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CONTENTS
INDEX ..............................................................................................A
INSIDE THE ATC-6230 PACKAGE............................................. B
TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................1
HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL .....................................................2
CHAPTER 1 Introduction .............................................................3
1-1 System features..................................................................................... 4
1-2 Soft-Off-Control ................................................................................... 5
1-3 SB-Link Sideband Signals..................................................................... 6
1-5 Running 100MHz CPU Bus (JP11 ........................................................ 9
1-6 Wake-On-LAN .................................................................................. 10
1-7 Thermister (option .............................................................................. 11
CHAPTER 2 Installation .............................................................12
2-1 Installation Procedure ........................................................................ 12
2-2 CPU Installation ................................................................................. 13
2-2-1 CPU Setting..................................................................................... 14
2-2-2 Core/Bus Freq. Ratio ....................................................................... 15
2-3 System Memory Installation................................................................ 16
2-4 Connectors Description....................................................................... 17
2-5 IDE Driver Installation........................................................................ 22
CHAPTER 3 Award BIOS Setup................................................23
3-1 Update BIOS Procedure...................................................................... 24
3-2 Award System BIOS Configuration Setup........................................... 26
Appendix A How to Install Pentium
or SECC2 CPU ? .................................................................A
Appendix B How to Setup Thermister (option) ? .....................B-1
Appendix C Technical Support Request Form ............................C
®
II microcode API .................................................. 25
1
® ®
II or Celeron™ ™
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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS INDEX ....................A INSIDE THE ATC-6230 PACKAGE..........B TABLE OF CONTENTS ..............1 HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL .............2 CHAPTER 1 Introduction .............3 1-1 System features..................4 1-2 Soft-Off-Control ................... 5 1-3 SB-Link Sideband Signals..............6 1-4 Keyboard & PS/2 Mouse Power On (JP9..........7 1-5 Running 100MHz CPU Bus (JP11 ............

  • Page 2: How To Use This Manual

    Read Page A COMPONENT LOCATION DIAGRAM where you find the mainboard layout diagram. Please refer to it when you configure the system. Read Page B INSIDE THE ATC-6230 PACKAGE where you find the packing contents. Read about an overview of the mainboard features, and how to upgrade as well...

  • Page 3: Chapter 1 Introduction

    CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Welcome to use ATC-6230 mainboard, the latest top technology of today’s ® multimedia Pentium II mainboard, along with the varied needs of our customers. Whether you are using a Nextboard for the first time or you are a comput- er expert, the ATC-6230 mainboard will fit your needs.

  • Page 4: System Features

    : Two 16550A fast UARTs compatible serial ports. : One EPP/ECP mode parallel printer port. : Built-in Hardware Health Monitoring chip. (option) : Hardware Dimension is 220mm x 230mm (8.65" x 9.05"). : Baby-AT form factor ; ATX & AT power supply connector. ATC-6230...

  • Page 5: Soft-Off-Control

    Jumper of JP5 from default to 2-3 (close) position. If you would like to restart the system, just press the power switch button, and the system will be powered on. Pin1-2 Power LED Flash Pin2-3 Disable ISA slots CONN1 PS_ON ATC-6230...

  • Page 6: Sb-Link Sideband Signals

    Creative as a docking solution which allows ISA slots to exist in docking station, so it can be connected to desktop PC PCI bus. ISA Slots PCI Slots SB-Link 2x3 sideband header, sound will also has a 2x3 header and a cable. REQ# SIRQ GNT#A ATC-6230...

  • Page 7: Keyboard & Ps/2 Mouse Power On

    1-4 Keyboard & PS/2 Mouse Power On (JP9) The ATC-6230 mainboard built-in Jumper of JP9 may have two easily and conveniently ways to power up the system. Users may power on the system by typing a password, or power on the system by double-clicking the PS/2 mouse, when JP9 is 2-3 close.
  • Page 8 KB & PS/2 Wakeup Disable Enable (a) Disable (b) Enable ISA slots ATC-6230...

  • Page 9: Running 100Mhz Cpu Bus

    1-5 Running 100 MHz CPU Bus on ATC-6230 mainboard (JP11) ATC-6230 mainboard provides Jumper of JP11 where it allows you to set your CPU host clock to perform the function of CPU overclock. There are two ways of option to set CPU host clock which are ‘close’...

  • Page 10: Wake-On-Lan

    Delievring +5V ±5% at 720mA. Failure to provide adequate standby current when implementing Wake-on-LAN, can damage the power supply. Before you enable Wake-on-LAN function, first check your power supply specification to meet the above requirement or not. ISA slots ATC-6230...

  • Page 11: Thermister

    This time you should shut down computer and check your devices. Or you can connect with you dealer. Therefore, protecting and monitoring the CPU temperature is the thermister’s job. DIMM slots Thermister (option) ATC-6230...

  • Page 12: Chapter 2 Installation

    7. Install peripheral devices, add-on card drivers and test them. If all of above procedures are running successfully, turn it off and screw the chassis cover to the system, and then connect external devices which are cabled to the system. ATC-6230...

  • Page 13: Cpu Installation

    2-2 CPU INSTALLATION The ATC-6230 mainboard has built-in VID (Voltage Identify) function to auto detect CPU voltages. Hence you do not have to set the CPU voltage setting. DIMM slots ISA slots CONN1 SW1 ON DIP 1 2 3 4 DIP switch, (i.e.

  • Page 14: Cpu Setting

    II & Celeron 300MHz INTERNAL CPU Ext.x Frq. CLOCK 300MHz 66 x 4.5 1 2 3 4 ® ® SW1 setting for Intel Pentium II & Celeron 333MHz INTERNAL CPU Ext.x Frq. CLOCK 333MHz 66 x 5.0 1 2 3 4 ATC-6230...

  • Page 15: Core/Bus Freq. Ratio

    SW1 setting for Intel Pentium II 450MHz INTERNAL CPU Ext.x Frq. CLOCK 450MHz 100 x 4.5 1 2 3 4 2-2-2 CPU Core/Bus Freq. Ratio : Core/Bus Freq. Ratio : SW1 SW1-1 SW1-2 SW1-3 SW1-4 3.0x 3.5x 4.0x 4.5x 5.0x 5.5x 6.0x ATC-6230...

  • Page 16: System Memory Installation

    2-3 SYSTEM MEMORY INSTALLATION The ATC-6230 provides three 168-pin DIMM sockets for system memory expansion from 8MB to 768MB. These three DIMMs are arranged to three banks, please refer to page A. Each bank provides 64-bit wide data path. System Memory Combinations Options...

  • Page 17: Connectors Description

    SPK : speaker Speaker Power LED connector PS ON Power LED + GND (power) Keylock Slot 1 RST : Reset connector Reset Signal SMI : SMI lead SMI Signal TB-LED : Turbo LED indicator, LED on when system runs higher speed. ATC-6230...
  • Page 18 GND CAUTION: Plug the wire into wrong connector will +12V DAMAGE fan and mainboard. Sense FAN1 for Chassis Fan(option). FAN2 for Power Fan(option). ® ® FAN3 for Pentium II CPU Fan. IR1 : Infrared module connector. FIRRX GND IRTX +5V IRRX Slot 1 ATC-6230...
  • Page 19 PW1 : AT mode +5V voltage power supply connector. +12V -12V Slot 1 COM1/COM2 : these two connectors are used to connect serial port cables. Signal name NDCDA/B NSINA/B NSOUTA/B NDTRA/B NDSRA/B NRTSA/B NCTSA/B NRIA/B A is COM1, B is COM2 ATC-6230...
  • Page 20 KB : 5-pin AT style keyboard connector. PS/2 Mouse : connector, which is used to connect to an optional cable. pin1 : data 3 1 2 4 pin2 : N/C pin3 : GND pin4 : VCC pin5 : clock pin6 : N/C ATC-6230...
  • Page 21 Addr 1 Host Data 13 Slot 1 Host Data 1 Addr 0 Host Data 14 Addr 2 Host Data 0 ChipSele.1P- Host Data 15 ChipSele.3P- Activity * IDE1 : pin31 is IRQ14; IDE2 : pin31 is IRQ15 or MIRQ0 ATC-6230...

  • Page 22: Ide Driver Installation

    IDE driver we offer in the diskette or CD. 6. Exit Windows 95, turn power off; then turn power on. After installation, the screen will show a yellow , please ignore it. (The other platforms please refer to readme file.) ATC-6230...

  • Page 23: Chapter 3 Award Bios Setup

    Award BIOS manufacturer provides access to the system BIOS through the hardware and software on each ATC-6230 mainboard. The hardware consists of a Flash ROM and the software is a group of programs that are installed in the ROMBIOS along with all the other data the BIOS must contain.

  • Page 24: Update Bios Procedure

    BIOS updated is completed. 9. Turn the power off. Clear the data in CMOS according to the procedure described in the previous page. 10. Turn the system power on and test that your system is working properly. ATC-6230...

  • Page 25: Update Pentium ® Ii Microcode Api

    Select 1 to know the stepping filename, select 2 to load right patch code, then select 1 to updated proper patch code. Then cold boot (mechanical power off) system to continue. For more information, please refer to “CHECKUP.HLP“ file. ATC-6230...

  • Page 26: Award System Bios Configuration Setup

    To do the SETUP procedure, press the <Del> key when the system is booting up. The following main menu will appear. Please select " STANDARD CMOS SETUP" to enter the next screen. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (ATC-6230) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
  • Page 27 This screen records some basic hardware information, and sets the system clock and error handling. These records can be lost or corrupted if the on-board battery has failed or is weak. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (ATC-6230) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
  • Page 28 SCSI, the selection shall be ‘None’. If no device is installed select ‘NONE’ and press <Enter>. Type drive type SIZE automatically adjusts CYLS number of cylinders HEAD number of heads PRECOMP write precom LANDZ landing zone SECTOR number of sectors MODE mode type ATC-6230...
  • Page 29 The system boot will not stop for a disk Diskette error, it will stop for all other errors All, But The system boot will not stop for a disk Disk/Key or keyboard error, it will stop for all other errors ATC-6230...
  • Page 30 DOS users this area to load device drivers in an effort to keep as much base memory free for application programs. The BIOS is the most frequent user of this RAM area since this is where it shadows RAM. ATC-6230...
  • Page 31 This screen is a list of system configuration options. Some of them are defaults required by the mainboard's design, others depend on the features of your system. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (ATC-6230) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP...
  • Page 32 Quick Power On This category speeds up Power On Self Test Self Test after you power up the computer. If you set Enabled, BIOS will shorten or skip some checked items during POST. ATC-6230...
  • Page 33 40 tracks (360K) or 80 tracks (720K, 1.2M, 1.44M) Enabled BIOS searches for floppy disk drive to determine if it is 40 or 80 tracks Disabled BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number ATC-6230...
  • Page 34 6 characters per second 8 characters per second 10 characters per second 12 characters per second 15 characters per second 20 characters per second 24 characters per second 30 characters per second ATC-6230...
  • Page 35 VGA. If this item is disabled, the VGA will not occupy an IRQ; therefore the IRQ of VGA will be released for other usage. OS Select for This item allows you to access the memory that is over DRAM > 64MB 64MB in OS/2. The choice : Non-OS2, OS2 ATC-6230...
  • Page 36 Shadow The choice : Enabled/Disabled Notice that the ATC-6230 mainboard is subdivided into two models. The first model of the ATC-6230 mainboard built-in Hardware Health Monitoring chip ie Winbond 83783S. The second model of the ATC-6230 mainboard did not built-in Hardware Health Monitoring.
  • Page 37 This screen controls the setting for the chipset on the mainboard. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (ATC-6230) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS BIOS FEATURES SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION SAVE &...
  • Page 38 16-bit I/O. Choices are from NA, 1 to 4 CPU clocks. Memory Hole At In order to improve performance, certain space in memory 15M-16M can be reserved for ISA cards. This memory must be mapped into the memory below 16MB. ATC-6230...
  • Page 39 Slower rates may be required in certain system designs to support loose layouts or slower memory. i.e. 50ns; 60ns EDO CASx# MA This item allows you to select EDO CASx# MA Wait State. Wait State The choice : 1, 2 ATC-6230...
  • Page 40 Current CPUFAN It shows the running speed of the system fan, Chassis fan and /ChassisFAN power fan. The value will be changing when the system is Speed running. If you do not install the fan, the value will show 0. ATC-6230...
  • Page 41 This screen controls the 'green' features of this mainboard. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (ATC-6230) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS BIOS FEATURES SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION SAVE &...
  • Page 42 This selection will cause the system to + Blank turn off the vertical and horizontal sync. ports and write blanks to the video buffer Blank This option only writes blanks to the Screen video buffer DPMS Initial display power management signaling ATC-6230...
  • Page 43 Throttle Duty Cycle When the system enters Doze mode, the CPU clock runs only part of time. You may select the percent of time that the clock runs. VGA Active When Enabled, any video active restarts the global timer for Monitor standby mode. ATC-6230...
  • Page 44 When enabled, an event occurring on each device listed below Timer Events restarts the global time for Standby mode. IRQ [3-7, 9-15], NMI; Primary IDE 0; Primary IDE 1; Secondary IDE0; Secondary IDE1; Floppy Disk; Serial Port; Parallel Port ATC-6230...
  • Page 45 This screen configures the PCI Bus slots. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (ATC-6230) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS BIOS FEATURES SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION SAVE &...
  • Page 46 ISA card used only. Choices are C800, CC00, D000, D400, D800, DC00. Used MEM Length This item determines the memory length of address which is for some special ISA Card used. Choices are 8K, 64K, 32K, 16K. ATC-6230...
  • Page 47 This section page includes all the items of IDE hard drive and Programmed Input/Output features. See also Section “Chipset Features Setup”. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (ATC-6230) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS BIOS FEATURES SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD...
  • Page 48 Hot Key : when user select this option, it will show another line lines as Hot Key Power ON: Ctrl-F1”’ select any one you like. After power off, if user key in the control-F, it will power up the system. ATC-6230...
  • Page 49 On Board Let user select error check mode. This item is not recommended to Parallel Mode change except user has special request. ECP Mode Select a DMA channel for the port. Use DMA Choices are 3, 1. ATC-6230...
  • Page 50 ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (ATC-6230) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS BIOS FEATURES SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION SAVE & EXIT SETUP LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS...
  • Page 51 The last second step is 'save and exit'. If you select this item and press 'Y', then these records will be saved in the CMOS memory on the mainboard. It will be checked every time you turn your computer on. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (ATC-6230) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
  • Page 52 ‘Enter Password’ dialog box appears. A message will appear confirming that the password is disabled. If you set both supervisor and user passwords, only the supervisor password allows you to enter the BIOS SETUP program. ATC-6230...
  • Page 53 This allows you to save the new setting values in the CMOS memory and continue with the booting process. Select what you want to do, press <Enter>. EXIT WITHOUT SAVING This allows you to exit the BIOS setup utility without recording any new values or changing old ones. ATC-6230...
  • Page 54 F6 KEY Load BIOS Load the default CMOS value from default BIOS default table F7 KEY Load setup Load Setup default default F10 KEY Save & Exit Save all the CMOS changes and Exit Setup setup, only for Main Menu ATC-6230...

  • Page 55: Appendix C Technical Support Request Form

    If the mainboard doesn't function properly, please complete the following information and return it to your system dealer. If the further information is needed, please attach it. Model No : ATC-6230 Date of Purchase : ______________ Serial No : ___________________...

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