip IDE Channel0 Enabled UART Mode Select : Normal OnChip IDE Channel1 : Enabled IDE Prefetch Mode : Enabled Primary Master PIO : Auto Onboard Parallel Port : 378 / IRQ7...
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VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD The chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support for two IDE channels. Select Enabled to activate the 0 and/or 1 IDE interface. Select Disabled to deactivate an interface, if you install a primary and/or secondary add-in IDE interface. The choice: Enabled, Disabled.
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VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD press the “Enter” key, reconfirm the password one more time to complete password setup. If you press the “Enter” key twice, without keying in any alphanumeric character, the password will be disabled. KBC input clock : (Default setting: 8MHz) Set the frequency for the keyboard controller input clock.
VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.10 LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SAVE &...
VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.11 SUPERVISOR PASSWORD / USER PASSWORD The password entry in these field is different to what was mentioned in Section 2-2, Section 4-8. The password setting in the previous pages is used to power on your PC system, However, the “SUPERVISOR PASSWORD”...
VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.12 IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS...
VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.13 SAVE & EXIT SETUP ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS...
VIA 82C693 AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.14 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SAVE &...
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