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......................1 What’s in this manual........................2 You Must Notice........................... 9 Before You Start ........................10 Quick Installation Procedure ...................... 11 Motherboard Map ........................12 Block Diagram ........................... 13 Hardware....................14 JP14 Clear CMOS ........................15 CPU Socket and Fan Connector ....................16 CPU Jumper-less Design......................
IDE and Floppy Connector......................25 JP9 IrDA Connector........................28 JP6 / JP7 Thermal Sensor ......................29 WOL (Wake on LAN) ......................... 30 4X AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) ................... 32 PC99 Color Coded Back Panel ....................33 Support 4 USB Ports........................34 CD Audio Connector ........................
Autorun Menu from Bonus CD Disc ................... 47 Installing Windows 95 ........................ 48 Installing Windows 98 ........................ 49 Installing Windows 98 SE & Windows2000 ................50 Installing VIA 4 in 1 Driver......................51 Installing Onboard Sound Driver ....................52 Installing Hardware Monitoring Utility ..................53 ACPI Suspend to Hard Drive .....................
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PnP/PCI Configurations ......................118 PC Health Status ........................124 Load Setup Defaults ........................ 125 Load Turbo Defaults......................... 126 Set Supervisor Password......................127 Set User Password ........................127 Save & Exit Setup........................128 Exit without Saving........................129 NCR SCSI BIOS and Drivers ....................129 BIOS Upgrade .........................
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AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) ...................... 135 AOpen Bonus Pack CD ......................135 APM............................135 ATA/66 ............................. 136 ATA/100 ........................... 136 BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)................... 136 Bus Master IDE (DMA mode)....................137 CODEC (Coding and Decoding) ....................137 DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module)..................137 ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ..................
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Flash ROM ..........................139 FSB (Front Side Bus) Clock ..................... 139 I2C Bus............................ 140 P1394 ............................140 Parity Bit ..........................140 PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM) ................... 140 PC100 DIMM ........................... 140 PC133 DIMM ........................... 141 PDF Format ..........................141 PnP (Plug and Play)......................... 141 POST (Power-On Self Test) .....................
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SPD (Serial Presence Detect)....................143 Ultra DMA/33 ........................... 143 USB (Universal Serial Bus) ...................... 143 ZIP file ............................. 144 Troubleshooting ..................145 Technical Support................. 149 Part Number and Serial Number ................151 Model name and BIOS version ................152...
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Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage your processor, disk drives, expansion boards, and other components. Always observe the following precautions before you install a system component. Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you are ready to install it. Wear a wrist ground strap and attach it to a metal part of the system unit before handling a component.
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When should I Clear CMOS? 1. Boot fail because of overclocking… 2. Forget password…
3. Troubleshooting…
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Some CPU fans do not have sensor pin, so that cannot support fan monitoring.
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High CPU core voltage may be able to increase CPU speed for overclocking, but you may damage the CPU or reduce the CPU lifecycle.
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The driving capability of new generation chipset is limited due to the lack of a memory buffer (to improve performance). This makes DRAM chip count an important factor to take into consideration when you install DIMMs. Unfortunately, there is no way that the BIOS can identify the correct chip count;...
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To identify 2-clock and 4-clock DIMM, you may check if there are traces connected to the golden finger pins 79 and 163 of the SDRAM. If there are traces, the SDRAM is probably 4-clock; otherwise, it is 2-clock. To identify single-side or double-side DIMM, check golden finger pin 114 and pin 129.
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! ! !' ! #+ ) ! #+ ! ) ! ,! For ATX system, there is always a standby current on the motherboard. Please make sure that you have unplugged the ATX power cable from the connector before you insert or pull out any CPU, DIMM, PCI and AGP cards.
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The specification of the IDE cable is a maximum of 46cm (18 inches), make sure your cable does not exceed this length. For better signal quality, it is recommended to set the far end side device to master mode and follow the suggested sequence to install your new device.
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To achieve the best performance of Ultra DMA/66 hard disks, a special &$"!'( for Ultra DMA/66 is required.
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$% Although we have implemented protection circuit try to prevent any human operating mistake, there is still certain risk that CPU, memory, HDD, add-on cards installed on this motherboard may be damaged because of component failure, human operating error or unknown nature reason.
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Please follow recommended procedure to install Windows 95 Windows...
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Installing this Bus Master IDE driver may cause Suspend to Hard Drive failure. If you want to uninstall the VIA AGP Vxd driver, please remove the AGP card driver first. Otherwise, the screen may go black at rebooting after the un-installation.
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Because the BIOS code is the most often changed part of the motherboard design, the BIOS information contained in this manual may be different with actual BIOS that come with your motherboard.
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Please avoid of using "Load Turbo Defaults", unless you are sure your system components (CPU, DRAM, HDD, etc.) are good enough for turbo setting.
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The F000 and E000 segments are always shadowed because BIOS code occupies these areas.
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Make sure you fully understand the items contained in this menu before you try to change anything. You may change the parameter settings to improve system performance. However, it may cause your system to be unstable if the setting is not correct for your system configuration.
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You cannot use both USB driver and USB legacy keyboard at the same time. Disable "USB Keyboard Support" if you have USB driver in the operating system.
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If you are using network card, make sure that the IRQ do not conflict.
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The upgrade of new BIOS will permanently replace your original BIOS content after flashing. The original BIOS setting and Win95/Win98 PnP information will be refreshed and you probably need to re-configure your system. ...