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- Page 1 P6B40D-A5 MAINBOARD User’s Manual REV: 1.00 Date: May - 98 * All other product names are trademarks or copyrights of their respective owners.
- Page 2 The use of shielded cables for connection of the monitor to the graphics card is required to assure compliance with FCC regulations. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Load BIOS Defaults..................36 Load Setup Defaults..................36 Integrated Peripherals Setup ................. 37 Supervisor Password and User Password Setting........... 39 IDE HDD Auto Detection ................40 Save & Exit Setup / Exit Without Saving............40 P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... - Page 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS PCI Device Listing ..................40 BUILT-IN SYMBIOS SCSI BIOS.............. 41 FLASH BIOS PROGRAMMING UTILITY..........47 DMI UTILITY.................... 48 HARDWARE MONITORING UTILITY............49 DC-310U PCI ULTRA-SCSI ADAPTER............ 50 P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
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Page 5: Introduction
Universal Serial Bus (USB) onto the mainboard, optimum system performance is assured and system design and implementation is simplified. Fully “Plug & Play” compatible via an Award BIOS, the P6B40D-A5 facilitates easy system configuration and peripheral setup. Advanced BIOS features include Intelligent Hardware Monitoring and Alert functions. -
Page 6: Features & Specifications
3V, 5V and 12V 20-Pin ATX Power connector ATX Power Connector Switching Voltage Regulator to support 1.3V to 3.5V Switching VR Form Factor ATX Form factor 12″ by 9.5″ ( 305mm by 242mm ) P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... -
Page 7: Board Level Feature
SLOT 1 (CPU2) Floppy connector COM2 connector Primary IDE connector Printer port connector Secondary IDE connector COM1 connector AGP slot USB connectors * Board Size: ATX 305 mm x 242 mm (12” x 9.5”) P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... - Page 8 ATAPI Tape Drives and CD-ROMs are also supported. 18. SECONDARY IDE CONNECTOR: Connector for second IDE channel. 19. AGP SLOT: AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is a new bus interface for high performance graphics capabilities, especially 3D. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
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Page 9: Comprehensive Mainboard View
INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION Comprehensive Mainboard View P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... -
Page 10: Installation
ü Before you handle the mainboard in any way, touch a grounded, anti-static surface, such as an unpainted portion of the system chassis, for a few seconds to discharge any built- up static electricity. Installing the CPU Your P6B40D-A5 mainboard features dual “SLOT 1” architecture, a design that can accommodate dual Intel ® Pentium ®... - Page 11 Slide the CPU down into the retention mechanism. Make sure the CPU is correctly oriented. (Fig. 1) Seat the CPU firmly into the slot until the two tabs on the CPU click outwards to lock the CPU in place. (Fig. 2) Fig. 1 Fig. 2 P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
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Page 12: Setting The Jumpers
Selection Jumper Block to the lower frequency. • If you are uncertain about the speed requirements of your particular CPU, you should obtain Technical Documentation from the manufacturer. Such information is available via the Intel WWW site. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... - Page 13 MHz for internal test only (Please refer to Chipset Features Setup on page 29). • Setting the Bus Clock Override Jumper to Enabled overrides the CPU’s default Bus Clock and set it at 100 MHz. • Over-clocking may cause serious system damage. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
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Page 14: Connections
For the CPU Temperature Monitoring function to work properly, you must use the optional CPU Cooling Fan provided by the manufacturer. Hook the Thermal Sensor lead attached on the Fan to this connector, regardless of the polarity. Fan Power Thermal Sensor P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... -
Page 15: Power Supply Connector
This mainboard features an ATX-style Power Supply Connector. This connector is keyed to prevent connection in the wrong direction. Line up the locking mechanism on the connector from the Power Supply with the tab on the mainboard connector. Press down until the two connectors are locked. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... -
Page 16: Serial And Parallel Ports
Two 9-pin D-Sub headers are also provided on the back panel for Serial ports. COM 1 COM2 * Modem Ring-In Power On Install a modem (normally to COM2) and enable Power On P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... - Page 17 LAN card to location J12 on the system board. Refer to the add-in card’s manual for details. Note: Your LAN card must support Magic Packet in order to use the Wake-up-On- LAN function P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
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Page 18: Usb Connector
END of the cable, whereas floppy drive “B” is hooked to one of the connectors on the other side of the twist. The cable provides both “Edge” and “Pin” connectors for both the A and B positions to match the connector on your floppy drives. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... - Page 19 On most hard drives and CD-ROMs, the RED stripe should be oriented towards the power connector of the device. Chassis Intrusion Detector (JP20) This lead works with specially designed chassis for monitoring the chassis to see if it has been opened. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
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Page 20: Installing The Memory (Dimm)
INSTALLATION INSTALLATION Installing the Memory (DIMM) • The P6B40D-A5 mainboard has four sockets available for 168-pin DIMMs. They must be 3.3 volt Unbuffered Synchronous DRAMs (SDRAM) or 3.3 volt EDO RAM. For using SDRAMs: • If you are using a CPU with a 100MHz system bus, you can use only the 100MHz (-10 ns) or faster SDRAMs. -
Page 21: Mainboard Bios Setup
CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) refers to the chip in which the BIOS information is stored. The P6B40D-A5 mainboard features Award BIOS, which provides an easy to use Setup program to aid in hardware configuration. In this section we will look at the various menus and options contained in the Award BIOS Setup Program. -
Page 22: Main Menu
Esc : Quit F10 : Save & Exit Setup (Shift) F2 : Change Color Time, Date, Hard Disk Type... Note that a brief description of each highlighted selection appears at the bottom of the screen. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... -
Page 23: Standard Cmos Setup
CD-ROM, generally the Auto option is the best choice for fast and easy setup of the hard disk parameters. Let’s take a look at the difference between the Auto, User and Types (1- 45) options: P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... - Page 24 • SCSI Hard Drives are NOT entered into the Mainboard BIOS Setup in any way. The hard drive settings in the Standard CMOS Setup are only for drives connected to the P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
- Page 25 Extended Memory is the amount of memory located above 1MB in the CPU's memory address map. Other Memory refers to the memory located in the region between 640K and 1MB. This region can be used for shadowing as well as expanded memory in DOS. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
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Page 26: Bios Features Setup
Virus Protection first, or choose “Y” to accept the boot sector modification when this message shows up. CPU Internal Cache - Enables or Disables the Level-1 Internal Cache memory. Generally, this would only be Disabled for troubleshooting purposes. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... - Page 27 A:, thereby making it bootable. Boot Up Floppy Seek - When enabled, BIOS will attempt to move the head of the floppy disk drive forth and back once during POST to see if the drive is working properly. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
- Page 28 Report No FDD For WIN95 - While the FDD in “STANDARD CMOS SETUP” is set to NONE, set this option to No to release IRQ6 for passing Win95 logo. This option is irrelevant under normal operation. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
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Page 29: Chipset Features Setup
F6 : Load BIOS Defaults F7 : Load Setup Defaults SDRAM CAS Latency Time - This item allows you to select the CAS# latency for all SDRAM cycles. Options are 3 or 2 Clocks. *Default = 3 Clocks. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... - Page 30 CPU(s) and system, current speeds (in RPM, rotation per minute) of the CPU fan(s) and chassis fan, as well as the various operating voltages. (If the fan is not installed, 0 RPM will be shown.) P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
- Page 31 With this option, the bus clock can be extended from 66.8 MHz to 68.5, 75 or 83.3 MHz, or from 100 MHz to 103, 112 or 133.3 MHz for internal test only. Over-clocking may cause serious system damage. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
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Page 32: Power Management Setup
Max. Power Saving mode and stop the CPU internal clock. If the Max. Power Saving is not enabled, this will be preset to No. Video Off Method - This determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... - Page 33 PWRON after PWR-Fail – This feature will power-on the PC when power returns after a power failure. The table on the next page lists the options available and the corresponding “System State” when power returns. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
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Page 34: Pnp/Pci Configuration Setup
CPU and memory. The PCI bus runs at 33Mhz and has a maximum transfer capability of 132MBps. With Plug & Play, the system BIOS automatically determines hardware resources for new peripherals, simplifying installation of multiple interface cards. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... - Page 35 USB device will be available for the ISA slot. Used MEM base address - This item allows you to determine which basic addresses are not to be occupied by PCI Card and leave these addresses for some special ISA Card used only. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
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Page 36: Load Bios Defaults
Loads the default values for best system performance into the BIOS Setup program. To load the default values, highlight this option and press [ENTER]. Enter “Y” in the confirmation screen and press [ENTER] again. User-defined options in the Standard CMOS Setup are not affected. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... -
Page 37: Integrated Peripherals Setup
PIO Mode is read directly from the 120 ns hard drive. Be sure not to use a PIO Mode higher than what the drive actually supports. This could result in loss of data. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... - Page 38 ECP Mode Use DMA - Options are 1 and 3. This field is available only when one of the two following options in Parallel Port Mode is selected: ECP or ECP/EPP. EPP Mode Select - Options are 1.7 and 1.9 (default ; IEEE 1284 compliant). P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
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Page 39: Supervisor Password And User Password Setting
If you do not know the current password, the CMOS must be cleared by removing the battery for a while and then re-installing it back. *This will clear all user-defined BIOS Setup options. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... -
Page 40: Ide Hdd Auto Detection
Simple communication controller, Base system peripherals, Input device, Docking station, Processor and Serial bus controller. The PCI device listing is useful for troubleshooting purposes. More detailed information for each field may be obtained through the PCI specification documentation. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... -
Page 41: Built-In Symbios Scsi Bios
Parity Checking Enabled Data Width Host Adapter SCSI ID Disconnect Scan Order Low to High (0-Max) Read Write I/O Timeout (secs) Scan for Devices at Boot Time Scan for SCSI LUNs Queue Tags Enabled P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... - Page 42 Display Mode - Determines how much information about your host adapters and SCSI devices is displayed on your computer monitor during boot: • verbose: for more complete information • terse: for a faster boot P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
- Page 43 SCSI bus. However, if you have two adapters on the same SCSI bus, you should give one of them an unassigned ID to avoid duplication of SCSI IDs. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
- Page 44 The above menu provides information about individual SCSI devices attached to the selected host adapter, as well as the adapter itself. To make changes to these settings select a device from this display and press <Enter> to bring up the individual Device Setup menu. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
- Page 45 Queue Tags - If your device driver can issue queue tags, this option allows you to enable or disable the issuing of queue tags during I/O requests. Format Device - Low level format the selected device. All information on the drive will be erased. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...
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Page 46: Device Drivers
Device Drivers To function properly with different SCSI devices under different operating systems you’ll need to install device drivers. The device driver information should be available in your SCSI adapter’s package. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... -
Page 47: Flash Bios Programming Utility
The Utility can be aborted at this time by hitting “n”. To begin programming, hit “y”… 7. When the Flash programming starts, a bar indicator will show the progress of the programming operation. After successful completion, hit the reset button or power off the computer. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... -
Page 48: Dmi Utility
Port Connector Port Connector Port Connector ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← ← → → Move cursor Enter-Accept DEL-Delete ESC-Abort&Exit Note: The DMI utility must be run in real mode without the EMM386 memory manager loaded. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... -
Page 49: Hardware Monitoring Utility
Hardware monitor utility installation program • Readme file Installation/Un-installation procedure: • Run HMINSTALL.EXE under Windows 95/Windows NT to install MONITOR.EXE to your fixed disk. MONITOR.EXE will then be executed automatically every time with Windows 95 bootup. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... -
Page 50: Dc-310U Pci Ultra-Scsi Adapter
• Drivers & Utilities DOS, Win3.1, Win95, NT 3.5/4.x, Netware 3.x/4.x, SCO 3.2v4.2/5.0, UnixWare 2.x., OS/2 Warp • BIOS (& Flush utility), Installation, Low Level Format. P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual... - Page 51 DC-310U PCI ULTRA-SCSI ADAPTER DC-310U PCI ULTRA-SCSI ADAPTER Mainboard BIOS Support Adapter Setup Device Setup P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual P6B40D-A5 User’s Manual...