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5. System BIOS

AWARD BIOS

Supports Plug-and-Play (PnP)

Supports Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI)

Supports Desktop Management Interface (DMI)

Multi I/O Functions

Floppy port supports up to 2.88MB, and 3 mode floppies

Ultra DMA/33 bus master IDE supports up to 4 IDE devices

( Including LS-120 MB floppy drive )

Built-in Standard/EPP/ECP parallel port connector

Two built-in 16550 fast UART compatible serial port connectors

Built-in PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse port connectors

Built-in standard IrDA TX/RX header

Two built-in USB connectors

Miscellaneous

ATX form factor

One AGP slot, Five PCI slots and Two ISA slots

Wake Up On LAN

SB-LINK connector

Wake On Ring ( Modem Ring On )

Reserved hardware monitoring function

Board size: 305 * 190mm

Note:

All brand names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

The actual specs of Intel

Celeron

processor will depend on Intel’s shipping specs.

Above 66MHz bus speed supported but not guaranteed due to the PCI and chipset specs.

Sound Blaster

™

is a registered trademark of Creative Technology Ltd in the United States

and certain other countries. Sound Blaster - LINK

™

and SB-LINK

™

are trademarks of

Creative Technology Ltd.

Specifications and information contained in this catalogue are subject to change without

notice.

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Page 1: ...he manufacturer be liable for direct indirect special incidental or consequential damages arising from any defect or error in this manual or product Product names appearing in this manual are for identification purpose only and trademarks and product names or brand names appearing in this document are property of their respective owners This document contains materials protected under Internationa...

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Page 3: ...4 3 Jumper and Switches 2 11 4 Installation of the Pentium II CPU 2 13 5 Installation of the Celeron processor 2 16 6 Installing System Memory 2 19 Chapter 3 Introduction of BIOS 1 CPU Setup 3 3 2 Standard CMOS Setup Menu 3 8 3 BIOS Features Setup Menu 3 11 4 Chipset Features Setup Menu 3 17 5 Power Management Setup Menu 3 22 6 PNP PCI Onboard I O Setup 3 28 7 Load Setup Defaults 3 33 8 Load BIOS ...

Page 4: ...ndix B General Discussion About HDD Installation Appendix C Flash BIOS User Instructions Appendix D How to install the IDE Bus Master driver Appendix E How to install the PCI bridge driver for 440LX chipset Appendix F Technical Support ...

Page 5: ...ype regulators to stabilize CPU operation l Supports 66 75 and 83 MHz CPU external clock speeds l Supports Intel Pentium II 233 333 MHz processor cartridge l Supports Intel Celeron 266MHz processor 2 Chipset l Intel 440LX chipset 82443LX and 82371AB l Supports Ultra DMA 33 IDE protocol l Supports Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface ACPI l Accelerated Graphics Port connector suppo...

Page 6: ... in USB connectors 7 Miscellaneous l ATX form factor l One AGP slot Five PCI slots and Two ISA slots l Wake Up On LAN l SB LINK connector l Wake On Ring Modem Ring On l Reserved hardware monitoring function l Board size 305 190mm Note All brand names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners Œ The actual specs of Intel Celeron processor will depend on Intel s shipping specs Above ...

Page 7: ...Introduction Of LM6 Features 1 3 2 Layout Diagram Figure 1 1 Motherboard Component Locations ...

Page 8: ...1 4 Chapter 1 3 The System Block Diagram ...

Page 9: ...w on the market For details see specifications in Chapter 1 This chapter is organized according the following features 1 Installing the Motherboard to the Casing 2 Standard external connectors 3 Jumpers and switches 4 Installing of the Pentium II CPU 5 Installing of the Celeron processor 6 Installing the system memory NNNN Before proceeding with the installation Before installing the motherboard p...

Page 10: ...ce computer user to perform the installation by themselves We have attempted to write this document in a very clear concise and descriptive manner to help overcome any obstacles you may face during installation Please read our instructions carefully and follow them step by step ...

Page 11: ...ere are screw holes this means you can attach the motherboard with bolts If the holes line up and there are only slots this means you can only attach the motherboard with spacers Take the tip of the spacers and insert it into the slots After doing this to all the slots you can slide the motherboard into position aligned with the slots After the motherboard has been positioned check to make sure ev...

Page 12: ... and if any notice the position of the first pin of the connector In the explanations that follow we will describe the significance of the first pin PN1 Pin 1 2 3 4 5 Keylock and Power LED Header There is a specific orientation for pin 1 to pin 5 Insert the two threads keylock cable into pin 4 and pin 5 and three threads power LED cable to Pin 1 pin 3 Correct pins of connector on the motherboard P...

Page 13: ...rdware Suspend Switch SMI Switch Header Attach the cable from the case s suspend switch if there is one to this switch Use this switch to enable disable the power management function by hardware Pin number Name or significance of signal 10 3V Standby 11 Suspend signal PN2 Pin 1 2 Hardware Reset Header Attach the cable from the case s Reset switch to this connector Press and hold the reset button f...

Page 14: ...Header Attach the system speaker to connector PN2 Pin number Name or significance of signal 4 5VDC 5 Ground 6 Ground 7 Speaker data PN2 Pin 9 10 Suspend LED Header Pin number Name or significance of signal 9 LED power 10 Suspend LED active ...

Page 15: ...umber Name or significance of signal 1 Mouse data 2 No connection 3 Ground 4 5VDC 5 Mouse clock 6 No connection Keyboard PS 2 Keyboard Connector Attach a keyboard to this 6 pin Din connector Pin number Name or significance of signal 1 Keyboard data 2 No connection 3 Ground 4 5VDC 5 Keyboard clock 6 No connection ...

Page 16: ...7 Ground 8 Power Good 9 5VSB 10 12VDC 11 3 3VDC 12 12VDC 13 Ground 14 On Off control signal 15 Ground 16 Ground 17 Ground 18 5VDC 19 5VDC 20 5VDC FAN1 CPU FAN DC Fan Power Header FAN1 CPU FAN Pin number Name of the signal or signification 1 Sense sjgnal 2 12V 3 Control On Off Caution If power supply connectors are not properly attached to ATX PWR the power supply or add on cards may be damaged ...

Page 17: ..._TX I O Port Connectors Name Pin number Description IDE1 40 IDE channel 1 connector IDE2 40 IDE channel 2 connector FDC 34 Floppy disk connector LPT 25 Parallel port COM1 9 Serial port COM1 connector COM2 9 Serial port COM2 connector USB 8 Universal serial Bus Notes IDE1 IDE2 are high performance PCI IDE connectors Up to four IDE interface devices are supported WOL1 Wake On LAN Header Pin number N...

Page 18: ...nk Header Pin number Name or significance of signal 1 GNTA 2 Ground 3 KEY 4 REQA 5 Ground 6 SERIRQ JP3 Wake On Ring Header Pin number Name or significance of signal 1 5VSB 2 No connection 3 Sense Input 4 Ground 5 No connection ...

Page 19: ...bols are used to indicate jumper settings For 3 pin jumpers the symbols below are used For 2 pins jumpers the following symbols are used Note To avoid losing jumper caps attach the removed jumper cap to one of the jumper pins Short Pins 1 and 2 with a jumper cap Short Pins 2 and 3 with a jumper cap Place the jumper cap over the two pins of the jumper to Short the jumper Remove the jumper cap to Op...

Page 20: ... 1 CMOS Discharge Jumper Jumper CCMOS discharge CMOS memory When you install the motherboard make sure this jumper is set for Normal Operation 1 2 See the jumper below Setting CCMOS Normal Operation Default Discharge CMOS ...

Page 21: ...d the base of one peg are larger than the other hole and peg base Push each peg into its hole firmly to the end until you hear it click into place 2 Slide a black plastic support onto each end of the fan heat sink making sure that the hole and clip are on the outside edge of the support Slide each support toward the center of the processor until the support is secured to the outside groove of the ...

Page 22: ... of the processor until they click into place 4 Hold the processor so that the fan shroud is facing toward the pegs on the motherboard Slide the processor Direction C into the retention mechanism and press evenly and gently Ensure that the pegs on the motherboard slide into the holes on the heat sink support and that the alignment notch in the processor fits over the plug in Slot 1 ...

Page 23: ...utward until they click into place in the retention mechanism The latches must be secured for proper electrical connection of the processor Note l Installing a heat sink and cooling fan is necessary for proper heat dissipation from your CPU Failing to install these items may result in overheating and damage of your CPU l Please refer to your boxed Pentium II processor installation or other documen...

Page 24: ...ike the Pentium II processor without the cartridge outside It s directly attached to the heat sink and processor chip without fan The actual package of Celeron processor will depend on Intel s shipping package spec The photos below show Intel s Celeron processor s front side and back side view ...

Page 25: ...Installing the Motherboard 2 17 2 Take the processor with both sides to insert processor to Slot 1 socket Vertically align the processor gold finger and contact the Slot 1 socket properly ...

Page 26: ...n procedure of the processor Note l Installing a heat sink and cooling fan is necessary for proper heat dissipation from your CPU Failing to install these items may result in overheating and damage of your CPU l Please refer to your boxed Celeron processor installation or other documentation attached with your CPU for detailed installing instructions ...

Page 27: ... banks In order to create a memory array certain rules must be followed The following set of rules allows for optimum configurations l The memory array is 64 or 72 bits wide Without parity or with parity l Those modules can be populated in any order l Support single and double density DIMMS The following is the valid memory configuration Bank Memory Module Total Memory Bank 0 1 DIMM1 8MB 16MB 32MB...

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Page 29: ... completed does it give up control of the computer to the program of the next level which is the operating system Since the BIOS is the only channel for hardware and software to communicate it will be the key factor for system stability and to ensure that your system performs at its best After the BIOS has achieved the auto diagnostic and auto detection operations it will display the following mes...

Page 30: ...ge Down or keys when you want to modify the BIOS parameters for the active option CMOS DATA Maybe you have heard somebody saying that their CMOS DATA was lost What is the CMOS Is it important The CMOS is the memory used to store the BIOS parameters that you have configured This memory is passive You can read its data and you can also store data in it But this memory has to be powered by a battery ...

Page 31: ...is feature allows the user to complete more easily the installation procedures You can install the CPU without configuring any jumpers or switches The CPU must be setup according its specifications In the first option you can press F1 at any time to display all the items that can be chosen for that option Fig 3 2 CPU SOFT MENU II CPU Name Is Intel Pentium II MMX Intel CeleronMMX ...

Page 32: ...Clock 66MHz 75MHz 83MHz Multiplier Factor You can choose the following multiplier factors 2 0 2 5 3 0 3 5 4 0 4 5 5 0 However differences will exist because of the various brands and types available Normally we do not recommend that you use the User Define option to setup CPU speed and multiplier factor This option is for setup of future CPUs whose specifications are still unknown The specificatio...

Page 33: ...U clock If you can t enter BIOS setup you must try turning the system on a few times 3 4 times or press INSERT key when turn on and the system will automatically use its standard parameters to boot You can then enter BIOS SETUP again and set up the new parameters When you change your CPU The motherboard have been designed in such a way that you can turn the system on after having inserted the CPU ...

Page 34: ...product stability We require the manufacturer of the Clock Generator to meet the demands of our development department and to add a TURBO Frequency feature used for testing purposes by our R D department Of course you can use this feature to test the stability of your own system but after you have tested the product we recommend that you set it back to its normal value in order to guarantee system...

Page 35: ...option Core Voltage will show the current voltage setting that is defined by the CPU and this will not be changeable We recommend is using this CPU default setting and not changing it unless current CPU type and voltage setting can not be detected or not correct User define This option lets the user select the voltage manually You can change values of the Core Voltage option lists by using the Pag...

Page 36: ... this item month mm date dd and year yy Time hh mm ss You can set time information in this item hour hh minute mm and second ss Setup of HDD operating mode NORMAL LBA LARGE Since old operating systems were only able to support HDD whose capacity was not bigger than 528MB any hard disk with more than 528MB was unusable AWARD BIOS features a solution to this problem you can according to your operati...

Page 37: ...late actual positions Currently all high capacity hard disks support this mode that s why we recommend you use this mode Currently the BIOS can support INT 13h extension function then the LBA mode supports hard disk drives capacity exceeding 8 4GB LARGE Mode When the number of cylinders CYLs of the hard disk exceeds 1024 and DOS is not able to support it or if your operating system does not suppor...

Page 38: ...elect the VGA modes for your video adapter five options are available MONO EGA VGA CGA 40 CGA 80 Back to MONO The default setting is EGA VGA Halt On You can select which type of error will cause the system to halt Five options are available All Errors No Errors All But Keyboard All But Diskette All But Disk Key Back to All Errors You can see your system memory list in the lower right box it shows ...

Page 39: ...as Enable or Disable When this feature is enabled if there is any attempt from a software or an application to access the boot sector or the partition table the BIOS will warn you that a boot virus is attempting to access to the hard disk CPU Level 1 Cache This item is used to Enable or to Disable the CPU level 1 cache When the cache is set at Disable it is much slower so the default setting for t...

Page 40: ...S will simplify the test procedures in order to speed up the boot process The default is Enable Boot Sequence When the computer boots up it can load the operating system from floppy drive A hard disk drive C SCSI disk drive or CD ROM There are many options for the boot sequence A C SCSI C A SCSI C CD ROM A CD ROM C A D A SCSI At least 2 IDE HDD can be used E A SCSI At least 3 IDE HDD can be used F...

Page 41: ...this item is enabled the BIOS will automatically detect if your hard disk drive supports this feature or not and will choose the right settings for you The default is Disable For further details about hard disk drive installation refer to appendix B Typematic Rate Setting This item allows you to adjust the keystroke repeat rate When enabled you can set the two keyboard typematic control that follo...

Page 42: ...CMOS before you can start up the system But doing this you have to reset all the options you had set up before PCI VGA Palette Snoop This option allows the BIOS to preview VGA Status and to modify the information delivered from the Feature Connector of the VGA card to the MPEG Card This option can solve the display inversion to black after you have used the MPEG card OS Select For DRAM 64MB When t...

Page 43: ...eature or not If you have no interface card using this memory block don t enable this option Shadowing address ranges D0000 D3FFF Shadow This option allows you to decide if the memory block BIOS of an interface card at the address D0000 D3FFF uses the shadow feature or not If you have no interface card using this memory block don t enable this option Shadowing address ranges D4000 D7FFF Shadow Thi...

Page 44: ...shadow feature or not If you have no interface card using this memory block don t enable this option SHADOW What is the SHADOW The BIOS of standard video or interface cards is stored in ROM and it is often very slow With the Shadow feature the CPU reads the BIOS on the VGA card and copies it into RAM When the CPU runs this BIOS the operation is speeded up Computer knowledge ...

Page 45: ... hardware if the setup is not correct or false the motherboard will become unstable or you will not be able to boot up If you don t know the hardware very well use default values i e use the LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS option Fig 3 5 Chipset Features Setup You can use the arrow keys to move between the items Use PgUP PgDn or key to change the values When you have finished setting up the chipset press ESC ...

Page 46: ...additional MA DRAM Memory Address wait state Which means if you have heavy loading or lower speed DRAM you should set it to Fast EDO RAS To CAS Delay Two options are available 2 or 3 Because when DRAM is refreshed both rows and columns are address separately You may set the wait state between the RAS Row Address Strobe and CAS Column Address Strobe signal EDO RAS Precharge Time You can specify the...

Page 47: ...llow post write cycles from the CPU to the PCI IDE interface IDE accesses are posted in the CPU to PCI buffers For optimal result you should Enabled this option System BIOS Cacheable You can select Enable or Disable When you select Enable you get faster system BIOS executing speed via the L2 cache Video BIOS Cacheable You can select Enable or Disable When you select Enable you get faster video BIO...

Page 48: ...lem you can try to enable or disable this option for optimal result Delayed Transaction Two options are available Enabled and Disabled Set the option to enabled or disabled delayed transaction for the Intel PIIX4 chip This function is used to meet the latency of PCI cycles to or from the ISA bus This option must be enabled to provide PCI 2 1 compliance If you have ISA card compatibility problem yo...

Page 49: ...ion Spread Spectrum Modulated Four options are available Disable 0 50 CNTR 0 5 DOWN For EMC Electro Magnetic Compatibility Test testing may need to adjust these options for optimal result we do not recommend you change the default except for special reasons Some values you select may cause system instability under some situations please be careful There are small differences in the chipset feature...

Page 50: ...e These are referred to as Power Management Events In cases where none of these events occur the system enters the power saving mode When one of the controlled events occurs the system immediately returns to normal mode and operates at its maximum speed Power saving modes can be divided into three modes according to their power consumption Doze Mode Standby Mode and Suspend Mode The four modes pro...

Page 51: ...Doze 1 hour Standby 1 hour Suspend 1 hour Max Saving When the three saving modes are enabled the system is set up for maximum power savings Doze 1 minute Standby 1 minute Suspend 1 minute Disable Disable the power management function PM Control by APM Power Management is completely controlled by the APM APM stands for Advanced Power Management it is a power management standard set by Microsoft Int...

Page 52: ... Define you can define for this mode any delay from 1 minute to 1 hour If no power management event occurs during this time period meaning that computer is inactive during this period the system will enter the Doze power saving mode If this mode is disabled the system will enter the next mode in the sequence Standby or Suspend mode Standby Mode When the setting selected for Power Management is Use...

Page 53: ...the specified time period the engine of the HDD will stop in order to save electricity You can set 1 to 15 minutes or select Disable according to your use of the HDD Power Button Override Support ACPI Power Button Over ride The user presses the power button for more then four seconds while the system is in the working state then the system will transition to the soft off Power off by software This...

Page 54: ...his will cause the computer to re count the time elapsed IRQ 3 7 9 15 NMI If any IRQ or NMI Non Mask Interrupt activities occur this will cause the computer to re count the time elapsed IRQ8 Break Suspend Supports the RTC alarm wake up from suspend function via IRQ8 IDE Primary Master If any IDE primary master I O activity occurs it will cause the computer to re count the time elapsed IDE Primary ...

Page 55: ...ime elapsed Serial Port If any serial port I O activity occurs it will cause the computer to re count the time elapsed Parallel Port If any IDE secondary master I O activity occurs it will cause the computer to re count the time elapsed Mouse Break Suspend Four options are available Yes No COM1 No COM2 No PS 2 Back to Yes ...

Page 56: ...xt time you boot up and ask the BIOS to reset the settings for the Plug Play ISA Card and the PCI Card select Enabled But the next time you boot up this option will automatically be set as Disabled ESCD Extended System Configuration Data The ESCD contains the IRQ DMA I O Port Memory information of the system This is a specification and a feature specific to the Plug Play BIOS ISA PNP OS Installed ...

Page 57: ...gn IRQ15 to this channel PCI IDE Card IRQ Map to Three options are available for this item PCI Auto PCI SlotX and ISA PCI Auto The onboard BIOS auto detects which PCI slot has an IDE card inserted in PCI SlotX Some old PCI IDE cards cannot be detected by the BIOS If the onboard BIOS cannot detect a PCE IDE card you have to specify on which PCI slot the IDE card is inserted to make the BIOS assign ...

Page 58: ...rd IDE 1 controller can be set as Enable or Disable Master drive Mode Auto the BIOS can auto detect the transfer mode of the HDD in order to set its data transfer rate Default PIO 0 PIO 4 User can specify the PIO mode of the HDD in order to set its data transfer rate Slave drive Mode Auto the BIOS can auto detect the transfer mode of the HDD in order to set its data transfer rate Default PIO 0 PIO...

Page 59: ...is is used to specify the I O address and IRQ of Serial Port 1 Ten options are available Disable 3F8h IRQ4 2F8h IRQ3 3E8h IRQ4 or 2E8h IRQ3 3F8h IRQ10 2F8h IRQ11 3E8h IRQ10 2E8h IRQ11 and AUTO On board Serial Port 2 This is used to specify the I O address and IRQ of Serial Port 2 Ten options are available Disable 3F8h IRQ4 2F8h IRQ3 3E8h IRQ4 or 2E8h IRQ3 3F8 IRQ10 2F8 IRQ11 3E8 IRQ10 2E8 IRQ11 an...

Page 60: ...Mode Use DMA When the mode selected for the onboard parallel port is ECP the DMA channel selected can be Channel 1 or Channel 3 EPP Mode Select When the mode selected for the onboard parallel port is EPP two EPP version options are available EPP1 7 For further information about HDD installation refer to Appendix B ...

Page 61: ...oad BIOS Defaults BIOS defaults are the reference settings that allow your system to work at a comparatively low performance When you choose the option the following message is displayed Load BIOS Defaults Y N N If you want to use BIOS default values press Y than Enter 9 Password Setting This option allows you to set a password required to start the system System or to access to the BIOS Setup Aft...

Page 62: ...he contents of the CMOS and boot the system up again By doing this you must reset all your parameters 10 IDE Hard Disk Detection After you have installed the hard disk in old systems you had to know the hard disk specifications such as the number of cylinders heads and sectors and to enter the relevant information into the hard disk information section If the CMOS data was erased and you had forgo...

Page 63: ...g 3 8 Save Exit Setup You can save all your selection to CMOS and exit BIOS to reboot your computer 12 Exit Without Saving Fig 3 9 Exit Without Saving You can exit and without saving all your selection to CMOS then exit BIOS to reboot your computer ...

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Page 65: ...m Slightly and gently insert the Pentium II processor into the retention base make sure all the components are affixed securely According to your CPU speed set up the CPU in the CPU SOFT MENU II of the BIOS SETUP DIMM 1 DIMM 4 Watch the pin position and the orientation FDC Connect one end of the 34 pin cable that comes with the drive to the FDD connector and the other end of the cable to the FDC p...

Page 66: ...e to the CD ROM connector and the other end to the IDE2 pin connector on the motherboard Note Be sure that the red line on the cable connects to the first pin of the connectors Watch the pin position and the orientation PN1 Pin 1 5 There is a specific orientation for pin 1 to pin 5 Insert the two threads keylock cable into pin 4 and pin 5 and three threads power LED cable to Pin 1 pin 3 Correct pi...

Page 67: ...ch cable to the PN1 header pins on the motherboard Pin number Name of the signal or signification 8 Ground 9 Power On Off switch PN1 Pin 10 11 There is no specific orientation for pin 10 and pin 11 Connect the two threads suspend switch connector of the computer case to correct pins of header on the motherboard You can ignore this connector since most of computer cases do not support this feature ...

Page 68: ...o the PN2 header pins on the motherboard Pin number Name of the signal or signification 4 5VDC 5 Ground 6 Ground 7 Speaker data Watch the pin position and the orientation PN2 Pin 9 10 There is a specific orientation for pin 9 and pin 10 Connect the two threads suspend LED switch connector of the computer case to correct pins of header on the motherboard Pin number Name or significance of signal 9 ...

Page 69: ...15 Ground 6 5VDC 16 Ground 7 Ground 17 Ground 8 Power Good 18 5VDC 9 5VSB 19 5VDC 10 12VDC 20 5VDC Watch the pin position and the orientation KB1 lower connector There is an orientation pin Connect your PS 2 keyboard connector to the connector on back side of the motherboard Watch the pin position and the orientation KB1 upper connector There is an orientation pin Connect your PS 2 mouse connector...

Page 70: ...re functions or are not to be adjusted in normal operation Adjust them according to the following recommendations CCMOS Always put jumper on pin 1 and pin 2 this is default setting Parameters and CPU settings After you have followed the steps described above and completed the installation when you power the computer on you will see the following message displayed PRESS DEL TO ENTER SETUP Press imm...

Page 71: ...livers input output I O orders through the chipset on the motherboard to the hard disk drive and then puts this data into the system memory This is the PIO mode What is the Master mode When the system needs to access hard disk data this data is directly accessed from the hard disk by the chipset on the motherboard using a DMA or a PIO mode and then the data is put into the memory In this case the ...

Page 72: ...hes 4 16Mbyte sec DMA Mode 1 The fastest data transfer rate reaches 13 3Mbyte sec DMA Mode 2 The fastest data transfer rate reaches 16 6Mbyte sec Usually PIO mode means that the hard disk data are accessed by the CPU through the chipset and placed into memory and the chipset is using PIO mode to access hard disk data MASTER mode means that hard disk data are accessed by the chipset and that the ch...

Page 73: ...disk drives are set at Master as a default so you don t need to adjust any setting Just connect one end of the 40 pin cable on the drive connector and the other end to connector IDE1 on the motherboard Installing one HDD one CD ROM drive The red line on the connection cable must be lined up with pin 1 on the connector Method 1 Set the HDD at Master and the CD ROM drive at Slave Connect one connect...

Page 74: ...t the hard disk drive used for boot up as Master set the other HDD at Slave connect one connector of the 40 pin cable to the first drive another connector to the second drive and the other end of the cable to connector IDE1 on the motherboard You can ignore the setting of the CD ROM drive Connect one end of the 40 pin cable to the drive and the other end to connector IDE2 on the motherboard We rec...

Page 75: ...nnector IDE1 on the motherboard Set another drive the second drive at Master and the third drive at Slave connect one connector of the 40 pin cable to the second drive another connector to the third drive and the other end of the cable to connector IDE2 on the motherboard Installing three HDDs one CD ROM drive The red line on the connection cable must be lined up with pin 1 on the connector Set th...

Page 76: ...ted hard disk drive Software use The basic step in using a hard disk drive is to make a HDD Low Level Format than run FDISK and than FORMAT the drive Most of present HDD have already been subjected to low level format at the factory so you probably can skip this operation Boot with a bootable floppy disk then enter FDISK Using FDISK DOS command This command is found in the DOS disks FDISK is a too...

Page 77: ... FORMAT C S Using FORMAT DOS command This command is found in the DOS disks FORMAT is used to format the hard disk The HDD have to be formatted before use Don t forget to add S after C otherwise the hard disk will not be bootable after formatting ...

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Page 79: ...NEWBIOS SAVEBIOS CC Example 3 To update BIOS and clear PnP settings execute this command AWDFLASH NEWBIOS SN CP Example 4 To make a backup of the current system BIOS execute the following command AWDFLASH NEWBIOS PN SAVEBIOS Notes NEWBIOS indicates file name for the new BIOS which can be downloaded from our website at http www abit com tw user can choose a different file name in place of NEWBIOS S...

Page 80: ... can boot your computer before you update your BIOS If the above mentioned problem occurs during BIOS update you will be able to use this disk to automatically execute a BIOS update The content of the disk should be the following a Startup system files COMMAND COM MSDOS SYS IO SYS b AWDFLSH EXE c The NEWBIOS file which can be downloaded from ABIT s website d AUTOEXEC BAT which has the following co...

Page 81: ... installation process exactly as below In Windows 95 place the CD ROM into the computer The main menu will show up Click the Drivers button then select the IDE Master button again select the OS in which you want to install the driver We have provided the OS 2 Windows 95 and Windows NT Bus Master driver for you Direct clicking the OS button will automatically install the Bus Master driver to your s...

Page 82: ...D 2 Appendix D 1 Welcome Click NEXT 2 License screen Notepad will show the content close the notepad to continue ...

Page 83: ...How to install the IDE Bus Master driver D 3 3 Question Click Yes 4 Select Components Click INSTALL 5 Question Click Yes ...

Page 84: ...ou restart your Windows 95 just follow the step shows on the screens After you see the screen below please set the path to C WINDOWS SYSTEM IOSUBSYS then finish the following steps You will need to restart Windows then Windows will find several I O devices when finished with this procedure you will need to restart Windows 95 yet again This will fully complete the installation of the IDE Bus Master...

Page 85: ...te 3 2 2 drives version It can be used to update the 440LX chipset motherboard The following procedure describes how to install and update the PCI bridge If you have a floppy diskette and not the CD ROM just insert the diskette and execute the Setup exe file to start installation of the INF update files Step1 Check your Windows 95 Device Manager and find the question mark showing the PCI Bridge ...

Page 86: ... Step2 Execute the Product CD Title ABITCD EXE and choice Driver PCI Bridge Driver for Windows 95 then you will see the screen below Step3 Click NEXT Step 4 You will see the license agreement dialog screen click Yes ...

Page 87: ...How to install the PCI bridge driver for the 440LX chipset E 3 Step 5 Click Next then wait a while until you see the installation complete screen Step 6 Click OK the system will restart ...

Page 88: ...E 4 Appendix E Step 7 Restart your computer then check the Device Manager again First you can check Hard Disk Controller then take a look to see if the Bus Master driver is already recognized ...

Page 89: ... to install the PCI bridge driver for the 440LX chipset E 5 Step 8 Also check System Device to find out if four devices are identified as well Please see the arrows below You have completed all things now ...

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Page 91: ...bed below First remove all interface cards except the VGA card and try to reboot If you still cannot boot up Try installing another brand model VGA card and see if the system will start If it still does not start note the VGA card model motherboard model Bios identification number CPU on the technical support form refer to main instructions and describe the problem in the problem description space...

Page 92: ...EXEC BAT edit CONFIG SYS with a text editor and in function the line that loads the Sound Card Driver add a remark REM in order to disable the Sound Card Driver See the example below CONFIG SYS DEVICE C DOS HIMEM SYS DEVICE C DOS EMM386 EXE HIGHSCAN DOS HIGH UMB FILES 40 BUFFERS 36 REM DEVICEHIGH C PLUGPLAY DWCFGMG SYS LASTDRIVE Z Restart the system If the system starts and does not reset you can ...

Page 93: ...to the step by step instructions given below 1 MODEL Note the model number given in your user s manual Example LX6 LM6 AH6 etc 2 Motherboard model number REV Note the motherboard model number labeled on the motherboard as REV Example REV 2 11 3 BIOS ID and Part Number See below Example ...

Page 94: ...MMX 233MHz 7 HDD Indicate the brand and specifications of your HDD s specify if the HDD is using IDE1 or IDE2 If you know the disk capacity indicate it and check in case you give no indication we will consider that your HDD is IDE1 Master Example In the HDD space check the box in the Brand space write Seagate in the Specifications space write ST31621A 1 6GB 8 CD ROM Drive Indicate the brand and sp...

Page 95: ...06 Or in the Brand write NPNX in the Specifications space write SIMM EDO DRAM 8MB 06 Or in the Brand space write SEC in the Specifications space write DIMM S DRAM 8MB G12 10 ADD ON CARD Indicate which add on cards you are absolutely sure are related to the problem If you cannot identify the problem origin indicate all the add on cards inserted into your system Note Items between the are absolutely...

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Page 97: ...Support Form Company name Phone Contact Fax Model BIOS ID Motherboard model no DRIVER REV OS Application Hardware name Brand Specifications C P U HDD IDE1 IDE2 CD ROM Drive IDE1 IDE2 System Memory DRAM ADD ON CARD Problem Description ...

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