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Aug 28th, 2000

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  • Page 1 VMZV6 FLEX-ATX Motherboard User’s Manual Model VMZV6 Manual Version : English, version 1.0 Release Date Aug 28th, 2000...
  • Page 2 Copyright Copyright 2000 by this company. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system or translated into any language in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the copyright holders.
  • Page 3 FCC & DOC Compliance Federal communications Commission Statement This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: This device may not cause harmful interference. This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Contents Chapter 1 Overview General Description..................1-1 Check Your Items..................1-1 VMZV6 Specifications...................1-2 VMZV6 Components..................1-3 Motherboard Layout..................1-5 Chapter 2 Hardware Installation Set Jumpers....................2-2 Install CPU....................2-3 CPU Setting....................2-4 Clear CMOS..................2-5 Jumper setting..................2-5 System Memory Installation................2-6 Install DIMM..................2-7 Removing a Memory Module............2-7 Install Expansion Cards..................2-8 Connector Devices..................2-10 Panel Connector.................2-10...
  • Page 5 Contents Chapter 3 CMOS Setup Utility CMOS Setup Main Menu................3-1 Standard CMOS Setup...................3-3 Advanced BIOS Features................3-5 Advanced Chipset Features................3-8 Integrated Peripherals..................3-13 Power Management..................3-17 PnP / PCI Configurations................3-23 PC Health Status................... 3-25 Frequency / Voltage Control................3-26 Load Fail-Safe Defaults.................3-27 Load Optimized Defaults................3-27 Set Supervisor / User Password..............3-28 Save &...

  • Page 6: Chapter 1 Overview

    General Description General Description General Description General Description Thanks for purchasing VMZV6 Socket 370 FLEX-ATX motherboard.VMZV6 is based on VIA chipset (North Bridge VT8601 & South Bridge VT82C686A). VMZV6’s chipset optimizes the lastest Intel Celeron (PPGA), Celeron II & P!!! (FC-PGA), and VIA Cyrix III CPUs.

  • Page 7: Vmzv6 Specifications

    F orm F actor F LE X-AT X Board Size 17.8cm x 18.3cm S upports Socket 370 Intel P !!! & Celeron II(F C-P GA), C eleron(P P GA) and CP U VIA C yrix III S upports FS B 66/100/133M Hz...

  • Page 8: Vmzv6 Components

    Overview VMZV6 Components: Components: Components: Components: Components: 13 14...
  • Page 9 Overview Please refer to next two pages about each component, and this manual will explain every important one at the following chapter. Socket 370 processors socket ATX Power Port North Bridge VIA VT8601 1 DIMM socket IDEPort Floppy Port BIOS...

  • Page 10: Motherboard Layout

    Overview Motherboard Layout...
  • Page 11 Overview Jumpers 1. JP5 Clear CMOS 2. JP8, JP9¢JP10, SW1 Select CPU Clock frequency Expansion Slots 1. DIMM Support 168-pin DIMM Memory AMR Expansion Slot for MC’97 Connectors 1. PS/2 Connector PS/2 Keyboard &Mouse Connector 2. Floppy Floppy Drive Connector 3.

  • Page 12: Chapter 2 Hardware Installation

    Chapter 2 Hardware Installation This chapter gives you a step-by-step procedure on how to install your system and set jumper. The motherboard has several user-adjustable jumpers on the board that allow you to configure your system to suit your requirements. Cautions!! Protecting Against Electrostatic Discharge Static electricity can harm delicate components inside your system.

  • Page 13: Set Jumpers

    Hardware Installation Set Jumpers: Set Jumpers: Set Jumpers: Set Jumpers: Set Jumpers: Jumpers are used to select the operation modes for your system. Each jumper on the board has several metal pins with each pin representing a different function. A “1” is written besides pin 1 on jumpers with several pins.

  • Page 14: Install Cpu

    The CPU module resides in the socket 370 on the motherboard.Please following the steps introduced below to complete the CPU installation. Locate the new processor you are installing over the socket so that the notched corner on the processor (pin 1) can be aligned with the blank corner on the socket.

  • Page 15: Clear Cmos

    Hardware Installation CPU Jumper Setting JP8 ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ JP9¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ JP10     Caution !! Clear CMOS: JP5 Clear CMOS: JP5 Clear CMOS: JP5 Clear CMOS: JP5 Clear CMOS: JP5 JP5 Clear CMOS Normal Clear (Default)
  • Page 16 Hardware Installation Clock setting: JP8, JP9, JP10, SW1 Clock setting: JP8, JP9, JP10, SW1 Clock setting: JP8, JP9, JP10, SW1 Clock setting: JP8, JP9, JP10, SW1 Clock setting: JP8, JP9, JP10, SW1 JP10 3-Pin Jumper 2-Pin Jumper Pin1-2 OPEN (O) Pin2-3 SHORT (S) JP10...

  • Page 17: System Memory Installation

    Hardware Installation System Memory Installation System Memory Installation System Memory Installation System Memory Installation System Memory Installation ♦ ♦ ♦ 8MB, 16MB, 32MB, 64MB, 128MB, 256MB. There is 1x168-pin DIMM slots (DIMM1) that allow you to install the system memory max up to 256 MB SDRAM.

  • Page 18: Install Dimm

    Orient a DIMM to the socket so the two notches in the DIMM connector are aligned with the crossbars in the socket.

  • Page 19: Install Expansion Cards

    Hardware Installation Install Expansion Cards Install Expansion Cards Install Expansion Cards Install Expansion Cards Install Expansion Cards This section describes how to connect an expansion card to one of your system’s expansion slots. Expansion cards are printed circuit boards that, when connected to the mainboard, increase the capabilities of your system.VMZV6 only include one AMR slot.
  • Page 20 Hardware Installation Choose AMR & Sound functions AMR slot and VIA VT1611A chip provide MC97 modem and AC97 functions. If you don’t need these two function, you may set through the BIOS “Advanced Chipset Features”. (See the following table) How to enter the BIOS? While the BIOS is in control, the Setup program can be activated by pressing the <Del>key during the POST (Power On Self-Test).

  • Page 21: Panel Connector

    Hardware Installation Connectors: Connectors: Connectors: Connectors: Connectors: Pannel Connector -POWER LED ATX Power LED (3-pins) -SPEAKER Chassis Speaker (4-pins) -HDD LED HDD LED (2-pins) -RESET Reset Switch (2-pins) -PWR ON ATX Power Switch (2-pins) Power Connector Connect the 20-pin ATX power supply cable to this power connector. Make sure the right plug-in direction and the power supply is off before connecting or dis- connecting the power cable.

  • Page 22: Fan Connector

    Hardware Installation Fan Connector Connect the CPU and System fan cables to the fan connectors shown below. The fan connectors are marked as: SYS FAN & CPU FAN on the motherboad. CPU Fan SYS Fan 2-11...

  • Page 23: Ps/2 Mouse & Keyboard Connectors

    Hardware Installation PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard Connectors Connect the PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard to the onboard 6-pin Mini-Din connector shown as below. USB Connector: USB 3/4 JP6 Connect your USB device(s) to the onboard USB connector shown as below. Top: USB1 USB 3/4 Bottom: USB2...

  • Page 24: Serial Device Com, Vga & Printer Connectors

    Hardware Installation Serial Device COM, VGA and Printer Connectors Connector your serial device(s) to the onboard serial connectors marked as COM. Connect the 15-pins VGA Monitor Output marked as VGA to your system monitor or other VGA compatible devices. Connect your local Printer to the onboard 25-pin printer connector marked shown as below.

  • Page 25: Floppy Drive Connector

    Hardware Installation Floppy Drive Connector Connect the floppy drive cable to the onboard 34-pin floppy drive connector marked as FDD. IDE Hard Disk Connector Connect your IDE devices to the onboard 40-pin IDE connectors marked as IDE. 2-14...

  • Page 26: Game/Audio Pinheaders & Cd_In Connectors

    Hardware Installation 10. LAN Port Connect your LAN port to the onboard LAN connector shown as below. (Wake on LAN function should be supported Network Card.) LAN Connector D AVICOM DM9102AF 11. Game / Audio pinheaders and CD_IN Connectors The 10-pin Audio and the 12-pin JP1 GAMEPORT pinheaders allow you to plug audio and joystick conntector in.

  • Page 27: Chapter 3 Cmos Setup Utility

    Chapter 3 CMOS Setup Utility The rest of this manual is intended to guide you through the process of configuring your system using Setup. While the BIOS is in control, the Setup program can be activated by pressing the <Del>key during the POST (Power On Self-Test).If the message disappears before you respond and you still wish to enter Setup, restart the system to try again by turning it OFF then ON or pressing the “...
  • Page 28 CMOS Setup Utility The main menu includes the following main setup categories, which defines basic information about your system. Below are the keyboard function keys you can use under the menu. ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ← ← ← ← ← → → → → → : To Move around the screen.

  • Page 29: Standard Cmos Setup

    CMOS Setup Utility Standard CMOS Setup Standard CMOS Setup Standard CMOS Setup Standard CMOS Setup Standard CMOS Setup The items in Standard CMOS Setup Menu are divided in 10 catagories. Each catalogue includes one or more than one setup items. Use the keys to highlight the item and then use the / <PgUp>...
  • Page 30 CMOS Setup Utility Choose the access mode for this hard disk. The optional are: Normal, LBA, Large, Disk drive capacity (approximated). Note that this size is usually slightly greater than the size of the formatted disk given by a disk checking program. The optional are: Auto display your drive size.

  • Page 31: Advanced Biosfeatures

    CMOS Setup Utility Advanced BIOSFeatures Advanced BIOSFeatures Advanced BIOSFeatures Advanced BIOSFeatures Advanced BIOSFeatures CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Advanced BIOS Features Item He lp If this function enabled and someone attempt to write data into this area, BIOS will automatically show a warming message on screen and alarm beep.
  • Page 32 CMOS Setup Utility This item allows you to enable / disable Processor Number. The optional are: , Disabled This item speeds up Power On Self Test (POST) after you power up the computer. If it is set to Enable, BIOS will shorten or skip some check items during POST. The optional are: Enabled, The BIOS attempts to load the operating system from the devices in the sequence selected in these items.
  • Page 33 CMOS Setup Utility Normal-a pin in the keyboard controller controls Gate A20. Fast- lets chipset control Gate A20. The optional are: , Fast Keystrokes repeat at a rate determined by the keyboard controller, when enabled, the typematic rate and typematic delay can be selected. The optional are: Enabled, Sets the number of times a second to repeat a key stroke when you hold the key down.

  • Page 34: Advanced Chipset Features

    CMOS Setup Utility This item defines if you leave default setting, video BIOS memory will be copied from ROM into DRAM area to enhance system performance as DRAM access time is faster than ROM The optional are: , Disabled Set Enabled if you know the address that your add on card ROM used to shadow them.
  • Page 35 CMOS Setup Utility CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Advanced Chipset Features Bank 0/1 DRAM Timing SDRAM 8/10ns Item Help SDRAM Cycle Length DRAM Clock Host CLK Menu Level Memory Hole Disabled P2C/C2P Concurrency Enabled Fast R-W Turn Around Disabled System BIOS Cacheable Disabled...
  • Page 36 CMOS Setup Utility This item allows you to control the DRAM speed. The optional are: , Host-33M, Host+33M In order to improve performance, certain space in memory is reserved for ISA cards. This memory must be mapped into the memory space below 16MB. The optional are: 15M-16M, This allows you to enable/disable the PCI to CPU, CPU to PCI concurrency.
  • Page 37 CMOS Setup Utility Select the size of Frame Buffer The optional are: 8M(Default), 4M, NA This should be enabled if your system has a USB installed on the system board and you want to use it. Even when so equipped, if you add higher performance control- ler, you will need to disable this feature.
  • Page 38 CMOS Setup Utility When Enabled, every write transaction goes to the write buffer. Burstable trans- actions then burst on the PCI bus and nonburstable transactions do not. The optional are: , Enabled When Enabled, writes to the PCI bus are executed with zero wait state. The optional are: , Disabled The chipset has an embedded 32-bit posted write buffer to support delay transactions...

  • Page 39: Integrated Peripherals

    CMOS Setup Utility Integrated Peripherals Integrated Peripherals Integrated Peripherals Integrated Peripherals Integrated Peripherals CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Integrated Peripherals OnChip IDE Channel 10 Enabled Item Help IDE Prefetch Mode Enabled Primary Master PIO Auto Menu Level Primary Slave PIO Auto Primary Master UDMA...
  • Page 40 CMOS Setup Utility The two IDE PIO (Programmed Input/Output) fields let you set a PIO mode (0-4) for each of the two IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports. Modes 0 through 4 provide successively increased performance. In Auto mode, the system automatically determines the best mode for each device.
  • Page 41 CMOS Setup Utility Select an address and corresponding interrupt for the first and second serial ports. The optional are: , Disabled, 3F8 / IRQ4, 2F8 / IRQ3, 3E8 / IRQ4, 2E8 / IRQ3 This item allows you to select the IR half/full duplex function. The optional are: Half , Full inverting enable...
  • Page 42 CMOS Setup Utility ECP Mode Use DMA Select a DMA channel for the parallel port for use during ECP mode. The optional are: 3 (Default), 1 Parallel Port EPP Type Select EPP port type 1.7 or 1.9. The optional are: EPP 1.9(Default), EPP 1.7 This field controls the onboard legacy audio.

  • Page 43: Power Management

    CMOS Setup Utility Power Management Setup Power Management Setup Power Management Setup Power Management Setup Power Management Setup The Power Management Setup allows you to configure your system effectively save energy while operating in a manner consistent with your own style of computer use. CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Power Management Setup ACPI function...
  • Page 44 CMOS Setup Utility There are four selections for Power Management, three of which have fixed mode settings. Minimum power management. Doze Mode = 1 hr. Stan dby M in. Pow er Sa ving Mo de = 1 hr., Susp end M ode = 1 hr., and HDD Po wer Down = 15 min.
  • Page 45 CMOS Setup Utility This item lets you select a method of ACPI suspend. The optional are: , S3(STR) When enabled, an Advanced Power Management device will be activated to enhance the Max. Power Saving mode and stop the CPU internal clock. If Ad- vance Power Management (APM) is installed on your system, selecting Yes gives better power savings.
  • Page 46 CMOS Setup Utility This determines the IRQ in which the MODEM can use. The optional are: NA, 3(Default), 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11 Soft-Off by PWRBTN Pressing the power button for more than 4 seconds forces the system to enter the Soft-Off state when the system has “hung.”.
  • Page 47 CMOS Setup Utility LPT & COM When On of LPT & COM, any activity from one of the listed system peripheral devices or IRQs wakes up the system. The optional are: NONE, LPT, COM, LPT/COM (Default) HDD & FDD When On of HDD & FDD, any activity from one of the listed system peripheral devices wakes up the system.
  • Page 48 CMOS Setup Utility IRQs Activity Monitoring The following is a list of IRQ’s, interrupt ReQuests, which can be exempted much as the COM ports and LPT ports above can. When an I/O device wants to gain the attention of the operating system, it signals this by causing an IRQ to occur. When the operating system is ready to respond to the request, it interrupts itself and per- forms the service.

  • Page 49: Pnp / Pci Configurations

    CMOS Setup Utility PnP / PCI Configurations PnP / PCI Configurations PnP / PCI Configurations PnP / PCI Configurations PnP / PCI Configurations This section describes configuring the PCI bus system. PCI- Peripheral Component Interconnect, is a system which allows I/O devices to operate at speeds nearing the speed of CPU itself using when communicates with its own special components.This section covers some very technical items and it is strongly recommended that only experienced users should make any...
  • Page 50 CMOS Setup Utility The Award Plug and Play BIOS has the capacity to automatically configure all of the boot and Plug and Play compatible devices. However, this capability means absolutely nothing unless you are using a Plug and Play operating system such as Windows98. The optional are: , Manual Leave this field at Disabled.

  • Page 51: Pc Health Status

    CMOS Setup Utility PC Health Status PC Health Status PC Health Status PC Health Status PC Health Status This section helps you to get more information about your system including CPU temperature, FAN speed and voltages. It is recommended that you contact with your motherboard supplier to get proper value about your setting of the CPU temperature.

  • Page 52: Frequency / Voltage Control

    CMOS Setup Utility Frequency / V Frequency / Voltage Control Frequency / V oltage Control oltage Control oltage Control Frequency / V Frequency / V oltage Control CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software Frequency / Voltage Control Auto Detect DIMM / PCI Clk Enabled Item Help...

  • Page 53: Load Fail-Safe Defaults

    CMOS Setup Utility Load Fail-Safe Defaults Load Fail-Safe Defaults Load Fail-Safe Defaults Load Fail-Safe Defaults Load Fail-Safe Defaults This option allows you load Fail-Safe Defaults settings. To load setup default, press <Y> key to confirm the operation when you see the below display. CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software !"...

  • Page 54: Set Supervisor / User Password

    CMOS Setup Utility Set Supervisor / User Password Set Supervisor / User Password Set Supervisor / User Password Set Supervisor / User Password Set Supervisor / User Password Password prevents unauthorized use of your computer. If you set a password, the system prompts for the correct password before boot or access to setup.

  • Page 55: Save & Exit Setup

    CMOS Setup Utility Save & Exit Setup Save & Exit Setup Save & Exit Setup Save & Exit Setup Save & Exit Setup Highlight this item and press ENTER to save the changes that you have made in the setup utility and exit the setup program. When the Save and Exit dialog box appears, press <Y>...
  • Page 56 CMOS Setup Utility How to Update Y How to Update Your Motherboard’ How to Update Y our Motherboard’ our Motherboard’s BIOS? our Motherboard’ s BIOS? s BIOS? s BIOS? How to Update Y How to Update Y our Motherboard’ s BIOS? Create a bootable system floppy disk by typing [FORMAT A:/S] from the DOS prompt without creating "AUTOEXEC.BAT"...
  • Page 57 CMOS Setup Utility After the backup,prompt: Are you sure to program?(Y/N) Press <Y> to start to program the new BIOS information into the flash ROM. When the pro- gramming is finished.You may press <F1> to reset the PC or <F10> to Exit the AWDFLASH.

  • Page 58: Chapter 4 Software Utility

    Chapter 4 Software Utility The support software for this motherboard is supplied in a CD. All the support pro- grams are stored in separate folders, so you can find the program you need easily enough. We recomend you to choose the program which you need most, it will assist your computer system to high performance.

  • Page 59: Installing Drivers Location

    Software Utility Installing Driver Location: To using software, you’d better find chipset driver location: IDE / VIA, then install contents step by step. VMZV6 integrates AC’97 audio system, providing perfect audio quality to users. (AC’97 system is the very popular with audio system in the world. According to the most of users’...
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