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PT-6VBP
ATX PENTIUM II
MAINBOARD
( VER. 2.x )
USER'S MANUAL
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DOC. NO. UM-VBP-E2
PRINTED IN TAIWAN

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  • Page 1 PT-6VBP ATX PENTIUM II MAINBOARD ( VER. 2.x ) USER’S MANUAL ..............DOC. NO. UM-VBP-E2 PRINTED IN TAIWAN...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    692BX TABLE OF CONTENTS MAINBOARD TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter & Section Page 1. INTRODUCTION ..................1-1 OVERVIEW ....................1-1 MAINBOARD LAYOUT ................1-2 SPECIFICATIONS..................1-3 2. INSTALLATION ...................2-1 UNPACKING ....................2-1 AMAZING WAYS TO POWER ON THE PC SYSTEM......2-2 POWER OFF THE PC SYSTEM ..............2-5 3.

  • Page 3: Wake On Lan

    440BX MAINBOARD SOMETHING IMPORTANT ! ¶ TRADEMARKS All trademarks used in this manual are the property of their respective owners. ¶ LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS “LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS” is the function which will have the BIOS default settings loaded into the CMOS memory, these default settings are the best-case values which will optimize system performance and increase system stability This function will be necessitated when you receive this mainboard, or when the system CMOS data is corrupted.

  • Page 4: Main Board

    440BX INTRODUCTION MAINBOARD 1. INTRODUCTION OVERVIEW This Mainboard is a high performance personal computer mainboard designed for Pentium™ II and Celeron™ processors. It is a Slot1, ATX form-factor mainboard with A.G.P. (Accelerated Graphics Port) and PCI Local Bus on board, Designed based on the Intel®...

  • Page 5: Mainboard Layout

    440BX INTRODUCTION MAINBOARD MAINBOARD LAYOUT JP100...

  • Page 6: Specifications

    440BX INTRODUCTION MAINBOARD SPECIFICATIONS ¥ CPU Intel® Pentium™ II and Celeron™ processor 233 MHz, 266 MHz, 300 MHz, 333MHz. 350MHz, 400MHz, 450MHz and up to 500MHz. ¥ CPU VCC Switching Voltage Regulators on board, supports +1.80V DC through +3.5V DC CPU Core Voltage.
  • Page 7 440BX INTRODUCTION MAINBOARD ¥ EXPANSION SLOTS AGP Slot One 32-bit AGP slot (Supports 1x or 2x AGP graphics cards) PCI Slots 440BX supports five PCI slots, 440ZX supports four PCI slots ISA Slots Two 16-bit slots (One of the slot is PCI/ISA shared) ¥...
  • Page 8 440BX INTRODUCTION MAINBOARD ¥ HARDWARE MONITORING (optional) Winbond W83781D is designed on the board to monitor hardware healthy status like system voltage, system temperature, and cooling fans. When the CPU is over heated, the system BIOS will tell the system board to give a series of beeping alarm and then slow down the CPU speed (throttling speed) so that you can take proper action to prevent your system from damage.

  • Page 9: Installation

    440BX INSTALLATION MAINBOARD 2. INSTALLATION UNPACKING The mainboard contains the following components. Please inspect the following contents and confirm that everything is there in the package. If anything is missing or damaged, call your supplier for instructions before proceeding. l This mainboard. l One USER‘S MANUAL.

  • Page 10: Amazing Ways To Power On The Pc System

    440BX INSTALLATION MAINBOARD 2.2 AMAZING WAYS TO POWER ON THE PC SYSTEM When the mainboard has been installed successfully, there are several ways to power on the system. Please read the following description for all the details. POWER BUTTON The power button can be programmed by COMS setup program and it has different features.

  • Page 11: Rtc Alarm

    440BX INSTALLATION MAINBOARD ¨ PS/2™ MOUSE (Left or right mouse button) When you are tired of pressing on the power button or keying in the password to turn on the PC system, there is another extremely convenient way for you. When you have a PS/2™...

  • Page 12: Wake On Lan ( Wol )

    440BX INSTALLATION MAINBOARD is the incoming message, the PC system will be triggered by the ring-in signal and wake up automatically to receive the message for you. From now on, you can tell your PC system to receive the fax message for you. In order to use the ring-in signal to wake up your PC system, you will have to use the EXTERNAL MODEM and have it connected to one of the SERIAL PORTS ( COMA or COM B ).

  • Page 13: Power Off The Pc System

    440BX INSTALLATION MAINBOARD 2.3 POWER OFF THE PC SYSTEM There are two ways to power off the system. They are “Shut Down by Power Button” and “ Shut Down by OS”. (such as Windows® 95 and Windows® 98, you can choose the Shut Down from the file menu and the system will be powered off immediately ).

  • Page 14: Hardware Setup

    440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD 3. HARDWARE SETUP Before you can start to install this mainboard, some hardware settings is required to make sure it will work perfectly with the component which you are going to install in your PC system. To configure the mainboard is a simple task, only a few jumpers, connectors, cables and sockets needs to be selected and configured.

  • Page 15: Installing The Dram Modules

    440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD processor are identical, The major difference between these two processors is the boxed CPU has head sink, cooling fan and heat sink supporter, while the OEM Pentium™ II CPU doesn’t. As for the Celeron™ processor, it will need the different mechanism to hold the CPU, please check with your CPU supplier for the require materials.
  • Page 16 440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD If the system BIOS can not detect the SPD on the DIMM module. the system BIOS will use the default parameters which is saved in the BIOS for the memory subsystem. Such parameter will work with most DRAM modules, but it will reduce the system performance because it is not optimized.

  • Page 17: Connectors

    440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD CONNECTORS The connectors on the mainboard are either the pin header type or D-type connectors, they are used to connect the accessories or peripheral devices (such as power, mouse, printer,...etc.). Following is the connectors with its description and pin assignment which is designed on the mainboard.
  • Page 18 440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD Pin assignment of PS/2 mouse connector: Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name Mouse Data Ground Mouse Clock No Connection + 5V DC No Connection Pin assignment of keyboard connector Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name...
  • Page 19 440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD CN3 & CN7 : COM A & COM B connector COM A COM B CN14 BIOS SPKR KBLOCK Ping assignment of serial port connector: Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name DCD (Data Carrier Detect) DSR (Data Set Ready) (Received Data) RTS (Request To Send)
  • Page 20 440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD Pin assignment of ATX power connector 11 1 Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name 11 + 3.3V DC + 3.3V DC 12 - 12V DC + 3.3V DC 13 Ground Ground 14 PS-ON + 5V DC 15 Ground Ground 16 Ground...
  • Page 21 440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD Pin assignment of parallel port: 1 14 Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name STROBE AUTO FEED Data Bit 0 ERROR Data Bit 1 INIT Data Bit 2 SLCT IN Data Bit 3 Ground Data Bit 4 Ground Data Bit 5 Ground...
  • Page 22 440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (H) CN9, CN10: IDE Connectors Primary IDE Port: 1F0H, IRQ 14 Secondary IDE Port: 170H, IRQ 15 BIOS CN14 SPKR KBLOCK CN9: IDE 2 CN10: IDE 1 (I) CN11: Floppy Disk Control Port Connector (Using IRQ6, DMA channel 2) BIOS CN14 SPKR...
  • Page 23 440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (J) CN12: WOL (Wake On LAN) Connector In order to use the WOL LAN card to trigger the power of the PC system, the switching power supply must be able to provide at least 700mA current driving ability on the “5V standby”...
  • Page 24 440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD Pin assignment of SB-LINK Connector: Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name GNT# Ground REQ# Ground SERIRQ (L) CN14: Chassis Fan Power Connector (optional) ( this connector is available only when Winbond W83781D is installed on board ) BIOS CN14 SPKR...

  • Page 25: Hl Ide Hdd Led Connector

    440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (N) Push buttons and LED connectors A series of connectors are designed on the board to connect the push buttons and LED indicators. Followings are the details: CN14 BIOS SPKR KBLOCK RS: Reset Button connector HL: HDD LED connector SL: Sleep LED connector PW: Power On / Off Suspend switch SL HL RS...
  • Page 26 440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD  If the setup in CMOS is “Delay 4 Sec.”, the function of “PW” will be: A. When system is power off : Press this switch, the system will power on. (when “password” is selected in the CMOS setup program, you will be unable to use the PW button to turn on the power of the PC system, please see Section 2.2 and Section 4.8 for more details.
  • Page 27 440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (O) Speaker and Key Lock connector: CN14 BIOS SPKR KBLOCK 1 2 3 4 5 SPKR 1 2 3 4 5 PWR-LED & KBLOCK SPKR & KBLOCK CONNECTORS (X) SPKR: Speaker connector Pin # Signal name + 5V DC No Connection No Connection...

  • Page 28: Jumpers

    440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD 3.4 JUMPERS This section will discuss the jumper setting on the mainboard. In order to let you have better idea of the jumper setting, please see below for the explanation of jumper settings before you start this section. open short The jumpers in the following sections which labeled with “optional”...
  • Page 29 440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (B) JP4: Clear CMOS Data Button CN14 BIOS SPKR KBLOCK Normal Setting Clear CMOS Note: Improper BIOS setting may cause hang-up to the PC system, Should it be happened, you can use JP4 to clear the information which is stored in the CMOS memory and get the PC system back to normal.
  • Page 30 440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD Basically, there are two parameters which will decide the CPU speed - the Front Side Bus (FSB) speed and CPU clock ratio. When you have installed the processor onto the mainboard, the system BIOS will detect the CPU type and decide the FSB speed automatically (please refer to section 4-6.).
  • Page 31 440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD For example, if you are installing the 300MHz Pentium™ II processor onto the mainboard. You may look into the data sheet which comes with the processor or the information in the previous page and you will see the FSB clock is 66.6MHz. Now you may introduce these parameters into the formula and get: 300MHz(CPU Frequency) ÷...
  • Page 32 440BX HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (E) JP11: K/B & Mouse OnNow Selection There is some keyboards which does not support the OnNow function and it will cause keyboard failure problem. In case that such problem happened, you may try to use JP11 and select “Disable” to disable the Keyboard OnNow function. The default setting is “Disabled”...

  • Page 33: Award Bios Setup

    440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP 4.1 GETTING STARTED When the system is first time power on or reset by user, the BIOS will enter the Power On Self Test routines ( POST, which will display a copyright message on the screen and execute a diagnostics and initialization procedure.) In case that there is any error or malfunction detected, the BIOS will give a series of beeping sound or display the error message on screen.

  • Page 34: Main Menu

    440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.2 MAIN MENU ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SAVE &...

  • Page 35: Standard Cmos Setup

    440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD The following pages will show all the setup screens which you will find in the CMOS SETUP routine, each figure contains the selection options and its default settings. At the bottom of some screen, you may find the description of all function key which can be used to change the settings.

  • Page 36: Bios Features Setup

    440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Auto : This mode will auto-detect your IDE driver during boot-up. (Note : Some certain operation systems ( such as SCO®-UNIX™ ), only "NORMAL mode" is allowed when installation.) Floppy 3 Mode Support: (Default setting: disabled ) This mode is for the Japanese 3.5 inch high capacity floppy disk drive.
  • Page 37 440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD When you find the message on your screen, please run the anti-virus program to see whether your system is infected by a virus or not. Enabled : A warning message will be displayed on the screen when something attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table.

  • Page 38: Chipset Features Setup

    440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Some display cards are non-standard VGA card (such as graphics accelerator or MPEG Card) which may not display color properly on your screen. “Enable” the setting in this field may correct this problem. Please leave it “Disabled” as the default setting shown above if you are using the normal display card.
  • Page 39 440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD WARNING : The selection fields on this screen are provided for the professional technician who can modify the Chipset features to meet some specific requirement. If you do not have the related technical background, do not attempt to make any change except the following items.
  • Page 40 440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD The Parameters shown on the screen are the default setting and they are the optimal values suggested for the chipset and CPU registers. These parameters may not be able to let you have the best performance, but it will let you have the best reliability. Memory Hole at 15M-16M : ( default setting : “Disabled”...

  • Page 41: Power Management Setup

    440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD voltage … etc. Whenever it detects the abnormal condition occurs, it will give you the warning message or slow down the CPU to avoid system damage. 4.7 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
  • Page 42 440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD PM control by APM: ( Default setting: NO ) The Advanced Power Management feature in Windows will control the power management operation when you select yes, If you select no, Windows will not use the power management feature.
  • Page 43 440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Standby Mode: ( Default setting: Disable ) Standby mode is the intermediate power saving mode, The PC system will be inactive after the time period which you have selected in this field. The selecting range can be from 1 minute to 1 hour.
  • Page 44 440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Resume by Ring or LAN : ( Default setting: “Enabled”.) When “Enabled”, you can resume the system from Sleep or Suspend mode by using a MODEM Ring-in or a LAN signal. In order to make this feature works normally, there are some requirement need to be noticed, please see Section 2.2 for details.

  • Page 45: Integrated Peripherals

    440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.8 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. IDE HDD Block Mode Enabled Onboard FDC Controller : Enabled IDE Primary Master PIO : Auto Onboard Serial Port 1 : 3F8/IRQ4 IDE Primary Slave PIO : Auto Onboard Serial Port 2...
  • Page 46 440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD When you have both the AGP and PCI VGA card installed in the system, you can use this field to decide the display priority. Enabled: the display will be active on the AGP adapter. Disabled: The display will be active on the PCI VGA adapter POWER ON Function : ( Default setting : “BUTTON ONLY”...

  • Page 47: Pnp/Pci Configuration

    440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. PNP OS Installed Assign IRQ for VGA : Disabled Resources Controlled By : Manual Assign IRQ for USB : Enabled Reset Configuration Data : Disabled Used MEM base addr : N/A...
  • Page 48 440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD the IRQ & DMA resource. ( anyhow, the system BIOS will always refer to the ESCE data to assign the I/O and memory space resources ). Auto : The system BIOS will refer to the ESCD segment for all legacy information. Reset Configuration Data : Disabled : The system BIOS will do nothing.
  • Page 49 440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Assign IRQ For VGA/USB The system’s IRQ signals are limited and sometimes you may feel like to some more IRQ signals for your add-on cards. The system BIOS allows you to disable the IRQ which is supposed to be connected to VGA and USB ports. When you have choose to disable the IRQ on VGA or USB port, the IRQ on the related IRQ will be released and becomes available for other devices.

  • Page 50: Load Setup Defaults

    440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Note : No matter what is defined in the “Resources Controlled By” field (“Manual” or “Auto”), the system BIOS will always assign IRQ resources to PCI devices from the highest one first ( ie. IRQ15, 14, 13 …) while assign IRQ resources to ISA PnP devices from the lowest one first ( ie.

  • Page 51: Supervisor Password / User Password

    440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD In case that the CMOS data is corrupted, the SETUP DEFAULTS settings will be loaded automatically when you press the “Del” key and enter the main setup screen. So you may select “SAVE & EXIT SETUP” to leave setup program and the system is loaded with the default settings.

  • Page 52: Ide Hdd Auto Detection

    440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.12 IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SAVE &...

  • Page 53: Save & Exit Setup

    440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.13 SAVE & EXIT SETUP ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SAVE &...

  • Page 54: Exit Without Saving

    440BX AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.14 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69KXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS SAVE &...

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