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6253M Mainboard
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COMPONENT LOCATION DIAGRAM..............................................A
CHECK LIST OF THE PACKAGING.................................................B
CONNECTORS DESCRIPTION ...................................................... C
TABLE OF CONTENTS....................................................................1
HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL..........................................................2
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APTER 1 Introduction...............................................3
1-2 Software Power Off Control.............................................................9
1-3 Fan Off Control................................................................................9
1-4 Running 100MHz CPU Bus (JP11)...............................................10
1-5 Keyboard & PS/2 Mouse Power On (JP9).....................................11
1-6 Wake-On-LAN ..............................................................................12
1-7 Thermister (optional).....................................................................12
1-8 LDCM ( LANDesk Client Manager, optional).............................13
CHAPTER 2 Installation...............................................................14
2-1 Installation Procedure ...................................................................14
2-2 CPU Installation............................................................................14
2-2-1 Core/Bus Freq. Ratio.................................................
2-2-2 CPU Setting............................................................15
2-3 System Memory Installation.........................................................16
2-4 IDE Driver Installation..................................................................17
2-5 Sound Driver Installation..............................................................17
2-6 VGA Driver Installation................................................................18
2-7 Hardware Doctor Installation........................................................18
CHAPTER 3 Award BIOS Setup..................................................19
3-1 Update BIOS Procedure.................................................................20
3-1-2 Update Microcode API...............................................................21
3-2 Award System BIOS Configuration Setup....................................22
Standard CMOS Setup ..............................................................................23
BIOS Features Setup .................................................................................26
Chipset Features Setup ..............................................................................30
Power Management Setup .........................................................................34
PNP/PCI Configuration .............................................................................37
Integrated Peripherals ................................................................................39
IDE HDD Autodetection ...........................................................................42
Load BIOS Defaults, Load Setup Defaults, Password Setup ...................43
Appendix A How to Install Pentium
Appendix B How to Setup Thermister (optional)
Appendix C Technical Support Request Form
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Page 1: Table Of Contents
6253M Mainboard Contents CONTENTS COMPONENT LOCATION DIAGRAM………………..…....…A CHECK LIST OF THE PACKAGING…………..………....…..…..B CONNECTORS DESCRIPTION ……………………….….…....C TABLE OF CONTENTS…………………………………..….....1 HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL……………….………….…....….2 APTER 1 Introduction……………………………..…...…...3 1-1 System Features (in English, German, French, Spanish,Italian)..3 1-2 Software Power Off Control.............9 1-3 Fan Off Control................9... -
Page 2: Connectors Description
How To Use This Manual 6253M Mainboard HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL This manual is written in a user-friendly style. It would be advisable for users to read it in an orderly sequence : 1. For Hardware Information: Read Page A: COMPONENT LOCATION DIAGRAM, Page B: CHECK LIST OF THE PACKAGING and Page C: CONNECTORS DESCRIPTION. -
Page 3: Apter 1 Introduction
6253M Mainboard Chapter 1 Introduction CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Welcome to use 6253M mainboard, the Intel 443BX chipset supporting both 66MHz and 100MHz Front Side Bus Pentium II/III CPU. It also has the built-in Yamaha YMF 740 3D PCI sound chip and Voodoo3 VGA chip. The Yamaha YMF 740 sound chip is using PCI interface which allows your computer to perform 3D stereo sound. - Page 4 Chapter 1 Introduction 6253M Mainboard 1-1 Systemmerkmale (German) CPU Slot unterstützt Intel Pentium III CPU 450MHz zu 550MHz, Pentium II CPU 233MHz zu 450MHz und Inetl Celeron CPU 266MHz zu 466MHz . Intel 443BX PCIset . YAMAHA YMF 740 dreidimensional PCI Sound Chip .
- Page 5 1-1 Caractéristiques du Système (French) Socle CPU supportant un CPU d'Intel Pentium ® III 450Mhz à 550Mhz, un CPU ® d'Intel Pentium II 233Mhz à 450Mhz et un CPU d'Intel Celeron™ 266Mhz à 466Mhz. Puce Intel 443BX PCIset. ...
- Page 6 Chapter 1 Introduction 6253M Mainboard 1-1 Características del Sistema (Spanish) Ranura CPU soporta Intel Pentium®III CPU 450Mhz a 550Mhz, Pentium®II CPU 233Mhz a 450Mhz e Intel CeleronTM CPU 266Mhz a 466Mhz. Intel 443BX PCIset. Chip de sonido Yamaha YMF 740 3D PCI ...
- Page 7 1-1 Caratteristiche del Sistema (Italian) La slot CPU supporta micro-processori Intel Pentium III Cpu da 450 Mhz a 550 Mhz, Pentium II CPU da 233 Mhz a 450 Mhz ed Intel Celeron CPU da 266 Mhz a 466 Mhz. ...
- Page 8 Chapter 1 Introduction 6253M Mainboard Voodoo III – 2000/3000 Features Fully integrated 128-bit VGA/2D/3D/Video accelerator True Multi-exturing-2 textures/ clock 3Dfx Voodoo compatibility. 2X AGP with sidebands. DVD Acceleration. Digital video output for NTSC, PAL and SECAM TV-out support.
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Page 9: Software Power Off Control
1-2 Software Power Off Control The mainboard design supports Software Power Off Control feature through the SMM code in the BIOS under Windows 95/98, and MS-DOS operation system environment. First, you should connect the power switch cable to the connector “PS-ON” on the mainboard. -
Page 10: Running 100Mhz Cpu Bus (Jp11)
Chapter 1 Introduction 6253M Mainboard 1-4 Running 100 MHz CPU Bus (with JP11) The mainboard provides Jumper 11 that allows you to set your CPU host clock and perform CPU overclock function. There are two ways to set CPU host clock at ‘closed’... -
Page 11: Keyboard & Ps/2 Mouse Power On (Jp9)
1-5 Keyboard & PS/2 Mouse Power On (with JP9) With ATX Power Supply and Jumper 9 set to Pin 1-2 closed, 6253M Mainboard is enabled to Keyboard & PS/2 Mouse Power On functions : JP 9 KB & PS/2 Mouse Power On... -
Page 12: Thermister (Optional)
This mechanism is accomplished with a LAN card which should also be built with “WOL” and connected to 6253M Mainboard. When main system power is off , leaving 5V power through the ATX power supply, the LAN card remains at the “Wake-on-LAN”... -
Page 13: Ldcm ( Landesk Client Manager, Optional)
（LANDesk Client Manager）(optional) 1-8 LDCM The mainboard built-in controller supports Intel LDCM. LDCM can satisfy users who want manageable systems that can interact automatically with the user. Client manager is the answer, enabling both administrators and clients to manage systems. The features of LDCM are as following : View system inventory ※... -
Page 14: Chapter 2 Installation
Chapter 2 Installation 6253M Mainboard CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 2-1 INSTALLATION PROCEDURE Before installing the computer, please prepare all components such as CPU, DRAM; peripherals such as hard disk, keyboard, CD-ROM and accessories such as cables. Then, install the system as following: ... -
Page 15: Cpu Setting
6253M Mainboard Chapter 2 Installation 2-2-2 CPU Setting For 233~333MHz Intel Pentium II & 266~466MHz Celeron CPUs. INTERNAL CPU CLOCK 233MHz (66x3.5) 1 2 3 4 266MHz (66x4.0) 1 2 3 4 300MHz (66x4.5) 1 2 3 4 333MHz (66x5.0) 1 2 3 4 366MHz (66x5.5) -
Page 16: System Memory Installation
Chapter 2 Installation 6253M Mainboard 2-3 SYSTEM MEMORY INSTALLATION The Mainboard provides four 168-pin DIMM sockets for system memory expansion from 8MB to 512MB SDRAM, 1GB registered SDRAM or 1GB EDO DRAM. (EDO DRAM is available for 66MHz processors only.) These four DIMMs are arranged to four banks, please refer to page A. -
Page 17: Ide Driver Installation
6253M Mainboard Chapter 2 Installation 2-4 IDE DRIVER INSTALLATION Setup for Windows 95/98 : 1. Start Windows 95/98. 2. Put the All-In-One CD into your CD-ROM drive. 3. Select “START”, “RUN”. 4. Type “D:\IDE\WIN95\SETUP.EXE” or “E:\IDE\WIN95\SETUP.EXE”. (If your operating system is Win95, please type “D or E:\winp2x4.exe”... -
Page 18: Vga Driver Installation
Chapter 2 Installation 6253M Mainboard 2-6 VOODOO III AGP DRIVER INSTALLATION 2-6-1 Installing Voodoo III AGP Driver for Win95/98 1. Start your Win95/98 and insert the Driver/Utility CD into CD-ROM Drive. 2. The screen will automatically show the autorun main menu which includes “Install Voodoo III AGP Driver”. -
Page 19: Chapter 3 Award Bios Setup
Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 6253M Mainboard CHAPTER 3 AWARD BIOS SETUP Award BIOS manufacturer provides access to the system BIOS through the hardware and software on the 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 20: Update Bios Procedure
Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 6253M Mainboard 3-1 UPDATE BIOS PROCEDURE If the BIOS needs to be updated, you can get a CD with the updated BIOS utility in the package. The updated BIOS utility includes : “awdflash.exe” -- BIOS update utility program “awdflash.doc”... -
Page 21: Update Microcode Api
6253M Mainboard Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 3-1-1 UPDATE MICROCODE API Intel also provides MICROCODE API(Applications Programming Interface) for Pentium II/III processor-based mainboard user to update data block in BIOS quickly and easily. (You can find this utility in the All-In-One CD in the mainboard package). -
Page 22: Award System Bios Configuration Setup
Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 6253M Mainboard 3-2 SYSTEM BIOS CONFIGURATION SETUP The following pages explain how to set up the BIOS configuration under the Award 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 23: Standard Cmos Setup
6253M Mainboard Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup STANDARD CMOS SETUP 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. - Page 24 Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 6253M Mainboard <Enter>. If you select ‘Auto’, the BIOS will detect the HDD & CD-ROM Drive automatically at the POST stage and show the IDE for HDD & CD-ROM Drive. If you select ‘user’, you will need to know the information listed below. This information should be from your hard disk vender or dealer.
- Page 25 6253M Mainboard Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup Halt On This category determines whether the computer will stop if an error is detected during power up. No errors The system boot will not be stopped for any error that may be detected.
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Page 26: Bios Features Setup
Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 6253M Mainboard BIOS FEATURES SETUP This screen is a list of system configuration options. Some of them are defaults required by the mainboard's design, others depend on the features of your system. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS BIOS FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. - Page 27 6253M Mainboard Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup Enabled Activates automatically when the system boots up. If anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk, partition table will cause a warning message to appear. Disabled No warning message will appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table.
- Page 28 Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 6253M Mainboard Disabled BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number. Boot Up NumLock Status This allows you to determine the default state of the numeric keypad. By default, the system boots up with NumLock on.
- Page 29 6253M Mainboard Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup Report No FDD For WIN 95 Set this item to Yes, BIOS will report FDD to Win95. If in standard CMOS setup, set Drive A to none and set this item to yes. Inside Win95, My Computer and File manager Disk(A:) will show Removable Disk (A:).
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Page 30: Chipset Features Setup
Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 6253M Mainboard CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP This screen controls the setting for the chipset on the mainboard. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. SDRAM CAS Latency Time Clock/Spectrum Control : Disabled/Off SDRAM Precharge Control... - Page 31 6253M Mainboard Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup ROM at F0000h-FFFFFh, resulting in better system performance. However, if any program writes to this memory area, a system error may result. Video BIOS Cacheable Selecting Enabled allows the caching of the video BIOS ROM at F0000h-FFFFFh, resulting in better system performance.
- Page 32 Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 6253M Mainboard dynamic random access memory (DRAM). The default timings have been carefully chosen and should only be altered if data is being lost. Such a scenario might well occur if your system had mixed speed DRAM chips installed so that greater delays may be required to preserve the integrity of the data held in the slower memory chips.
- Page 33 6253M Mainboard Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup The following functions are optional, and they show only when the monitoring IC exists on the mainboard. Please confirm this with your supplier. CPU Warning Temperature When this item is enabled, we can set the CPU warning temperature.
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Page 34: Power Management Setup
Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 6253M Mainboard POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP This screen controls the 'green' features of this mainboard. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. ACPI function : Disabled *Reload Global Timer Events* Power Management : User Define... - Page 35 6253M Mainboard Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup If you would like to use Software Power-off Control function, you should select “Yes” in PM Control by APM. PM Control by APM When enabled, an Advanced Power Management mechanism will be activated to enhance the Max. Power Saving Mode and stop the CPU internal clock.
- Page 36 Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 6253M Mainboard PCI/ VGA Act-Monitor When Enabled, any video active restarts the global timer for standby mode. Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN Instant-off : When push the power button, the system power will be off immediately. Delay 4 sec : when push the power button, it will enter suspend mode.
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Page 37: Pnp/Pci Configuration
6253M Mainboard Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION This screen configures the PCI Bus slots. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. PNP OS Installed : No Resources Controlled by : Auto Reset Configuration Data : Disabled Esc: Quit áâß... - Page 38 Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 6253M Mainboard Used MEM Length This item determines the memory length of address which is for some special ISA Card used. Choices are 8K, 16K, 32K, 64K.
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Page 39: Integrated Peripherals
6253M Mainboard Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS This section page includes all the items of IDE hard drive and Programmed Input/Output features. See also Section “Chipset Features Setup”. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. IDE HDD Block Mode... - Page 40 Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 6253M Mainboard function. On-Chip Primary PCI IDE; On-Chip Secondary PCI IDE This setup item allows you to either enable or disable the primary/secondary controller. You might choose to disable the controller if you want to add higher performance or specialized controller.
- Page 41 6253M Mainboard Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup IrDA, and ASKIR. If you choose IrDA or ASKIR mode, the screen will show another two lines to let you choose ‘RxD TxD Active’ (Hi Lo; Lo Hi; Hi Hi; Lo Lo), and ‘IR Transmission Delay’...
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Page 42: Ide Hdd Autodetection
Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 6253M Mainboard IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION This allows you to detect the IDE hard disk driver’s 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>... -
Page 43: Load Bios Defaults, Load Setup Defaults, Password Setup
6253M Mainboard Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS When your mainboard has problems and needs to trouble shoot the system, you can use this function. The default values loaded only affect the BIOS Features Setup, Chipset Features Setup, Power Management Setup and PNP/PCI Configuration Setup. - Page 44 Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 6253M Mainboard ※ Control Key Description ※ UP ARROW ↑ Move to previous item DOWN ARROW ↓ Move to next item LEFT ARROW ← Move to the item in the left hand RIGHT ARROW →...
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