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- Page 1 TS-AVD3 USER S MANUAL Intel Socket 370 Celeron/ Pentium III FC-PGA Series Cyrix III Joshua Series Transcend Your Supplier, Your Partner, Your Friend.
- Page 2 This is even if Transcend has been advised of the possibility of such damages arising from any defect or error in this manual or product.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
1.4 Specifications and Features ..................3 CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.1 Transcend’s TS-AVD3 Motherboard ..............5 2.2 Layout of Transcend’s TS-AVD3 Motherboard ..........6 2.3 CPU Installation .................... 7 2.4 66/100/133MHz System Configuration ............... 9 2.5 CPU Internal Frequency Ratio Setting ............9 2.6 Memory Configuration ................... - Page 4 Load BIOS Defaults..................44 3.15 Load Setup Defaults ................... 44 CHAPTER 4 BIOS UPGRADE How to Check Your BIOS File Name and Version ........... 45 Downloading the Correct BIOS File from the Transcend Web Site.....45 How to Update Your Motherboard BIOS ............ 46...
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Page 5: Chapter 1 Introduction
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 6: Checklist: Hardware Required For Setup
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-AVD3 motherboard - 1 x CD-ROM - 1 x FDD cable - 1 x Ultra DMA/66 cable - User’s Manual... -
Page 7: Specifications And Features
INTRODUCTION 1.4 Specifications and Features • • • • • CPU Supports Intel ® Socket 370 Celeron and Pentium ® III FC-PGA Series. - Supports Cyrix III Joshua Series • • • • • Chipset - VIA 693A/596B AGPset (133MHz Ultra DMA /66) •... - Page 8 INTRODUCTION • Award BIOS - Supports Plug-and-Play, PC98 - Supports ACPI, APM, DMI and Green Feature - Easy BIOS Recovery • Wake Up Features - PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard Wake Up - Supports Wake-on-LAN function - Remote Ring Wake Up - Time Wake Up •...
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Page 9: Chapter 2 Hardware Installation
HARDWARE INSTALLATION CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.1 Transcend’s TS-AVD3 Motherboard Back Panel I/O Ports Main Memory ® - 2 x Serial Ports & Parallel Print Port - Intel Socket 370 Celeron and -3x 168 pin DIMM - 2 x USB Ports... -
Page 10: Layout Of Transcend's Ts-Avd3 Motherboard
HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.2 Layout of Transcend’s TS-AVD3 Motherboard KB MOUSE PS/2 T:Mouse PWR-CONN B:Keyboard U S B T:Port 1 B:Port 2 C O M B 6 9 3 A Printer Chipset C O M A A G P Transcend PCI Slot1 (PCI1) -
Page 11: Cpu Installation
HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.3 CPU (Central Processing Unit) Installation So far you have familiarized yourself with the handling precautions, checked you have all of the necessary hardware for building your system, inspected the motherboard package contents and looked at the layout of the motherboard. This chapter will take you step by step through the process of installing the different hardware devices onto it. - Page 12 HARDWARE INSTALLATION C P U _ F A N Socket 370 CPU (Top View) N o t c h N o t c h Socket 370 CPU (Bottom View) Socket 370 CPU Installation Step2: ® Next, according to the CPU type you install, set JP8 to short pin1 & pin2 for either Intel Celeron and Pentium ®...
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Page 13: 66/100/133Mhz System Configuration
HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.4 66/100/133MHz System Configuration Jumper 7 (JP7) allows you to set the FSB (Front Side Bus) to 66, 100 or 133MHz configuration. When you set the FSB to 66MHz, you can select a system bus frequency from 66MHz to 83MHz through “CPU Host/PCI clock”... - Page 14 HARDWARE INSTALLATION CPU Internal Frequency Freq.-Ratio 233/350/466 66/100/133MHz x 3.5 266/400/533 66/100/133MHz x 4.0 300/450/600 66/100/133MHz x 4.5 333/500/666 66/100/133MHz x 5.0 366/550/733 66/100/133MHz x 5.5 400/600/800 66/100/133MHz x 6.0 433/650/866 66/100/133MHz x 6.5 466/700/933 66/100/133MHz x 7.0 500/750/1G 66/100/133MHz x 7.5 533/800/1066 66/100/133MHz...
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Page 15: Memory Configuration
HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.6 Memory Configuration This motherboard must be installed with DIMMs (Dual Inline Memory Modules). The DIMMs must be 3.3 Volt synchronous DRAM modules. The VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset supports PC100, PC133, and Virtual Channel Memory (VCM). It also supports ECC (Error Checking and Correcting) mode. -
Page 16: Primary / Secondary Ide Connectors
HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.7 Primary / Secondary IDE Connectors (Two 40-pin IDE) This mainboard supports two 40-pin IDE connectors marked as IDE1 (primary IDE channel) and IDE2 (secondary IDE channel). Each channel supports two IDE devices, making a total of four devices. Connect your Hard Disk (the main one if you are using more than one) to the “Master”... -
Page 17: Floppy Disk Drive Connector
HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.8 Floppy Disk Drive Connector (34-pin FDC) This connector supports the provided floppy disk drive ribbon cable. After connecting the single end to the board, connect the two plugs on the other end to the floppy drives. Note: Orient the red stripe next to Pin1 Floppy Drive Connector... -
Page 18: Wake-On-Lan Connector
HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.10 Wake-on-LAN Connector (3-pin WOL) This connector connects to LAN cards with a Wake-on-LAN output. The system can be Powered Up when a wakeup packet or signal is received from the LAN card. NOTE: This function requires that the “LAN Wake Up” function in the POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP is set to “Enabled”... -
Page 19: Panel Connectors
HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.12 Panel Connectors KEY LOCK POWER LED SPEAKER S_LED SOFT_OFF HDD_LED RESET Panel Connector Power LED Lead (3-pin POWER LED) This 3-pin connector attaches to the power LED. Pin1 : Pin2 : Pin3 : Keylock Lead (2-pin KEYLOCK) Use the keylock to enable or disable the keyboard. - Page 20 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Suspend Mode LED Lead (2-pin S_LED) The S_LED will light when the suspend mode works. Pin11 : +5V Pin12 : GND Harddisk LED Lead (2-pin HDD_LED) This 2-pin connector connects to LED of harddisk. The LED lights when a HDD is active. Pin13 : +5V Pin14 : GND Reset Switch Lead (2-pin RESET)
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Page 21: Power Connector
HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.13 Power Connector (20-pin PWR-CONN) Make sure to plug the ATX power supply connector to the right direction. The pin definition is shown below. Make sure that your ATX power supply can support at least 720mA on the standby lead. -
Page 22: Clearing Cmos Using Jumper
HARDWARE INSTALLATION 1 . P S / 2 M o u s e 4. Parallel Port (Printer) 3 . U S B 1 3 . U S B 2 2 . P S / 2 K e y b o a r d 5 . -
Page 23: Keyboard Wake Up
HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.16 Keyboard Wake Up (3-pin KB-AWK This function makes the Keyboard Power Up the system. Set this jumper to “Enable” if you would like your Keyboard to Power Up your computer. Then, go to the “Integrated Peripherals” in the BIOS SETUP MENU (please refer to page 38), and choose the setting you prefer. J P 1 K B - A W K Disable... -
Page 24: Chapter 3 Bios Setup
BIOS SETUP CHAPTER 3 BIOS SETUP 3.1 BIOS Setup Award BIOS has a built-in Setup program that allows users to modify the basic system configuration. This information is stored in CMOS RAM. So it can retain the Setup information when the power is turned off. When the battery of CMOS fails, it will cause the data to be lost. When this happens, you should set up your configuration parameters again after replacing the battery.Please refer to Section 1.1,Essential Handing Precautions (Page1.) 3.2 The Main Menu... -
Page 25: Integrated Peripherals
BIOS SETUP [F1] General help, only for Status Page Setup Menu and Option Page Setup Menu [F2] Change color from total 16 colors [F2] to select color forward [Shift + F2] to select color backward [F3] Calendar, only for Status Page Setup Menu [F5] Restore the previous CMOS value from CMOS, only for Option Page Setup Menu [F6]... -
Page 26: Standard Cmos Setup
BIOS SETUP • SUPERVISOR / USER PASSWORD To change, set, or disable a password. • IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION Automatically detect and configure IDE hard disk parameters. • SAVE & EXIT SETUP Save settings in nonvolatile CMOS RAM and exit Setup. •... - Page 27 BIOS SETUP 1. Match the specifications of your installed IDE hard drive(s) with the preprogrammed values for drive type 1 through 45. 2. Select “USER” and enter values into each drive parameter field. 3. Use the “IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION” function in Main Menu. Here are the brief explanation of drive specifications.
- Page 28 BIOS SETUP • Drive A / Drive B Select the correct specifications of the diskette drive(s) installed in the computer. - None : No diskette drive installed. - 360K, 5.25 in. : 5-1/4 inch standard drive; 360 kilobyte capacity. - 1.2M, 5.25 in.: 5-1/4 inch high-density drive; 1.2 megabyte capacity. - 720K, 3.5 in.: 3-1/2 inch double-sided drive;...
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Page 29: Bios Features Setup
BIOS SETUP 3.4 BIOS Features Setup This “BIOS Features Setup” option allows you to improve your system performance and set up system features according to your preference. • Virus Warning When the 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 30: Cpu L2 Cache Ecc Checking
BIOS SETUP • CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Select “Enabled” to make sure the data is accurate. • Processor Number Feature This option is for INTEL Pentium III CPUs, The end-user can choose to open or close it. • Quick Power On Self Test Select “Enabled”... -
Page 31: Typematic Rate Setting
BIOS SETUP • Memory Parity / ECC Check When parity DRAM modules are installed, select “Enabled” to correct 1 bit memory errors in the memory. Otherwise, select “Disabled”. • Typematic Rate Setting When this function is”Disabled”, the following two items ( “Typematic Rate” and “Typematic Delay”... -
Page 32: Chipset Features Setup
BIOS SETUP • C8000-DFFFF Shadow You can shadow the ROM on other expansoin card by setting these fields. If you install other expansion cards with ROMs, you need to know which address the ROMs use specifically. Shadowing a ROM reduces the memory available between 640K and 1024K depending on the used amount. -
Page 33: Dram Clock
BIOS SETUP • DRAM Clock Set the clock frequency of the DRAMs. The default value is “Host Clock”. You can select “HCLK+33M” if your DRAM modules are faster than your CPU (Eg. a 66MHz FSB CPU with PC100 SDRAM, or a 100MHz FSB CPU with PC133 SDRAM); or select “HCLK-33M” for a faster CPU with slower SDRAMs. -
Page 34: Onchip Usb
BIOS SETUP • Onchip USB Select “Enable”, if you have a USB keyboard or any device. • USB Keyboard Support Select “Enable”, if you want to use USB keyboard. • CPU Host/PCI Clock This function allows you to set the FSB frequency of the CPU and the speed of the PCI bus. When JP1 is set to 66MHz, the default FSB is 66MHz, and there are several options under 100MHz available. -
Page 35: Shutdown Temperature
BIOS SETUP • +/- 12V and +/- 5V These fields show the working voltage of +/- 12V and +/- 5V on the motherboard. • 3VSB and 5VSB This fields show the standby mode voltage. • Shutdown Temperature This feature will automatically shutdown the system when the Current CPU Temperature field arrived the setting point you set in this field. -
Page 36: Power Management Setup
BIOS SETUP 3.6 Power Management Setup The Power Management Setup allows you to configure your system to save energy most effectively while operating in manner consistent with your own style of computer use. • ACPI function This item allows you to enable /disable the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) functions. -
Page 37: Pm Control By Apm
BIOS SETUP • PM Control by APM When “Yes”, an Advanced Power Management device will be activated to enhance the Max. Power Saving mode and stop the CPU internal clock. • Video Off Method Determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked. -V/H SYNC+BLANK : System turns off vertical and horizontal synchronization ports and writes blanks to the video buffer. -
Page 38: Hdd Power Down
BIOS SETUP • HDD Power Down After the selected period of driver inactivity(1 to 15 minutes), the hard disk drive will be Power Down while all other devices remain active. • Doze Mode After the selected period of system inactivity (1 minute to 1 hour), the CPU clock runs at slower speed while all other devices still operate at full speed. -
Page 39: Pnp/Pci Configuration Setup
BIOS SETUP • RTC Alarm Resume This item can Power On your computer at the time you selected. • Wake Up On LAN This allows you to remotely Power Up your system through your network by sending a wake up frame or signal. NOTE: This feature requires the network interface and an ATX power supply with at least 720mA +5 V standby power. -
Page 40: Pnp Os Installed
BIOS SETUP • PnP OS Installed This field allows you to use a Plug-and-Play (PnP) operating system to configure the PCI bus slots instead of using the BIOS. Thus interrupts may be re-assigned by the OS when “Yes” is selected. When a non-PnP OS is installed to prevent re-assigning of interrupt settings, select the default setting of “No”. -
Page 41: Cpu To Pci Write Buffer
BIOS SETUP - PCI/ISA PnP devices, whether designed for PCI or ISA bus architecture, compliant with the Plug and Play standard. • DMA-n Assigned to When resources are controlled manually, assign each system a DMA channel as one of the following types, depending on the type of device using the DMA. -
Page 42: Integrated Peripherals
BIOS SETUP • Assign IRQ For USB When “Enabled”, BIOs will assign an IRQ channel for USB controller. • Assign IRQ For VGA Select “Enabled” only if your VGA card requires an assigned IRQ. Most ordinary cards do not; but some high-end cards with video capture function do. Consult your VGA documentation to set this field. -
Page 43: Init Display First
BIOS SETUP • Primary/Secondary Master/Slave PIO The four IDE PIO (Programmed Input/Output) fields let you set a PIO mode (0-4) for each of the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports. Modes 0 through 4 provide successively increased performance. In “Auto” mode, the system automatically determines the best mode for each device. -
Page 44: Onboard Fdc Controller
BIOS SETUP • Onboard FDC Controller You can use this function to enable or disable the onboard FDC controller. • Onboard Serial Port 1/Port 2 Select an address and the corresponding interrupt for each of the first and second serial ports. -
Page 45: Supervisor Password
BIOS SETUP • • • • • EPP Mode Select There are two versions 1.7 and 1.9, available for EPP Mode. Wher setting the version, check if the device connected to the parallel port needs the specified version or not. If not, it’s recommended to select version 1.9. -
Page 46: User Password
BIOS SETUP 3.10 User Password This option allows you to a set the password to prevent others from changing the BIOS setting of your system. This operation is the same as Supervisor Password. 3.11 IDE HDD Auto Detection Use the BIOS utility to detect the HDD type automatically. Press “Y” to accept, “N” to reject, and “ESC”... -
Page 47: Save & Exit Setup
BIOS SETUP 3.12 Save & Exit Setup Save the setting and exit the BIOS utility. 3.13 Exit Without Saving Abort the current change and exit the BIOS utility. -
Page 48: Load Bios Defaults
BIOS SETUP 3.14 Load BIOS Defaults NOTE: This option allows you to load the troubleshooting default values permanently stored in the BIOS ROM. These default settings are non-optimal and disable all high performance features. 3.15 Load Setup 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. -
Page 49: Chapter 4 Bios Upgrade
BIOS File Name (Make sure the first 5 charactors are the same as your own version if you want to upgrade your BIOS.) 4.2 Downloading the Correct BIOS File from the Transcend Web Site Please enter Transcend web site : http://www.transcendusa.com/ Choose BIOS upgrade environment. -
Page 50: How To Upgrade Your Motherboard Bios
BIOS UPGRADE 4.3 How to Upgrade Your Motherboard BIOS Please follow these 5 steps listed below to update your BIOS. Step 1: Make a record of your original or existing BIOS Setup parameters. -Press [Del] during the power On self Test to enter BIOS Setup Program when you start your system.
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