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HANDLING PRECAUTIONS

CAUTION
High potential static charge may cause damage to the integrated circuits on the board. Before
handling any mainboard outside of its protective packaging, ensure that there is no static
electric charge in your body.
Danger of explosion if battery is incorrectly replaced. Replace only with the same or equivalent
type recommended by the manufacturer.
There are some basic precautions when handling the motherboard or other computer components:
♦ Keep the board in its anti-static bag until you are ready to install it.
♦ Protect your board from static electricity by well grounding of your body and the equipment during the
installation, such as wearing a grounded wrist strap.
♦ Always handle the board by its edges.
♦ Do not touch with the components on the boards, add-on cards and modules and with the "gold finger"
connectors plugged into the expansion slot. It is best to handle system components by their mounting
bracket.
♦ Ensure the system power is completely turn-off before doing any installation work.
TRADEMARKS™ ™
Intel, Pentium, Pentium II are registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
IBM, IBM PC, IBM PC/AT, PC-DOS, OS/2 and OS/2 WARP are registered trademarks of
International Business Machines Corporation.
MS-DOS, Windows, Windows NT and Windows 95 are registered trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation.
AMI BIOS is a product of American Megatrends Inc.
Third-party brands and names mentions in this User's Guide are the property of their
respective owners.
NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS
The information contains in this User's Guide with no liability whatsoever, and disclaims any express or implied warranty,
relating to sale and/or use of products including liability or warranties relating to fitness for a particular purpose,
merchantability, or infringement of any patent, copyright or other intellectual property right. We shall not be liable for any loss
or profits, loss of business, loss of use or data, interruption of business, or for indirect, special, incidental, or consequential
damages arising from any defect or error in this User's Guide or product.
We retains the right to make changes on this User's Guide and product descriptions at any time, without notice.
User's Guide Revision : 1.1
Release Date : October 1997
Copyright © 1997, All rights reserved.

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  • Page 1: Handling Precautions

    HANDLING PRECAUTIONS CAUTION High potential static charge may cause damage to the integrated circuits on the board. Before handling any mainboard outside of its protective packaging, ensure that there is no static electric charge in your body. Danger of explosion if battery is incorrectly replaced. Replace only with the same or equivalent type recommended by the manufacturer.

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Table of Contents CHAPTER 1..............................1 ..........................1 EATURES OF THE OARD Overview ..............................1 Features Summary............................ 1 Quick Reference of Your Motherboard ..................... 3 Motherboard Installation ......................... 7 CPU Card Installation ........................... 10 Installing System Memory (RAM) ......................11 Expansion Cards Installation .........................

  • Page 3: Chapter 1

    EPP/ECP capable parallel port, and support for an IrDA and Consumer Infra Red compatible interface. The 6MLX is designed to support the new graphic interface standard, Accelerated Graphic Port (AGP), The AGP interface can reach a theoretical ~532Mbytes/sec transfer rate for 3D graphics data.
  • Page 4 Motherboard Installation POWER SOCKET JP18 PCI 1 PCI 2 PCI 3 PCI 4 ISA 1 ISA 2 ISA 3 BIOS Fig.1 Parts Location on the Motherboard Page 2...

  • Page 5: Quick Reference Of Your Motherboard

    Motherboard Installation QUICK REFERENCE OF YOUR MOTHERBOARD PS/2 Keyboard / Mouse Connectors K. Infra-Red (IR) Connector Universal Serial Bus (USB) Connectors IDE device connector External I/O Connectors M. Integrated I/O Controller PENTIUM II CPU Card Slot N. Intel SB82371AB Chipset Accelerated Graphic Port (AGP) O.
  • Page 6 Motherboard Installation PS/2 Keyboard / Mouse Connectors PS/2 device, likes some PS/2 keyboard and mouse, are all have a standard 6-pin round shape connector. The benefit of PS/2 device is one of the serial port may be free for other serial device such as writing table.
  • Page 7 The flash BIOS allows user have more flexibility to upgrade their motherboard. The flash BIOS can be programmed by software easily. For the latest BIOS upgrade information, please feel free to visit our web site: http://www.zida.com. Front Panel Function Connectors The integrated Real Time Clock (RTC) provides a time of day clock for the system board, a 100-year calendar with alarm features, and a century register.
  • Page 8 Motherboard Installation Integrated I/O Controller On the motherboard, serial ports, parallel port and floppy drive is integrated into a single chip. The I/O port allows you to configure through the BIOS setup. This integrated I/O chip provides: • Plug-and-Play, Version 1.0a compatible. •...

  • Page 9: Motherboard Installation

    Motherboard Installation MOTHERBOARD INSTALLATION Installation Precautions During installation and initial test, use caution to avoid personal injury and damage to wiring due to sharp pins on connectors and printed circuit assemblies, rough chassis edges and corners, and hot components. Adhere to warnings and limitations regarding accessibility into areas designated only for authorized technical personnel.
  • Page 10 Motherboard Installation The following figure is a completed “Map of the Onboard Jumpers” for the onboard jumpers (JP). POWER SOCKET JP18 PCI 1 PCI 2 PCI 3 PCI 4 ISA 1 ISA 2 ISA 3 BIOS Fig.2 Map of the Onboard Jumpers Page 8...
  • Page 11 Motherboard Installation CPU Speed Selection • JP2-JP5 for frequency ratio setting The table below shows the jumper setting for the CPU based on its internal clock speed. Internal External Frequency CPU speed Ratio (MHz) 66MHz [open] [open] [close] [close] 3.5x 66MHz [close] [close]...

  • Page 12: Cpu Card Installation

    Motherboard Installation CPU CARD INSTALLATION The motherboard provides a 242-pin CPU card slot. The CPU card should have a fan attached to it to prevent overheating. If this is not the case then purchase a fan before you turn-on the system. There are two CPU fan power connector, JP2 and JP3, on-board.

  • Page 13: Installing System Memory (Ram)

    Motherboard Installation INSTALLING SYSTEM MEMORY (RAM) The motherboard supports four 168-pin DIMM. The four 168-pin DIMM sockets are divided into four banks and each bank can accept either 3.3v EDO DRAM or SDRAM module but you can only choose one type of DRAM use on your system. Vertically insert for installation Push to remove...

  • Page 14: Connecting External Connector

    Motherboard Installation 7. Secure the card on the slot. 8. Replace the computer’s cover. 9. Setup the BIOS configuration if necessary. 10. Install the required software drivers for your expansion card. CAUTION Before adding or removing any expansion card or other system components, make sure that you unplug your system power supply.
  • Page 15 Motherboard Installation Floppy Drive Connector This 34-pin connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cable. After connecting the single end to the on-board “FLOPPY” connector, connect the remaining plugs on the other end to the floppy drives correspondingly. IDE Connector The two on-board IDE connectors supports the provided 40-pin IDE hard disk ribbon cable.
  • Page 16 Motherboard Installation About Soft Touch Power Button For the ATX system case, the new soft touch power button replaces the main power switch to switch ON / OFF your system. You can switch the system ON by pressing the button. If you want to switch OFF your system, press the button and hold it for 4 seconds.
  • Page 17 Motherboard Installation 26-pin (Female) 26-pin Parallel Port Connector (Male) connector SERIAL SERIAL Onboard Back PRINTER I/O Connector Onboard Back EXTERNAL MODEM I/O Connector PARALLEL 9-pin Seriall Port (Female) connector 9-pin (Male) Connector COM 1 COM 2 SERIAL MOUSE Fig. 8 I/O Back Panel Connector Installation Diagram for Serial and Parallel Ports Page 15...

  • Page 18: Amibios Setup

    Motherboard Installation Chapter 2 AMIBIOS Setup AMIBIOS Setup is a setup program to access the system information stored in CMOS RAM. Starting AMIBIOS Setup As POST executes, the following appears: Hit <DEL> if you want to run SETUP Press <Del> to run AMIBIOS Setup. Page 16...

  • Page 19: Standard Setup

    Motherboard Installation SECTION 1 SETUP STANDARD SETUP The Standard Setup options described in this section are selected by choosing the Standard icon from the Setup menu selection screen. The selection window is shown below. Date / Time Select the Standard option. Select the Date and Time icon. The current values for each category are displayed.
  • Page 20 Motherboard Installation parameter and select Auto. AMIBIOS automatically detects the IDE drive parameters and displays them. Click on the OK button to accept these parameters. Click on LBA/Large Mode and choose On to enable support for IDE drives with capacities greater than 528 MB. Click on Block Mode and choose On to support IDE drives that use Block Mode.

  • Page 21: Advanced Setup

    Motherboard Installation ADVANCED SETUP The Advance Setup options described in this section are selected by choosing the Advance from the Setup menu. Quick Boot When this option is enabled, the memory test is done only on the first 1MB of system memory.
  • Page 22 Motherboard Installation Display Mode At Add-On ROM Init This option specifies the system display mode that is set at the time that AMIBIOS POST initializes an optional option ROM. The settings are: Setting Description Force The display mode currently being used by BIOS AMIBIOS is used.
  • Page 23 Motherboard Installation Advanced Setup, Continued Boot Up Num Lock Set this option to Off to turn the Num Lock key off when the computer is booted so you can use the arrow keys on both the numeric keypad and the keyboard. The settings are On or Off.
  • Page 24 Motherboard Installation Advanced Setup, Continued System Keyboard This option does not specify if a keyboard is attached to the computer. Rather, it specifies if error messages are displayed if a keyboard is not attached. This option permits you to configure workstations with no keyboards. The settings are Absent or Present.
  • Page 25 Motherboard Installation Advanced Setup, Continued Wait for <F1> If Error AMIBIOS POST runs system diagnostic tests that can generate a message followed by: Press <F1> to continue If this option is set to Enabled, AMIBIOS waits for the end user to press <F1> before continuing.
  • Page 26 Motherboard Installation Advanced Setup, Continued System BIOS Cacheable When set to Enabled, the contents of the F0000h system memory segment can be read from or written to cache memory. The contents of this memory segment are always copied from the BIOS ROM to system RAM for faster execution. The settings are Enabled or Disabled.
  • Page 27 Motherboard Installation System Keyboard This option specifies the error messages are displayed or not displayed if a keyboard is not attached. This option permits you to configure workstations with no keyboard. The settings are Absent or Present. Page 25...
  • Page 28 Motherboard Installation Primary Display Select this icon to configure the type of monitor attached to the computer. The settings are Absent, Monochrome, Color 40x25, Color 80x25 or VGA/EGA. Password Checking This option enables the password check option every time, the system boots up or the user runs Setup.

  • Page 29: Chipset Setup

    Motherboard Installation CHIPSET SETUP The Chipset Setup options described in this section are selected by choosing the Chipset icon from the Setup menu. This section allows you to configure the system based on the specific features of the installed chipset. This chipset manages bus speeds and access to system memory resources, such as DRAM and the external cache.
  • Page 30 Motherboard Installation Chipset Setup, Continued EDO RAS Precharge This option specifies the length of the RAS precharge part of the DRAM system memory access cycle when EDO DRAM system memory is installed in this computer. The settings are 3 CLKs or 4 CLKs. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are 4 CLKs.
  • Page 31 Motherboard Installation Chipset Setup, Continued VGA Frame Buffer USWC Set this option to Enabled to enable the VGA video frame buffer using USWC (Uncacheable, Speculatable, Write-Combined) memory. The settings are Enabled or Disabled. Older ISA VGA card drivers may not behave correctly if this option is not set to Disabled.
  • Page 32 Motherboard Installation Chipset Setup, Continued Fixed Memory Hole This option specifies the location of an area of memory that cannot be addressed on the ISA bus. The settings are Disabled, 15 MB-16 MB, or 512KB- 640KB. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are Disabled. TypeF DMA BufferControl1 TypeF DMA Buffer Control2 These options specify the DMA channel where TypeF buffer control is implemented.
  • Page 33 Motherboard Installation Chipset Setup, Continued USWC Write I/O Post This option sets the status of USWC posted writes to I/O. The settings are: Settings Description USWC posted writes to I/O are enabled. Enabled USWC posted writes to I/O are disabled. Disabled AMIBIOS automatically determines if USWC posted writes Auto...
  • Page 34 Motherboard Installation Chipset Setup, Continued MA Buf. Strength This option sets the strength of the signal for the MA buffer. The settings are Auto (AMIBIOS automatically determines the correct setting), 48mA, 42mA, or 22mA. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are Auto. SCAS3 Buf.
  • Page 35 Motherboard Installation Chipset Setup, Continued DQMX1 Buf. Strength This option sets the strength of the signal for the DQMX1 buffer. The settings are Auto (AMIBIOS automatically determines the correct setting), 42mA, 38mA, or 33mA. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are Auto. DQM Buf.
  • Page 36 Motherboard Installation Chipset Setup, Continued AGP System Error Forwarding Set this option to Enabled to enable AGP system errors to be forwarded. The settings are Enabled or Disabled. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are Enabled. AGP Parity Error Response Set this option to Enabled to enable AGP parity error response. The settings are Enabled or Disabled.
  • Page 37 Motherboard Installation Chipset Setup, Continued Master Lat. Timer This option specifies the latency for the Timer. The settings are 00h through F8h in increments of 08h. The settings are 00h. Master Lat. Timer This option specifies the latency for the Timer. The settings are 00h through F8h in increments of 08h.

  • Page 38: Power Management Setup

    Motherboard Installation POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP The Power Management options described in this section are selected by choosing the Power Management icon from the Setup menu. APM Interface-APM is the specification created by Microsoft and Intel that provides an environment for power management of personal computers by the system BIOS, operating system or application or applications.
  • Page 39 Motherboard Installation Instant On Support Set this option to Enabled to enable AMIBIOS support for the Intel InstantON specification. The settings are Enabled or Disabled. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are Disabled. Green PC Monitor Power State This option specifies the power state that the green PC-compliant video monitor enters when AMIBIOS places it in a power saving state after the specified period of display inactivity has expired.
  • Page 40 Motherboard Installation Power Management Setup, Continued Hard Disk Power Down Mode This option specifies the power conserving state that the hard disk drive enters after the specified period of hard drive inactivity has expired. The settings are Disabled, Standby, or Suspend. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are Disabled.
  • Page 41 Motherboard Installation Power Management Setup, Continued Slow Clock Ratio This option specifies the speed at which the system clock runs in the Standby Mode power saving state. The settings are expressed as a percentage between the normal CPU clock speed and the CPU clock speed when the computer is in the power- conserving state.
  • Page 42 Motherboard Installation Power Management Setup, Continued Device 6 (Serial Port 1) Device 7 (Serial Port 2) Device 8 (Parallel Port) Device 5 (Floppy Disk) Device 0 (Primary Master IDE) Device 1 (Primary Salve IDE) Device 2 (Secondary Master IDE) Device 3 (Secondary Slave IDE) When set to Monitor, these options enable event monitoring on the specified hardware interrupt request line.
  • Page 43 Motherboard Installation Standby Timeout Value This option specified the timeout value of the system is inactive (no SMI Event). If the system is inactive for that period, it will enter Standby power saving mode. Suspend Timeout Value This option specified the timeout value of the system is inactive (no SMI Event) while the system is in standby mode.
  • Page 44 Motherboard Installation • Keyboard Activity (Not shown) • Harddisk Activity (Not shown) • IRQ 3 (Com 2 / LAN) Activity • IRQ 4 (Com 1) Activity • IRQ 5 (Lpt 2) Activity • IRQ 7 (Lpt 1) Activity • IRQ 9 Activity •...
  • Page 45 Motherboard Installation PCI/PNP SETUP The PCI/PnP Setup options are displayed by choosing the PCI/PnP Setup icon from the WINBIOS Setup main menu. All PCI/PnP Setup options are described in this section Plug and Play Aware OS Set this option to Yes if the operating system installed in the computer is Plug and Play-aware.
  • Page 46 Motherboard Installation Set this option to Yes to allocate an IRQ to the VGA device on the PCI bus. The settings are Yes or No. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are Yes. PCI IDE Bus Master Set this option to Enabled to specify that the IDE controller on the PCI bus has bus mastering capability.
  • Page 47 Motherboard Installation Reserved Memory Address This option specifies the beginning address (in hex) of the reserved memory area. The specified ROM memory area is reserved for use by legacy ISA adapter cards. The settings are C0000, C4000, C8000, CC000, D0000, D4000, D8000, or DC000.

  • Page 48: Peripheral Setup

    Motherboard Installation PERIPHERAL SETUP The WinBIOS Setup options described in this section are selected by choosing the appropriate high-level icon from the WinBIOS Setup main menu. The settings are Auto or Manual. When set to Auto, WinBIOS automatically detects all the peripheral installed in the system and configures the onboard I/O (serial ports, parallel ports, floppy controllers) automatically.
  • Page 49 Motherboard Installation On Board Parallel Port IRQ7 is used for the parallel port (LPT 1). This option enables the parallel port on the board. The setting are 278h. Parallel Port Mode This option specifies the parallel port Mode. The settings are Normal, ECP and EPP.
  • Page 50 Motherboard Installation SECTION 3 SECURITY PASSWORD SUPPORT WinBIOS Setup has an optional password feature. The system can be configured so that all users must enter a password every time the system boots or when WinBIOS Setup is executed. You can enter a password by: •...
  • Page 51 Motherboard Installation ANTI-VIRUS When the Anti-Virus is enabled from the Security section of the WinBIOS Setup menu, WinBIOS issues a warning when any program (or virus) issues a Disk Format command or attempts to write to the boot sector of the hard disk drive.
  • Page 52 Award BIOS and CMOS Setup Utility SECTION 4 DEFAULT DEFAULT The icons in this section permit you to select a group of settings for all WinBIOS Setup options. Not only can you use these icons to quickly set system configuration parameters, you can choose a group of settings that have a better chance of working when the system is having configuration-related problems.

  • Page 53: Power Consumption

    Motherboard Technical Specification Motherboard Technical Specification Environment Parameter Specification Operating Temperature C to +55 Humidity 20% to 80% Atmosphere Non-condensing Non-operating/Transportation Temperature C to +65 Humidity 10% to 90% Atmosphere Non-condensing ATX Power Supply Requirement +3.3 V ±5 % ±5 V ±5 % ±12 V ±5 %...
  • Page 54 Motherboard Technical Specification calculated power dissipation is about 80W. However, this information is provided only as reference for the total system power usage. Page 52...
  • Page 55 Request for Technical Support Request For Technical Support In order to provide you with effective and quick technical support, we need to know your system specification and environments. Please fill the following form as complete as possible so we can give you assistance.

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