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  • Page 1 If you need technical assistance, our technical support engineers will be glad to assist you with all technical difficulties, you can reach them by dial- ing our toll-free service and technical support number : 1-877-DELTA-2K/1- 877-335-8225 (USA / CANADA Only ). Not only you will get to speak with our experience technical support team, we also provide web-site address (http://pc.delta.com.tw), product ,sales and RMA/warranty information.

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS 1. Checklist............2 2. Introduction............ 3 3. Specification............4 4. Layout Guide........... 6 5. Hardware Installation........8 6. BIOS Configuration ........24 P/N : 5011501900 NOV/1999 REV1.0...

  • Page 3: Checklist

    1. Checklist Check that your package is complete. If any listed items are missing, please contact your retailer immediately. The MVBX2-X motherboard package contains the following. Package Box MVBX2-X Motherboard Anti-Static Bag EPE Sheet User’s Manual IDE Ribbon Cable Supporting Ultra DMA33/66 Note : The 80-Pin Ribbon cable is designed with a 40-Pin connector.

  • Page 4: Introduction

    Bridge) and VT82C596B (South Bridge) chip in the ATX form factor. The MVBX2-X motherboard offers outstanding I/O capabilities. It contains a full set of PC I/ O, such as two channel PCI IDE interface, a Floppy controller, two Serial ports, an SPP/ EPP/ECP capable bidirectional Parallel port, two USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports, a PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse port.

  • Page 5: Specification

    3. Specification Chipset MVBX2-X consist of the VIA’s VT82C693A+VT82C596B Winbond W83977EF-AW + W83783S CPU Support Intel’s Slot1 Pentium II/III and SEPP Celeron series Processors System Speed Support 66/100/133 MHz FSB for CPU Interface 33 MHz PCI Bus for PCI Interface...
  • Page 6 Award 2MB Flash BIOS Compliancies DOC Compliant CE Certification Form Factor ATX (305 x 178 x 1.6mm) 4 Layer PCB Design Environment Operating Temperature : 0 ~ 50 Operating Humidity : 10 ~ 80% RH Vibration : 0 ~ 500Hz MVBX2-X User’s Manual...

  • Page 7: Layout Guide

    Use the following illustration and key to identify the components on your motherboard. K/B & MS PS/2 Mouse Port K/B & MS PS/2 Keyboard Port USB1 Two USB Ports LPT1 Parallel Port COM1 Serial Port COM2 Serial Port Safe Mode Header MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 8 SB-LINK Header Front Panel I/O Header BAT1 Lithium CR2032 Battery CPU FAN CPU Fan Connector IDE1~2 IDE Devices Header JP1,4 CPU FSB Header FDC1 FDD Device Header ATX1 ATX Power Connector DIMM1~3 DIMM Sockets SLOT1 Slot1 CPU Slot MVBX2-X User’s Manual...

  • Page 9: Hardware Installation

    5. Hardware Installation 5.1 Before You Begin The MVBX2-X motherboard is designed to fit into a standard ATX form factor chassis. The pattern of the mounting holes and the position of back panel I/O ports meet the ATX mother- board specification. The chassis may come with various mounting fasteners which are made of metal or plastic.
  • Page 10 It has a single lead connector with a clip on one side of the plastic housing. There is only one way to plug the lead into the power connector “ATX1”. Press the lead connector down until the clip snaps into place and secures the lead on to the connector. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 11 Put the jumper cap back to Pin 1-2 of JP3. Turn on your system power then access BIOS setup, please refer to BIOS Configuration explain. Jumper Cap Function Short Pin 1-2 Normal Operation Short Pin 2-3 Clear CMOS MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 12 Depending on your memory type PC-100 (100MHz) or PC-133 (133MHz), select the appropriate SDRAM speed along with the appropriate CPU speed. The MVBX2-X motherboard system clock combination is listed in below table. CPU Clock SDRAM Clock AGP Clock PCI Clock CPU/PCI Ration...
  • Page 13 J6 and J9. The CPU and motherboard will overheat if there is no air flow across the CPU and onboard heat sink. Damage may occur to the motherboard and the CPU fan if these pins are incorrectly used. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 14 When power on the system, the system will enter safe mode for reboot your system. Then power off the system again, remove the jumper cap from Pin 1-2 and put the jumper cap back to Pin-1 of JP5. After that power on the system again to check the setting. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 15 450MHz, 500MHz, 550MHz, 600MHz, and 667MHz. Pentium III’s operate over a 100/133MHz system bus. The MVBX2-X motherboard provides a Universal Retention Module for Pentium II/III and Celeron processor in SECC, SECC2 and SEPP. Please check URM well setup on the motherboard already.
  • Page 16 If you need to remove the processor from the motherboard, the procedure will be as follows. Disconnect the fan power cable from the motherboard. Remove the sliders of the URM to “OPEN” position. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 17 Press the edge connector of the memory module into the DIMM socket. Press down quite firmly so that the locking latches of the DIMM socket are levered upwards to secure the memory module in place. Repeat the process with any other memory modules that you want to install. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 18 Hold the edge connector of the add-on card directly over the slot that you are going to use. The metal bracket on one edge of the add-on card fits into the opening from which you removed the blanking plate. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 19 CD-ROM header, and the other end of the cable to the IDE2 box header on the motherboard. (Note : Each header has the Pin-1 side clearly marked. The Pin- 1 side of the each ribbon cable is always marked with a red stripe on the cable.) MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 20 Note : Ultra DMA66 IDE devices must use an 80-Pin IDE cable. Step3: Install the FDD Device The motherboard has a floppy disk drive interface that will support one or two floppy disk drives. The floppy disk drive ribbon cable has connectors for two 3.5” wide disk drives. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 21 PW-LED : It is a 3-Pin header connects to the chassis-mounted power LED to indicate onboard power state. KB-LK : It is a 2-Pin header connects to the chassis-mounted key lock switch that is used to lock the keyboard for security purpose. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 22 Note : Incorrect installation of the power supply could result in serious damage to the motherboard and connected peripherals. Make sure the power supply is unplugged from the AC outlet before connecting the leads from the power supply. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 23 (Teal/Turguoise) Step7: Boot the System This chapter is a step by step guide that explains how to use your MVBX2-X motherboard to build a powerful system. At a minimum, you will need the following components in order to build a fully function system.
  • Page 24 5. Hardware Installation You are now ready to boot the system for the first time. Please continue to the next section to configure your BIOS (Basic Input Output System) setting. It must be configured after booting. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...

  • Page 25: Bios Configuration

    CMOS battery weakens. The preceding screen provides you with a list of options. At the bottom of this scrare the control keys for this screen. Take note of these keys and their respective uses. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 26 “master” and the second is the “slave”. For IDE hard disk drive setup, you can: Use the Auto setting for detection during bootup. Use the IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION in the main menu to automatically enter the MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 27 If you are using a VGA or any higher resolution card, choose EGA/VGA. Halt On This field determines which types of errors will cause the system to halt. Choose from All Errors; No Errors; All, But Keyboard, All, But Diskette; and All, But Disk/Key. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 28 These fields allow you to choose from the default of Enabled or choose Disabled to turn on or off the CPU’s Level 1 and Level 2 built-in cache. CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Enabled this function to perform ECC (Error Check and Correct) on the CPU’s L2 SRAM. Processor Number Feature MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 29 This item allows you to select between three methods of memory error checking, Auto, Enabled and Disabled. Typematic Rate Setting When enabled, you can set the two typematic controls listed next. Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) This field controls the speed at which the system registers repeated keystrokes. Options MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 30 ROMs on them, you will need to know which addresses the ROMs use to shadow them specifically. Shadowing a ROM reduces the memory available between 640K and 1024K by the amount used for this purpose. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 31 DRAM. Concurrent PCI/Host When disable, CPU bus will be occupied during the entire PCI operation period. System BIOS Cacheable This field allows you to cache the System BIOS for higher performance. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 32 This should be enabled if your system has a USB installed on the system board and you wish to use it. Even when so equipped, if you add a higher performance controller, you will need to disable this feature. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 33 “Control Panel”. Choose “Advanced” in the Power Management Field. PM Control by APM Power Management is completely controlled by the APM. APM stands for Advanced Power Management, it is a power management standard set by Microsoft, Intel and other major manufacturers. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 34 1-15 Min. It also contains a Disabled option and does not affect SCSI hard drives. When set to OFF, any event occurring at a VGA port will awaken a system which has been powered down. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 35 COMS ports and LPT port above can. When an I/O device wants to gain the attention of the operation 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 performs the service. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 36 CPU. When disabled, a write buffer is not used and the CPU read cycle will not be completed until the PCI bus signals that it is ready to receive the data. CPU to PCI Write Buffer When enabled, up to four Dwords of data can be written to the PCI bus without interrupting MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 37 Assign IRQ For Assign IRQ For VGA Name the interrupt request (IRQ) line assigned to the /VGA on your system. Activity of the selected IRQ always awakens the system. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 38 <Enter>. The system displays a confirmation message on the screen. Press <Y> and then <Enter> to confirm. Press <N> and then <Enter> to abort. This feature does not affect the fields on the Standard CMOS Setup screen. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 39 If you enable spread spectrum, the EMI generated by the system is greatly reduced. CPU Warning Temperature If you have installed hardware monitoring you can enable this item so that the system gives a warning beep when critical CPU temperatures are exceeded. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 40 This field allows you to set POWER ON mode from button only, Hot-Key, PS/2 Mouse password or keyboard 98 mode. KBC input clock This item sets the clock speed for the keyboard controller. Leave this item at the default value of 8MHz. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 41 EPP allows bidirectional parallel port operation at maximum speed. ECP allows the parallel port to operate in bidirectional mode and at a speed faster than the maximum data transfer rate. And ECP+EPP allows normal speed operation in a two-way mode. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 42 Features Setup screen once the system prompt for password. If you want to disable either password, press <Enter> instead of entering a new password when the “Enter Password” prompt appears. A message confirms the password has been disabled. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 43 If you are auto-detecting a hard disk that supports the LBA mode, three lines will appear in the parameter box. Choose the line that lists LBA for an LBA drive. Do not select Large or Normal. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...
  • Page 44 Exit Without Saving Select this option to exit the Setup utility without saving the modifications you specify during the current session. To exit without saving, highlight the “Exit without Saving” option on the main screen and then press <Enter>. MVBX2-X User’s Manual...