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WARNING For the system to operate normally, please make sure J6 of the mainboard is set as below. Refer to Fig. 2 in this manual for the location J6. If J6 is shorted to 2-3, no CMOS data can be retained. CAUTION The motherboard is an electrostatic sensitive device.
CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2 JUMPER SETTINGS JUMPERS PRESENTATION GRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF JUMPER SETTINGS J4 - CPU CLOCK SPEED J6 - CLEAR CMOS DATA J2 - VOLTAGE SELECTION FOR SYSTEM ROM MEMORY CONFIGUARTION CHAPTER 3 CONNECTOR CONFIGURATION JP1 - IrDA CONNECTOR JP8 - ATX POWER SUPPLY CONNECTOR JP10 - FLOPPY DRIVE CONTROLLER JP11, JP12 - PRIMARY/SECONDARY IDE CONNECTORS...
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4.13 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING MENU CHAPTER 5 FLASH AND DMI UTILITY AWARD FLASH UTILITY DESKTOP MANAGEMENT INTERFACE (DMI) OVERVIEW APPENDIX A QUICK GUIDE...
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Preface The motherboard is a 4 layer, ATX form factor high performance PCI/AGP mainboard. It includes VIA Apollo Pro chipset, Winbond W83977TF Super I/O controller. Features Processor • Intel Pentium II and Celeron series. • The mainboard can run with following speeds: 233-450MHz Chipset •...
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Chapter 1 System BIOS • Award BIOS (128KB Flash EPROM). Slots • One AGP slot • Four PCI slots (1 shared) • Two ISA slots(1 shared) Form Factor • Full ATX Size (305mm x 180mm) 4 Layer 36 0286( .(<%2$5' 97& AGP SLOT PCI 1...
CHAPTER 2 JUMPER SETTINGS JUMPERS PRESENTATION Pins 1 and 2 are shorted with a jumper cap. Pins 2 and 3 are shorted with a jumper cap. The jumper is shorted when the jumper cap is placed over the two pins of the jumper. The jumper is open when the jumper cap is removed from jumper.
Jumper Settings J4 - CPU CLOCK SPEED The table below summaries the Pentium II Processor frequence and settings of each jumper of the motherboard. Front Size Freq. Ratio Rating Setting Bus Freq. J4: 1-2 open 233MHz 66MHz Pentium II 3.5x 3-4 open 350MHz 100MHz...
Chapter 2 J2 - VOLTAGE SELECTION FOR SYSTEM ROM J2 is used to select the operation voltage of the system ROM. Table 3: Voltage Selection for System ROM MEMORY CONFIGUARTION When 100MHz Front Size Bus Pentium II Processor is used. SDRAM DIMMs with PC/100 specification and Serial Presence Defect (SPD) data structure are required.
CHAPTER 3 CONNECTOR CONFIGURATION Once the mainboard has been fastened into system case, the next step is to connect the internal cables. The internal cables are wire leads with plastic female connectors that attach to the connectors. The mainboard connectors have varying numbers of pins and are the points of contact between the mainboard and other parts of the computer.
Chapter 3 JP1 - IrDA CONNECTOR JP1 is an IrDA connector that uses UART2 as interface of IrDA Infrared and HP SIR. Fig. 4 IrDA Connector JP8 - ATX POWER SUPPLY CONNECTOR Fig. 5 ATX Power Supply Connector JP10 - FLOPPY DRIVE CONTROLLER This connector supports the floppy drive ribbon cable.
Connector Configuration JP11, JP12 - PRIMARY/SECONDARY IDE CONNECTORS These connectors support the provided IDE hard disk ribbon cable. After connecting the single end to the board, connect the two plugs on the other end to your hard disk or other device. JP13 - HDD LED JP13 is usually connected to a HDD LED on front of the system case.
Chapter 3 JP17 - SPEAKER JP17 is a four pins connector, which is used to connect the system speaker. Fig. 8 Speaker 3.10 JP18 – LAN WAKE UP CONNECTOR JP18 is used to connect to the Network Card which support the LAN wake up feature.
Connector Configuration 3.12 CPU FAN, SYSTEM FAN - FAN CONNECTOR These FAN connectors are used to connect with the CPU Fan or the Chassis Fan Power cable. Fig. 11 FAN Connector Fig. 12 I/O Connector 3.13 PS/2 KEYBOARD CONNECTOR This connector is a six-pin female mini DIN connector using a PS/2 plug. If a standard AT size keyboard plugs, you may use the DIN to mini DIN adaptor.
Chapter 3 3.15 UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS PORT 0 & 1 These connectors are two four pin female sockets which are available for connecting USB device. 3.16 SERIAL PORT COM1 & COM2 This is a D-Type 9 pin male connector for pointing devices or other serial devices. 3.17 PARALLEL PORT CONNECTOR This is a D-Type 25 pin female connector.
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Connector Configuration Retention Mechanism Attach Mount Fig. 14 Heatsink Top Support Fig. 15 Heatsink Support Base Fig. 16...
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Chapter 3 Top Holder for Celeron Fig. 17 Before the installation of RM Kits find the six holes on the motherboard for RM installation. The hole position and usage is as following: Fig. 18 Installation Guide for Pentium II Mount the two RM Attach Mounts onto the motherboard from bottom side. These mounts will be used to attach the RM Assembly.
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Connector Configuration Install the Heatsink Support Base onto the motherboard, insert the two plastic nail to the hole in the Heatsink Support Base as following diagram: Fig. 19 Insert the Heatsink Top Support to the Pentium II Heatsink and the Heatsink Support Base as the following diagram: Fig.
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Chapter 3 Installation Guide for Celeron Mount the two RM attach Mounts onto the motherboard from bottom side. These mounts will be used to attach the RM Assembly. Put the RM Assembly on the Slot 1 and use the four screws to fix RM Assembly to the RM attach Mount.
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Connector Configuration Note: There is mechanical conflict between Intel Box Celeron CPU’s Cooler with normal Pentium II retention. Cause the CPU with a bit inclination. When installing the Top Holder for Celeron, make sure that the PCB of the CPU is fitted into the rail inside the Top Holder.
CHAPTER 4 AWARD BIOS SETUP GUIDE This following manual is specially provided for the BIOS supported system. After the configuration of the mainboard, and have assembled the components, user can turn on the completed system. At this point, run the software setup to ensure that the system information is correct.
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Chapter 4 Press the <DEL> key to enter the AWARD BIOS setup program and the following screen appears: ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A6LGD19) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS BIOS FEATURES SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION...
Award BIOS Setup Guide STANDARD CMOS SETUP ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A6LGD19) STANDARD CMOS SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. Date (mm:dd:yy) : Mon, Jan 10 2000 Time (hh:mm:ss) : 19 : 1 : 14 HARD DISKS TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE Primary Master : Auto AUTO...
Chapter 4 BIOS FEATURES SETUP ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A6LGD19) BIOS FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. Anti-Virus Protection : Enabled Video BIOS Shadow : Enabled CPU Internal Cache : Enabled C8000-CBFFF Shadow : Disabled External Cache : Enabled CC000-CFFFF Shadow : Disabled CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking : Enabled D0000-D3FFF Shadow...
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Award BIOS Setup Guide Boot Sequence: With the default setting the BIOS first attempts to boot from drive A: and then, if unsuccessful, from hard disk C:. User can select other boot up sequence. Available sequences are “A,C,SCSI”, “C,A,SCSI”, “C,CDROM,A”, “CDROM,C,A”, “D,A,SCSI”, “E,A,SCSI”, “F,A,SCSI”, “SCSI,A,C”, “SCSI,C,A”, “C only”, “LS/ZIP,C”.
Chapter 4 Report No FDD For Win95: Choose Yes or No. Yes will show a removable disk in Window 95 when the floppy drive is set as None. Video BIOS Shadow: ROM Shadow copies Video BIOS code from slower ROM to faster RAM. Video BIOS can then execute from RAM.
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Award BIOS Setup Guide A short description of the screen items follows: Bank 0/1 DRAM Timing, Bank 2/3 DRAM Timing, Bank 4/5 DRAM Timing: Available options are Normal, Medium, Fast, Turbo, FP/EDO 70ns, FP/EDO 60ns, SDRAM 10ns, SDRAM 8ns. It is set the DRAM Timing of the corresponding Memory Bank. SDRAM Cycle Length: It is used to set the SDRAM timing.
Chapter 4 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP MENU The Power Management Setup option is used to change the values of the chipset registers for system power management functions. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A6LGD19) POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. ACPI Function : Enabled Primary INTR : ON Power Management...
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Award BIOS Setup Guide PM Control by APM: Available options are “Yes” and “No”. To choose “Yes” to let the Power Management Function to be control by the MS APM software. Video Off Option: Choose the mode in which you want the monitor to blank. The options are “Always On”, “Suspend →...
Chapter 4 PCI CONFIGURATION The PCI Configuration Setup option is used to configure the PCI add-on Cards on PCI Slots. Without proper setup the PCI Add-on Cards might not function properly. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A6LGD19) PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. PNP OS Installed : Yes CPU to PCI Write Buffer...
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Award BIOS Setup Guide IRQ#/DMA# assigned to: These items will be shown only when “Resources Controlled By” option is set the “Manual”. The available options are “Legacy ISA” and “PCI/ISA PnP”. If the option is set to “Legacy ISA”, the BIOS will never assign the specified IRQ/DMA resource to PCI or ISA PnP Devices.
Chapter 4 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SETUP MENU The Integrated Peripherals setup option is need to change the values of the I/O chipset registers for I/O functions. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A6LGD19) INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. OnChip IDE Channel0 : Enabled Onboard Parallel Port : 378/IRQ7 OnChip IDE Channel1 : Enabled...
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Award BIOS Setup Guide Primary Master PIO/Primary Slave PIO/Secondary Master PIO/Secondary Slave PIO: Available selection are “Auto”, “Mode 0”, “Mode 1”, “Mode 2”, “Mode 3” and “Mode 4”. To choose “Auto”, the system BIOS will scan the IDE device and decide which mode of the device is.
Chapter 4 EPP Mode Select: Choose “EPP1.7” or “EPP1.9”, which is used to configure the EPP using either EPP1.7 or 1.9 timing specification. This item is shown if the Parallel Mode is chosen as “EPP” or “ECP+EPP” option. LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS MENU This Main Menu item uses the default setup values.
Award BIOS Setup Guide 4.10 USER PASSWORD With the user password, only booting up the system is accepted, but changing the BIOS setup is not allowed. 4.11 IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION When users can not find the Hard Disk information, it is very helpful to use this option. Choose this item and press <Enter>.
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CHAPTER 5 FLASH AND DMI UTILITY AWARD FLASH UTILITY This section will provide 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 2A59F000.OLD.
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Chapter 5 If you do not wish to save the old BIOS: Please type “N”, and then press the ENTER key. Then you will be request to answer: “Are You Sure to Program?” Answer “N” if you do not want to program, and then it will exit. To save the old BIOS: Please respond “Y”, and then press the ENTER key.
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Flash and DMI Utility DESKTOP MANAGEMENT INTERFACE (DMI) OVERVIEW This motherboard can support DMI within the BIOS level. DMI is able to auto- detect and record information pertinent to a computer’s system such as the CPU type, CPU speed, and internal/external frequencies, and memory size. The onboard BIOS will detect as many system information as possible and store those collected information in a 4KB block in the motherboard’s flash EPROM and allow the DMI to retrieve data from this database.
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Chapter 5 Use the ←→ (left-right) cursors to move the top menu items and the ↑↓ (up-down) cursor to move between the left hand menu items. The bottom of the screen will show the available keys for each screen. Press enter at the menu item to enter the right hand screen for editing. “Edit component”...
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Flash and DMI Utility Load DMI File You can load the disk file to memory by entering a drive and path and file name here.
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Chapter 5 Save DMI File You can save the DMI (normally only saved to flash ROM) to a file by entering the drive and path here. If you want to cancel save, you may press ESC and a message “Bad File Name” appears here to show it was not saved.
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APPENDIX A QUICK GUIDE The table below summaries the functions and settings of each jumper of the motherboard. Function Jumper Settings CPU Speed Pentium II 233, 350MHz 1-2 open 3-4 open Selection 5-6 close Pentium II/Celeron 266, 400MHz 1-2 close 3-4 close 5-6 open Pentium II/Celeron 300, 450MHz...
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