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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Overview Chapter 1 Overview Package Checklist The mainboard This user manual One FDD cable One HDD cable One ATA/100 cable Two software CDs (CD Pro, CD Plus) 1 - 1...
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VC15 Mainboard Manual NOTE: CD Pro that contains patch files, onboard video/audio chip drivers, related online help and other useful information can be found in your mainboard package. Please install it right after your Windows operating system installa- tion is done. Place your CDPro in the drive, an operating menu will appears in your monitor.
Overview FIC Unique Innovation for Users (NOVUS) - Enhanced Mainboard Features and System Support NOTE: 1. LogoGenie supports Award BIOS only. 2. If you create a Logo file (.bmp) by LogoGenie, the file size must ||||be 640 x 464 x 256 colors.
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VC15 Mainboard Manual NOTE: However, if it is disabled and while boot the system, the POST screen will be held and shows you the message to let you know the current status of BIOS Guardian. To press G key will en- able the BIOS Guardian again;...
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.
VC15 Mainboard Manual CPU Fan Installation 1). Set System Jumpers NOTE: Users are not encouraged to change the jumper/switch set- tings not listed in this manual. Changing the settings improperly may adversely affect system performance. 2 - 4...
Installation Procedures NOTE: Users The CPU installing procedures should be: 1. Insert the CPU (with its fansink and retention module) on the socket. 2. Connect the 20-pin plug of the power supply 3. Connect the 4-pin plug of the power supply. To remove the processor, please do it in reverse order.
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VC15 Mainboard Manual 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. Please read Handling Precautions at the start of this manual.
VC15 Mainboard Manual Advanced BIOS Features Virus Warning CPU L1 & L2 Cache Quick Power On Self Test Hard Disk Boot Priority First/Second/Third Boot Device 3 - 4...
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BIOS Setup Boot Other Device Swap Floppy Drive Boot Up Floppy Seek Boot Up Numlock Status Gate A20 Option Typematic Rate Setting Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) Typematic Delay (Msec) 3 - 5...
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VC15 Mainboard Manual Security Option APIC Mode MPS Version Control For OS OS Select For DRAM > 64MB HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability Report No FDD For WIN 95 BIOS Guardian NOTE: Please disable this BIOS feature about BIOS Guardian before you start to reflash BIOS. 3 - 6...
BIOS Setup Advanced Chipset Features DRAM Timing Selectable CAS Latency Time Active to Precharge Delay DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay DRAM RAS# Precharge Time 3 - 7...
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VC15 Mainboard Manual DRAM Data Integrity Mode Memory Frequency For Dram Read Thermal Mgmt System BIOS Cacheable Video BIOS Cacheable Video RAM Cacheable Memory Hole At 15M-16M 3 - 8...
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VC15 Mainboard Manual On-Chip Primary PCI IDE IDE Primary Master PIO IDE Primary Slave IDE Primary Master UDMA IDE Primary Slave UDMA On-Chip Secondary PCI IDE IDE Secondary Master PIO IDE Secondary Slave PIO 3 - 10...
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BIOS Setup IDE Secondary Master UDMA IDE Secondary Slave UDMA USB Controller USB Keyboard Support USB Mouse Support AC97 Audio AC97 Modem Init Display First IDE HDD Block Mode 3 - 11...
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VC15 Mainboard Manual Onboard Lan Device Onboard Lan Boot ROM POWER ON Function Onboard FDC Controller Onboard Serial Port 1/2 UART Mode Select UR2 Duplex Mode TxD , RxD Polarity Active 3 - 12...
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BIOS Setup Use IR Pins Onboard Parallel Port Parallel Port Mode ECP Mode Use DMA Game Port Address Midi Port Address Midi Port IRQ 3 - 13...
VC15 Mainboard Manual Power Management Setup ACPI function ACPI Suspend Type USB KB Wake-Up From S3 Power Management 3 - 14...
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BIOS Setup Video Off Method Video Off In Suspend Suspend Type MODEM Use IRQ Suspend Mode HDD Power Down 3 - 15...
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VC15 Mainboard Manual Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN PWRON After PWR-Fail CPU THRM-Throttling Wake-Up by PCI card Power On by Ring Wake Up On LAN Resume by Alarm Date (of Month) Alarm 3 - 16...
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BIOS Setup Time (hh:mm:ss) Alarm Primary IDE 0 Primary IDE 1 Secondary IDE 0 Secondary IDE 1 FDD, COM, LPT Port PCI PIRQ[A-D]# 3 - 17...
BIOS Setup INT Pin 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8 Assignment PC Health Status Shutdown Temperature CPU Temperature / System Temperature / Vcore (Fom VID) / +2.5V / Vccp / +3.3V / +5V / +12V / HVcc / +1.5V / +1.8V / Current CPU FAN Speed / Current System FAN Speed 3 - 19...
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