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  • Page 1 HOT-579 ™ Pentium processor Based PCI MAIN BOARD User's Manual...
  • Page 2 FCC Notice: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    ONFIGURATION Jumper Setting............................7 CPU Clock Configurations - JP4 ~ JP6 and JP11 ~ JP14 ................ 8 System Clock and CPU Multiplier on HOT-579 ..................9 CPU Voltage Configuration - JP33 ......................10 Flash EEPROM Vpp - JP17........................11 Clear CMOS - JP19..........................11 Power Supply Type Select - JP31......................

  • Page 4: Preface

    PREFACE HOT-579 mainboard is a highly integrated IBM PC/AT compatible system board. The design will accept AMD K5, K6, Intel Pentium P54C, Pentium MMX, IDT-C6 and Cyrix/ IBM 6x86, 6x86L, 6x86MX processors and also features high-performance pipelined burst secondary cache memory support with size of 1024KB or 512KB. The memory subsystem is designed to support up to 512 MB of EDO RAM, Standard Fast Page DRAM and SDRAM in standard 72-pin SIMM socket and 168-pin 3.3 V DIMM socket.

  • Page 5: Chapter 1 Features

    FEATURES The HOT-579 Mainboard is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants high performance and many intelligent features in a compact package: Chipset: Features VIA580VPX Chipset with I/O subsystems. CPU Support: AMD K6 166~266 MHz, K5 PR75~PR166, Intel Pentium 75~200 MHz, Pentium MMX 166~233 MHz, Cyrix/IBM 6x86 P120+~P166+, 6x86L P166+, 6x86MX PR166~PR266, IDT-C6 150~200MHz.
  • Page 6 System BIOS: Provides licensed Award V4.51PG BIOS on Flash EEPROM. Supports Green PC, DMI and Bundled with Symbios Login(NCR) SDCM V4.0 SCSI BIOS. ACPI: Support ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) function. ACPI provide more Energy Saving Features for the future operating system supporting OS Direct Power Management (OSPM) functionality.

  • Page 7: Accessories Of Hot-579

    ACCESSORIES OF HOT-579...

  • Page 8: Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration

    HARDWARE CONFIGURATION Jumper Setting Jumper pin headers show on right side are used to configure system clock, CPU multiplier and CPU voltages. System Clock - JP11, JP12 and JP13 JP11, JP12 and JP13 are 3-pins header jumper which is used to adjust System Clock from 50MHz to 83 MHz.

  • Page 9: Cpu Clock Configurations - Jp4 ~ Jp6 And Jp11 ~ Jp14

    CPU Clock Configuration - JP4 ~ JP6 and JP11 ~ JP13 System Processor Speed Multiplier Vcore/Vio Clock 233 MHz 66 MHz 3.5 x 2.8V / 3.3V Intel Pentium 200 MHz 66 MHz 2.8V / 3.3V P55C MMX 166 MHz 66 MHz 2.5 x 2.8V / 3.3V 200 MHz...

  • Page 10: System Clock And Cpu Multiplier On Hot-579

    System Clock and CPU Multiplier on HOT-579 For whom like to set up system manually, listed tables show all the System Clock and CPU Multiplier that HOT-579 can offer. Table 2-2 shows the System Clock from 50 MHz to 83 MHz.

  • Page 11: Cpu Voltage Configuration - Jp33

    CPU Voltage Configuration - JP33 Voltage JP33 Voltage JP33 Voltage JP33 3.1 V 2.5 V Auto-setting 3.0 V 2.4 V 3.52 V 2.9 V 2.3 V 3.4 V 2.8 V 2.2 V 3.3 V 2.7 V 2.1 V 3.2 V 2.6 V Table 2-4...

  • Page 12: Flash Eeprom Vpp - Jp17

    Power Supply Type Select HOT-579 provide both AT and ATX power connector on-board, AT and ATX power supply are available on HOT-579. Jumper JP31 is used to set what type of power supply is pluged to the main board. Power...

  • Page 13: Connectors & Sockets

    PS/2 mouse cable. Diagram on the right side indicates the pinout of the 5-pin header. HOT-579 mainboard supplies two types of optional PS/2 mouse adapter cable, type 1 have 6-holes plug with hole 2 and hole 6 wireless; type 2 have 5-holes plug with hole 2 wireless.
  • Page 14 The system power can be controlled by a momentary switch connector. Pushing the switch button will turn the system off . Note: When a AT Power Supply is used to HOT-579, please do not connect any momentary switch to PWR ON. AT and ATX Power connectors The main board provides both AT and ATX Power connector.

  • Page 15: Chapter 3 Memory Configuration

    MEMORY CONFIGURATION The HOT-579 mainboard provides four 72-pin SIMM sockets and two 168-pin DIMM sockets that make it possible to install up to 256MB of RAM. The SIMM socket support 4MB, 8MB, 16MB, 32MB, 64MB and 128MB 5V single- or double-side fast page or EDO DRAM modules, and DIMM socket support 8MB, 16MB, 32MB, 64MB, and 128MB 3.3V...
  • Page 16 SIM 1 SIM 2 SIM 3 SIM 4 DIM 1 DIM 2 TOTAL 4 MB 4 MB 8 MB 4 MB 4 MB 4 MB 4 MB 16 MB 8 MB 8 MB 16 MB 4 MB 4 MB 8 MB 8 MB 24 MB 8 MB...

  • Page 17: Chapter 4 Flash Utility

    Flash Utility This chapter briefly discusses Award Flash utility provides instructions to guide you through updating your old BIOS. The file name we use to program here is test.bin, and the file name to save old BIOS is 579.OLD. Please note that those file names are not absolute. They are only examples to let you have a more clear understanding of the updating process.
  • Page 18 If "Yes" To save the old BIOS: Please respond "Y", and then press the ENTER key. Move the cursor to "File Name to Save: " Type file name "579.OLD", and then press the ENTER key. (Your old BIOS will be saved in the file name you create.

  • Page 19: Bios Setup

    BIOS SETUP HOT-579 BIOS ROM has a built-in Setup program that allows users to modify the basic system configuration. This type of information is stored in battery-backed RAM so that it retains the Setup information when the power is turned off.

  • Page 20: Main Menu

    Main Menu Standard CMOS setup This setup page includes all items in a standard compatible BIOS. BIOS features setup This setup page includes all items of Award special enhanced features. Chipset features setup This setup page includes all items of chipset features. Power Management Setup This setup page includes all items of Power Management features.
  • Page 21 Integrated Peripherals This setup page includes all items of peripheral features. Supervisor Password Change, set, or disable supervisor password. It allows you to limit access to the system and Setup, or just to Setup. User Password Change, set, or disable user password. It allows you to limit access to the system and Setup, or just to Setup.

  • Page 22: Standard Cmos Setup

    Standard CMOS Setup Date The date format is <day>, <month> <date> <year>. Press <F3> to show the calendar. Time The time format is <hour> <minute> <second>. The time is calculated base on the 24- hour military-time clock. For example. 5 p.m. is 17:00:00. Hard Disks Type This item identify the types of hard disk drives that has been installed in the computer.
  • Page 23 Drive A type/Drive B type This item specifies the types of floppy disk drive A or drive B that has been installed in the system. Video This item selects the type of adapter used for the primary system monitor that must matches your video display card and monitor.

  • Page 24: Bios Features Setup

    BIOS Features Setup Virus Warning When this item is enabled, the Award BIOS will monitor the boot sector and partition table of the hard disk drive for any attempt at modification. If an attempt it made, the BIOS will halt the system and the following error message will appear. Afterwards, if necessary, you will be able to run an anti-virus program to locate and remove the problem before any damage is done.
  • Page 25 Swap Floppy Drive When this item enables, the BIOS will swap floppy drive assignments so that Drive A: will function as Drive B: and Drive B: as Drive A:. Boot Up Floppy Seek During POST, BIOS will determine if the floppy disk drive installed is 40 or 80 tracks. Boot Up NumLock Status When this option enables, BIOS turns on Num Lock when system is powered on.

  • Page 26: Chipset Features Setup

    Chipset Features Setup DRAM Auto Configuration This item auto configures the item of DRAM Timing Control. DRAM Timing Control will be set to “Auto” when this item set to 60 ns or 70 ns. DRAM Timing Control may be set to “Normal”, “Medium”, “Fast” or “Turbo” when this item set to Disabled.
  • Page 27 2 Bank PBSRAM This item allows the user to set 2 Bank PBSAM timing. The options are 3-1-1-1 and 2-1-1-1. This item only affect to 1MB Cache. Read Pipeline You may select Enabled for this field when PBSRAMs are installed. Pipelining improves system performance.

  • Page 28: Power Management Setup

    Power Management Setup Power Management This item determines the options of the power management function. Max Saving puts the system into power saving mode after a brief period of system inactivity; Min Saving is the same as Max Saving except the time of the system inactivity period is longer;...
  • Page 29 Video Off Method This determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked. V/H SYNC+Blank This selection will cause the system to turn off the vertical and horizontal synchronization ports and write blanks to the video buffer. Blank Screen This option only writes blanks to the video buffer. DPMS Allows the BIOS to control the video display card if it supports the DPMS feature.

  • Page 30: Pci Configuration Setup

    PCI Configuration Setup PNP OS Installed When this item is set to Yes, it will allow the PnP OS(Windows 95) control the system resources except PCI devices and PnP boot devices. Default setting is No. Resources Controlled By The Award Plug and Play BIOS has the capability to automatically configure all of the boot and Plug and Play compatible devices.
  • Page 31 CPU to PCI Write Buffer When enabled, up to four words 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..

  • Page 32: Integrated Peripherals

    Integrated Peripherals OnChip IDE First Channel This item is used to defined on chip Primary PCI IDE controller is Enable or Disable setting. OnChip IDE Second Channel This item is used to defined on chip secondary PCI IDE controller is Enable or Disable setting.
  • Page 33 IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave UDMA On this mainboard, Intel 430TX PCIset improves IDE transfer rate using Bus Master UltraDMA/33 IDE which can handle data transfer up to 33MB/sec. The options are Disabled and Enabled, and Enabled is the default settings for on board Primary/Second- ary Master/Slave UltraDMA33.

  • Page 34: Password Setting

    Password Setting This section describes the two access modes that can be set using the options found on the Supervisor Password and User Password. Supervisor Password and User Password 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 access modes: Supervisor mode and User mode.

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