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.
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Table of Contents Table of Contents Chapter 1 Overview Chapter 2 Installation Procedures...
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FA33 Mainboard Manual Package Checklist The mainboard This user manual One FDD cable One HDD cable One ATA/66 cable One Software CD (CD Pro) 1 - 2...
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.
Installation Procedures 1). Set System Jumpers NOTE: Users are not encouraged to change the jumper settings not listed in this manual. Changing the jumper settings improperly may adversely affect system performance. 2 - 5...
FA33 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.
BIOS Setup Advanced BIOS Features Anti-Virus Protection CPU Internal Cache External Cache CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking 3 - 3...
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FA33 Mainboard Manual Processor Number Feature Quick Power On Self Test First Boot Device Second Boot Device Third Boot Device Boot Other Device Swap Floppy Drive Boot Up Floppy Seek 3 - 4...
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BIOS Setup Boot Up Numlock Status Typematic Rate Setting Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) Typematic Delay (Msec) Security Option OS Select (For DRAM > 64MB) Video BIOS Shadow C8000-CBFFF Shadow to DC000-DFFFF Shadow 3 - 5...
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FA33 Mainboard Manual OnChip IDE Channel0 OnChip IDE Channel1 IDE Prefetch Mode Primary Master PIO Primary Slave PIO Secondary Master PIO 3 - 10...
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BIOS Setup Secondary Slave PIO Primary Master UDMA Primary Slave UDMA Secondary Master UDMA Secondary Slave UDMA Init Display First OnChip USB 3 - 11...
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FA33 Mainboard Manual USB Keyboard Support IDE HDD Block Mode Onboard FDD Controller Onboard Serial Port 1 Onboard Serial Port 2 IR Function Duplex TX, RX Inverting Enable 3 - 12...
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BIOS Setup Onboard Parallel Port Onboard Parallel Port Mode ECP Mode Use DMA Parallel Port EPP Type Onboard Legacy Audio Sound Blaster SB I/O Base Address SB IRQ Select This f SB DMA Select 3 - 13...
FA33 Mainboard Manual MPU-401 MPU-401 I/O Address Game Port (200-207H) Power Management Setup ACPI function 3 - 14...
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BIOS Setup Power Management HDD Power Down Doze Mode Suspend Mode ACPI Suspend Type PM Control by APM 3 - 15...
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FA33 Mainboard Manual Video Off Option Video Off Method MODEM Use IRQ Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN State After Power Failure 3 - 16...
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BIOS Setup LPT & COM HDD & FDD PCI Master PowerOn by PCI Card Power On By Modem/Lan Power On By Alarm Date (of Month) Resume Timer (hh:mm:ss) 3 - 17...
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BIOS Setup PNP OS Installed Resources Controlled By PCI/VGA Palette Snoop Assign IRQ For VGA Assign IRQ For USB SLOT 1/2/3 Use IRQ No. FDD IRQ Can Be Free 3 - 19...