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Transcend TS-ABD4 Series User Manual

Transcend TS-ABD4 Series User Manual

Supporting pentium 4 (socket 478pin) series processor 400 mhz front side bus intel 845 chipset
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  • Page 1 TS-ABD4 Family USER’S MANUAL ® Pentium 4 Processor...
  • Page 2 This freedom from liability remains in effect even if Transcend has been advised of the possibility of such damages arising from any defect or error in this manual or product.
  • Page 3 Utility ezBIOS—One Click is All it Takes! Transcend is proud to inform you that your new motherboard comes with ezBIOS from Transcend. This BIOS updating program developed by Transcend will make BIOS updating easy, and enhance the security and stability of systems built with your Transcend motherboard.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    1.3 Specifications and Features ..................3 CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.1 Transcend’s TS-ABD4 Motherboard ................5 2.2 Layout of Transcend TS-ABD4 Motherboard ............... 6 2.3 100/133 MHz System Configuration ................7 2.4 Using Jumper JP3 to Clear CMOS ................7 2.5 RAID Function ......................
  • Page 5 CHAPTER 4 BIOS UPGRADE 4.1 How to Check Your BIOS File Name and Version ..........46 4.2 Download the Correct BIOS File from Our Web Site ........46 4.3 How to Upgrade Your Motherboard BIOS ............47 Transcend Information, Inc.

  • Page 6: Chapter 1 Introduction

    TS-ABD4 INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Essential Handling Precautions IMPORTANT. Read this page before unpacking your motherboard! Power Supply Be careful! Always ensure that the computer is disconnected from the power supply when working on the motherboard and its components.
  • Page 7 AGP card provided with the system is compatible with the Intel 845 chipset. If you are performing a DIY system upgrade and don't know the detailed specifications of your AGP card, please contact your AGP vendor or Transcend's Motherboard Tech Support.

  • Page 8: Package Contents

    1.2 Package Contents This motherboard package should contain the following items. Please check them as soon as you unpack. If you find any damaged or missing items, please contact your retailer. TS-ABD4 Motherboard(TS-ABD4,TS-ABD4/N,TS-ABD4/R,TS-ABD4/NR) 1 x CD-ROM 1 X FDD cable User’s Manual...
  • Page 9 Supports IrDA port Supports 4 USB (2 by cable) ports Supports Line-out, Line-in and MIC-in jack Supports Game/MIDI port Supports 10/100 Mbps LAN port (TS-ABD4/N,TS-ABD4/NR only) Supports IDE RAID 0,1 Function (TS-ABD4/R,TS-ABD4/NR only) Switching Voltage Regulator Intel VRM 9.0 compliant...

  • Page 10: Chapter 2 Hardware Installation

    TS-ABD4 HARDWARE INSTALLATION CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.1 Transcend’s TS-ABD4 Family Motherboard Back panel I/O ports · Game/ MIDI port & Audio Jack (Line-out, Line-in, MIC-in) POWER-CONNECTORS · 2x Serial ports &Parallel printer port · Pentium 4 Socket 478pin CPU ·...

  • Page 11: Layout Of Transcend Ts-Abd4 Motherboard

    HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.2 Layout of Transcend TS-ABD4 Motherboard Game + Audio DIMM1(64bit 168pin SDRAM Module) DIMM2(64bit 168pin SDRAM Module) DIMM3(64bit 168pin SDRAM Module) IDE2 IDE1 Transcend Information, Inc.

  • Page 12: 100/133 Mhz System Configuration

    TS-ABD4 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.3. 100/133 MHz System Configuration The JP5 Jumper allows you to set the FSB (Front Side Bus) to 100/133MHz configuration. When the Jumper is set to “Auto”, the freqency range depends on your CPU type. When you set the FSB to 100MHz, you can select a system bus frequency from 100MHz to 133MHz.

  • Page 13: Raid Function

    HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.5. RAID Function(JP10) TS-ABD4/R and TS-ABD4/NR comes with on-board Promise IDE RAID controller, featuring additional 2 ATA 100 channels or RAID(Redundant Array of Independent Disks) JP10 is for ATA100 or RAID mode selection. J P 1 0 A T A - 1 0 0...

  • Page 14: Primary/Secondary Ide Connectors

    IDE1 (primary channel) and IDE2 (secondary channel). Each channel supports two IDE devices for a total of four devices. However, the TS-ABD4/R and TS-ABD4/NR is the TS- ABD4 configured with the optional IDE RAID controller and an additional two IDE connectors (IDE3/primary and IDE4/secondary).

  • Page 15: Floppy Disk Drive Connector

    FDD(s). Remember, the red stripe on the edge of the ribbon cable must be the nearest to PIN1 or your connection won’t work. Floppy Disk Drive Connector F D C P I N 1 Floppy Disk Drive Connector Transcend Information, Inc.

  • Page 16: Fan Power Connectors

    TS-ABD4 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.9 Fan Power Connectors There are three fan power connectors on the motherboard: CPU-FAN, POWER-FAN, and SYSTEM-FAN. Each connector provides +12V power. The cables can only be attached the correct way. If you try to put them in the wrong way, they won’t fit. These connectors support cooling fans of 500 mA (6W) or less.

  • Page 17: Memory Configuration

    1 6 8 - p i n U n b u f f e r e d S D R A M M o d u l e ( D I M M 3 ) 168Pin Memory DIMM Sockets Transcend Information, Inc.

  • Page 18: Panel Connectors

    TS-ABD4 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.11 Panel Connectors P O W E R L E D H D D _ L E D R E S E T S P E A K E R S O F T _ O F F...

  • Page 19: Hardware Installation

    This 2-pin connector connects to the case-mounted reset switch for rebooting your computer without turning on your power switch. Pin14 RESET Pin16 Soft Power-Off (2-pin SOFT_OFF) Attach the SOFT_OFF switch of the panel to this connector. Use the switch to Power On/ Off your system. Pin18 SOFT_OFF Pin20 Transcend Information, Inc.

  • Page 20: Wake-On-Lan Connector

    TS-ABD4 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.12 Wake-on-LAN Connector (3-pin WOL) This connector connects to LAN cards with a Wake-on-LAN output. The system can Power Up when a wake-up packet or signal is received from the LAN card. NOTE: This function requires that the “Power On by Ring” function in the POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP in BIOS is set to “Enabled”...

  • Page 21: Power Connectors

    Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) functions. P W R 1 PSON# : Power Supply on P W R 2 G N D + 1 2 V P W R 3 G N D +3.3V Power Connectors + 5 V Transcend Information, Inc.

  • Page 22: Irda-Compliant Infrared Module Connector

    TS-ABD4 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.14 IrDA-Compliant Infrared Module Connector (5-pin IrDA) The IrDA connector can be configured to support a wireless infrared module. With this module and application software such as Laplink or Win95 Direct Cable Connection, users can transfer files to or from laptops (notebooks), PDAs and printers. You must also configure the setting through “UART Mode Select”...

  • Page 23: Internal Usb Port Connector

    P o w e r U S B P 3 - U S B P 4 - U S B P 3 + U S B P 4 + G N D G N D USB 3/4 Connector Transcend Information, Inc.

  • Page 24: External Back Panel I/O Ports

    USB (Universal Serial Bus) Ports USB1 & USB2 (Black two 4-pin USBs) (See “Sec- tion 2.16 Internal USB Port Connector” for information about USB3 and USB4.) LAN Port (Black 8-pin LAN)(TS-ABD4/N, TS-ABD4/NR only) Parallel Port (Burgundy 25-pin PRN) Serial Port COMA & COMB (Turquoise 9-pin COMA & COMB) Game Port/MIDI Port (Gold 15-pin GAME) Line_OUT (Lime Green 1/8”...

  • Page 25: Chapter 3 Bios Setup

    Main Menu: Quit without saving changes into CMOS RAM Other pages: Exit the current page and return to the Main Menu [PgUp] Increase the numeric value or make changes [PgDn] Decrease the numeric value or make changes Transcend Information, Inc.
  • Page 26 TS-ABD4 BIOS SETUP Increase the numeric value or make changes Decrease the numeric value or make changes [F1] General help on Setup navigation keys [F5] Load previous values from CMOS [F6] Load the Fail-Safe Defaults from the BIOS default table...

  • Page 27: Standard Cmos Features

    To save settings in nonvolatile CMOS RAM and exit Setup Exit Without Saving To abandon all changes and exit Setup 3.3 Standard CMOS Features Date (mm:dd:yy)/Time (hh:mm:ss) Highlight the items and use [PageUp]/[PageDown] to change the value of Date/Time. Transcend Information, Inc.
  • Page 28 TS-ABD4 BIOS SETUP IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave Press [Enter] to enter the submenu shown below. IDE HDD Auto-Detection: Detect the HDD on this channel. If the detection is successful, it fills the remaining fields on this menu. IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave: We recommand that you select “AUTO” for all drives.
  • Page 29 All, But Diskette: If the BIOS detects any non-fatal error except floppy disk drive, POST stops and prompts you to take corrective action. All, But Disk/Key: If the BIOS detects any non-fatal error except floppy disk drive or keyboard, POST stops and prompts you to take corrective action. Transcend Information, Inc.

  • Page 30: Advanced Bios Features

    TS-ABD4 BIOS SETUP 3.4 Advanced BIOS Features This “Advanced BIOS Features” option allows you to improve your system performance and setup system features according to your preferences. Virus Warning When this function is enabled, you will receive a warning message if a program (specifically, a virus) attempts to write to the boot sector or the partition table of the hard disk drive.
  • Page 31 Boot Up NumLock Status Toggle between “On” and “Off” to control the state of the NumLock key when the system boots. When toggled “On”, the numeric keypad area of the keyboard generates numbers instead of controlling cursor operations. Transcend Information, Inc.
  • Page 32 TS-ABD4 BIOS SETUP Gate A20 Option Choose “Fast” (default) or “Normal”. “Fast” allows RAM access above 1MB to use the fast Gate A20 line. Typematic Rate Setting When this function is “Disabled”, the following two items (Typematic Rate and Typematic Delay) are irrelevant.

  • Page 33: Advanced Chipset Features

    Leave it on the default setting. Options are: “3” or “2”. DRAM RAS# Precharge This controls the idle clocks after issuing a precharge command to SDRAM. Leave it on the default setting. Options are: “3” or “2”. DRAM Data Integrity Mode Options are: “Non-ECC” and “ECC”. Transcend Information, Inc.
  • Page 34 TS-ABD4 BIOS SETUP Memory Frequency For This can be used to manually set DRAM Frequency to “PC100” or “PC133”. Use “Auto” for auto detection of the memory frequency. System BIOS Cacheable Selecting “Enabled” allows caching of the system BIOS. This action can increase system performance.

  • Page 35: Integrated Peripherals

    The four IDE PIO (Programmed Input/Output) fields let you set a PIO mode (0-5) for each of the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports. Modes 0 through 5 provide successively increased performance. In “Auto” mode, the system automatically determines the best one for each device. Transcend Information, Inc.
  • Page 36 TS-ABD4 BIOS SETUP IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave UDMA Ultra DMA/33/66/100 implementation is possible only if your IDE HDD(s) can support it, and if the operating environment includes a DMA driver (Windows 95 OSR2 or higher or a third-party IDE bus master driver). If both your HDD(s) and your system software can support Ultra DMA/33/66/100, select “Auto”...
  • Page 37 IrDA: IrDA compliant serial infrared port ASKIR: Amplitude Shift Keyed Infrared Port Normal: Normal operation RxD, TxD Active Consult your IR peripheral documentation to select the correct combination of RxD and TxD (“Hi, Hi”, “Hi, Lo”, “Lo, Hi”, or “Lo, Lo”). Transcend Information, Inc.
  • Page 38 TS-ABD4 BIOS SETUP IR Transmission Delay Consult your IR peripheral documentation to select “Enabled” or “Disabled” for the IR Transmission Delay. UR2 Duplex Mode This item allows you to select the IR half/full duplex function. Use IR Pins This option selects IR transmission routing. The two choices are: RxD2,TxD2 =>...

  • Page 39: Power Management Setup

    The Power Management Setup allows you to configure your system to minimize energy consumption, according to your own style of computer use. ACPI Function This item allows you to enable/disable the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI). Transcend Information, Inc.
  • Page 40 TS-ABD4 BIOS SETUP ACPI Suspend Type Select the ACPI Suspend Type: “S1 (POS)” or “S3 (STR)”. If your expansion cards do not support the STR function, you must leave this field on “S1 (POS)” setting. The STR (Suspend-to-RAM) is an energy-saving feature. It takes only a few seconds to wake up the system and return to the previous situation.
  • Page 41 When set to “Delay 4 seconds”, you need to press the Power Off button down for more than 4 seconds if you want to Power Off the system. Wake-Up by PCI Card Select “Enabled” if you want to Power On your system when a PCI event occurs. Transcend Information, Inc.
  • Page 42 TS-ABD4 BIOS SETUP Power On by Ring Select “Enabled” to Power On your system when the external modem receives a call. NOTE: This function requires an external modem which supports the Ring Wake- Up function. USB KB Wake-Up From S3 When your system is in S3 (Suspend to RAM) mode, you can wake-up the system by pressing the wake-up key on the USB Keyboard.

  • Page 43: Pnp/Pci Configuration Setup

    Legacy ISA: Devices requiring a specific interrupt (such as IRQ4 for serial port1), compliant with the original PC AT bus specification. PCI/ISA PnP: devices, whether designed for PCI or ISA bus architecture, compliant with the Plug and Play standard. Transcend Information, Inc.

  • Page 44: Pc Health Status

    TS-ABD4 BIOS SETUP PCI/VGA Palette Snoop Some VGA cards, such as graphics accelerators or MPEG video cards, might not show colors properly. Select “Enabled” to correct this problem. If you don’t have such problems, leave this field at “Disabled”. 3.9 PC Health Status This menu provides two thermo-protection functions (CPU warning temperature and shutdown temperature) and a hardware monitoring center.

  • Page 45: Frequency/Voltage Control

    CPU internal frequency = frequency ratio x system bus frequency.* The choices for CPU Clock Ratio are: “8”, “9”, “10”, “11”, “12”, “13”, “14”, “15”, “16”, “17”, “18”, “19”, ”20”, ”21”, “22”, or ”23”. *System bus frequency is set below in the field “CPU Clock”. Transcend Information, Inc.
  • Page 46 TS-ABD4 BIOS SETUP NOTE: Because Intel has locked the frequency ratio for new CPU settings, this field to adjust the frequency ratio is usually useless. However, it is effective for older version CPUs. Auto Detect PCI Clk “Enable” can stop the frequency output for unused DIMM/PCI slots.

  • Page 47: Load Fail-Safe Defaults

    NOTE: These default settings are non-optimal and disable all high performance features. 3.12 Load Optimized Defaults This option allows you to load the default values to the system configuration fields. These default values are the optimized configuration settings for the system. Transcend Information, Inc.

  • Page 48: Supervisor Password

    TS-ABD4 BIOS SETUP 3.13 Supervisor Password This option allows you to set a password to prevent others from changing the BIOS settings of your system. The password prevents any unauthorized use of your computer. If you set a password, the system prompts for the correct password before you boot or access “Setup”.

  • Page 49: User Password

    This option allows you to set a password to prevent others from changing the BIOS settings of your system. This operation is the same as Supervisor Password. 3.15 Save & Exit Setup Save the settings and exit the BIOS utility. Transcend Information, Inc.

  • Page 50: Exit Without Saving

    TS-ABD4 BIOS SETUP 3.16 Exit Without Saving Abort current changes and exit the BIOS utility.

  • Page 51: Chapter 4 Bios Upgrade

    4.2 How to Download the Correct BIOS File from the Web Please enter the Transcend website at: http://www.transcendusa.com/ On the front page, click on the ”Motherboard” icon, which is the second item down on the far left. On the Motherboard page, click on the “BIOS”...

  • Page 52: How To Upgrade Your Motherboard Bios

    Warning! Your system could be damaged if the wrong BIOS version is accidentally used. If you are not sure what version you should choose, please contact us at: techsupport@transcend.com.tw 4.3 How to Upgrade Your Motherboard BIOS Please follow the 5 steps listed below to upgrade your BIOS.

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