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Introduction Of BH6 Features 1-1

Chapter 1

Introduction Of BH6 Features

The motherboard is designed for a new generation CPUs. It supports the Intel SLOT1

structure (Pentium



II/III and Celeron

™

processors), up to 768MB of memory, super I/O,

and Green PC functions. The motherboard provides high performance for server

systems and meets the requirements for desktop system for multimedia in the future.

(1) Specifications

1. CPU

CPU SOFT MENU

™

II eliminates the need for jumpers or DIP switches

needed to set CPU parameters

Employs switching type regulators to stabilize CPU operation

Supports 66 and 100MHz MHz CPU external clock speeds

Supports Intel

Pentium

III 450 ~ 500MHz processor cartridge (Based on

100MHz)

Supports Intel

Pentium

II 350 ~ 450MHz processor cartridge (Based on

100MHz) and Pentium

II 233 ~ 333MHz processor cartridge (Based on

66MHz)

Supports Intel

Celeron

™

266MHz~466MHz processor (Based on 66MHz)

Chipset

Intel

440BX chipset (82443BX and 82371EB)

Supports Ultra DMA/33 IDE protocol

Supports Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface(ACPI)

Accelerated Graphics Port connector supports AGP 1x and 2x mode (Sideband)
3.3V device

3. Cache Memory

Level 1 and Level 2 cache built into Intel

Pentium

II/III processor cartridge

Level 1 cache (without L2 cache) built into Intel

Celeron

™

processor

4. Memory (DRAM)

Three 168-pin DIMM sockets support SDRAM modules

Supports up to 768MB

ECC support

5. System BIOS

AWARD BIOS

Supports Plug-and-Play (PnP)

Supports Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI)

Supports Desktop Management Interface (DMI)

Year 2000 compliant

Summary of Contents for BH6

Page 1: ...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 International Copyright Laws All rights reserved No part of this m...

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Page 3: ...ctors 2 4 Jumper and Switches 2 9 4 Installation of the Pentium II III Celeron CPU 2 10 5 Installing System Memory 2 11 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 21 6 PNP PCI Configuration 3 28 7 Load Setup Defaults 3 30 8 Integrated Peripherals 3 31 9 Password Set...

Page 4: ...n 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 440BX chipset Appendix F Install HighPoint XStore Pro Utility Appendix G Technical Support ...

Page 5: ...ridge Based on 100MHz Supports Intel Pentium II 350 450MHz processor cartridge Based on 100MHz and Pentium II 233 333MHz processor cartridge Based on 66MHz Supports Intel Celeron 266MHz 466MHz processor Based on 66MHz 2 Chipset Intel 440BX chipset 82443BX and 82371EB Supports Ultra DMA 33 IDE protocol Supports Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface ACPI Accelerated Graphics Port con...

Page 6: ...ded fan speed voltages and system environment temperature Board size 305 190mm Note All brand names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners Only Celeron 300A and 333 or higher speed processors have built in Level 2 cache This is the maximum memory size the Intel 440BX chipset supports it also depends on the size of memory module you can buy on the market Above 66MHz 100MHz bus s...

Page 7: ...Introduction Of BH6 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: ...e Casing Standard external connectors Jumpers and switches 4 Installation of the Pentium II III Celeron CPU 5 Installing the system memory Before proceeding with the installation Before installing the motherboard please be sure to turn off or disconnect the power supply unit Before making any modifications to the hardware configuration of the motherboard the power supply to any areas of the mother...

Page 10: ...is should you attach the board with spacers Take a careful look at the motherboard and you will see many mounting holes on it Line these holes up with the mounting holes on the base If the holes line up and there are screw holes this means you can attach the motherboard with studs If the holes line up and there are only slots this means you can only attach the motherboard with spacers Take the tip...

Page 11: ...be a little and hard to cut off so be careful of your hands In this way you can still attach the motherboard to the base without worrying about short circuits Sometimes you may need to use the plastics spring for isolate the screw from motherboard PCB surface because the circuit wire may be near by the hole Be careful don t let the screw to contact any printed circuit wire and parts on PCB that ne...

Page 12: ...ificance of the first pin PN1 Pin 1 2 3 4 5 Keylock and Power LED Header There is a specific orientation for pin 1 through pin 5 Insert the two threaded keylock cable into pin 4 and pin 5 and three threaded power LED cable to Pin 1 pin 3 Check to make sure the correct pins of connector on the motherboard Pin number Name or significance of signal Connector Name 1 5VDC Power LED 2 No connection Powe...

Page 13: ...n number Name or significance of signal 10 3V Standby 11 Suspend signal Note If you enable the ACPI function in the BIOS setup this function will not work 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 for at least one second to reset the system Pin number Name or significance of signal 1 Ground 2 Reset input PN2 Pi...

Page 14: ...h a PS 2 mouse to this 6 pin Din connector Pin number Name or significance of signal 1 Mouse data 2 No connection 3 Ground 4 5VDC 5 Mouse clock 6 No connection KM1 KB 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 15: ...Ground 6 5VDC 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 FAN2 DC Fan Power Header Pin number Name of the signal or signification 1 Ground 2 12V 3 Sense signal Caution If power supply connectors are not properly attached to ATX PWR the power supply or add on cards may be damaged ...

Page 16: ...4 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 Name or significance of signal 1 5VSB 2 GND 3 Sense input SB1 SB Link Header Pin number Name or significance of signal 1 G...

Page 17: ...ols 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 Ope...

Page 18: ...d You can refer to it while you install the CPU This motherboard also supports the Celeron PPGA processor If you want to install the Celeron PPGA processor you have to use an additional adapter that allows you to use a Celeron PPGA processor in a slot 1 board For this ABIT makes the SlotKET adapter Note Installing a heat sink and cooling fan is necessary for proper heat dissipation from your CPU F...

Page 19: ...oard Total six banks In order to create a memory array certain rules must be followed The following set of rules allows for optimum configurations The memory array is 64 or 72 bits wide Without parity or with parity Those modules can be populated in any order Support single and double density DIMMS The following is the valid memory configuration Bank Memory Module Total Memory Bank 0 1 DIMM1 8MB 1...

Page 20: ... 8M Asymmetric 12 10 2 32MB 64MB 4M 4 4M 8M Asymmetric 14 8 2 32MB 64MB 2M 32 2M 4M Asymmetric 12 9 2 16MB 32MB 2M 32 2M 4M Asymmetric 13 8 2 16MB 32MB 4M 16 4M 8M Asymmetric 12 10 2 32MB 64MB 4M 16 4M 8M Asymmetric 14 8 2 32MB 64MB 8M 8 8M 16M Asymmetric 14 9 2 64MB 128MB SDRAM 64M 2 Bank 16M 4 16M 32M Asymmetric 14 10 2 128MB 256MB 2M 32 2M 4M Asymmetric 13 8 4 16MB 32MB 4M 16 4M 8M Asymmetric 1...

Page 21: ...ly when these tasks are 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 di...

Page 22: ...e 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 i...

Page 23: ...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 III MMX Intel Pentium II MMX Intel Celeron MMX ...

Page 24: ...ngs 266 66 4 300 66 4 5 300A 66 4 5 333 66 5 0 366 66 5 5 400 66 6 433 66 6 5 466 66 7 0 Note 2 User define external clock and multiplier factor User Define External Clock 66MHz 1 2 N 122MHz 1 3 N 100MHz 1 3 S 100MHz 1 3 N 126MHz 1 4 N 105MHz 1 3 S 75MHz 1 2 S 135MHz 1 4 N 110MHz 1 3 S 83MHz 1 2 S 137MHz 1 4 N 115MHz 1 3 S 112MHz 1 3 S 138MHz 1 4 N 120MHz 1 3 S 133MHz 1 4 N 142MHz 1 4 N 124MHz 1 3...

Page 25: ... and cannot chose it in High state then you can set it to Low state Note According to Pentium II III processor types some Pentium II III processors will have locked up the multiplier factor and disable this signal In this situation there is no way to choose the higher multiplier factor Note 4 AGPCLK CPUCLK Default setting is 2 3 In this state AGP bus speed will be CPU bus speed divided by 3 and ti...

Page 26: ...stem 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 in the socket without having to configure any jumpers or DIP swit...

Page 27: ...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 Page Up and Page Down keys Warning The wrong settings of the multiplier and external clock in certain circumstances may cause CPU damage Setting the working frequency higher than the PCI chipset or processor specs may cause abnormal memory module func...

Page 28: ... 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 29: ...ust reference values used to calculate 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 you...

Page 30: ... 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 the Base Memory Extended Memory an...

Page 31: ...s 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 Internal 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 32: ...ll 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 A S...

Page 33: ...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 34: ... 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 ...

Page 35: ...000 CBFFF Shadow This option allows you to decide if the memory block BIOS of an interface card at the address C8000 CBFFF uses the shadow feature or not If you have no interface card using this memory block don t enable this option Shadowing address ranges CC000 CFFFF Shadow This option allows you to decide if the memory block BIOS of an interface card at the address CC000 CFFFF uses the shadow f...

Page 36: ...0 DFFFF Shadow This option allows you to decide if the memory block BIOS of an interface card at the address DC000 DFFFF uses the 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 ...

Page 37: ...on 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 to go back to the main menu SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay This field lets you control the number of DCLKs between a Row Activate command and a read or write commend SDRAM RAS Precharge Time The precharge time is the number...

Page 38: ... executing speed via the L2 cache Video BIOS Cacheable You can select Enabled or Disabled When you select Enabled you get faster video BIOS executing speed via the L2 cache Video RAM Cacheable You can select Enabled or Disabled When you select Enabled you get faster video RAM executing speed via the L2 cache You must check your VGA adapter manual to find out if any compatibility problems will occu...

Page 39: ...he ISA bus This option must be enabled to provide PCI 2 1 compliance If you have ISA card compatibility problem you can try to enable or disable this option for optimal result AGP Aperture Size MB Seven options are available 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 Back to 4 This option specifies the amount of system memory that can be used by the AGP device The aperture is a portion of the PCI memory address range d...

Page 40: ...3 20 Chapter 3 There are small differences in the chipset feature setup according to different motherboard models but this has no influence upon performance Our default setup should be the best one ...

Page 41: ... device 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 mod...

Page 42: ...lly support ACPI both hardware and software drivers If you want to know if your devices or add on cards support ACPI or not please contact the device or add on card manufacture for more information If you want to know more about ACPI specifications please go to the address below for more detailed information http www teleport com acpi acpihtml home htm ACPI requires an ACPI aware operating system ...

Page 43: ...leeping mode or power off mode LAN Sleeping mode or power off mode Modem Sleeping mode or power off mode IR command Sleeping mode USB Sleeping mode PS 2 keyboard Sleeping mode PS 2 mouse Sleeping mode Table 3 2 Effect of Pressing the Power Switch IF THE SYSTEM IS IN THIS STATE AND THE POWER SWITCH IS PRESSED FOR THE SYSTEM ENTERS THIS STATE Off Less than four seconds Power on On More than four sec...

Page 44: ... available Blank Screen V H SYNC Blank and DPMS The default is V H SYNC Blank If this setting does not shut off the screen select Blank Screen If your monitor and video card support DMPS standard select DPMS Video Off After Select the saving mode in which the video is switched off NA The video will never be switched off in no power saving mode Suspend The video will only be switched off in Suspend...

Page 45: ...setting selected for Power Management is User 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 the computer is inactive during this period the system will enter the Suspend power saving mode The CPU stops working completely If this mode is disabled the system will not enter the Suspend mode HDD Power Down If t...

Page 46: ... it has no activity during this time period any event will cause the computer to re count the time elapsed Resume events are operations or signals that cause the computer to resume time counting 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 VGA Active Monitor If there is any VGA data transfer or any I O activities t...

Page 47: ... activity occurs it will cause the computer to re count the time 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 48: ... or BIOS Force Update ESCD If you want to clear ESCD data next 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 ...

Page 49: ... PCI ISA PnP or legacy ISA cards Assign IRQ For VGA You can assign an IRQ for the PCI VGA or Disabled Assigned IRQ For USB If you need another IRQ to be freed up you can choose to disable this item and you can get an IRQ But in some situations in Windows 95 it may cause the USB port to malfunction or have other problems Two options are available Enable or Disable PIRQ_1 Use IRQ No PIRQ_4 Use IRQ N...

Page 50: ...NT B PIRQ_2 INT B INT A INT D INT C PIRQ_3 INT C INT B INT A INT D PIRQ_4 INT D INT C INT B INT A USB used PIRQD Each PCI slot has four INT s INT A INT D and the AGP slot has two INT INTA and INT B 7 Load Setup Defaults Setup defaults are the settings that allow your system to operate at its highest performance When you choose this option the following message is displayed Load Setup Defaults Y N ...

Page 51: ...bled Master Drive PIO Mode Auto The BIOS can auto detect the transfer mode of the IDE devices in order to set its data transfer rate Default You can select the PIO mode from 0 to 4 of the IDE devices in order to set its data transfer rate Slave Drive PIO Mode Auto The BIOS can auto detect the transfer mode of the IDE devices in order to set its data transfer rate Default You can select the PIO mod...

Page 52: ...troller can be set at Enabled or Disabled Master Drive PIO Mode Auto The BIOS can auto detect the transfer mode of the IDE devices in order to set its data transfer rate Default You can select the PIO mode from 0 to 4 of the IDE devices in order to set its data transfer rate Slave Drive PIO Mode Auto The BIOS can auto detect the transfer mode of the IDE devices in order to set its data transfer ra...

Page 53: ...need to install a driver Init Display First When you install more than one display cards you can choose either a PCI display card or an AGP display card to activate the display boot up screen If you only installed one display card the BIOS will detect which slot AGP or PCI you installed it in then everything will be take care of by the BIOS KBC Input Clock Select This item allows you to change the...

Page 54: ...rd Parallel Port Sets the I O address and IRQ of the onboard parallel port Four options are available Disable 3BCh IRQ7 278h IRQ5 and 378h IRQ7 Default is 378h IRQ7 Parallel Port Mode Can be set as ECP EPP ECP EPP or Normal SPP mode Default is Normal SPP mode ECP 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...

Page 55: ...played Enter Password Press Enter the message Password Disable is displayed Press a key The password clearing procedure is completed Notice Do not forget your password If you forget it you will have to open the computer case clear the 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 ...

Page 56: ...Save Exit Setup You can save all your selection to CMOS and exit BIOS to reboot your computer 12 Exit Without Saving Fig 3 10 Exit Without Saving You can exit and without saving all your selection to CMOS then exit BIOS to reboot your computer ...

Page 57: ...speed set up the CPU in the CPU SOFT MENU II of the BIOS SETUP DIMM 1 DIMM 3 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 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...

Page 58: ...Pin number Name of the signal or signification 1 5VDC 2 No connection 3 Ground 4 Keyboard inhibit Signal 5 Ground Watch the pin position and the orientation PN1 Pin 6 7 There is a specific orientation for pin 6 and pin 7 Connect the two threads IDE HDD LED connector of the computer case to correct pins of header on the motherboard Pin number Name of the signal or signification 6 LED power 7 HDD ac...

Page 59: ...for at least one second to reset the system Pin number Name or significance of signal 1 Ground 2 Reset input PN2 Pin 4 7 There is no specific orientation for pin 4 and pin 7 Connect the four threads speaker cable to 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 Th...

Page 60: ... 19 5VDC 10 12VDC 20 5VDC Watch the pin position and the orientation KM1 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 KM1 upper connector There is an orientation pin Connect your PS 2 mouse connector to the connector on the back side of the motherboard Watch the pin posit...

Page 61: ...ndations 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 immediately Del key to enter BIOS Setup Select Load Setup Defaults than enter CPU Soft Menu to set CPU param...

Page 62: ...Appendix A A 6 ...

Page 63: ...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 64: ...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 65: ...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 66: ...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 67: ...to connector 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 S...

Page 68: ...u to change the settings of the related 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 f...

Page 69: ...m a system floppy disk and type 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 ...

Page 70: ...Appendix B B 8 ...

Page 71: ...tem and going directly into DOS Basically there are two ways to flash your BIOS One is to directly type the full line commands that are described in this section The utility will then flash your BIOS When you finish the flash operation you will see the screen as in Figure C 2 Note C 1 The other method is to just type awdflash then press enter the Flash Memory Writer V7 05 screen will show up pleas...

Page 72: ...e F1 key to reset the system or press the F10 key to exit the writer Figure C 2 Award Flash Memory Writer V7 05 Complete Screen Figure C 3 shows you what commands you can use for the flashing program you need to go into the pure DOS environment and type awdflash then you will see Figure C 3 Figure C 3 Flash Commands Screen ...

Page 73: ...o update the 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 the file name for the new BIOS which can be downloaded from our WEB site at http www abit com tw the user can choose a different file name in place of NEWBIOS SAVEBIOS indicates ...

Page 74: ...SDOS 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 content A AWDFLASH NEWBIOS PY SN CC For example to update the IT6B BIOS version to FZ it6b_fz bin you need to type A AWDFLASH IT6B_FZ bin PY SN CC CD If you try to flash a version of BIOS that is for the incorrect motherboard model the following message will appear Th...

Page 75: ...stallation 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 syst...

Page 76: ...D 2 Appendix D 1 Welcome Click NEXT 2 License screen Notepad will show the content close the notepad to continue ...

Page 77: ...How to install the IDE Bus Master driver D 3 3 Question Click Yes 4 Select Components Click INSTALL 5 Question Click Yes ...

Page 78: ...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 79: ...te 3 2 2 drives version It can be used to update the 440BX 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 80: ... 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 81: ...How to install the PCI bridge driver for the 440BX 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 82: ...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 83: ... to install the PCI bridge driver for the 440BX 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 ...

Page 84: ...E 6 Appendix E ...

Page 85: ...ess We ll tell you more about it CD ROM technology is growing fast but its performance is still unacceptable compared to today s hard drives The transfer rates of today s hard drives can exceed 18MB sec with access times below 12ms However transfer rates for the fastest CD ROM drives on the market are below 2MB sec with access times over 100ms CD Xpress was created to accelerate the accessing spee...

Page 86: ...k next to Use automatic setting 7 Uncheck the box and when the system asks you to reboot click yes 8 After the system restarts the yellow mark should be gone 4 De Installation To uninstall XStore Pro from your system run Uninstall from the HighPoint XStore Pro program group This uninstall utility will deactivate CD Xpress if CD Xpress is active remove the buffer space and uninstall XStore Pro and ...

Page 87: ...e file to start installation Step 1 In Windows 95 98 place the CD ROM into the computer The main menu will show up Click the HighPoint XStore Pro Install button then you will see the XStore Pro installer is preparing the InstallShield Wizard When it is done the Welcome screen will show up Step 2 Press the Next key you will see the screen below You then need to choose you want to install XStore Pro...

Page 88: ...F 4 Appendix F Step 3 Press the Next key you will see the license screen ...

Page 89: ...ress the Yes to continue screen below Step 5 When install process done you will see the screen below This screen will show up only when you select install both XStore Pro and CD Xpress If you want to see the ReadMe file you can click on to the circle ...

Page 90: ...ant to restart my computer now button then system will restart Or you can choose the No I will restart my computer later Note You must restart your computer after you installed the XStore Pro utility Otherwise software may works not properly ...

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: ... the model number given in your user s manual Example BX6 BH6 etc 2 Motherboard model number REV Note the motherboard model number labeled on the motherboard as REV Example REV 1 01 3 BIOS ID and Part Number See below Example 4 Note the driver version number indicated on the DEVICE DRIVER disk if have as Release or on the CD Title For example ...

Page 94: ...D 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 0IDE1 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 specifications of your CD ROM drive specify if it uses IDE1 or IDE2 and check in case y...

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...

Page 96: ...G 6 Appendix G ...

Page 97: ...pport Form Company name 1 Phone Contact 2Fax 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 3 Problem Description ...

Page 98: ...Appendix G G 8 ...

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