A-Trend ATC-6400 Manual

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COMPONENT LOCATION DIAGRAM...........................A

CHECK LIST OF THE PACKAGING .............................B

TABLE OF CONTENTS...............................................1

HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL...................................... 2

APTER 1 Introduction..........................................3

1-1 System features.................................................................................3

1-2 Software Power Off Control.............................................................4

1-3 SB-Link Sideband Signals (JP6)..........................................4

1-4 Wake-On-LAN............................................................. 4

1-5 Thermister.................................................................. 5

1-6 Hardware Monitor.......................................................... 5

CHAPTER 2 Installation...........................................................6

2-1 Installation Procedure ....................................................................6

2-2 CPU Installation.............................................................................7

2-2-1 CPU Setting.............................................................7

2-3 System Memory Installation.........................................................12

2-4 Connectors Description.................................................................13

2-5 IDE Driver Installation..................................................................17

2-6 Hardware Doctor Installation..........................................17

CHAPTER 3 AMI BIOS Setup................................................18

3-1 Update BIOS Procedure.................................................................19

3-1-1 Update Pentium

3-2 AMI System BIOS Configuration Setup........................................21

Appendix A How to Install Pentium

and Processors with SECC2 Package?

Appendix B How to Setup Thermister ?

Appendix C Technical Support Request Form

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II microcode API..................................20

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、Xeon

II、Celeron

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Page 1: Table Of Contents
CONTENTS COMPONENT LOCATION DIAGRAM………………..…..A CHECK LIST OF THE PACKAGING ……..………….…..…B TABLE OF CONTENTS………………………………..………1 HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL…………………………..…. 2 APTER 1 Introduction……………………………..…….3 1-1 System features.................3 1-2 Software Power Off Control.............4 1-3 SB-Link Sideband Signals (JP6).……………………………..…...4 1-4 Wake-On-LAN……………………………………………………. 4 1-5 Thermister………………………………………………………… 5 1-6 Hardware Monitor…………………………..…………...………...
Page 2: How To Use This Manual
HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL To obtain maximum use from this manual it is suggested: Read Page A COMPONENT LOCATION DIAGRAM where you find the mainboard layout diagram. Please refer to it when you configure the system. Read Page B CHECK LIST OF THE PACKAGING where you find the packing contents.
Page 3: Apter 1 Introduction
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION The ATC-6400 mainboard utilizes Intel 440GX AGPset which can perform with all current Intel Pentium II processors in both Slot 1 and Slot 2(option) , ® in addition to Intel Pentium II Xeon processors(with higher memory ®...
Page 4: Software Power Off Control
1-2 Software Power Off Control The mainboard designs to support Software Power Off Control feature through the SMM code in the BIOS under Windows 95/98, Windows 3.1x, and MS-DOS operation system environment. In order to reach this feature, you should use ATX power supply. First, you should connect the power switch cable to the connector “PS-ON”...
Page 5: Thermister
1-5 Thermister This means that users can monitor the CPU temperature through thermister. When setting up the thermister, the BIOS will load the CPU temperature automatically. There is a choice of the warning beep sound if the user set the option on. If the CPU temperature is overheated, the user will get the notice from the thermister.
Page 6: Chapter 2 Installation
CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 2-1 INSTALLATION PROCEDURE Before installing the computer, please prepare all components such as CPU, DRAM; peripherals such as hard drive, keyboard, CD-ROM and accessories such as cables. Then install the system as following:  1. Plug CPU/ heat sink (refer to Pentium II installation guide or Appendix A), and RAM modules on the mainboard.
Page 7: Cpu Installation
2-2 CPU INSTALLATION The ATC-6400 mainboard has a JumperFree feature that let users needn’t to set up the CPU clock frequency, and voltage through jumpers. It is smart enough to detect and recognize the CPU voltage and enables users to setup the CPU frequency only from the BIOS Setup Screen.
Page 8  5a. Intel Pentium II 233MHz (66 x 3.5) AMIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY – VERSION 1.20 (C)1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserved CPU Frequency Selection 66MHz Available Options: 3.0x CPU Ratio Selection 3.5x  3.5x VCC3 Voltage Setting 3.4V 4.0x Current VID 2.00V...
Page 9  5c. Intel Pentium II & Celeron 300MHz (66 x 4.5) AMIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY – VERSION 1.20 (C)1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserved CPU Frequency Selection 66MHz Available Options: 3.0x CPU Ratio Selection 4.5x 3.5x VCC3 Voltage Setting 3.4V 4.0x Current VID...
Page 10  5e. Intel Pentium II 350MHz (100 x 3.5) AMIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY – VERSION 1.20 (C)1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserved CPU Frequency Selection 100MHz Available Options: 3.0x CPU Ratio Selection 3.5x  3.5x VCC3 Voltage Setting 3.4V 4.0x Current VID 2.00V...
Page 11  5g. Intel Pentium II & Xeon (option) 450MHz (100 x 4.5) AMIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY – VERSION 1.20 (C)1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserved CPU Frequency Selection 100MHz Available Options: 3.0x CPU Ratio Selection 4.5x 3.5x VCC3 Voltage Setting 3.4V 4.0x Current VID...
Page 12: System Memory Installation
2-3 SYSTEM MEMORY INSTALLATION The ATC-6400 provides four 168-pin DIMM sockets for system memory expansion to 2GB SDRAM. These four DIMMs are arranged to four banks, please refer to page A. Each bank provides 64-bit wide data path. ※PC-100 Compliant Memory Module of Samples of System Memory Combinations Options ※...
Page 13: Connectors Description
2-4 CONNECTORS DESCRIPTION The locations of following connectors are indicated in page A. When you plug cables or wires into the following connectors, you should have the pin 1 edge of the cable align with the pin 1 end of the connector. CONN1 : speaker, keyboard lock, reset, SMI, turbo LED, and IDE LED connectors.
Page 14 Pin 12 PS_ON : Power Button Pin 24 Pin 12 : PS_ON Pin 24 : +5VSB IDE-LED : IDE devices indicator LED connector. IDE-LED stays ON indicates on-board IDE devices in operation. The red wire of HDD connector must be connected to the pin which is +5V.
Page 15 FDC1 : this connector is used to connect the floppy drive through a cable. signal signal RWC- 20 STEP- reserved 22 Write Data FDEDIN 24 Write Gate Index- 26 Track 00- 10 Motor EnableA- 28 Write Protect- 12 Drive Sele.B- 30 Read Data- 14 Drive Sele.A- 32 Side 1 Sele.-...
Page 16 Host Data 15 ChipSele.3P- Activity COM1/COM2 : these two connectors are used to connect serial port cables. signal name NDCDA/B NSINA/B NSOUTA/B NDTRA/B NDSRA/B NRTSA/B NCTSA/B NRIA/B A is COM1, B is COM2 LPT : this connector is used to connect parallel port cable.
Page 17: Ide Driver Installation
2-5 IDE DRIVER INSTALLATION The IDE driver installation procedure is the following : Setup for Windows 95 : 1. Start Windows 95 2. Select “START”, “RUN”. 3. Install INF.EXE before you install IDE driver: Type “D or E:\ INF.EXE”. 4. Put the CD into your CD-ROM drive: Type “D or E:\IDE\WIN95\SETUP.EXE”.
Page 18: Chapter 3 Ami Bios Setup
AMI BIOS manufacturer provides access to the system BIOS through the hardware and software on each ATC-6400 mainboard. The hardware consists of a Flash ROM and the software is a group of programs that are installed in the ROMBIOS along with all the other data the BIOS must contain.
Page 19: Update Bios Procedure
3-1 UPDATE BIOS PROCEDURES If the BIOS needs to be updated, you can get the updated BIOS driver from the CD we offer in the package. The BIOS updated CD includes : “amiflash.com” -- BIOS updated utility program The updated procedure is in the following: 1.
Page 20: Update Pentium  Ii Microcode Api
 3-1-1 UPDATE PENTIUM II BIOS API Intel also provides MICROCODE API(Applications Programming Interface) for  Pentium II processor-based mainboard user to updated data block in BIOS quickly and easily. (You can find this utility in the CD that we offer in the package.) ...
Page 21: Ami System Bios Configuration Setup
3-2 AMI SYSTEM BIOS CONFIGURATION SETUP The following pages explain how to set up the system configuration (CMOS) under the AMI BIOS. The SETUP program is stored in the Read-Only-Memory (ROM) on the mainboard. To do the SETUP procedure, press the <Del> key when the system is booting up.
Page 22 This screen records some basic hardware information, and sets the system clock and error handling. These records can be lost or corrupted if the on-board battery has failed or is weak. AMIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY – VERSION 1.20 (C)1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserved Standard CMOS Setup Advanced CMOS Setup Advanced Chipset Setup...
Page 23 Date The date format is <day>, <month><date><year>. The day, from Sun to Sat, determined by the BIOS and is display-only month The month, Jan. through Dec. date The date, from 1 to 31 year The year, from 1900 to 2099 Time The time format is <hour><minute><second>.
Page 24 Boot Sector Virus When this item is enabled, the AMI BIOS will monitor the boot Protection sector and partition table of the hard disk drive for any attempt at modification. If an attempt is made, the BIOS will halt the system and the error message will appear.
Page 25 The Advanced Setup Screen will be displayed after choosing the Advanced icon from the AMI BIOS Setup main menu screen. AMIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY – VERSION 1.20 (C)1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserved Standard CMOS Setup Advanced CMOS Setup Advanced Chipset Setup Power Management Setup PCI / Plug and Play Setup...
Page 26 Quick Boot If this option is set to “Enabled”, the system will not do a raw checking over 1MB but sizing only. During sizing, the system will remove the tick sound. 1st Boot Device This category determines which drive to search first/ secondly/ 2nd Boot Device thirdly for the Disk operating System.
Page 27 primary system monitor. Absent There is no video adapter. VGA/EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter/Video Graphics Array. For EGA, VGA, SEGA, SVGA or PGA monitor adapters. CGA40x25 Color Graphics Adapters, power up in 40 column mode. CGA80x25 Color Graphics Adapters, power up in 80 column mode.
Page 28 This screen controls the setting of the chipset on the mainboard. AMIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY – VERSION 1.20 (C)1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserved Standard CMOS Setup Advanced CMOS Setup Advanced Chipset Setup Power Management Setup PCI / Plug and Play Setup Peripheral Setup Hardware Monitor Setup Auto-Detect Hard Disks...
Page 29 Configure SDRAM If this item is set to Enabled, the SDRAM timing will be the SPD Timing by SPD (EEPROM) default setting. SDRAM RAS-to- You can select RAS to CAS Delay time in SCLKs of 2/2 or 3/3.The CAS Delay system board designer should set the values in this field, depending on the DRAM installed.
Page 30 to allow for the completion of the I/O. This item allows you to determine the recovery time allowed for 8- bit I/O. The choices are Disabled and 1 to 8 Sysclk. 16 Bit I/O This item allows you to determine the recovery time for 16-bit I/O. Recovery Time The choices are Disabled and 1 to 4 Sysclk.
Page 31 This screen controls the 'green' features of this mainboard. AMIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY – VERSION 1.20 (C)1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserved Standard CMOS Setup Advanced CMOS Setup Advanced Chipset Setup Power Management Setup PCI / Plug and Play Setup Peripheral Setup Hardware Monitor Setup Auto-Detect Hard Disks...
Page 32 ACPI Aware O/S This item allows you to determine the ACPI OS or not. Power Management When you set enabled, an Advanced Power Management device /APM will be activated to enhance the Max.Power Saving Mode and stop the CPU internal clock. Green PC Monitor Specify the power management state that the Green PC-compliant Power State...
Page 33 Modem Use IRQ This item determines the IRQ in which the MODEM can be used. The choice: N/A,3,4,5,7,9,10,11. Display Activity When you set Monitor, any video activity restarts the global timer for Standby mode. The choice: Ignore, monitor Device0-3,5-8 When you set Monitor, these options enable event monitoring on the specified hardware interrupt request line.
Page 34 The screen configures the PCI Bus slots. AMIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY – VERSION 1.20 (C)1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserved Standard CMOS Setup Advanced CMOS Setup Advanced Chipset Setup Power Management Setup PCI / Plug and Play Setup Peripheral Setup Hardware Monitor Setup Auto-Detect Hard Disks Change Supervisor Password...
Page 35 Plug and Play Set this option to Yes if the operating system installed in the Aware O/S computer is Plug and Play-aware. AMIBIOS only detects and enables PnP ISA adapter cards that are required for system boot. Clear NURAM This item allows you to determine whether to reset the configu- ration data or not.
Page 36 This section page includes all the items of IDE hard drive and Programmed Input/Output features. AMIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY – VERSION 1.20 (C)1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserved Standard CMOS Setup Advanced CMOS Setup Advanced Chipset Setup Power Management Setup PCI / Plug and Play Setup Peripheral Setup Hardware Monitor Setup...
Page 37 On Board FDC This item can enable or disable the floppy disk controller. On Board User can select serial port IRQ. Choose ‘Auto’, system will assign Serial Port 1 an IRQ for it. Note : “Auto” is not recommended. On Board User can select serial port IRQ.
Page 38 This screen is about CPU Freq./Ratio settings and hardware monitor . AMIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY – VERSION 1.20 (C)1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserved Standard CMOS Setup Advanced CMOS Setup Advanced Chipset Setup Power Management Setup PCI / Plug and Play Setup Peripheral Setup Hardware Monitor Setup Auto-Detect Hard Disks...
Page 39 AMIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY – HARDWARE MONITOR SETUP (C)1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserved CPU Frequency Selection 100MHz Available Options:  100 Mhz CPU Ratio Selection 3.5x 105 Mhz VCC3 Voltage Setting 3.4V 112 Mhz Current VID 2.00V 124 Mhz/3 VID Setting 2.00V 124 Mhz/4...
Page 40  The following items are optional. Current VID It shows the default figure of VID setting, 2.00V. VID Setting You can adjust the figure of Vcore by pressing the PgUp/PgDn key. This function is helpful when you perform the overclock of CPU.
Page 41 IDE Hard Disks Auto Detection: This allows you to detect the IDE hard disk drivers’ parameters and enter them into “Standard CMOS Setup” automatically. If the auto-detected parameters displayed do not match the ones that should be used for your hard drive, do not accept them. Press<N> to reject the values and enter the correct ones manually on the Standard CMOS Setup screen.
Page 42 This allows you to set the supervisor password. Enter/Change password : Enter the current password, at the prompt, key-in your new password (up to six alphanumeric characters), press <Enter>. At the next prompt, confirm the new password by typing it again and press <Enter>.
Page 43 This allows you to load optimal settings which are stored in the BIOS ROM. To use this function, select it from main menu and press<Enter>. A line will appear on the screen, Type<Y> and press <Enter>, then the Setup default values will be load. AMIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY –...
Page 44 The last second item of the main menu is 'save settings and exit'. This allows you to save the new setting values in the CMOS memory and continue with the booting process.Select what you want to do, press<Enter>. AMIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY – VERSION 1.20 (C)1998 American Megatrends, Inc.

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