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EASY INSTALLATION Easy Installation Steps The following “Easy Installation” steps are for users accustomed to the assembly of a computer system. For those individuals requiring more specific information please refer to the more detailed descriptions located within the latter chapters of this manual. Note: You must keep your power cable unplugged until the following installation steps are completed.
This manual provides information necessary for Original Equipment Manufactures (OEMs) and home users to build a PC-AT compatible system using the Pentium PCI/ISA motherboard. Just follow the installation procedure presented on the EASY INSTALLATION Page and refer to the section number following each step if you require more detailed instructions.
The IN530 motherboard integrates the Pentium ® ® microprocessor, memory, I/O and AGP, and is designed to fit into a Micro ATX form factor chassis. Page 14 illustrates the Layout for the IN530 motherboard. Below lists the key features provided by this...
2. FEATURES 1 Floppy Port (up to 2.88 MB), 1 Parallel Port (ECP/EPP). 2 Serial Ports (16C550 Fast UART Compatible). 1 PS/2 Mouse Connector, 1 PS/2 Keyboard connector 2 Standard USB Connector (48MHz). 1 VGA port System BIOS 2MB with bootblock flash BIOS. AMD 29F002NBT. IDE Hard Disk Driver Auto-configuring Plug &...
3.INSTALLATION Motherboard Layout & Main Parts Front Panel ISA Slot Ring-In Clear CMOS AUX-In USB Select CD-In Front USB Modem-In VGA Select Mic-in Host Frequency Line-in Line-out Game/MIDI Pri. HDD Sec. HDD Printer CPU Voltage COM1 ATX Power USB*2 PS/2 *2 CPU Socket CPU FAN DIMM Sockets...
3.INSTALLATION Significant Parts List Front Panel Connectors Power Switch Sec. 3.5.5 Power LED Sec. 3.5.5 Speaker Sec. 3.5.5 Reset Sec. 3.5.5 Sleep Sec. 3.5.5 HDD LED Sec. 3.5.5 Back Panel Connectors PS/2-style keyboard and mouse connectors Sec. 3.5.6 USB connectors Sec.
3.INSTALLATION Precaution Before Start Static Electricity Damage: Static electricity can easily damage your motherboard. Observing a few basic precautions can help safeguard against damage that could result in expensive repairs. Follow the simple measures below to protect your equipment from static electricity damage: Keep the motherboard and other system components in their anti-static packaging until you are ready to install them.
3.INSTALLATION 3.1 Slots And Connectors This motherboard requires jumper setting for CPU speed. Please refer to Jumper setting List in sec.3.2.2. PIN 1 PIN 1 In following pages, the triangle s mark stands for pin 1 of connectors. Slots/Connectors List VGA Port Keyboard / Mouse COM1...
3.INSTALLATION 3.2 CPU (Central Processing Unit) This motherboard provides a Socket 7 for Pentium family processor. To complete CPU installation, please install CPU to socket firmly and arrange jumper settings carefully, presented in sec. 3.2.1 and 3.2.2. 3.2.1 Install CPU Please follow the below steps to install your CPU, and configure the types and speed in according to Processor Jumper Setting List.
3.INSTALLATION Step 3: Replace the handling bar downward to fasten the CPU to the socket. Step 3: Fasten the CPU to socket. Warning : It is strongly recommended that a heatsink and CPU cooling fan be used to prevent the CPU from overheating. Applying a thermal of jelly between the CPU and the heatsink/fan will further cool the CPU.
3.3.1 DIMM (Dual Inline Memory Module) The IN530 features two 168-pin DIMM sockets, share memory module. If you have only one DIMM RAM, note that you must insert it into DIMM 1. You can configure the system memory size from 8MB to 512 MB in a variety of ways by using different combinations of the three 168-pin DIMM.
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3.INSTALLATION rock the module forward and backward while slowly lifting it upward.
3.INSTALLATION 3.3.3 DIMM Module Combinations Each DIMM socket can be inserted with 8MB, 16MB, 32MB, 64MB, 128MB, 256MB DIMM. The total combinations are, 6*7 (=42) selections. You can refer to the following figure to select one way to insert your DIMM, for example: Select 128MB 256MB...
3.INSTALLATION Expansion Slots This motherboard contains 4 expansion slots onboard. One 16-bit ISA Bus, two 32-bit PCI expansion slots, one shared PCI as shown above. All three PCI expansion slots accept PCI us master cards and are fully supported by the PCI 2.1 specification.
3.INSTALLATION Connectors This IN530 motherboard contains IDE, floppy, power input, front panel, back panel and additional connectors. Pri. IDE Sec IDE 3.5.1 Primary IDE Connector (J20, 39-pin block, Black) This connector supports two primary channel IDE devices via a ribbon cable. When two IDE devices are installed using the primary IDE connector, make sure that the second IDE device is set to slave mode as indicated in the device’s manual.
3.INSTALLATION 3.5.3 Floppy Drive Connector (J21, 33-pin block) The FDC sub-system can control three types of floppy drives (1.2, 1.44 and 2.88MB) or compatible tape drives. The connection to the floppy drive is via a header (J19). The floppy disk interface includes 48mA drivers and inputs on the drive interface.
HDD ( IDE ) LED Connector (J22, 4-pin) The IN530 supports one straight 4-pin header for connecting to front Panel Hard Disk activity LED indicator. Sleep Switch (J22, 2-pin) When the APM (Advanced Power Management) feature is enabled in the system BIOS and the operating system’s APM driver is loaded, the system can enter the...
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3.INSTALLATION momentary SPST type that is normally open Power Switch (J22, 2-pin) This connector supports the ATX case-mounted Power Switch, which in turn supports System Suspend function. When the BIOS sets the Power Button function to “Delay 4 sec.”, the system can be set to the suspended mode once you push the power switch for no longer then 4 seconds.
3.INSTALLATION 3.5.6 Back Panel Connectors Printer Game / MIDI PS/2 USB COM1 Audio headers PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse Ports (J2) The motherboard offers 1 PS/2 Keyboard and 1 PS/2 Mouse port. Mouse Keyboard Universal Serial Bus (USB) Ports (J5) The motherboard has two USB connectors. USB devices provide a more convenient operating environment and improve data transferring capacity.
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3.INSTALLATION Parallel Port (Printer, J8) The IN530 includes a parallel port (EPP/ECP compatible). The parallel port is capable of being disabled or remapped to either the secondary LPT address or the primary LPT address through BIOS if another parallel port is installed.
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3.INSTALLATION GAME / MIDI Port (J30) The IN530 integrate a Game/MIDI port. This port can let you pulg a joystick or MIDI device. GAME/MIDI Audio Port ( Line-in, Line-out, MIC-in) (J27) The IN530 also provides external sound system through a user accessible stereo jack connector soldered to the PWA.This jack allow the connection of self-...
3.INSTALLATION 3.5.7 Additional Connectors JP10 / USB Select Jumper Ring-In VGA Select Front USB Header Front USB Header (J24, 10-pin) You can use either this Front USB or Back Panel USB by setting the USB Select jumper. Following table shows the jumper settings. USB Select Jumper USB Select Front USB (J24) Back USB (J5-2)
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3.INSTALLATION Ring In (J16, 2-pin) This header is used for remote wakeup of the computer through a modem. Ring- In requires an add-in modem card with remote wakeup capabilities. The remote wakeup header on the add-in modem card must be connected to the onboard Ring-In header.
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You can insert a cap over this header to clear the CMOS data and reload the default settings. CPU Fan (J18, 3-pin) Your Pentium CPU may have an attached heatsink and Fan; this connector is for the CPU Fan. AUX-IN Header (J28, 4-pin, White) Access to the AUX-In header for audio input from AUX devices.
3.INSTALLATION Ready To Turn On Power ♦ Check Again Is the CPU installed exactly and firmly into socket (Sec. 3.2)? Are all the DRAM modules installed properly (Sec. 3.3)? Did you insert expansion card (VGA, Sound…. etc.) already (Sec. 3.4)? Are you sure that all the connectors (described in Sec 3.5) have been connected to their variable devices (Sec.
4. BIOS SETUP 4. BIOS SETUP The IN530 motherboard uses AMI BIOS, which is stored in a Flash EEPROM and can be upgraded by a floppy disk-based program. The BIOS has a built-in Setup Program that allows users to modify the basic system configuration settings.
4. BIOS SETUP 4. BIOS SETUP 4.2 How to setup 4.2.1 Operations Keys These keys help you to set up your BIOS values. Move to previous / next item <↑> , <↓> Change Values First page -- Select sub-menu . <←>...
4. BIOS SETUP 4. BIOS SETUP 4.3 Setup Screen When you enter the AMI BIOS CMOS Setup Utility, the setup screen will presents four menus (Main, Advanced, Security and Exit) on upper bar and own feature items below. This setup screen allows you to select one from “Main”, “Advanced”, “Security”...
4. BIOS SETUP 4. BIOS SETUP 4.4 Main Menu Select the “Main” menu to enter basic setup of your system (Figure2). You can set the system Date and clock, Floppy Disk type, Hard Disk type and Virus Protection. AMI BIOS EASY SETUP UTILITIES Ver. 1.17 ( C ) 1998 American Megatrends, Inc.
4. BIOS SETUP 4. BIOS SETUP 4.4.3 Floppy Drive A/B Select the correct specifications for the diskette drive(s) installed in the computer. Option Description None No diskette drive installed 360K, 5.25 in 5-1/4 inch PC-type standard drive; 360 kilobyte capacity 1.2M, 5.25 in 5-1/4 inch AT-type high-density drive;...
4. BIOS SETUP 4. BIOS SETUP Use the IDE HDD AUTO DECTECTION function in Setup. Here is a brief explanation of drive specifications: • IDE Device Configuration: The BIOS contains a table of pre-defined drive types. Each defined drive type has a specified number of cylinders, number of heads, write precompensation factor, landing zone, and number of sectors.
4. BIOS SETUP 4. BIOS SETUP 4.5 Advanced Menu This Advanced Menu (Figure 3) contains industry-standard options additional to the core PC AT BIOS. This section describes all fields offered by AMI Software in this screen. Some fields may vary from those in your Setup program. Your system board designer may omit or modify some fields.
4. BIOS SETUP 4. BIOS SETUP 4.5.1 Advanced CMOS Setup Select “Advanced CMOS Setup” and press <Enter>, then the screen will be replaced with another individual one for Advanced CMOS Setup, shown as figure 4. You can AMI BIOS EASY SETUP UTILITIES Ver. 1.17 ( C ) 1998 American Megatrends, Inc.
4. BIOS SETUP 4. BIOS SETUP 4.5.2 Power Management Setup AMI BIOS EASY SETUP UTILITIES Ver. 1.17 ( C ) 1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All rights Reserved Advanced POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP Setup Help Exit BIOS Select Menu ACPI Aware O/S Setup Power Management/APM Enabled...
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4. BIOS SETUP 4. BIOS SETUP Hard Disk Power Down Mode This item specifies the power conserving state that the hard disk drive enters after the pre-specified time period of hard drive inactivity has expired. The choices: Disabled, Standby, Suspend. Suspend Time Out (Minute) This item specifies the time of system inactivity while in the Standby mode.
4. BIOS SETUP 4. BIOS SETUP 4.5.3 Plug and Play Setup AMI BIOS EASY SETUP UTILITIES Ver. 1.17 ( C ) 1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All rights Reserved Advanced PCI/PLUG AND PLAY SETUP Setup Help Select Menu Exit BIOS Plug and Play Aware O/S Setup Reset Configuration Data IRQ 3...
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4. BIOS SETUP 4. BIOS SETUP configured by AMIBIOS. All IRQs used by onboard I/O are configured as PCI/PnP. The choices: PCI/PnP, ISA. Memory Hole You can reserve an area (15M-16M) of system memory for ISA adapter ROM. When this area is reserved, it cannot be cached. The user information of peripherals that need to use this area of system memory usually discusses their memory requirements.
4. BIOS SETUP 4. BIOS SETUP 4.5.4 Peripherals Setup AMI BIOS EASY SETUP UTILITIES Ver. 1.17 ( C ) 1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All rights Reserved Advanced PERIPHERAL SETUP Setup Help Exit BIOS Select Menu Onboard FDC Enabled Setup Onboard Serial Port1 2F8h/IRQ3 Onboard Serial Port2 3F8h/IRQ4...
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4. BIOS SETUP 4. BIOS SETUP Parallel Port DMA Channel The option will be auto-configured when the “Parallel Port Mode” is selected. Onboard PCI IDE This item specifies the IDE channel used by the onboard IDE controller. The choices: Disabled, Primary, Secondary, Both. Onboard Sound Card This motherboard implement a sound system onboard.
4. BIOS SETUP 4. BIOS SETUP 4.6 Security Menu AMI BIOS EASY SETUP UTILITIES Ver. 1.17 ( C ) 1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All rights Reserved Main Advanced Security Exit Setup Help [Enter] Exit BIOS Select Menu Set Supervisor Password [Enter] Set User Password Setup...
4. BIOS SETUP 4. BIOS SETUP 4.7 Exit Menu AMI BIOS EASY SETUP UTILITIES Ver. 1.17 ( C ) 1998 American Megatrends, Inc. All rights Reserved Main Advanced Security Exit Setup Help [Enter] Exit BIOS Select Menu Exit Saving Changes [Enter] Exit Discarding Changes Setup...
4. BIOS SETUP 4. BIOS SETUP 4.7.4 Load Fail Safe Settings Once your system fail to boot up normally, to select this item to reload the Fail Safe Settings.
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