440EX/LX AT TABLE OF CONTENTS MAINBOARD TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter & Section Page INTRODUCTION ...................1-1 1.1 OVERVIEW ....................1-1 1.2 MAINBOARD LAYOUT ................1-2 1.3 SPECIFICATIONS ..................1-3 INSTALLATION.....................2-1 2.1 UNPACKING ....................2-1 2.2 AMAZING WAYS TO POWER ON THE PC SYSTEM......2-2 2.3 POWER OFF THE PC SYSTEM..............2-4 HARDWARE SETUP ..................3-1 3.1 INSTALLING THE DRAM MODULES..........3-1 3.2 CONNECTORS....................3-3...
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440EX/LX AT MAINBOARD SOMETHING IMPORTANT ! ¶ TRADEMARKS All trademarks used in this manual are the property of their respective owners. ¶ LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS “LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS” is the function which will have the BIOS default settings loaded into the CMOS memory, these default settings are the best-case values that should optimize system performance and increase system stability .This function will be necessitated when you receive this mainboard, or when the system CMOS data is corrupted.
440E/LX AT INTRODUCTION MAINBOARD 1. INTRODUCTION OVERVIEW This Mainboard is a high performance Pentium™ II personal computer mainboard with 66MHz ultra high Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency. It is an AT form-factor mainboard with A.G.P. (Accelerated Graphics Port) and PCI Local Bus on board, Designed based on the Intel®...
440EX/LX AT INTRODUCTION MAINBOARD SPECIFICATIONS ¥ CPU Intel® Pentium™ II and Celeron™ processor 233MHz, 266MHz, 300MHz, 333MHz and up to 366MHz. ¥ CPU VCC Switching mode Voltage Regulator circuits on board, supports +1.80V DC through +3.5V DC CPU Core Voltage. Note : The CPU Core Voltage will be Detected and adjusted automatically by the mainboard, so there is no jumper setting required to select the CPU voltage.
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440EX/LX AT INTRODUCTION MAINBOARD ¥ WOL PORTS One WOL connector supports Wake-On-LAN (WOL up-designed) ¥ SB-LINK PORTS One SB-LINK feature connector to support PCI sound cards. (such as Creative™ Labs EMU8008 sound chip) ¥ USB PORTS Two Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports. ¥...
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440EX/LX AT INTRODUCTION MAINBOARD This mainboard also provides the hardware monitoring program so that you can monitor the healthy status of your PC system. When you find there is the GL518SM (U4) installed on the board, you can run the hardware monitoring program and then it will inform you the system status all the time.
440EX/LX AT INSTALLATION MAINBOARD 2. INSTALLATION UNPACKING The mainboard contains the following components in the package. Please inspect the following contents and confirm that everything is there in the package. If anything is missing or damaged, call your supplier for instructions before proceeding. l This mainboard.
440EX/LX AT INSTALLATION MAINBOARD 2.2 AMAZING WAYS TO POWER ON THE PC SYSTEM You can connect either AT or ATX power supply to this mainboard. When the ATX power supply is connected, there are many ways to power on the system. Please read the following description for all the details.
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440EX/LX AT INSTALLATION MAINBOARD In order to use the ring-in signal to wake up your PC system, you will have to use the EXTERNAL MODEM and have it connected to one of the SERIAL PORTS ( COMA or COM B ). When the system power is off, this mainboard will continue to detect the serial port status.
440EX/LX AT INSTALLATION MAINBOARD 2.3 POWER OFF THE PC SYSTEM 1. When ATX power supply is connected. There are two ways to power off the system. They are “Shut Down by Power Button” and “ Shut Down by OS”. (such as Windows® 95 and Windows® 98, you can choose the Shut Down from the file menu and the system will be powered off immediately ).
440E/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD 3. HARDWARE SETUP Before you can start to install this mainboard, some hardware settings is required to make sure it will work perfectly with the component which you are going to install in your PC system. To configure this mainboard is a simple task, only a few jumpers, connectors, cables and sockets needs to be selected and configured.
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440EX/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD Picture of DIMM module In order to increase of the system performance, two suggestions are recommended when you are installing the DIMM modules : 1. Avoid populating EDO DIMM module and SDRAM DIMM module on the mainboard at the same time to avoid damage to memory modults.
440EX/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (2) SYNCHRONOUS DRAM DRAM DRAM DRAM TOTAL SIZE Technology Depth x Address Singled-Density Doubled-Density Width Col 1 DIMM 2 DIMMs 1 DIMM 2 DIMMs 16 Mbit * 1M x 16 8 MB 16 MB 32 MB 64 MB 16 Mbit * 2M x 8...
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440EX/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (B) CN1: PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard Connector Mouse Data No Connection CN 1 Ground +5V DC Mouse Clock CN18 CN17 CN10 CN11 CN 5 CN 8 JP 11 JP 3 JP 7 JP 8 JP 9 BAT 1 SPKR CN 16...
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440EX/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD K/B CONNECTOR: For PS/2 and AT type connector AT type connector is on CN4 PS/2 type connector is on CN3 ( inside CN4) Default: AT type connector installed CN18 CN17 CN10 CN11 CN 5 CN 8 JP 11 JP 3 JP 7...
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440EX/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD Pin # Assignment Power Good ( Orange ) +5V DC ( Red ) +12V DC ( Yellow ) -12V DC ( Blue ) Ground ( Black ) Ground ( Black ) Ground ( Black ) Ground ( Black ) -5V DC...
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440EX/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD Pin assignment of ATX power connector 11 1 Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name + 3.3V DC + 3.3V DC - 12V DC + 3.3V DC Ground Ground PS-ON + 5V DC Ground Ground Ground + 5V DC...
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440EX/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (H) CN9: Parallel Port Connector CN 9 Parallel Port CN18 CN17 CN11 CN10 CN 5 CN 8 JP 11 JP 3 JP 7 JP 8 JP 9 BAT 1 SPKR CN 16 PL KBLOCK Pin assignment of parallel port: 1 14 Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name...
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440EX/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (I) CN10: COM A (Serial Port 1) Connector CN11: COM B (Serial Port 1) Connector CN 11 CN 10 COM B COM A CN18 CN17 CN10 CN11 CN 5 CN 8 JP 11 JP 3 JP 7 JP 8 JP 9...
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440EX/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (J) CN13: IDE 1 Connectors, (Primary IDE Port: 1F0H, IRQ 14) (K) CN12: IDE 2 Connectors, (Secondary IDE Port: 170H, IRQ 15) CN18 CN17 CN10 CN11 CN 5 CN 8 JP 11 JP 3 JP 7 JP 8 JP 9 BAT 1...
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440EX/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (M) CN15: SB-LINK Connector (For PCI bus sound cards. such as Creative™ Labs EMU8008 sound chip) CN 15 SB-LINK CN18 CN17 CN10 CN11 CN 5 CN 8 JP 11 JP 3 JP 7 JP 8 JP 9 BAT 1 SPKR...
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440EX/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (O) CN17: USB 1 (Universal Serial Bus) Connector (P) CN18: USB 2 (Universal Serial Bus) Connector CN 18 CN 17 USB 2 USB 1 CN18 CN17 CN10 CN11 CN 5 CN 8 JP 11 JP 3 JP 7 JP 8 JP 9...
440EX/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (Q) CN19: IR / FIR (Infrared Rays) Connector Consumer IR Connector ( Consumer IR connector is active only when W83977CTF-AW I/O Chip is installed on position U10 ) IR/FIR (INFRARED RAYS) CONSUMER IR +5VDC +5VDC NO CONNECTION IR TRANSMIT IR RECEIVE...
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440EX/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD IDE HDD LED Connector Pin # Signal name + 5V DC Pull-up HDD Active Signal TURBO LED Connector Pin # Signal name + 5V DC Pull-up Ground Sleep LED Connector (valid only with ATX power supply) This LED will be lightened when the AC power is connected and the system is power off, darkened when the AC power is disconnected or the system is powered on.
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440EX/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD b. When the system is in Suspend mode : b-1. Click on this switch ( less than 4 seconds ), the system will return to Full-ON mode. b-2. Press and hold this switch more than 4 seconds, the system will be powered off.
440EX/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD 3.3 JUMPERS This section will discuss the jumper setting on this mainboard. In order to let you have better idea of the jumper setting, please see below for the explanation of jumper settings before you start this section. open short The following jumpers which labeled with “optional”...
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440EX/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD Note: Improper BIOS setting may cause hang-up to the PC system, In case that it should be happened, you may use JP4 to clear the information which is stored in the CMOS memory and get the PC system back to normal. Improper connection may cause permanent damage to the mainboard.
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440EX/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD (C) JP7-JP9: CPU Speed Selection CN18 CN17 CN10 CN11 CN 5 CN 8 JP 11 JP 3 JP 7 JP 8 JP 9 BAT 1 SPKR CN 16 PL KBLOCK CPU SPEED 233MHz Open Open Short JP 7 266MHz Short...
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440EX/LX AT HARDWARE SETUP MAINBOARD For example, if you are installing the 300MHz Pentium™ II processor onto the mainboard. You may look into the data sheet which comes with the processor and you will see the FSB clock is 66.6MHz. Now you may introduce these parameters in to the formula and get: 300MHz(CPU Frequency) ÷...
440E/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP 4.1 GETTING STARTED When the system is first time powered on or reset by user, the BIOS will enter the Power On Self Test routines ( POST, which will display a copyright message on the screen and execute a diagnostics and initialization procedure.) In case that there is any error or malfunction detected, the BIOS will give a series of beep sound or display the error message on screen.
440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.2 MAIN MENU ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69JXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP SAVE &...
440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD The following pages shows all the screens which you will find in the CMOS SETUP routine, each picture will contain the selection items and its default settings. At the bottom of some screen, you will find the description of all function key which can be used to change the settings.
440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Auto : This mode will auto-detect your IDE driver during boot-up. (Note : Some certain operation systems (such as SCO®-UNIX™ ), only "NORMAL mode" is allowed when installation.) Floppy 3 Mode Support: (Default setting: disabled ) This mode is for the Japanese 3.5 inch floppy disk drive.
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440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Enabled : A warning message will be displayed on the screen when something attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table. Disabled : No warning message will appear on the screen when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table.
440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD in this field so that the IRQ12 can be released for the other devices; If you are using the PS/2™ mouse, leave this field “Enabled”. 4.6 CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69JXXX) CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
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440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD registers. You may select either “60 ns” or “50 ns” according to the different DRAMs‘ which is installed on the board,. Basically, “50 ns” will let you have better performance. However, “60ns” is recommended in most case causes it works with most DRAM modules.
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440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD The higher CPU “frequency” and “ratio” will surely give you the higher system performance. However, it is not recommended because it may cause the system unstable, especially the component like DRAM, HDD, Add on card is not fast enough.
440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.7 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69JXXX) POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. Power Management User Define ** Reload Global Timer Events ** PM Control by APM : Yes IRQ [3-7 , 9-15], NMI : Enabled Video Off Method : Blank Screen...
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440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Video Off Method: (Default setting: Blank screen ) When you are using the Green Monitor with your PC system, there are three modes selectable in this field to save the power energy Blank Screen: H-SYNC and V-SYNC signals are still active when the system turns into green mode, only the RGB signals are disabled.
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440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Suspend Mode: ( Default setting: Disable ) Suspend mode is the maximum power saving mode, The PC system will be inactive after the time period which you have selected in this field. The selecting range can be from 1 minute to 1 hour.
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440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Resume by Alarm : ( Default setting : “Disabled” ) When “Enabled”, the following two selection fields - “Date (of Month) Alarm” and “Time (hh:mm:ss) Alarm” will appear on the screen. You can use these two fields to set the date and time which you want to resume the system from Sleep or Suspend mode.
440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69JXXX) INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. IDE HDD Block Mode Enabled Onboard FDC Controller : Enabled IDE Primary Master PIO : Auto Onboard Serial Port 1 : 3F8/IRQ4 IDE Primary Slave PIO : Auto Onboard Serial Port 2...
440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD When you have both the AGP and PCI VGA card installed in the system, you can use this field to decide the display priority. Enabled: the display will be active on the AGP adapter. Disabled: The display will be active on the PCI VGA adapter PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69JXXX)
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440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD PNP OS Installed : ( Default setting is “No” ) The setting in this field tells the system BIOS whether your operating system (OS) is a PnP OS (such as Windows® 95) or not. A PnP OS will use the system resources record stored in the ESCD segment to arrange the system environment..
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440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD .Note: Most IRQ and DMA have its own purpose and they can not be assigned to “PCI/ISA PnP”. For example, IRQ14 and IRQ15 is used by the onboard IDE device. If you change the setting on IRQ14 and IRQ15, you will be unable to connect the hard disk drive or CD ROM drive to the IDE interface on the mainboard.
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440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD Assign IRQ For VGA/USB The system’s IRQ signals are limited and sometimes you may feel like to some more IRQ signals for your add-on cards. The system BIOS of this mainboard allows you to disable the IRQ which is supposed to be connected to VGA and USB ports.
440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.10 LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A69JXXX) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. STANDARD CMOS SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD BIOS FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP SAVE &...
440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD 4.11 SUPERVISOR PASSWORD / USER PASSWORD The password entry in these field is different to what was mentioned in page 2-2. The password setting in the previous pages is used to power on your PC system, However, the “SUPERVISOR PASSWORD”...
440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD In order to make the IDE hard disk known to the system, you need to tell the system what kind of hard disk is connected to the mainboard by giving a set of hard disk parameters.
440EX/LX AT AWARD BIOS SETUP MAINBOARD This option will save all setup values to CMOS RAM & EXIT SETUP routine, by moving the selection bar to “SAVE & EXIT SETUP” and pressing “Enter” key, then types “Y” and “Enter” key, the values will be saved and all the information will be stored in the CMOS memory, and then the setup program will be terminated and the system will start to reboot.
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