Notice Handling Precautions Warning: 1. Static electricity may cause damage to the integrated circuits on the motherboard. Before handling any motherboard outside of its protective packaging, ensure that there is no static electric charge in your body. 2. There is a danger of explosion if the battery is incorrectly replaced.
AT31 Mainboard Manual Package Checklist The mainboard This user manual One FDD cable CD software One ATA100 cable TV Out Paddle Card (Giftbox only) IMPORTANT: AMD CPU HEAT SINK INSTALLATION Be ware finish heat sink install. Before you boot system, please check the heat sink is complete contact with die of CPU.
AT31 Mainboard Manual FIC Unique Innovation for Users (NOVUS) - Enhanced Mainboard Features and System Support NOTE: Please read Page 3-7 for detail information. WARNING: BIOS Guardian must be disabled before reflash BIOS. NOTE: Please read Page 3-7 for detail information.
Installation Procedures Chapter 2 Installation Procedures WARNING: Excessive torque may damage the mainboard. When using an electric screwdriver on the mainboard, make sure that the torque is set to the allowable range of 5.0 ~ 8.0kg/cm. Mainboard components contain very delicate Integrated Circuit (IC) chips.
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AT31 Mainboard Manual Front Panel Block Cable Connection CPU Fan Installation CAUTION: 1. The heatsink and fan you installed must be approved by AMD. 2. The mainboard must be placed on a solid place to avoid shaking |||||while install the heatsink and fan on the board.
Installation Procedures 1). Set System Jumpers/Switches NOTE: Users are not encouraged to change the jumper settings not listed in this manual. Changing the jumper settings improperly may adversely affect system performance. 2 - 5...
AT31 Mainboard Manual 3). Install the CPU CAUTION: 1. The heat sink and fan you installed must be approved by AMD. 2. The mainboard must be placed on a solid place to avoid shaking |||||while install the heat sink and fan on the board.
Installation Procedures 4). Install Expansion Cards CAUTION: Make sure to unplug the power supply when adding or removing expansion cards or other system components. Failure to do so may cause severe damage to both the mainboard and expansioncards. Always observe static electricity precautions. Please read Handling Precautions at the start of this manual.
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AT31 Mainboard Manual CAUTION: Before installing the TV card on these two connectors, make sure your system power is off. Failure to do so may cause damage to the mainboard. CAUTION: The two jacks on the optional TV-OUT bracket can not be used at the same time.
AT31 Mainboard Manual Advanced BIOS Features Virus Warning CPU Internal Cache External Cache Hard Disk Boot Priority First/Second/Third Boot Device 3 - 4...
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BIOS Setup Boot Other Device Swap Floppy Drive Boot Up Floppy Seek Boot Up Numlock Status Gate A20 Option Typematic Rate Setting Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) Typematic Delay (Msec) 3 - 5...
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AT31 Mainboard Manual Security Option APIC Mode MPS Version Control For OS OS Select For DRAM > 64MB HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability Video BIOS Shadow BIOS Guardian NOTE: Please disable this BIOS feature about BIOS Guardian before you start to reflash BIOS.
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BIOS Setup BIOS Guardian and Reflash BIOS Full Screen LOGO Show NOTE: 1. LogoGenie supports Award BIOS only. 2. If you create a Logo file (.bmp) by LogoGenie, the file size must ||||be 640 x 464 x 256 colors. 3 - 7...
AT31 Mainboard Manual Advanced Chipset Features Memory Frequency For DRAM CAS Select AGP Aperture Size UMA Frame Buffer Size Video Display Devices 3 - 8...
BIOS Setup TV Standard Memory Hole System BIOS Cacheable Video RAM Cacheable Integrated Peripherals 3 - 9...
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AT31 Mainboard Manual VIA OnChip IDE Device OnChip IDE Channel0 OnChip IDE Channel1 IDE Prefetch Mode Primary Master PIO Primary Slave PIO Secondary Master PIO 3 - 10...
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BIOS Setup Secondary Slave PIO Primary Master UDMA Primary Slave UDMA Secondary Master UDMA Secondary Slave UDMA VIA OnChip PCI Device VIA-3058 AC97 Audio Init Display First OnChip USB Controller 3 - 11...
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AT31 Mainboard Manual USB Keyboard Support IDE HDD Block Mode Onboard Lan Device Onboard Lan Boot ROM Onboard FDD Controller Onboard Serial Port 1 Onboard Serial Port 2 UART 2 Mode 3 - 12...
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BIOS Setup IR Function Duplex TX, RX Inverting Enable Onboard Parallel Port Onboard Parallel Port Mode ECP Mode Use DMA Parallel Port EPP Type Onboard Legacy Audio SB I/O Base Address SB IRQ Select 3 - 13...
AT31 Mainboard Manual SB DMA Select MPU-401 MPU-401 I/O Address Game Port (200-207H) Power Management Setup 3 - 14...
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BIOS Setup ACPI Function ACPI Suspend Type Power Management HDD Power Down Doze Mode Suspend Mode PM Control by APM 3 - 15...
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AT31 Mainboard Manual Video Off Option MODEM Use IRQ Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN State After Power Failure IRQ/Event Activity Detect USB Resume From S3 3 - 16...
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BIOS Setup LPT & COM HDD & FDD PCI Master PowerOn by PCI Card Modem Ring Resume RTC Alarm Resume Date (of Month) 3 - 17...
AT31 Mainboard Manual Resume Time (hh:mm:ss) IRQs Activity Monitoring PnP/PCI Configurations PNP OS Installed 3 - 18...
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BIOS Setup Reset Configuration Data Resources Controlled By PCI/VGA Palette Snoop Assign IRQ For VGA Assign IRQ For USB INT Pin 1/2/3/4 Assignment 3 - 19...
AT31 Mainboard Manual PC Health Status Current CPU_FAN Speed / Current SYS_FAN Speed / Vcore / 2.5V / 3.3V / 5V / 12V Frequency/Voltage Control 3 - 20...
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